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Mamie v0.34L
I’ve been taking it easy today. As such, I have been enjoying tea and the warmth (it is about 14°C outside, so I’ve had the windows open for hours) and doing some things with my game.
Today I added support for joysticks. In this case, it is aimed firmly at those clone SNES-style models, using the existing RISC OS button options.
A cheap SNES style game controller.
However, I notice that the joystick is not able to perform a ‘run’ action, so I’m wondering if I ought to change the button behaviour so that the shoulder left and right buttons can be used for ‘run left’ and ‘run right’.
I have also added …
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Mamie v0.34L
I’ve been taking it easy today. As such, I have been enjoying tea and the warmth (it is about 14°C outside, so I’ve had the windows open for hours) and doing some things with my game.
Today I added support for joysticks. In this case, it is aimed firmly at those clone SNES-style models, using the existing RISC OS button options.
A cheap SNES style game controller.
However, I notice that the joystick is not able to perform a ‘run’ action, so I’m wondering if I ought to change the button behaviour so that the shoulder left and right buttons can be used for ‘run left’ and ‘run right’.
I have also added file handling routines so now the game state can be saved and reloaded. This brings in the ability to resume from the level you stopped at. You know, in case you can’t do all 22 levels in one go. ☺
I have added a special keypress (Ctrl) when starting the program (preferably before it starts until you see the intro screen appear) which will remove any previous game state.
Also, I have made it so that starting afresh from level 1 will clear the "cheater" flag if set (pressing F8 to clear all the ghosts on a level will set this) and also clear the restarted flag. Set restarted flag is set if you resume the game at any point. So your high score (counted in time taken plus photos remaining) only counts and gets recorded if it’s a clean run through from the beginning. It’ll still give you stats if you resumed, it just won’t record them. Oh, and it only records them for normal and nightmare setting. But, then, you’re not playing the easy-peasy version right? Even I don’t and I suck at games.
I fixed up the code so this is how it builds:
Yes, in 2025 it is being built using the command line.
For the non-nerdy out there, this means that it is building with no messages and no warnings. I cringe when I see a build that spews out a mass of warnings. Granted, these are usually innocuous things or the compiler being overly pedantic (I used build options to turn off various warnings that were "just too damn finicky") but in a number of cases I have found that the warnings were actually indicative of poor code or straight-up bugs...like it’ll warn, but not fault, a line like "this == that;" which will be said to be a line that has no effect. This is because "this == that" is not an assignment, it is an equality test. So the result is probably "false" (they aren’t equal) and since that isn’t being put anywhere, it’s a line that doesn’t do anything. However the programmer probably meant to set ‘this’ to be the value of ‘that’, which is "this = that;" with one equals less. I can speak authoritatively on this particular bug as, well, I did it earlier but since I read the compiler gibberish and have a desire for a no-messages build, I was able to pick it up and fix it right away. But if you are a programmer who’s like "yeah, there’s a lot of junk scrolling by during the compile" you might not notice it. And if ‘this’ not being ‘that’ is important (as it probably is else why would you do it?), you might find yourself chasing ghosts (tish-boom!) as things behave in unexpected ways.
Anyway, enough nerdiness, here’s the download. You can unpack it on top of an already-existing copy of Mamie, it adds an image and an updated executable.
For full installation instructions (you may need to install a few libraries), please read this.
Gravy pasta
Yesterday, for a simple meal as I didn’t feel like fuss, I made some pasta shapes. But I wanted something with just a touch more pizzazz than "a knob of butter". But what?
My eyes happened upon a pack of British gravy granules - made in Yorkshire.
Well, what’s the worst that could happen? I mean, I’m a guy that grew up with Not Poodle.
Farfalle, trigatelli, and conchiglie in a rich beef gravy.
It was actually pretty decent. I’ll have to see if I can find chicken flavour, as this pack is beef, just to vary it up a little. But, yes, gravy on pasta is surprisingly pleasant.
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