Friday, June 30, 2006

Back in Action / Wonderpix

Back in action...

After a small vacation, on which i've worked a little on a new vectrex project "Spike supersports" (more on this soon), and the hectics of getting my previous vectrex project out the door, i'm back at juggling the development of mutiple classic systems (mainly vectrex, coleco, atari2600 and msx1 at the moment).

One of the side effects of developing for classic systems, is the time you need to invest in proper tools and systems, which in my case is at least as much as the time i spend on the actual project itself. I spent quite a lot of time creating and setting up proper environments for Coleco and Vectrex development. One of the tools i use for graphics management is called "WonderPix", which is a multi-platform graphics tool. It basically supports every classic platform available, like: atari2600, colecovision, msx1, msx2, commodore 64, atari st, commdore amiga, zx spectrum, nintendo nes, sega mastersystem,gameboy, and ofcourse the somewhat newer 64/256-color platforms.I've attached a few screens of the tool in action for your pleasure.



Welcome to my blog

Hi everyone,

And welcome to my online blog. From now on, you will find all information on my day to day struggles with classic game development on various systems (like the vectrex, atari 2600, colecovision, msx, and more...). Since i'm working at least SOMETHING on either one of these systems, i expect regular updates. So keep yourself posted!

Kind regards,

Martijn