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13-Jul-21 4:30

I'm glad the courses are free - that's a ridiculous price for the hardware! OMG | :OMG:

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raddevus13-Jul-21 3:03

raddevus

13-Jul-21 3:03

Get the source code, see the board layout etc. for the original Defender coin-op game.
GitHub - mwenge/defender: Defender(1981) by Eugene Jarvis and Sam Dicker[^]

Re: original (1981) Defender 6809 source code : github

CPallini13-Jul-21 3:11

CPallini

13-Jul-21 3:11

Wonderful! Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

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Re: original (1981) Defender 6809 source code : github

rnbergren13-Jul-21 3:14

rnbergren

13-Jul-21 3:14

fun!

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Re: original (1981) Defender 6809 source code : github

OriginalGriff13-Jul-21 3:23

Re: original (1981) Defender 6809 source code : github

13-Jul-21 3:23

Gawd, that thing ate quite a chunk of my money in those days ...
The PC version wasn't as good. Sigh | :sigh:

Rob Philpott13-Jul-21 5:06

Rob Philpott

13-Jul-21 5:06

That game had a profound effect on me as something like a then ten year old, I remember my hands shaking trying to get the coin in through the sheer excitement of it all. Sound was legendary and it also had probably the first example I ever saw of particle effects with the explosions. I've tried in the past to buy an old one on ebay and I've even got this idea about writing a C# clone in Blazor at the moment (that won't happen). I did one in ARM32 years ago.

When I take my kids to the same seaside arcade where I had these young moments, it's just full of dull machines that spit tickets out which you can exchange for plastic tat. It was dark, loud and just awesome in the 80s. The music was better too.

Regards,
Rob Philpott.

Re: original (1981) Defender 6809 source code : github

raddevus14-Jul-21 9:27

raddevus

14-Jul-21 9:27

I was about 16 or so I guess when I first dropped a coin in.
When all your people are abducted and everything goes mutant, it gets real crazy. Big Grin | :-D

I think this is a big first!

honey the codewitch12-Jul-21 23:43

honey the codewitch

12-Jul-21 23:43

After looking high and low for a true type engine I could adapt to GFX I finally found some public domain source I was able to hack to get it all working in low memory environments, meaning using callbacks instead of rendering to bmps and streaming off the font file directly instead of loading it into memory and normalizing it.

I've got it all working in the library. Right now all I'm doing is creating some tools so you can embed them, and doing some long standing but unrelated adds I've been meaning to get around to but I want to ship with this next update.

This means Truetype on IoT, even on the Arduino framework. In theory, it might work on some really minimalistic gadgets with like 16kB of RAM though I haven't tested it, and you'd probably have to use an SD card to hold the font files which would make rendering slow.

I've seen some truetype on IoT, mainly with LVGL** on select platforms and a one off for the ESP32 using freetype but nothing easy, and nothing that will work on Arduino.

**LVGL is awesome, but also really difficult to get building on some platforms, and it uses freetype which comes with serious limitations in terms of what it can target so it's not widely accessible on IoT. It doesn't work with the Arduino framework either, at least not the Truetype bits.

I'm super proud of this GFX library. It really is turning into quite a contender for mid-rage to fat IoT devices like the ESP32.

I'm considering providing anti-aliasing in general, not just for truetype rendering but it's so bloody slow! I wish there was a fast, general case way to do it without alpha-blending.

Still even without it, between JPG, truetype, and the soon to be created UIX user interface layer I'll be building on top of it, it will be a monster of an IoT library. You'll be able to create really professional user interfaces with it for your smart gadgets, and even make things like e-readers - which is something I intend to create here over the next month or two - it's quite involved.

Anyway, the whole point is YAY. This thing is the best thing I've created all year, and one of the best things I've created over the past 5. I'm thrilled, especially since I'm filling a niche that hasn't been adequately filled in the IoT space.

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modified 13-Jul-21 6:33am.

Re: I think this is a big first!

User 991608013-Jul-21 5:35

User 9916080

13-Jul-21 5:35

Congratulations! Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

It is a wonderful feeling of accomplishment, especially when you are the first to do it (niche).

Back in the early 90's, I wrote a VBX control to perform shareware registration with serial numbers. I was the first to make it secure and first to market. It got a 4 page spread as VB tool of the month in the Visual Basic Journal. Unfortunately, it didn't last long. One week after the publication, there were 10 copy-cats on the market. OMG | :OMG:

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modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.

Another cryptocurrency seizure.

OriginalGriff12-Jul-21 23:22

12-Jul-21 23:22

Met Police seize record £180m of cryptocurrency in London[^]

From one woman. OMG | :OMG:

The Grauniad says it's Bitcoin: Met police seize nearly £180m of bitcoin in money laundering investigation | Bitcoin | The Guardian[^]
That's a lot of money ... but it would have been twice that in April.
It would seem that keeping money in cryptocurrencies isn't as "safe and secure" as you might think, as well as being subject to wild fluctuations for no good reason. I'd expect it to drop further on this news as naughty people try to get rid of it. Big Grin | :-D

5teveH12-Jul-21 23:42

5teveH

12-Jul-21 23:42

Cash is king - if you are looking to avoid detection. Smile | :)

Eddy Vluggen13-Jul-21 0:31

13-Jul-21 0:31

OriginalGriff wrote:
It would seem that keeping money in cryptocurrencies isn't as "safe and secure" as you might think, as well as being subject to wild fluctuations for no good reason. I'd expect it to drop further on this news as naughty people try to get rid of it.

