It's 33 days until the lovebyte demo party (9-11th February 2024)!
I recently got back into TIC-80 effects coding a bit and the lovebyte orga invited me to contribute to the 40 days countdown - each day a 256byte sizecoded effect - and here it is! The cart will be released as part of a big pack with everyone elses contributions at the event.
Now to actually making a prod to enter that's not just a rehash of this…
Progress from last sunday at Chaostreff: We got our Erika 3004 type writer to type fast and error free by getting hardware flow control for its serial port to work. We tried first with a FT232RL-based USB-serial adapter, but it's flow control implementation is not fast enough: if the Erika signals "stop sending", it continues sending for up to 3 characters, which the Erika can't handle. But a Raspberry Pi can react fast enough if configured correctly, so now we can remove a bunch of pessimistic sleeps from the code.
I also worked on hooking it up as a terminal to other programs, so we hopefully can run text adventures or something on it for CCCamp.