I played emulated retro games while cutting my teeth on my first live stream. Audio quality, especially voice, wasn't as good as I want so headset is in Amazon basket. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QWMic7j-mY

More retro coding, this time a bit more involved. I used a cross-assembler on the Linux PC to write the code, the Commodore virtual disk management tool droiD64 to copy the target across and the Vice 64 emulator. It was fun relearning this stuff :D ***TECH ALERT!!*** The code is shown below. In the first example, the bytes at the start at the location pointer and BASIC header. The second part just shows the changes needed to tell the file system to load it at $C000 (49152) the start of the high memory block we used to use often back in the day. I also changed the sprite block location to give BASIC more room to play with, ; Template to create assembly code starting at $080B ; using BASIC program 2018 SYS 2061 *=$07FF .byte $01,$08,$0B,$08,$E2,$07,$9E,$32,$30,$36,$31,$00,$00,$00 XMIN = $18 XMAX = $40 XMID = $ac YMIN = $32 YMAX = $e5 YMID = $8c XSPRITE = $d000 YSPRITE = $d001 HSPRITE = $d010 SPRITEON = $d015 POINTER = $07f8 WIDTH = $d01d HEIGHT = $d017 MULTI = $d01c COLOUR = $d027 BLOCK = $80 IRQCONT = $dc0d SCREENCNT = $d011 RASTER = $d012 IRQ = $0314 IRQSET = $d01a IRQFLAG = $d019 JOYSTICK2 = $dc00 KERNEL = $ea31 start ; Initialise sprite and place in centre of screen ldx #$3f dloop lda data,x sta BLOCK*$40,x dex bpl dloop lda #0 sta COLOUR sta HSPRITE sta WIDTH sta HEIGHT sta MULTI lda #XMID sta XSPRITE lda #YMID sta YSPRITE lda #BLOCK sta POINTER lda #$01 sta SPRITEON ; Set raster interrupt lda #$7f sta IRQCONT and SCREENCNT sta SCREENCNT lda #$fb sta RASTER lda #＜(mover) sta IRQ lda #＞(mover) sta IRQ+1 lda #$01 sta IRQSET rts mover ; inc $d020 ; Check raster line lda JOYSTICK2 ; Check up and #$01 bne notup lda YSPRITE cmp #YMIN beq notup dec YSPRITE notup lda JOYSTICK2 ; Check down and #$02 bne notdown lda YSPRITE cmp #YMAX beq notdown inc YSPRITE notdown lda JOYSTICK2 ; Check left and #$04 bne notleft lda HSPRITE and #$01 bne lcont lda XSPRITE cmp #XMIN beq notleft lcont dec XSPRITE bpl notleft lda #$00 sta HSPRITE notleft lda JOYSTICK2 ; Check right and #$08 bne notright lda HSPRITE and #$01 beq rcont ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7d6pUnNpes

This game was played on a MiSTer FPGA system with a VGA monitor set vertically and the stream feed rotated and the aspect corrected accordingly. Quite a new venture for me! As for the stream, what an absolutely batshit crazy game! Even though it's extremely difficult it's a lot of fun to play. Carnage rules! So much going on that the video codec can't keep up ? I managed to score 3,894,880 (and I cocked up initials entry!) which sounds like a lot, but in this game it puts me quite low in the table.

In this stream I play Paperboy by Atari (1985) for the Mamemeister High Score Kerfuffle Season 13 Game 9. This game has a handlebar control on the original which makes emulation as janky as it gets. I did end up with a score of 40,360, which is far in excess of what I expected and it ended up not being as bad as I anticipated! Not one I want to come back to a lot but I do want to try this out in an arcade if I get the chance. Find me on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/ponderprg