https://dustlayer.com Tutorials Articles https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/5/24/episode-3-9-greetings-acknowledgments-and-links https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/5/24/episode-3-9-greetings-acknowledgments-and-links Thu, 23 May 2013 20:33:57 GMT Synopsis: The Greetings and Acknowledgments for Spritro. Without the help and resources it would have taken much longer to publish this Episode. Download via… https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/5/24/episode-3-8-if-the-sid-doesnt-fit-use-a-bigger-hammer https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/5/24/episode-3-8-if-the-sid-doesnt-fit-use-a-bigger-hammer Thu, 23 May 2013 20:33:08 GMT Synopsis: Sometimes you want to use a SID file which is set up for a special memory address which is not aligned with you own memory strategy. I introduce a… https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/5/24/episode-3-7-creating-pseudo-timers-for-color-cycle https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/5/24/episode-3-7-creating-pseudo-timers-for-color-cycle Thu, 23 May 2013 17:22:41 GMT Synopsis: For our two color cycle effects we experiment with different ideas where to source timing information from. 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Download via dust: $ dust tutorials (select 'spritro') Github… https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/5/24/episode-3-4-flying-the-space-ship-off-course https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/5/24/episode-3-4-flying-the-space-ship-off-course Thu, 23 May 2013 14:12:01 GMT Synopsis: Moving an animated Sprite is cool, but moving it across borders of the C64 results in +1 in Street Credibility. Download via dust: $ dust tutorials… https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/5/24/episode-3-3-loading-shapes-and-grasping-symbols https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/5/24/episode-3-3-loading-shapes-and-grasping-symbols Thu, 23 May 2013 13:52:52 GMT Synopsis: We will finally load our Sprite into memory and discuss the usage of Symbols along the way. Download via dust: $ dust tutorials (select 'spritro')… https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/5/24/episode-3-2-creating-the-shapes-hello-spritepad https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/5/24/episode-3-2-creating-the-shapes-hello-spritepad Thu, 23 May 2013 12:52:52 GMT Synopsis: Creating C64 Sprites especially on Mac is not trivial. Here is an easy way to circumvent the problem with non existing C64 Tools on Mac we will… https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/5/24/episode-3-1-spritro-an-intro-with-a-sprite https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/5/24/episode-3-1-spritro-an-intro-with-a-sprite Thu, 23 May 2013 11:52:52 GMT Synopsis: In this huge Episode we will analyze an intro with an animated Sprite controlled via Keyboard. To spice up the action we add a new color cycle effect… https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/4/8/episode-2-5-understanding-and-including-music https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/4/8/episode-2-5-understanding-and-including-music Sat, 06 Apr 2013 19:15:00 GMT Topics: The last chapter of this introduction episode to C64 coding will be about including SID music into the intro. Download via dust: $ dust tutorials… https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/4/8/episode-2-4-reading-from-a-data-table https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/4/8/episode-2-4-reading-from-a-data-table Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:01:00 GMT Topics: We will understand the first demo effect which is cycling a color pattern on some text. To achieve this we must know how to iterate over table data.… https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/4/8/episode-2-3-did-i-interrupt-you https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/4/8/episode-2-3-did-i-interrupt-you Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:09:00 GMT Topics: Many C64 programmers did avoid dealing with interrupts yet it is only thing that lets us create really cool things on the C64. There are various types… https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/4/8/episode-2-2-writing-to-the-c64-screen https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/4/8/episode-2-2-writing-to-the-c64-screen Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:41:00 GMT Topics: Now that we saw the working intro, we want to understand how it works. Let's start with the text written to the C64 screen. Download via dust: $ dust… https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/2/17/a-simple-c64-intro https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/2/17/a-simple-c64-intro Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:00:00 GMT Topics: In this first tutorial I want to cover some basics like loading code, writing text to screen, adding effects and include music. No indepth explanations… https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/4/8/working-without-dust-environment https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/4/8/working-without-dust-environment Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:14:00 GMT Topics: Maybe you are on Windows or Linux or the DUST setup for some reason did not work out. Here is some information how to work with the tutorial code… https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/2/10/dust-c64-command-line-tool https://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/2/10/dust-c64-command-line-tool Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:58:00 GMT Topics: Introduction into the DUST Command Line Utility for Mac OSX. Get a complete C64 cross development environment in three minutes with all the bells and…