MEGA65 - let's go skiing in BASIC

[@EdgardoAlessio]

Please, make more videos about Mega65 and BASIC 10. It's a really interesting topic.

[@TheHighlander71]

When I was a kid back in the 80s I memorized a little game in Basic, just like your skiing game, but with a little snake trying to avoid stars. I could play it with a joystick even. I think it was only 7 lines of code :)

[@armin.hierstetter]

Awesome - I would love to see a video about "Basic Game Coding in Basic"!

[@sandcat-maurice]

Nice tutorial about programming in BASIC, thank you! I was not aware you are ZeHa and did my Weihnachten magazine purchases via you. Good to know 😊

[@retroblogit]

I don't want to sound like a PITA, but if it's a ski game why isn't the background white?

[@drwuro]

because with a black background it looks more 8-bit 😎

[@drwuro]

a little fun fact: if you stop the video at 0:53 (and you're able to read German), you can see that an optional white background is addressed in the last paragraph of the accompanying text ;)

[@anon_y_mousse]

Ever hear of black ice? Well this is black snow. Also, ever hear of snowblindness? Well this is blindnesscure.

[@f1lupo]

Thanks for this great video! I remember fondly the many hours spent typing programs from magazines directly into my Vic20 then C64

[@heathgallimore4845]

great stuff. The new features are excellent

[@3dmotormaker]

I thought how nice - until I saw the cost of the machine - at that point after laughing very hard - I thought not on your life !

[@drwuro]

yes, it's not cheap. on the other hand, it's a non-profit project, and it's got a very high quality keyboard and a real disk drive etc, and i've been waiting for 7 years until it was finally available for pre-order - so i had plenty of time to think about whether i want it or not :D

[@gabor222]

@@drwuro I think that less people would complain about the price if we saw programs that do look better than what we saw on the C64 but unfortunately despite the better hardware of the MEGA65 the C64 scene still provides more and better new games on the older machine. That great hardware of the MEGA65 will worth it's price when it is supported by great software. I wish it would improve soon.

[@JosipRetroBits]

Great video :) Amazing game, great job!

[@mehere3013]

should try port some emulators to it

[@drwuro]

there are some other FPGA cores ported over to it already

[@mehere3013]

@@drwuro nice, would love to see a video on it , see how it runs

[@UltimatePerfection]

I wonder if the person who made SkiFree for Windows was inspired by this, since the gameplay is so similar.

[@drwuro]

pretty sure it was the other way round ;) the original game is from 2018, the original SkiFree is from the early 90s or so

[@UltimatePerfection]

@@drwuro Oh, thought the c64 version was from the 80s or something.

[@modernutilities2057]

Will there be a mega65 with Userport sometime? Then I would buy it.

[@sytwothousandandtwo7020]

Great video! I normally tend to be more into VHDL and Assembler than into Basic, but this video of yours really inspired me to reconsider :-)

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

Apparently the Mega65 uses a real 4510 processor, which is a derivative of the 6502 processor but with a LOT more features including the ability to run at 40.5mhz. But I wonder why they didn't implement the whole thing in FPGA because that would possibly have allowed the 4510 to run at even higher speed (200mhz anyone?). I'm no electronics expert, so I may not know what I'm talking about! LOL.

[@drwuro]

in fact, it is an FPGA machine :)

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

@@drwuro The 4510 is implemented in FPGA as well?

[@drwuro]

@@JustWasted3HoursHere yes, the whole architecture of the machine is implemented in FPGA, including the CPU, VIC-IV and SIDs :)

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

@@drwuro Ah, okay. I wonder why they limited the max clock speed to only 40mhz?

[@drwuro]

@@JustWasted3HoursHere no idea, i guess there must be some reasons for that; interestingly, the Ultimate64's turbo mode has 40 mhz (or 48 mhz?) as well, maybe it's just the maximum possible speed with the fpga's transistor size?

[@Steril707]

Love the music explanation part...

[@star_man]

It reminds me of Horace Goes Skiing on the ZX Spectrum.

[@UltimatePerfection]

Can you make use of M65 exclusive features, such as more colors? The C64 ports aren't that impressive.

[@drwuro]

i'm currently working on a little more elaborate project in BASIC, also making use of some more features. however, some of the more advanced features of the MEGA65 are hard to use from BASIC

[@Steril707]

This channel (fortunately) seems to be more about how you can cool little BASIC games much more easily than on the C64 rather than some amigaish ASM game stuff. Maybe you should check out shallan64's channel here, he does the things you are searching for, I guess.

[@UltimatePerfection]

@@Steril707 Then use mega65 features from within mega65 BASIC.

[@Steril707]

@@UltimatePerfection It actually shows Mega65 features. That's the whole point of the video. Showing off Mega65 BASIC and how easily you can create simple games with it.

[@UltimatePerfection]

@@Steril707 Except it doesn't, those are straight up C64 ports. It shows C64 features, not Mega65.