Hahaha, sound like someone is jealous!

The most used currency for criminals is the US dollar. We should ban that stuff in Europe.

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Jörgen Andersson13-Jul-21 1:51

Jörgen Andersson

13-Jul-21 1:51

That would only mean they would move over to another currency, probably the €. You want to ban that as well?

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Eddy Vluggen13-Jul-21 7:41

13-Jul-21 7:41

If you use the argument that it must be banned because criminals use it, then yes.

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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

W∴ Balboos, GHB13-Jul-21 3:08

W∴ Balboos, GHB

13-Jul-21 3:08

Eddy Vluggen wrote:
The most used currency for criminals is the US dollar. We should ban that stuff in Europe.

This is one of those weird thing that seems to obsess you. I'd bet if it were Indian Rupees you'd not have posted that.

Aside from what is (apparently) a personal pique of yours, you really need to consider beyond the obvious: a purpose of cryptocurrency is the anonymity it brings. Not true with hard currency. Although paying "in cash" is hidden in any currency, that's a tough play once the sums are substantial and/or they cannot be handed off physically. There's a trail - which is why money laundering exists - but unless moved around in large sacks, the trail will keep reemerging. For some reason you prefer to err on the side of disputing the reality: the money for online (at the least) extortion is preferentially a crypt-currency.

And redirection, i.e. to the US$ or any other real money, doesn't really make the problem brought up go away. The "yeah, but what about . . . " bullshit is part of the current culture to distract from rather than address problems. Works best in social media and at political rallies.

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Slacker00713-Jul-21 5:11

Slacker007

13-Jul-21 5:11

Eddy hates on America every chance he gets.

Eddy Vluggen13-Jul-21 7:38

13-Jul-21 7:38

W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote:
I'd bet if it were Indian Rupees you'd not have posted that.

I would; and funny that everyone jumps on me for calling out the dollar while jumping on BC.

W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote:
a purpose of cryptocurrency is the anonymity it brings

Ehr.. no. BC isn't anonymous. In fact, every transaction is recorded in a chain.

The argument that BC is dangerous "because" criminals use it, is garbage. As if we didn't have access to currencies before it's invention.

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W∴ Balboos, GHB13-Jul-21 7:49

W∴ Balboos, GHB

13-Jul-21 7:49

Sometimes your just plain silly.

Eddy Vluggen wrote:
Ehr.. no. BC isn't anonymous. In fact, every transaction is recorded in a chain.

And that, of course, includes there name and other identifiable information! Somehow I missed that in all the descriptions.

Eddy Vluggen wrote:
The argument that BC is dangerous "because" criminals use it, is garbage. As if we didn't have access to currencies before it's invention.

More of that silly stuff ! It's like saying a nerve gas, such as Sarin or Tabun is "OK" because poisonous things existed before they did. Yes. Of course.

As for why BC and its ilk are dangerous? It's because they have no intrinsic value whatsover - not even the so called "good faith of (pick a gov't)". They are empty worthless ephemera with no value other than the speculation that someone else may want to buy it from you and speculate some more. That is dangerous. Catastrophic swings in value (as we already see). Who or what stands behind their value?

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Eddy Vluggen13-Jul-21 7:59

13-Jul-21 7:59

W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote:
Sometimes your just plain silly.

Did you mean "you're"? Smile | :)

W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote:
And that, of course, includes there name and other identifiable information! Somehow I missed that in all the descriptions.

The things you buy, that pattern, is the information.

W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote:
More of that silly stuff ! It's like saying a nerve gas, such as Sarin or Tabun is "OK" because poisonous things existed before they did. Yes. Of course.

Let me state it different then; I don't take BitCoin, only dollars.

W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote:
As for why BC and its ilk are dangerous? It's because they have no intrinsic value whatsover

More intrinsic value than a Euro has, since it is artificially limited. Meaning, our government can't print BitCoins if they need them.

W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote:
not even the so called "good faith of (pick a gov't)"

Yeah, place you faith there.

W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote:
Who or what stands behind their value?

I don't own BC, a genuine silverbug. And all those idiot arguments about BC go for silver as well. No one stands behind it - you make it sound like that is a problem, but that's an advantage. No Draghi, no problem.

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Cp-Coder13-Jul-21 1:30

Cp-Coder

13-Jul-21 1:30

Quote:
The Grauniad says

Grauniad? What's that? Confused | :confused:

Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

OriginalGriff13-Jul-21 1:45

13-Jul-21 1:45

Urban Dictionary: grauniad[^]

Cp-Coder13-Jul-21 4:57

Cp-Coder

13-Jul-21 4:57

I stand enlightened - thanks!

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