I started work on Draw-To-Buffer today, and managed to get a couple of basic functions into place. Create buffer of X/Y size, Clear buffer, Fill buffer with X Colour, Draw a line to the buffer, and then the most important one.

Nearly..!

About time I added this in!! The scoreboard flips between Top 5 and Last 5, and once I add them in, will also show the Online Top 5, too. All in one neater space on the right, leaving the left hand side relatively uncluttered.

Well, not "nothing". I did at least do another ALChoon, yesterday.

After yesterday's disaster of a day, I'm hoping that today will be a little more productive. So, ignore the horrorshow, and focus on more achievable tasks.

I skipped a week's Newsletter for SoCoder, last week, so I need to get back to doing that, today.

All night, the cat was running around, up and down stairs, and randomly yelling. I figured she probably wanted out, so at 1am I bumbled out of bed and opened the back door for her. At 1:30, I was stood at the door, freezing, waiting for her to come back in. Bloody cat.

Have I mentioned how much I hate doing menus!?!

Creation Crate #2 popped up yesterday, only 2.5 weeks after the last one did, and it was a nice fun little build+code event.

Probably should've got back into the swing of coding, yesterday, but spent most of the day playing with my new GPD Win.

After all the gift giving, comes random spending on yourself!

Note : Boxing day is what we in the UK call the day after Xmas Day. I'm not sure why it's called that! Wiki! The day went rather uneventfully. A lazy morning, waking up rather late, but then using most of the morning to prepare for what was to come.

A standard Xmas in the house of Jay. The morning was spent unwrapping the insane amount of sweets that I'd been gifted. Since folk know not to buy me Chocolate (since it gives me migraines) and they're desperately trying not to resort to buying Xmas Socks, they all seem to end up buying me a curious variety of sweets. Each one trying desperately to find the most unique sweet they can, in a bid to outdo each other. I unwrapped an alarming number of Jelly Beans, yesterday!

Today is a day without my usual daily blog, mostly because I've been lazy, watching a lot of Festive TV, and am currently sat on the couch watching my Sister and her friend having a game of Scrabble, whilst typing this small bit of none-blog. Later on, I'll probably need to hook up the SNES Classic for a short while, but given that my NES Classic hasn't ever been hooked up, that's not too likely to happen! Anyhoo, Merry Xmas everyone, and if you don't do that sort of thing, then at...

After a good number of days working on this, I've finally got it up to a mostly functional state! For now, you navigate the controller using "default" buttons, so hopefully that works well enough to allow for that. I've still not started work on the thumbsticks, yet, but the code does at least allow for analogue controls, so it shouldn't be too hard to add. *sigh* Such a struggle to get to this point.

Having a lot of these, lately! Perhaps it's a sign that things are getting close to the end? .. Or maybe I'm so far from the end, I'm starting to get frustrated, and drift off the plan!

I started the rewrite of the controller code, last night. Digging deep, I realised I could probably reuse quite a lot of the old code, since the engine already grabs Joystick data each frame, as well as using a bunch of good-old fashioned numbers to do a lot of the legwork.

Spent hours (literally hours) simply planning a method in my head, that would allow me to get the controller config page to work.

Note : These posts were originally posted to Patreon as a Subscriber bonus. Now that Patreon's imploding, I've decided to start reposting the contents here, instead. -=-=-

Inside Jay's Notebook - 001

When typically coding, I tend not to use pen and paper. Over the many years that I've been doing this, I've found my mind to be perfectly adequate for storing bits and pieces, and jumping between all the many random and crazy ideas that I generate. In addition, my handwrit...

Starting to think I should probably just make an XCode project.