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Their source code was fortunatelly lost. - -This DOS MZ exacutables will run fine in a DOSBox. - -## Highway - - Coded: 1999 - Tech: C, DJGPP compiler, Allegro library - -A unique combination of Frogger and the original GTA, which it was probably -inspired by. Control your vehicle with the arrow keys without crashing, -as long as possible. - -Download: [highway.zip](highway.zip) - -{.img-fluid style="width:300px;"} -{.img-fluid style="width:300px;"} - -## Under Attack - - Coded: Early 90ies - Tech: QBasic - -Originally I coded this game for the TI-83 caluclator, later reimplementing -it for my PC **in colors**. As the commander of a the mighty battleship _HMS Miguel_ you need -to use the arrow keys to evade enemy missiles fired from the deepness of the ocean, -by enemy submarines. - -Download: [attack.zip](attack.zip) - -{.img-fluid style="width:300px;"} - -## Operation Naval Storm - - Coded: 1996 - Tech: QBasic - -Another naval warfare classic, based on the well known *Sea Battle* game, played on -paper grids. In this advanced version every player places only one single -ship, measuring 1x1 in size. Try to outperform the brilliant AI. - -{.img-fluid style="width:300px;"} -{.img-fluid style="width:300px;"} - -Download: [naval.zip](naval.zip) - diff --git a/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00010_The-Old-Times/naval.zip b/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00010_The-Old-Times/naval.zip Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 6155a1e..0000000 --- a/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00010_The-Old-Times/naval.zip +++ /dev/null diff --git a/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00010_The-Old-Times/naval1.png b/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00010_The-Old-Times/naval1.png Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index d351629..0000000 --- a/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00010_The-Old-Times/naval1.png +++ /dev/null diff --git a/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00010_The-Old-Times/naval2.png b/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00010_The-Old-Times/naval2.png Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index fb45276..0000000 --- a/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00010_The-Old-Times/naval2.png +++ /dev/null diff --git a/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00100_Monospaced-Font-and-Pixel-Display-for-Space-Engineers/Space-Engineers-ASCII-Bars.png b/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00100_Monospaced-Font-and-Pixel-Display-for-Space-Engineers/Space-Engineers-ASCII-Bars.png Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 812e22e..0000000 --- a/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00100_Monospaced-Font-and-Pixel-Display-for-Space-Engineers/Space-Engineers-ASCII-Bars.png +++ /dev/null diff --git a/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00100_Monospaced-Font-and-Pixel-Display-for-Space-Engineers/Space-Engineers-Animated-Display-Setup.png b/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00100_Monospaced-Font-and-Pixel-Display-for-Space-Engineers/Space-Engineers-Animated-Display-Setup.png Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index e923382..0000000 --- a/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00100_Monospaced-Font-and-Pixel-Display-for-Space-Engineers/Space-Engineers-Animated-Display-Setup.png +++ /dev/null diff --git a/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00100_Monospaced-Font-and-Pixel-Display-for-Space-Engineers/Space-Engineers-LCD-Panels.png b/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00100_Monospaced-Font-and-Pixel-Display-for-Space-Engineers/Space-Engineers-LCD-Panels.png Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index 26ef16b..0000000 --- a/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00100_Monospaced-Font-and-Pixel-Display-for-Space-Engineers/Space-Engineers-LCD-Panels.png +++ /dev/null diff --git a/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00100_Monospaced-Font-and-Pixel-Display-for-Space-Engineers/Space-Engineers-Pixel-Display.png b/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00100_Monospaced-Font-and-Pixel-Display-for-Space-Engineers/Space-Engineers-Pixel-Display.png Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index fc50dd0..0000000 --- a/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00100_Monospaced-Font-and-Pixel-Display-for-Space-Engineers/Space-Engineers-Pixel-Display.png +++ /dev/null diff --git a/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00100_Monospaced-Font-and-Pixel-Display-for-Space-Engineers/index.md b/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00100_Monospaced-Font-and-Pixel-Display-for-Space-Engineers/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 7786555..0000000 --- a/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/00100_Monospaced-Font-and-Pixel-Display-for-Space-Engineers/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,325 +0,0 @@ -###>>>KWD Space Engineers Pixel Display, Space