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80s Digital Display Game
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2025 7:17 pm
by Carm3D
Oh my goodness... What a slog! I've just finished processing and cropping (by hand) every display element. Each set is over 90 elements.. There is an LCD set, VFD set, LED set and LCD shadows set. 295 images in total.
Here's a mockup of what the LEDs will (sort of) look like.
http://carm3d.com/PureBasicForum/LCD_Mockup.png
I originally posted this in Announcements, but I think Game Programming is the better place for this as it is game?
Here's a look at the LCD mock-up.
http://carm3d.com/PureBasicForum/LED_Mockup.png
I've created a file packer utility, and now it is time to load all this data into PureBasic and try to make it work!
Imgae in posting can't load or invalid
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 4:07 am
by moricode
The image URL you post is invalid , or expired or some how , can't display .
@fred
This is a major problem when user or even GOOD MASTER here who want to post article with image showing diagram or application demonstration.
Event if it work for the first day , but it will fail to load or expired later days , when you search the forum , history article with image or .zip URL will not work any more , new or old user will feel like missing in the jungle.
Re: 80s Digital Display Game
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 4:11 am
by Carm3D
You can't see the images? Strange.. They are showing for me. They are links to images I posted to Discord. Unless I am mistaken there is no way to attach images or files to my posts.
Re: 80s Digital Display Game
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 4:36 am
by moricode
your image :
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ ... bc0d0ff168&
the image show :
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Re: 80s Digital Display Game
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 4:42 am
by Carm3D
moricode wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2025 4:36 amthe image show :
Oh, bugger-all! I'll have to move these over to my webspace or something. I cannot attach, images, correct?
Re: 80s Digital Display Game
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 5:49 am
by Carm3D
I've uploaded the images to my webspace. Strangely, they do not show in the forum, but they are links so you can see them if you click on them.

Re: 80s Digital Display Game
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 8:06 am
by Mijikai
Not sure what exactly happened but
i saw some images before, it looked really cool.
Good luck
Btw. how does the game exactly work?
Re: 80s Digital Display Game
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 8:16 am
by Carm3D
Mijikai wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2025 8:06 am
Not sure what exactly happened but
i saw some images before, it looked really cool.
Good luck

You can see them now if you click on the links, right?
Mijikai wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2025 8:06 amBtw. how does the game exactly work?
It is inspired by the old invaders game seen on 1980s calculators and watches. -except for mine I added a whole bunch of new features and mechanics.. It's gonna be crazy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZgzbtg5j8
Re: 80s Digital Display Game
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 7:05 am
by Mijikai
Thanks for the additional info.
Carm3D wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2025 8:16 am
You can see them now if you click on the links, right?
Yes, but before it was visible in the forum.
Re: 80s Digital Display Game
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 8:03 am
by #NULL
The links use http, not https. Browsers usually don't allow http inside a https page. When I click them I can see the images in Firefox. Other browser may not do this. If I change it to https then I get bad cert error. You need to configure you webspace to have a valid certificate for that domain.
I too saw the images within this thread previously. Maybe your certificate just has expired and you need to renew it (and use https in your links).
Re: 80s Digital Display Game
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 8:09 am
by pjay
Looking good Carm3D - nice work.
Re: 80s Digital Display Game
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 10:09 am
by Carm3D
#NULL wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2025 8:03 amThe links use http, not https. Browsers usually don't allow http inside a https page.
Ah, okay that makes sense.
Re: 80s Digital Display Game
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2025 10:10 am
by Carm3D
pjay wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2025 8:09 amLooking good Carm3D - nice work.
Thank you! More fun stuff is cooking. And it's completely unlike anything shown so far!
Re: 80s Digital Display Game
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2025 11:00 pm
by Carm3D
Work in progress low-poly character
http://carm3d.com/PureBasicForum/Marco_Render.jpg
Who is this guy? He's Marco. Part of a 2-man team for the Digital Infiltrators tutorial videos. He will be rendered with Ogre 3D (if I can figure it out) and he likes his money for nothing and his chicks for free.
If someone is going to teach someone how to use an 80's handheld game, who better to do it?
Re: 80s Digital Display Game
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2025 12:20 pm
by Carm3D