Grocer Games

Noticed some weird things when I was working on Room Raiders as this game was designed with flickering in mind (much like my Beyond Parsec port) but I noticed a weird thing when I added a line of code where the player would shift positions despite the added code have nothing to do with it.

I had wondered if this was an issue due to compiling or just how the code is structured and I am missing something obvious. But a positive of this discovery is that this could possibly explain the skipping asteroids in Beyond Parsec, as I recall trying to clean up the code early on and it was shortly after that I started to notice the skipping asteroids.

If I can figure this out I might actually be able to fix Beyond Parsec to completion!

Weird Issues When Alternating Frames I was curious. I had been playing around with flickering sprites for a bit where on Frame A I pick one sprite and on Frame B I pick another. I had noticed that if the code in each section of alternating code are not close then weird stuff may happen. For instance, I have one section of code where...

Found one of my old disks that had the origin of Bag Boy dated 2002.

My Laptop had a kind of failure. It is an older Windows 7 laptop where I had some older game projects saved. I had to use slo mo video to capture the blue screen displaying the error message. It would flash so quickly and then I’d get the message that Windows couldn’t start.

I tried different restore points but it started deleting them stating there was an error that occurred in the restoration process.

I tried repairing the files and all attempts failed.

My last attempt was I found an old Windows Vista disk and used that to boot up and install. My saved files migrated to a windows.old folder and a couple days of fiddling with my laptop and I rescued my files to a SSD.

Most of the files I had were already backed up but when I made my last backup for some reason several of the folders were empty. Some didn’t copy at all. Some of these games I wanted to attempt converting into PXE games and see if that would get them over the hump to completion.

As a side note, I forgot what Vista looked like and it feels so weird.