Engineers Font, Monospaced -###>>>DSC A Pixel precise Display for Space Engineers including a custom monospaced Font. -# Monospaced Font and Pixel Display for Space Engineers -<p class="text-secondary">September 23, 2016</p> -<figure class="text-center"> -{.img-fluid .rounded alt="Closeup of standard Space Engineers LCD Panel, showing pink letters. Single Pixels can be determined." title="Pink is the color of passion"} -<figcaption class="text-secondary"> -Standard LCD Panel displaying monospaced text. -</figcaption> -</figure> - -## Pixel Precise Font - -For everyone suffering from the lack of monospaced fonts and pixel-based -displays in Space Engineers here I share my simple, yet effective solution: -A simple helper class in C#, which I wrote yesterday night to solve this -particular problem. As a bonus this also enabled using the LCD Screens -for arbitrary pixel-precise output, even with animations, as you will -see later. - -Have fun and feel free to improve it! - -The class can be easily embedded in your programmable blocks and allows simulating pixel-precise displays on the LCD and Text Panels. The class also ships with a beautiful set of retro-style compile time mono-spaced fonts. - -First admire a few screenshot to get a first impression: - -<figure class="text-center"> -{.img-fluid .rounded alt="A Space Engineers Console showcasing our Font. It displays some ASCII styled bars." title="The Monospaced Font in Action."} -<figcaption class="text-secondary"> -Status bars showing normal and inverted font. -</figcaption> -</figure> - -<figure class="text-center"> -{.img-fluid .rounded alt="Two adjacent Space Engineers Consoles. One shows a sinus wave, demonstrating pixel precise output."} -<figcaption class="text-secondary"> -The Display to the right demonstrates animated pixel precise output. -</figcaption> -</figure> - -The class exposes the following public methods: - -* Screen constructor -* pixelOn -* draw_rect -* put_letter -* put_letter_inv // inverted single letter -* put_text -* put_text_inv // inverted text -* update // updates lcd or text panel - -## Pixel Display supports Animations - -<figure class="text-center"> -{.img-fluid .rounded alt="Complete setup with 3 Panels a timer block and a programmable block"} -<figcaption class="text-secondary"> -A complete Setup featuring 3 LCD Panels and supporting blocks. -</figcaption> -</figure> - -With a timer block this approach can be used for beautiful animations too! - -The solution is based on emulating pixels using very small fonts ~0.2 on regular LCD Panels. I use ‘[‘ and ‘.’ here, since they both have the same widths and work quite well to emulate on/off pixels. - - -Usage of the class is easy and straigth forward from your Main function: - - -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ {.csharp .numberLines} -// construct a new Screen class instace providing -// the label of your panel and dimensions. -Screen s = new Screen("Your_LCD_1",215,59,this); - -// put text on specified pixel coordinates -s.put_text(10,10," Welcome to the Machine "); - -// refresh the LCD Panel -s.update(); -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -## C Sharp Class for the Space Engineers Font - -And this is the C# class behind it. You will have to copy it into your programmable blocks. (Let me know if there is a more elegant way?) - -Sidenote: If you wonder how I generated this numbers inside the letters array, you can read it in this seperate post about bitmap fonts generation. - -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ {.csharp .numberLines} -class Screen -{ - - public int width; - public int height; - - IMyTextPanel panel; - - char mark_pixel='['; - char mark_empty='.'; - - static MyGridProgram programm; - string output; - - public Screen(string panel_name, int _width, int _height, MyGridProgram programRef) - { - width=_width; - height=_height; - programm=programRef; - panel=programm.GridTerminalSystem.GetBlockWithName(panel_name) as IMyTextPanel; - - output=new string(' ',0); - for(int y=0;y<height;y++) - { - output+=new string(mark_empty,width); - output+='\n'; - } - } - - public void pixelOn(int x,int y) - { - StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(output); - sb[y*(width+1)+x]=mark_pixel; - output = sb.ToString(); - } - - public void draw_rect(int x, int y, int width, int height) - { - for(int i=x;i<x+width;i++) - { - pixelOn(i,y); - pixelOn(i,y+height-1); - } - - for(int i=y;i<y+height;i++) - { - pixelOn(x,i); - pixelOn(width+x-1,i); - } - - - } - - public void put_text(int x, int y, string str) - { - int linefeed=0; - for(int i=0;i<str.Length;i++) - { - if(str[i]=='\n') - { - y+=7; - linefeed=0; - continue; - } - - linefeed+=7; - put_letter(x+linefeed,y,str[i]); - } - } - - public void put_text_inv(int x, int y, string str) - { - int linefeed=0; - for(int i=0;i<str.Length;i++) - { - if(str[i]=='\n') - { - y+=7; - linefeed=0; - continue; - } - - linefeed+=7; - put_letter_inv(x+linefeed,y,str[i]); - } - } - - public void put_letter(int x, int y, int ascii_code) - { - int letter=letters[ascii_code-0x20]; - - for(int i=0;i<5;i++) - for(int