By all account it looks like a fun show. Some youtube videos have appeared online:
And there is this spazztasically positive impression of IAYD:
IAYD set was not the griddy, tailored fare you might expect from a the duo of hacked GameBoy casings he spent his set thumbing: It was a roaring, hideous, infectious, mindless, rapturous, caveman technosplosion that sent us all into fits. If chiptunery ever seemed cold or inhuman, IAYDs set flipped it right into hot and downright alien
rockin’ new tunez presented and approved by the QFS:
Storm by Kyotosapian
SUPER MARIO PSYCHEDELIC by KODEK
Sh6w by Dr. von Pnok
Connect. by CS
dr. sleepgood 2 by pocketmaster
Barefoot Mailman by stochastc
Valentine’s Day Acid by Jellica
Jj by .sylCMYK
Also a number of events have been added to the list.
The new game systems include NTSC/PAL video, VGA, Serial Ports, Micro SD card slot, PS/2 Port, Game Ports, Expansion Ports, Dual 3.3/5V Power Supplies and more. Both kits include a 300+ page book that guides the user into the depths of the system. APIs for graphics, sound, I/O and interfacing are provided to speed game development. Nurve also developed a high performance XGS BASIC for each system, allowing users to choose from C/C++, assembly or BASIC when coding.
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This kind of follows up on our previous story about affordable 8-bit dev platforms.
You want an easy to get, widely available and documented platform? The C64 is one of your best bets, but you cannot be arsed to learn a low level language like Assembler, right? At the same time, you do not want the limitations of the poor in-built BASIC included with Commodore machines, I presume.
Enter DotBASIC Plus. Its purpose is to bring you “the power to create sophisticated, modern-looking programs” without you having to burst your brain with low level coding.
According to the author, Dave Moorman, ” The Commodore 64 is the epitome of the 8-bit computer. It has everything you need for any hobbyist programmer […] except an excellent BASIC interpreter”. So he made his own.
The thing comes with a hefty 80 page manual but, unlike most C64 tradition, this is not a free release! However, at 10 dollars for the Downloadable Version, you certainly get a lot of bang for your buck. From what I’ve seen of it, it simplifies the process of BASIC coding adding keywords to the system, but also outputs more optimized code only loading the modules you need (which are all coded in machine language) and stripping the rest. Convenient.
Not enough? A second disk includes most convenient tools, like a bitmap editor, a sprite editor, a cruncher and more.
More info and purchase information at the official website.
