IFComp 2017 reviews, first batch

It's October, and time for the annual Interactive Fiction Competition. This is the 23rd year of the venerable “comp”, and a record-breaking 80 entries have been submitted. As usual, I'm playing through the games and voting (and so can you!). This year, I'll also be posting commentary on some of the games here. Read more.

Posted Wednesday 11-Oct-2017 21:08, 0 comments.

Fugue on a theme by D. M. Hanlon

This is a SID tune that I composed for the Crack Intro Music Competition 2017 at CSDb. The rules called for a looping tune, no longer than 1 minute. I decided to write a fugue. Read more.

• Fugue_on_a_theme_by_D_M_Hanlon.prg (C64 executable, 2.5 kB)
• Fugue_on_a_theme_by_D_M_Hanlon.sid (SID tune, 3.1 kB)
• Linus Akesson - Fugue on a theme by D M Hanlon.mp3 (MP3, 5.7 MB)

Posted Wednesday 4-Oct-2017 23:01, 0 comments.

Field Sort

I've discovered a new, fast technique for sorting sprites by Y-position on the Commodore 64. While it doesn't beat the fastest routine known, it strikes a good balance between speed and memory usage, and it makes use of several interesting low-level programming tricks. To see how it works, please come with me down the rabbit hole of bleeding-edge C64 programming! Read more.

• lft-field-sort (C64 executable, 5.8 kB)

Posted Sunday 24-Sep-2017 23:00, 0 comments.

Glyptodont

Glyptodont was my contribution to the C64 music compo at Datastorm 2017 Summer Edition. It achieved a meager 5th place out of six, although that is perhaps to be expected for a pensive and melancholic tune. I hope you will enjoy it anyway! Read more.

• LFT - Glyptodont (C64 executable, 6.3 kB)
• Glyptodont (SID tune, 6.1 kB)
• Linus Akesson - Glyptodont (MP3, 5.5 MB)

Posted Thursday 21-Sep-2017 21:42, 0 comments.

Stranded for the C64

Almost out of petrol, you leave the motorway at the first exit. You find your way to the local petrol station. But you soon realise that refueling your car and leaving the village will be more challenging than you thought... Read more.

• lft-stranded (C64 executable, 26.0 kB)

Posted Thursday 21-Sep-2017 21:40, 0 comments.

Dishwasher Groove

A beat was coming from the dishwasher in the kitchen, so I turned it into a SID tune for the C64 music compo at Gubbdata 2017, where it ended up on 3rd place. Read more.

• Dishwasher_Groove (C64 executable, 5.1 kB)
• Dishwasher_Groove (SID tune, 4.9 kB)
• Linus Akesson - Dishwasher Groove (MP3, 5.4 MB)

Posted Thursday 21-Sep-2017 21:32, 0 comments.

Toy Rocket

This little SID tune ended up on 3rd place in the Oldskool Music compo at Revision 2017. I composed it on a real C64 using my recently released tracker, Blackbird. Hope you like it! Read more.

• Toy Rocket (C64 executable file, 4.9 kB)
• Toy Rocket (SID tune, 5.6 kB)
• Linus Akesson - Toy Rocket (MP3, 3.6 MB)

Posted Tuesday 2-May-2017 22:37, 2 comments.