Free Addicting Super Mario Games

The world of internet has changed the entire world on online games. With the help of this, the well known “Super Mario” games have been transformed to a lot of versions which you might not have heard till now. But playing such games are complete fun and thrill. Some of the games which have been transferred are as follows:

Mario Overrun: This is a very different version as compared to the other Mario Games. In this game, you have tear down the duppas which attracts the castle. You can use numerous superb weapons in order to attain your goal. You get shot guns, plasma guns, bombs and the uzzy in order to save the castle from enemies.

Super Flash Mario: This is yet another superb game amid the Super Mario circle. This game uses the technology of flash which gives it a very original look or version. In fact, a lot of people consider it to be the best version which is available on the internet in the present day.

Some other new versions of the Super Mario games include spug shock, rampage, infinite Mario, star catcher and the sunshine 64. You would love to play all these new versions of Super Mario games if you have not played these games before but playing these new versions of games includes a lot of time for you to spare.

RetroEdit to-do list

So, heres my current to-do list. I'll update THIS blog entry as I change things, so you can always check back here to see where I am. I'll add a link on the right for easy access.

Paint with colour 1 (left mouse)

Paint with colour 2 (right mouse)

+/- to change frames

rotate frame (up,down,left,right)

rotate line

rotate column

Colour selection

Colour Changing

Cursor rendering

Cursor key movement or cursor

Copy frame

Insert frame

Delete frame

Colour Swap

Area selection

Copy

Paste

Brush paste (like a sprite, drops out the background colour)

Mirror

Flip

Save project

Save data (native format)

Load Project

Load data (native format)

Onion skinning

undo/redo

Remember to check back here to see how I'm getting on.

RetroEdit.

I've not been doing much past few days/weeks. With the flu over Christmas and now a cold I've not really been in the mood. However, I've decided to make an effort and have started back on RetroEdit.

I've finished the refactoring of it an am now happy with its layout and internal code construction. Basically, the old control I was writing delt with retro graphics in an abstracted way, and so you had to do some work to use it, now however the control deals directly with the raw format which means all you need to do is copy actual retro graphics data into the control and your all set.

So with this done, I've started to plow ahead with some features. Actual editing is obviously first, and I can now draw pixels with the mouse in both hires and multi colour modes. This is also true for C64 and spectrum editing. I've also put in sprite rotate left and right, and am about to do up/down.

Once I've done this I'll add colour picking. Currently I have 2 default colours and you can't change them - this obviously has to change to be of any use, and as its a biggie, I'll do that next.

I'm sure I listed these before, but it must have been ages ago so here it is again; the feature list I want in for version 1.

Paint with colour 1 (left mouse)

Paint with colour 2 (right mouse)

+/- to change frames

rotate frame (up,down,left,right)

rotate line

rotate column

Colour selection,

Colour Changing,

Copy frame

Insert frame

delete frame

Colour Swap

Copy

Paste (+background)

Brush paste (like a sprite)

Mirror (+around selection only)

Flip (+around selection only)

Save project

Save data (native format)

Load Project

Load data (native format)

If theres anything else that you think is a must have, then let me know. I've no idea how long this will take me, but the sooner the better. Currently it lets you edit Plus4, C64 and Spectrum sprites although I still have to put real support for the C64 sprites.

Powering up.....

Because I was ill over Christmas, it's actually been a while since I did any real work at home. So I thought I'd make an effort to get over this and actually DO something!

To this end I've resumed the refactoring of RetroEdit and decided to get editing actually working and usable. So now that I think I've actually finished the refactor I was wanting, I've started to write the editing features. I've currently got hires sprites being editing, so I'm about to try MultiColour Mode ones. I'll then do some basic features like scrolling the whole thing around the window, flip etc. then move onto colour editing.

I need to get the selected machine's palette drawn so I can pick colours and then I need to tackle saving. I'll need a PROJECT save, and a binary save. I'll also need to allow plugins so that folk like Russell can save formats he wants to deal with; although he may well end up doing his own editor, but others might need it so...

