Weeknight 'Virtual' Dev session #6, Thursday 12th November 2020, 7pm - 10pm

[Arcadian]

As the new games and demo coding sections of the forum are currently very active, we are now hosting weeknight "Dev sessions" on Zoom, that are primarily focused on the development of new games and graphics/music demos for Acorn computers as well as development tools, emulators and debuggers.

They take place the week in-between the 2 x Tuesday night 'general' sessions on the Thursday evening, between 7pm and 10pm.

The sessions are intended for developers to share progress updates and request/offer help and feedback. We hope that these sessions will help motivate and encourage developers to see projects through to completion.

Just to be clear - these sessions are open to everyone: programmers, graphics artists and musicians, even if you've just got an interest/appreciation of - or ideas for - new games and demos, please come along for moral support - there may be opportunities to beta-test new versions of upcoming projects . There really isn't a limit to the number of places available - well, the maximum we can host in a Zoom meeting is 100 but it's unlikely we'll ever get anywhere near that figure!

If there are any issues you'd like help with - or would like to demonstrate something - please leave details in the thread and we'll add them to the lists of items to be covered.

If you are new to Zoom, forum member JudgeBeeb has written a handy guide to getting set up and logged in.

Attended:

1. Arcadian (Dave)
2. tricky (Richard)
3. DamienSturdy (Damien)
4. MarkDRyan (Mark)
5. Snuggsy187 (Neil)
6. BigEd (Ed)
7. oss003 (Kees)
8. flibble (Peter)
9. chrisn (Chris)
10. 0XC0DE (Kelvin)
11. SarahWalker (Sarah)
12. Dave Footitt (Dave)
13. picosonic (Jasper)
14. dp11 (Dominic)
15. JIM (James)
16. naomasa298 (Shane)
17. sPhilMainwaring (Phil)
18. trixtser (Andy)
19. Leonardo
20. Julie_m (Julie)

Schedule:

19:00 - 19:30 General chat
19:30 - 20:00 Open - Help needed/offered
20:00 - 20:15 Update: Subtilis' Assembler (MarkDRyan)
20:15 - 20:30 Update: Pooyan (Snuggsy187)
20:30 - 20:45 Update: Electron Exile - secrets! (Snuggsy187)
20:45 - 21:00 Update: Elementum (0XC0DE)
21:00 - 21:15 Update: Pacman (Tricky)
21:15 - 21:45 Update: Dev Tools & Fruitman (DamienSturdy)
21:45 - 22:00 Open/general chat

[tricky]

I'll be there, hopefully with a very brief PacMan update

[DamienSturdy]

I'll pop along!

[markdryan]

I'll be there too, possibly with an assembler update.

[Snuggsy187]

Pretty certain I can make it - hopefully further Pooyan / Electron Exile developments !

[BigEd]

I'll take number six... will mostly be lurking

[oss003]

I'll be there ...

Greetings
Kees

[flibble]

Me please

[chrisn]

I can join on Thursday, looking forward to it!

[DamienSturdy]

I've actually got something to show if there's space. Free from 8pm.

Not much, but something

(Basic preprocessor, build chain, sprite editor, level editor and a small game being written with it, "Fruitman"

[0xC0DE]

I would like to join please

[SarahWalker]

Me also please.

[Arcadian]

Invites sent.

Who'd like to present?

Damien, seeing as we've currently got an empty schedule and it sounds as if you may have a lot to go through, I'll pencil you in for half an hour from 9.00pm ok?

Neil/0xC0DE/Tricky - you've all made progress on your projects, would you each like a regular (15 mins) slot?

Anyone else?

[Snuggsy187]

Thanks Dave, I PM'd you, but could I have a bit longer, as I'd like to go through a bit of new Pooyan stuff, plus what I've done with the Electron Exile sidebars

Looking forward to it

[Arcadian]

Ah sorry just read it!

Yes, 15 mins for Pooyan, 15 mins for Exile ok?

If you think you need longer that's fine just let me know!

[Snuggsy187]

No worries ! 30 minutes to cover both would be great.
Cheers

[DamienSturdy]

30 should be just dandy thanks!

[0xC0DE]

@Dave, yes please 15 minutes

[markdryan]

Who'd like to present?

I can give a quick 10 minute demo of Subtilis's Assembler, which is mostly working now. I won't be able to join before 7:45.

[Dave Footitt]

I'll pop along, I sadly haven't written anything lately but it'll be nice to catch up

[Arcadian]

Scheduled added:

19:00 - 19:30 General chat
19:30 - 20:00 Open - Help needed/offered
20:00 - 20:15 Update: Subtilis' Assembler (MarkDRyan)
20:15 - 20:30 Update: Pooyan (Snuggsy187)
20:30 - 20:45 Update: Electron Exile - secrets! (Snuggsy187)
20:45 - 21:00 Update: Elementum (0XC0DE)
21:00 - 21:15 Update: Pacman (Tricky)
21:15 - 21:45 Update: Dev Tools & Fruitman (DamienSturdy)
21:45 - 22:00 Open/general chat

Hope that's ok with all presenters, otherwise please let me know.

[picosonic]

I'll join the session, won't be until sometime after 8

[tricky]

Sure, update + questions although there isn't much since Saturday

[Arcadian]

I'll join the session, won't be until sometime after 8

Cool, did you get the Zoom details OK?

Sure, update + questions although there isn't much since Saturday

Well, there's still four hours to go before your slot...!

[picosonic]

I'll join the session, won't be until sometime after 8

Cool, did you get the Zoom details OK?

Yes thanks

[Arcadian]

James (JIM) has asked if he could have a demonstration of how the Pole Position scrolling works ... Tricky, is that something you could manage at, say, 7.30?

[tricky]

I could talk a little about it, but it is basically an implementation of this.