{"id":914,"date":"2015-07-12T16:24:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T15:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=914"},"modified":"2015-07-12T16:24:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T15:24:03","slug":"retrochallenge-a-bit-of-a-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"Retrochallenge &#8211; A bit of a plan."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=909\">first post<\/a> of this season&#8217;s Retrochallenge I did a bit of experimenting around memory-mapped screen access on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=26\">Sharp MZ-700<\/a>. I&#8217;ve decided to try and come up with something a bit like &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atic_Atac\">Atic Atac<\/a>&#8221; a splendid top-view runing about game for the spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>The Sharp doesn&#8217;t have dot-addressable graphics like the Spectrum so everything is character based. So it&#8217;s going to be different but we&#8217;re working with the tools we have.<\/p>\n<p>So far I have written some code to draw rooms using tiles and so far, I&#8217;ve got one room&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screenshot-from-2015-07-12-161700.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-915\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screenshot-from-2015-07-12-161700-300x201.png\" alt=\"Screenshot from 2015-07-12 16:17:00\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screenshot-from-2015-07-12-161700-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screenshot-from-2015-07-12-161700.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Now I&#8217;ve got code to draw rooms and a pallet of tiles, I can build a dungeon.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Cellar Scramble<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mwaa Ha Harrr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my first post of this season&#8217;s Retrochallenge I did a bit of experimenting around memory-mapped screen access on the Sharp MZ-700. I&#8217;ve decided to try and come up with something a bit like &#8220;Atic Atac&#8221; a splendid top-view runing about game for the spectrum. The Sharp doesn&#8217;t have dot-addressable graphics like the Spectrum so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=914\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Retrochallenge &#8211; A bit of a plan.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,98,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c84-retro-tech","category-retrochallenge","category-retrochallenge-2015"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"andy","author_link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}