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They are made by someone local and my wife always gets me one for Christmas at the holiday fair. This year she bought me 3 of his designs because i use them so much for videos. The dragon one in this video is my favorite though!

Thank You!

I can't imaging a bigger compliment, Thank You!

It will mean things like a loading screen when entering and exiting combat but the load sizes are small (about 4k) so it should only be an issue on a native 1541 without a turbo cartridge of some kind. The map itself is 64k so, like many games of the time, sections have to be loaded as you move around but it should be pretty quick.

Right now I have enough feature creep to fight as it is so I am deferring any ports until after the game is done and out there. Then I'll see where to go next. I am testing on the 128D in 64 mode. Back in the day I used 128 mode in 80 columns to edit source and compile but it still had to be in 64 mode to run.

@@RavenWolfRetroTech Totally get it. I asked the Eye of the Beholder guys the same question and they somehow got it in there (in C64 mode, no idea how) but they also were going the full-blown Cart-Storage route, never trying in a million years to stay confined to a single floppy disk. Very excited to see and play DDM someday in the future. Do you think you'll be releasing in 2025?

I know how to enable 2MHz on a 128 in 64 mode but the VIC-II can't handle that memory speed so I think all video has to be disabled first. As for the Floppy scope this is really a bucket list thing so I want to make the game I envisioned in 1984. Once its done then I may make some modernizations.

@@RavenWolfRetroTech Makes total sense. I really respect your dedication to bringing your original vision to life. It's looking fantastic, RWRT!

Thanks Frank!

Awesome! You'll have a lot of fun doing it!

Do it!

I'm happy you like it. Right now its looking like it will be 2-3 d64 files or 1541 disks. I have an EZ Flash 3 but no Kung Fu Flash but plan on looking into making it work on them if possible but, for the time being, I'm just avoiding self modifying code to make it easier. TLDR: I'm planning for it but no promises. It will be playable on VICE though for sure since I'm using it for development.

@RavenWolfRetroTech Cool. Thanks. I have a real C64c. The C64 maxi and I use CCS64 and vice emulators. So I have many choices. Whatever is easiest for you.

I did a Roguelike (unpublished) in Unity about 10 years ago and the map generation code would take a wall of C64s to run. I will have some random encounters and the combat maps are going to have some random elements to them though.

Each state has a table of key codes and addresses. When state is changed then the state machine just has to change the input pointer to the start of the table for that state. To add a new command to a state all I have to do is put the Keycode and the low and high bytes (actually just the source code label) of the entry address for that command. The actual code never changes now, just the data tables.

I know how you feel with the memory management. One of the first things I did when I got back into the old code was to put an end to having half a dozen separate files to load then a BASIC program to tie it all together. I will keep it all in RAM as long as I can but am already setup to deal with swapping files when the time comes.

@@RavenWolfRetroTech Big props for building the file management system that uses a floppy. As my project, initially designed in hi-res, become a heavy bitmap graphic oriented, I switched at some point from floppies to a cartridge release only. For my case, any disk drive device would die eventually if not the player first, who was waiting for stuff to load ;). So, great to see that your project kicks fully from a floppy, design-wise it's not an easy task. Keeping fingers crossed, I want to play it! P.S. I've played and finished Demon's Winter some time ago on C64, and I was actually quite astonished with short loading time for such an oldie game.

I am trying to keep the file loads as small as possible. For instance the map is in 1k chunks and, in many cases, they loaded file sill be under 762 bytes (Fitting in 3 sectors)

I prefer to ask in fun ways, the wife calls it passive aggressive.

Thanks!

Thanks!

I don't think you would regret finishing your game. I'd love to see it when it's done! My game is still a work in progress. I actually published an update today. The 1 year timeline was as unrealistic as Ars Technica pointed out but it is still getting regular work. I am hoping to finish a video showing the tools I am using to make DDM in a month or so. It will show the tools as I use them to add a combat screen.

@@RavenWolfRetroTech awesome, well i am enjoying following along ! mine was a flying game but not a simulator

Even Superheros can have a Ruf day!

Thanks Dustin!

Yeah, the hard part was this video. Much of it was earlier this year. The next DDM Video, probably sometime in Feb, will cover the tools I am using to make the game as I use them to add the combat screen.

@RavenWolfRetroTech Nice. I'm looking forward to seeing how combat works.

I have a lot of retro machines that I don't need but very few that are restored because they get moved on as I get more than one of something done. My next video will show a bunch of them.

You're welcome. I'm glad you liked it!

Yeah, sorry about that. I have been stuck on this video for over a month. It was really hard to make this interesting and, in the end, I just cut out about half by babbling about code details and set it loose. It probably didn't help that we had about 5 Christmas' this year including one with 13 people here for the weekend after the first.

Yes, very much so but she also gets some of my effort, dedication and passion 😎 Also she wants to know why I am answering this before making coffee... gotta go 😅

@RavenWolfRetroTech then you are one lucky man!

You are right about that!

This definitely falls under the "I would need to dig in and see what is going on" to actually answer but I can tell you where I would start. First, if possible test the board in another Amiga. That will cut the problem space in half. My first gut reaction for problems with the Amiga motherboard would be to check the connections between the CPU socket and the Processor Expansion Slot. These can have damaged traces and are right in the area affected by battery leakage. The A2620 itself I have yet to have to actually do more than clean up and replace caps so if that is the issue it would be a matter of starting with the basics and checking that voltages and clocks are working and checking VERY closely for any physical damage to components.

@ understood, I’ll go through it again.

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks Tim! I love your channel! When I move the SMD caps into labeled bags I am planning to just ditch the strip packaging. For moving the plastic bins, if they are not to full they stack.

That's a great idea. I have a couple 3.5" disk bins. I'll see if the bags fit.

I'm confused! Curtain Rod?

if you share something good, we just wanna know every detail ;) so happy for beeing here

and what size are those you have there? :) thanks in advance very nice

I will be out in the shop in a little while and I will measure both the bags and bins. The blue bins we got in the 90's and I only was able to bring home a few that did not fit on the service benches. The red ones I picked up at a garage sale for 25 cents each last year. I really wish now I had bought all they had, which was a lot!

@@RavenWolfRetroTech ye the retrospect ;) sadly we never know sometimes what can be used another time when we get ideas ;) regarding the bags, they seem good quality, most you buy is cheap and thin, so wanna try get some in good quality, yours seem to be so. If you know what words to find them with, it would help a lot . and thanks for doing your videos, i really enjoy them.. so down to earth and easy to follow. thank you sir.

I checked the bags and they are 3"x5" usable, the actual height is 5 7/8"/ They are 4 mil bags because I find that the thinner 2-mil ones tend to tear when opening the zip-lock. The bins are acro-mills 30120 which say they are 4x4x12 inches. I see a 24 pack on sale on Amazon for 46.20 which isn't too bad if you need that many. I will add a link in the description.

Thanks Mark, it's hard to keep things organized, at least for me!

I'm glad its useful. I still have my Fireball II that I restored in the early 2000s but my arthritis says its time to sell.

I wanted to but there is a water shutoff and some other stuff I need easy access to. I considered a shelf but it would be really tight.

My pleasure!

I'm Glad you liked it!

Yeah, I always thought getting old would take longer and that I would feel older 🙄

What's up? I just tested the email in the channels about section and it is working (It had issues a few weeks ago). I don't post my email address openly in comments for obvious reasons.

Yeah Matt, you might have something there! 😳 I updated it in the designer but it won't show up in the code until the next time I export all the screens which is a bit of a pain.