j=0;j<5;j++) - - if(0<(letter & (int)Math.Pow(2,24-(i+j*5)) )) - pixelOn(x+i,y+j); - } - - public void put_letter_inv(int x, int y, int ascii_code) - { - int letter=letters[ascii_code-0x20]; - draw_rect(x-1,y-1,7,7); // outline - for(int i=0;i<5;i++) - for(int j=0;j<5;j++) if(0>=(letter & (int)Math.Pow(2,24-(i+j*5)) )) - pixelOn(x+i,y+j); - } - - public void update() - { - panel.WritePublicText(output, false); - } - - // monospace fonts starting from 0x20 (space) - static readonly int[] letters = - { - 0,4329476,10813440,11512810,16398526,17895697,6632015,4325376,2232450,8523912, - 22483413,4357252,68,31744,4,1118480,15390382,4608142,15239320,31504446, - 1841462,33060926,33062463,32540808,33095231,33094719,131200,131208,2236546, - 1016800,8521864,32051204,15392270,33095217,32045630,33047071,32032318, - 33061407,33062416,33050175,18415153,14815374,14748236,20673235,17318431,18732593,18667121, - 15255086,32045584,15259213,32045779,33299071,32641156,18400814,18393412,18405233,18157905,18157700, - 32575775,14950670,17043521,14747726,4539392,31,6389760,33095217,32045630, - 33047071,32032318,33061407,33062416,33050175,18415153,14815374,14748236, - 20673235,17318431,18732593,18667121,15255086,32045584,15259213,32045779,33299071, - 32641156,18400814,18393412,18405233,18157905,18157700,32575775,2240642,4329604 - 8525960,14016, - }; - -}; - -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -## Source Code used for Example Screenshots above - -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ {.csharp .numberLines} -static int cnt=0; // programm counter - -public void Main(string argument) -{ - // increase programm counter - cnt+=1; - if (cnt>100) cnt= 0; - - // init our screen class: new 438x59 screen - Screen s = new Screen("Miguel_LCD_1",(int)(438*1.5),(int)(59*1.5),this); - - // draw some rectangles - s.draw_rect(0,0,s.width,s.height); - s.draw_rect(2,2,s.width-4,s.height-4); - - //draw more rectangles (stress testing only) - // for(int i=4; i<35; i+=2) - // { - // s.draw_rect(i,i,s.width-2*i,s.height-2*i); - // } - - // write counter value - s.put_text(8,5,"counter: "+cnt); - - // inverted text - s.put_text_inv(8,12,"SOME INVERTED TEXT --- "); - - - // paint a sinus wave - for(int i=0;i<s.width;i++) { if(i>200)s.pixelOn(i,(int)(s.height/2+s.height/3*Math.Sin((i+cnt)/25.0))); - } - - // paint individual letters along a sinus - string txt=new string(' ',0); - txt="! software fools rules the waves!"; - - for(int i=0;i<txt.Length;i++) { s.put_letter(30+i*7,(int)(s.height/2+s.height/5*Math.Sin((30+i*6+cnt)/25.0)),txt[i]); } s.update(); // other screens Screen s2 = new Screen("Miguel_LCD_2",329,89,this); Screen s3 = new Screen("Miguel_LCD_3",215,59,this); s3.put_text_inv(10,10," Welcome to the Machine "); s3.put_text(10,17,"-= Miguel's 5x5 Fonts =-\n The quick brown fox \n jumps over the lazy dog\n0123456789><=;'~^\n"+ - " %#@!~?{}[]-+*&`.,:'"); - - s3.draw_rect(0,0,s3.width,s3.height); - s3.draw_rect(2,2,s3.width-4,s3.height-4); - - s2.put_text(10,1, -"Something......[|||||||||| ] 10%\n"+ -"Foo............[||| ] 33%\n"+ -"Bar............[||| ] 99%\n"+ -"Something else.[||||||||||I ] 05%\n" -); - -s2.put_text_inv(10,35, -"Something......[|||||||||| ] 10%\n"+ -"Foo............[||| ] 33%\n"+ -"Bar............[||| ] 99%\n"+ -"Something else.[||||||||||I ] 05%\n" -); - -s2.put_text(10,65, -"copyright by softwarefools.com" -); - - s2.update(); - s3.update(); -} -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - - -## Helpful Comment on improving Performance - - JR Raynal - December 13, 2017 at 9:29 am - -Hi, I was playing with your script, and found it super slow… which is odd given the performances of other scripts out there. Turns out by switching the output from a string to a StringBuilder, you don’t need to copy them around as much. I assume this is the fix because I experienced a serious speed increase with that! - -Here is the rewritten snippet: - -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ {.csharp .numberLines} - - StringBuilder output; - - public Screen(string panel_name, int _width, int _height, MyGridProgram programRef) - { - width = _width; - height = _height; - programm = programRef; - panel = programm.GridTerminalSystem.GetBlockWithName(panel_name) as IMyTextPanel; - - output = new StringBuilder(); - for (int y = 0; y < height; y++) - { - output.Append(mark_empty, width); - output.Append('\n'); - } - } - - public void pixelOn(int x, int y) - { - output[y * (width + 1) + x] = mark_pixel; - } -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -## TODOS - -cleanup and optimize code!!, move sources to git repo, use some kind of syntax highlihter on this post. allow other font-sets with other sizes and let the user adjust spacing, publish python font converter in another post. diff --git a/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/index.md b/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index 914d7d3..0000000 --- a/080_blog/00030_Computer-Games/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@ -Computer Games -============== -This section holds various content related to computer games. -Be it simple games, mods or notes ... |
