http://www.tcksoft.co.uk Remake me do! Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:37:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As posted on Retro Remakes recently I have been robbed from my bank account. Thankfully it seems that my bank is on the case and they locked everything down so no more money can be taken, although that's a joke because I don't actually have any. Please please if you have ... http://www.tcksoft.co.uk/2008/02/26/not-a-happy-bunny/ I've been playing around with the idea of doing something in a very retro style - ZX Spectrum palette and UDG type graphics, so I wrote a little function to recreate the BEEP command so that you can play sounds just like on a Speccy. The example tune from the ZX ... http://www.tcksoft.co.uk/2008/03/30/zx-spectrum-beep-in-blitzmax/ I went out for the day to help a friend collect some furniture yesterday and got lots of fresh air and exercise as well as a lovely 15" TFT monitor which had been rescued from being buried in a landfill. What a nice surprise that was, I can tell you. ... http://www.tcksoft.co.uk/2008/02/17/aspects-of-love/ Someone offered and iMac G4 (the one with the dome base and TFT on an arm) on Freecycle but I wasn't lucky enough to get picked out of the hat. Am gutted. That would have been ace to do a bit of programming on. I hope it went to a good ... http://www.tcksoft.co.uk/2008/02/11/gutted/ Well the site has a spanking new coat of paint and feels a lot nicer to me. Yummy. It is very caffeinated too with lots of coffee beans and cups of coffee all around the site. I feel very much at home here now, even more so than before. I ... http://www.tcksoft.co.uk/2008/02/05/wordpress/ I hope everyone visiting this site has a fantastic 2008.Does anyone still care about TCKSOFT or shouldn't I bother? LOLDon't know why but I'm in a very sombre mood this evening, and for a little while.Anyway, I will bugger off again before I depress you - enjoy the rest of ... http://www.tcksoft.co.uk/2008/01/01/happy-new-year/ I only just had it brought to my attention that PayPal donations was broken - probably been broken forever. I wondered why I had never got a single donation for all my games.I just figured that everyone hates me. LOL. Please show me I'm wrong. ;) The button is working now thanks ... http://www.tcksoft.co.uk/2007/10/11/broken-paypal/ Still no more coding from me - I'm trying to get back into it again but it's not flowing. I'm having fun playing some games though, especially on the Wii. It's good to see after all the months of the machine not being anywhere and rarer than a hen's tooth it's ... http://www.tcksoft.co.uk/2007/07/26/chugging-along/ Just a little note to make you aware that I have just released (finally) the Mac OSX version of Super Obliteration. Many thanks to Guy, it wouldn't be compiled for Os X without you. After having a few Mac guys test it it seems to work so... Enjoy! :) http://www.tcksoft.co.uk/2007/07/08/super-obliteration-v102-for-mac/ I was cooking with gas there for a while. I finished off all my projects.But... now what? I'm not sure what to do and seem to have fell on my face, remaking wise.Does anyone have any ideas for a fun and simple game I can get my coding teeth into ... http://www.tcksoft.co.uk/2007/04/25/ummm-what-now/