Re: More thoughts...

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, January 10, 2013 9:07:00 PM UTC-6, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> I'm still considering whether Arkanoid might be doable, but I haven't had 
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> luck isolating the disk i/o routines.
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> I tend to think of myself as a "monkey coder" - very inefficient, barely 
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> skilled and not particularly capable of what I set out to do.  It isn't 
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> that what I do is difficult or complicated, but any surprise is usually 
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> that anyone even considered doing it.  I've got a lot of half-assed stuff 
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> lying around that almost works, and it annoys me.
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> One of my unfinished tools is called RDOS Manager.  I never finished it 
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> because it did what I needed and my questionable skills were needed 
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> elsewhere, but it filled a hole in functionality which Ciderpress doesn't 
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> provide - creation of and write access to RDOS disk images.  (I can 
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> release the unfinished code, I suppose...)
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> My halfassed hack of Lode Runner is still slightly broken, in that I need 
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> to either fix or disable the high score table code.
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> I got over my head before I even tried to do anything significant toward 
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> porting Dr. Mario to the ][. :<
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> -uso.

Dr. Mario in DHGR would be the bees knees.  Actually, a tetris clone with decent graphics would rock too.  :-)  But whatever you decide to do, I'll always be willing to pitch in to help if you need it.

Signed,
A fellow code monkey.