http://www.tcksoft.co.uk Remake me do! Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:29:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've not done much in the last week but I have tried to make the background in game look less bare by a nice "double mirror effect". If you have ever held up two mirrors facing each other and put something between them then I guess you will know what I'm ... http://www.tcksoft.co.uk/2009/06/11/im-still-here-minor-update/ I've added the other three "frames" from the Spectrum version of the game to my code. What is a frame? It's just another name for a level. There are a couple of extra frames in the Dragon32 version of the game which I'm going to try to uncover and add to the ... http://www.tcksoft.co.uk/2009/05/27/youve-been-framed/ Things seem to be coming along quite well. It might be due to the nice boost I got when contacting the original author of the game who is more than happy to let me remake it and seems enthusiastic about Cruising still after all this time. Mega thanks to Jeff for being ... http://www.tcksoft.co.uk/2009/05/24/cruising-level-test-video/ Who knows. Only time will tell, but I hope so. :) I've been looking at videos and screens of my old games and thinking maybe they weren't so bad and maybe I still have a little more to offer to the remaking fraternity even if things have progressed and quality levels ... http://www.tcksoft.co.uk/2009/05/21/am-i-on-my-way-back/ The results for Category 4 of the Retro Remakes 2008 are finally up - whoever is responsible for posting them has taken their own sweet time about it. ;) This of course includes the reviews for my 24 hour coded entry. They are not for the easily offended as one or ... http://www.tcksoft.co.uk/2009/02/23/sliding-puzzle-reviews/ Many thanks to Bob and Gary for some fantastic work helping me get back up and running after the recent server hack. May all site defacers and nasty pasties die in a freak yachting accident and leave us alone in future, please. Onwards and upwards. http://www.tcksoft.co.uk/2009/01/18/and-we-are-back/ I have just uploaded my Retro Remakes 2008 Competition entry to the site. Coded very quickly, in less than 24 hours, it is a very simple to get to grips with sliding puzzle just like the ones you might have had in your childhood where there are numbered squared an an ... http://www.tcksoft.co.uk/2008/12/23/a-sliding-puzzle-for-helen/ It's coming! You better believe it! I've spent the last month emailing until my fingers are raw doing my utmost best to get together an impressive prize-pool to excite you all, and I'm pleased to say I think we are almost there. All the pieces as starting to fall into place and ... http://www.tcksoft.co.uk/2008/07/25/retro-remakes-big-competition-2008/ 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/ 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/