Back in 2020, I started taking a look at DirectX 9. That was interesting to me because it was the final form of the old “fixed function” graphics pipeline—DX10 was a major rupture in the API, making GPU shaders the fundamental unit of graphics work and discarding much of the older workflows. This turned into […]| Bumbershoot Software
My recent projects have obliged me to create and edit various kinds of image data. My VDP programming guide used some graphics I first created in a paint program, and which I then converted into th…| Bumbershoot Software
The last time I tried my hand at Sega Genesis development, I first looked at the extremely full-featured SGDK and then decided that I preferred a system where I had more explicit control over every…| Bumbershoot Software
Last week, I poked around in the C language at both the implementation of a simple linked-list structure and a method for allocating memory for that list without any special language or OS support.…| Bumbershoot Software
Last week I implemented a few routines that would operate on a singly-linked list data structure on the Motorola 68000 CPU. Despite dating from 1979, the 68000 instruction set sits well enough with…| Bumbershoot Software
Before kicking off my second Amiga 500 hardware-programming project, let’s take a quick detour. While I was developing last week’s project, I needed to build some support programs to he…| Bumbershoot Software
