Jonathan Thomas @atariste.bsky.social

@RetroRacing

Demonstrating to the world one day at a time that the Atari STE is actually quite a nice machine.

Leeds, UK

Joined January 2011

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Jonathan Thomas @atariste.bsky.social
@RetroRacing
Jan 13
This is the latest build of the Atari STE game I am now provisonally calling "Cavey Taxi". Pick up passengers in a tight cave complex and drop them off elsewhere, fighting gravity, time and fuel consumption. With pretty parallax scrolling and particles. What's not to like? 😀
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Jonathan Thomas @atariste.bsky.social
@RetroRacing
7h
Turbo Cup on the Atari ST has 384 sprite entries. There are cars, scenery, smoke and dust, interface graphics. And there's .... this.
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Jonathan Thomas @atariste.bsky.social
@RetroRacing
14h
I just fed the Atari ST Turbo Cup disk image into Claude. I love this game, but the slow framerate annoys me. Claude adapted the game to use STE DMA sound and blitter, and optimised a load of 68k code, resulting in an overall 45%(ish) speed increase. Mind officially blown. 🤯
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Jonathan Thomas @atariste.bsky.social
@RetroRacing
Oct 14
So I've been playing around with Claude. I guess the art of manually reverse engineering games (as I did in Pole Position and Lotus STE) is dead. 😞 I literally just fed Claude a disk image of F-29 Retaliator, and 40 minutes later I have this world viewer. Not sure how to feel!
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Jonathan Thomas @atariste.bsky.social
@RetroRacing
Jun 24
I've been struggling to find time to do Atari gamedev for months, so I've made the decision to release a playable WIP build of my Atari STE game "Cavey Taxi". Feels marginally better than having it rotting away on my hard drive. 😞 💾 Download link in the comments.
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