Day 12 – Sprite tooling, template upgrades & VPS automation
On this new day of MO5 coding, I did quite a lot of things, and especially a lot of experiments around graphics mode. Generating sprites from images I tackled a fairly classic problem: drawing sprites in C for the MO5 is… how can I put it… not the most fun thing 😅 At first, I went for a very “handcrafted” approach: drawing in text mode via Notepad, with a space for the background color, an X to draw the shape color, then using a PowerShell script to transform the text into a bit array. ...