V8id

Devlog

• Title/login screen
  October 20, 2025 by TheV8id

  Sometimes I really don't feel like coding at all. In those hard times, it's very useful that I have a LOTS of things to do... A huge amount of things that are NOT related to coding 😄 So today I dec... Continue reading

  
• Current status of the project
  October 18, 2025 by TheV8id

  It's time to summarize what we have at the current state. It's important to say, currently I don't have anything flashy nor interesting. The project is still in its very very early state, and I'm focu... Continue reading

  
• The tales of the zero byte
  October 18, 2025 by TheV8id

  July 13, 2025 What a surprise, another issues to deal with. Until now, I've never sent a 00 byte through the network. Why is it an issue? Because I use the original C64 KERNAL routines to send/receive... Continue reading

  
• Fine scroll without glitches
  October 18, 2025 by TheV8id

  July 9, 2025 I changed my mind again: from user experience perspective, the player MUST have the option to explore the world with an onscreen display. With some status, world position, or anything els... Continue reading

  
• C64 client: login, scrolling, chars and sprites
  October 18, 2025 by TheV8id

  July 8, 2025 First I had to fix some bugs with the main protocol, and extend it a little bit. But finally we have our first command: the LOGIN! This is how the login process looks like from the server... Continue reading

  
• C64 client: first steps
  October 18, 2025 by TheV8id

  June 25, 2025 I had a hard decision, and finally let the telnet concept go. It will be double work to implement the default planned byte based protocol, and in parallel develop and maintain telnet com... Continue reading

  
• Telnet client visual additions
  October 18, 2025 by TheV8id

  June 7, 2025 Added some visual "improvements" (textures :D) for ground, water and rock tiles. The "dirt" chars on the empty tiles/rocks and the waves are generated procedurally in a deterministic way... Continue reading

  
• First prototype
  October 18, 2025 by TheV8id

  May 31, 2025 The first telnet prototype with basic player movement, in a linux terminal :D Player can move around with the little @ Moving is a bit complicated yet, but clearly works. Coloring and eve... Continue reading