With a bit of luck, most of these shouldn't take very long, and I can take the core of the sprite editing and move it to the character editing tab. The core concept of this is a special RetroBitmap control. This allows you to deal with retro graphics directly without having to write huge chunks of code over and over - its also a standard control so others could use it in their own projects if they wanted to.

Back to normal?

Well, not quite.... I've just gotten my new cable modem installed which has boosted my speed to an increadible 50mb/s!! I've also just discovered that my trusty Linksys router can't keep up, so I'll have to retire it and get a faster one, other wise I'm stuck to around half speed - damn.

So, I need to put my room back in order (theres upturned desks and what-not) then I can setup the plus4 again and start to get back to work. I've been thinking about my electronics again, and I really want to get back to doing some more - before I forget it all, and this lead me to thinking about doing a better download system. You see, as it stands I need a parallel cable/port and thats limiting - particually since I have to switch my machine off/on to enable the driver and plug in the C64 or Plus4. So I was thinking about a USB cable. Theres a few USB to serial cables, and if I did that (along with a PIC or something at the other end), I could pretend its normal parallel cable on the Plus4 side, but do serial on the PC side. This would also mean it was suddenly hot plugable, and allow me to plugin multiple machines at once; not to mention being able to download without rebooting.

So, I may start to look at that kind of thing this year too.

DO.EXE

So... one of the big issues I had with upgrading to Vista64 is that a lot of my ( really, REALLY ) old tools stopped working. Now most I can actually do without, but theres one that I've actually been running under DOSBOX to keep. DO.EXE is a simple programmers calculator that I wrote back in the Shadow of the Beast days and does proper programmer calculations. That is it deals with HEX and BINARY as you'd expect, but also does AND, OR, XOR, NOT, Shifts and all the rest of it. In fact, I use it a lot just to convert numbers from BINARY to HEX since C/C++/C# doesn't take binary (its a crime I tells ya!). The old program was written in Turbo Pascal 7 and was very 16bit, and while I had the source there was no way I was gonna "update it".

Well, every since I started my debugger in C#, I had a brand new evaluator doing exactly the same thing, but in a processor (and machine!) nutral langauge! So I've finally pull out my logic prob, and blasted its little binary brains all over the back wall and updated it. Now, I know theres a million similar little programs out there, but I like the command line one, and I like that it takes the same format as C/C++/C# and even Java, and since I've always got a command line open, its ideal. CALC (and others like it) have just never cut it for me.

Anyway... I thought I'd be nice and release this into the wild and let others play with it. Its not hugely tested (so feel free to let me know any issues) but its an invaluable tool. Even simple things like getting bit patterns into HEX is a simple case of just typing it in.

Anyway...enough drivel...You can get it HERE. Shove it into your path somewhere then just type "do" on the command line for options. If theres any doubt in an expression, use brackets. I've not listed any expression order because it's different from all other compilers and that forces you to use brackets more to make sure the answers right. If theres anything else you think folk would like added, feel free to suggest it.

I hope some of you get some use out of it. It's the single most used tool I've ever written - period!


http://www.javalemmings.com/blog/do.zip

Flu season...

Happy New Year - and all that jazz

I've not been doing much over the festive season, I've been stuck with the flu and feeling terrible. In the times I have been feeling up to it, I've actually been playing the the Hydra system I bought LAST year. I really do want to get back into doing electronics again, but to do so I need an easier way to make boards - or try and order some up and see how that goes. Etching them just didn't work fo me, so I'd rather try and more automatic way.

I've also been toying with the idea of a userport to USB connector for a more compatable downloader. Theres lots of USB to serial ports, and it wouldn't take much to change that into a pretend parallel connection for the Plus4 (and C64 etc.). So that would be nice. Also using the user port means I can keep the cartridge port free for more interesting things.