Posts tagged "bbc-bridge-companion"
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Bridge Companion Becomes Block Companion
Soon, you will know all the secrets of Z80 game programming. Or at least all the ones I didn’t know before I decided to port Tetris to a game console made to teach pensioners how to play cards. Things only get weirder from here, if you can believe that.
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Composite Companion
The BBC Bridge Companion has RF video output from the factory, but that’s not good enough for its cutting-edge pastel graphics. In order to get things looking their best, I spent a really long time making a composite video mod for the system rather than finishing off my Tetris clone.
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Companion & Companion's Cartridge Complication
In this phase of the BBC Bridge Companion series, we’ll talk about a few simple tasks. Buying a system. Buying another system. Fixing both systems. And developing a cartridge PCB for them from scratch. Doesn’t everyone spend their weekends this way?
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The BBC Tetris Companion
Ever done dumb stunts for your friends on a dare? I was hanging out with a bunch of fellow old-computer ne’er-do-wells when the topic of the BBC Bridge Companion came up. It was a useless thing to own, they said, although many of the assembled group had already owned one at some time or another. If you don’t know how to play bridge, then why even bother? Well, I know how to play Tetris, and I know how to write Z80 assembly, or at least I thought I did.