Apr 23, 2024

Voxel Space Demo - Bits and Bytes (Ep. 4)

In this episode of Bits and Bytes, I take a look at Chris Bradburne's incredible Voxel Landspace demo, which does an impressive job of rendering a 3dimensional landscape using smacke's original Voxel Space algorithm. Except Chris has done so on a BBC Micro with no extra hardware, and all written in 6502 assembly code!Voxels are a very clever way of rendering a 3D space by utilising 2D colour and t

Apr 16, 2024

Reflections On ABUG South - April 2024

I attended my first ever ABUG (Acorn BBC User Group) event in person this month and it was awesome! I met some really lovely people and had a lot of fun. Too much fun, possibly, because I failed to record much video footage and have had to make this a bit of a vlog - not my preferred medium, but hopefully you still enjoy it. I did manage one actual interview, however, with a young man called Ellio

Apr 12, 2024

All packed for ABUG South! #bbcmicro #retro #geekout