#559 - News Medley

[Jayenkai]

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; News Medley
#559 - Thursday 17th March, 2022

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; Hello World

I now have two megabytes in my A600!
Hurray!!

And who knew the trapdoor expansion card would be so bloody small.
I'm not sure why I was expecting something larger, but the great big hole in the bottom of the Amiga was roughly the size I'd always assumed the card might be.
Instead..  Teensy little thing!  A little smaller than a playing card.

So, what can I do with the newfound power?
Well, I can load the driver for the Compact Flash card, along with Fat95, and have MagicWB on top, then still load Frontier : Elite II on top of all that.
Mmmm..

I'm currently sifting through hundreds of disks, trying to figure out which of my disks still work, and quite how I'm supposed to get Blitz2.0 working alongside MagicWB, because it currently doesn't seem to work very well at all!!

        https://socoder.net/?GotoPost=83034

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SoSpinal
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; Spinal Hunts for Bug$
A bug in the code, but where could it be?  Spinal tries to understand, but it just won't reveal itself.
        https://socoder.net/?Topic=8651

; Animated Animal Cruelty
Spinal manages to squeeze a great big dog, down into the size of an itty bitty little watch!
        https://socoder.net/?GotoPost=83041

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SoCommercial
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; Microsoft Conservatory
New from Microsoft
Microsoft Conservatory 2022
Now includes Windows, Doors, Office, and Lightbulb too.
        https://socoder.net/?Topic=8658

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SoRetro
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; Rpi C64 Cart
A project to put a tiny Raspberry Pi Pico inside a C64 Cart
        https://bit.ly/3i3VLlC

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SoHomely
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; A Bird in the Hand
...is worth two on the foot.
        https://socoder.net/?Topic=8649

; A Wire in the Post
...is worth thirteen in the boxes.
        https://socoder.net/?GotoPost=83044

; A Day in the Gym
...is worth every penny.
        https://socoder.net/?GotoPost=83018

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SoTinyCoder
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 1 Dim tc(100,2);Graphics 512,512
 2 GameHandler "Mini Kaleidosnake"
.StartGame px=256;py=10;pd=180;x=0;
 4 k=0;for m=0 to 99;tc(m,2)=599;next
 5 ta=0;CLS;return
.Ingame ;if x==0;px=px+Sin(pd)*3
 7 py=py-Cos(pd)*3;Score=Score+1;endif
 8 a=ATan(px-256,0-(py-256));r=Rnd(360)
 9 d=Distance(px-256,py-256);ResetDraw
10 ta=(ta+1)%100;tc(ta,1)=a;tc(ta,2)=d
11 for q=0 to 1;tb=(ta+90)%100;z=32
12 InkRot Rnd(360),0.5,1;s=Rand(3,8);
13 if q==1;Ink 0;z=36;tb=(ta+10)%100;
14 s=32;endif;for m=0 to 5;e=m*120
15 f=e+tc(tb,1);if m>2 then f=e-tc(tb,1)
16 dx=256+Sin(f)*tc(tb,2);SetFontSize 64
17 dy=256-Cos(f)*tc(tb,2);SetThick 16
18 if ta%3==0 then Oval dx,dy,z,z,s
19 next;next;Ink 26;Oval px,py,4,4,64
20 pd=pd+(GamePad(1)-GamePad(3))*5
21 px2=px+Sin(pd)*6;py2=py-Cos(pd)*6
22 if ReadPixel(px2,py2,0)>128 or k>0
23 x=1;k=k+1;if k>90;cls;EndGame
24 Text 256,64,Score,1;endif;endif
25 DrawRect 0,0,512,512;Return

        https://GotoJSE.com/tsLvk58N.BAS

If you'd like to submit your own 40x25 mini game, check out the Box-Coding thread.
        https://socoder.net/?Topic=8555

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KiloTube
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; New Eastenders Set
One chr saying "Yes it is nice, and it is done" followed by another chr saying "It is nice, it is new.  I like it", followed by another chr going "Oooh, it is lovely.  It is new.  It is different, but it's the same."
Bah..
Would love to see a nice long documentary about the building of this, and the new'ish Corrie set, too.
Why do they not do things like that?
Wasted opportunity.
        https://youtu.be/GlhIxrA2iOk

; "Carrot" Cake!?!
        https://youtu.be/5x5QBX5OZC8

; Musical Interlude
        https://youtu.be/FjSuLGZGFwc

; Safety First
        https://youtu.be/uPskg3zzCrI

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MegaTube
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; Mini Cube
        https://youtu.be/ENEpJJPQomg

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GigaTube
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; Jazza BURNS
        https://youtu.be/0PvC1KiU9ic

; What the Flux?
        https://youtu.be/oMLD13UdEsQ

; We Can Rebuild
        https://youtu.be/roMPUl4yLLk

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Crafting Pursuits
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        https://youtu.be/PcL0BhR7ANc

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90s Cover Corner
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        https://youtu.be/57YEAEKKcOk

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RadioCover Corner
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        https://youtu.be/wfFQ8jdQ7lw

        https://youtu.be/cK20R-HNOs4

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VGRemix Corner
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        https://youtu.be/541T0JGkN1M

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Documentary Time
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Got another two hours?
        https://youtu.be/G_TcAxAKCAI

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