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2026 (3)

29/01 Swtching Flutter from snap to native
25/01 The perils of updates
16/01 Theming in Flutter – FlexColorScheme

2025 (26)

15/12 Linux challenges with the Flutter game
30/10 A silly bug in Flutter/Dart
14/09 Fun with Flutter
04/09 Great mystery #1 solved!
28/08 Great mysteries – number 1
26/08 Don’t get Flutter and Dart mixed up
13/06 Ever do a sudo apt update on your Raspberry Pi?
26/05 Setting up SDL3 on Linux
24/05 Converting from SDL2 to SDL3 on Windows
22/05 Chapter list for my recent eBook
19/05 eBook 2 now published on Amazon
27/04 Debugging C/C++ and Rust with codelldb
06/04 Rust on Windows – problem with sdl2.lib
23/03 Interesting bug with controllermap
22/03 New tutorial posted – how to build controllermap in Linux
18/03 How fast is a Raspberry Pi 5?
10/03 Yet another fix
09/03 So I bought a Raspberry PI 5 and VS Code crashes!
28/02 Bit of a curiosity – Rust runs slower on Windows than Linux
23/02 So I found the fix
22/02 A slight problem with SDL2 and Rust
18/02 The fix for yesterday’s problem
17/02 Rust’s way of importing from other modules is bizarre
14/02 Rust – Sometimes you don’t need to use HashMap or HashSet
26/01 SDL3 is officially out
25/01 A new year, new language

2024 (1)

07/08 It’s been a while

2023 (10)

08/04 Debugging C# on Ubuntu and you get
29/03 Compiling C with Visual C++ 2022
28/03 Single key compile with Visual Studio Code
27/03 Yet another curious bug
26/03 New Linux Timing Code
17/02 A free eBook about the Game of Life
02/02 Is C a portable language?
15/01 Is Tiobe Index misinformation?
06/01 Nice to see an article favouring C
01/01 How to debug programs using SDL

2022 (23)

27/12 How to create a Controller Map on Raspberry Pi
22/12 How to fix sound on the Raspberry Pi
19/12 Raspberry Pi Sound issues- trying to fix it
13/12 A very useful Windows Utility in C
05/12 How to Configure Visual Studio Code for C/C++ development
30/11 I know a fair bit of C but
27/11 Update to the Windows eBook
06/11 Designing a Rogue-like game for book two
04/11 ++/– Operators work on floats and doubles
02/10 Mle – a small text editor in under 10,000 lines of code
31/07 Everything and fsearch
29/06 Why I hate Assembly language…
07/04 A New PC
19/03 And finally the domain is correctly hosted
17/03 New domain appears to be cursed
10/03 A minor whinge about Linux
09/03 And with a bit of help I got it fixed
08/03 More Programming Joys
04/03 Playdate gets nearer to release
03/03 The Two Dice Calendar Puzzle
02/03 Dealing with artists for game graphics
01/03 It’s that book again
01/01 Using JSON as a datastore in C#

2021 (88)

31/12 Why C# for the server?
30/12 A new beginning – C#
08/04 Video – how to create a sand simulator
04/04 I’m back and so is my PC
25/03 A week off
24/03 Another maze generator and solver in C
23/03 How to encrypt text using Xor
22/03 How to extend C (99) with a library
21/03 Did you know? Visual Studio is 32-bit only!
20/03 Updated, how I track designs
19/03 Is variable++ faster than ++variable?
18/03 Interesting gcc/clang extensions to C
17/03 Cling – an interactive C++ interpreter
16/03 Warzone-2100 C++ cross platform open source
15/03 Nearly finished translating asteroids to C++
14/03 Looking at C/C++ extensions for VS Code.
13/03 Another Minecraft game in C
12/03 Interesting programming exercise- no loops
11/03 So what do I think of C++ compared to C?
10/03 Core War in C
09/03 My ideas for standards in C programs
08/03 My PC is broke… plan b
07/03 New Tutorial on getting started with SDL
06/03 Widening the scope of this website
05/03 The game of 2048 in C in your browser
04/03 In praise of Visual Studio
03/03 Finding popular open source projects with libhunt
02/03 More notes on my Webassembly web development with Blazor
01/03 Simple but effective optimisation in C
28/02 Portable Life in C
27/02 Added a tutorial on memory use in C
26/02 Work in Progress – Web game
25/02 Free Windows 10 VM
24/02 Slay Tutorial four published
23/02 Approaching the first year anniversary
22/02 An interesting project- Converting BASIC Computer Games
21/02 A fabulous collection of game icons
20/02 Ideas for C Projects when learning it
19/02 More Thoughts on the Blazor game design
18/02 Answer to the C Puzzle
17/02 Some Pretty fractals in C + SDL2
16/02 Beej’s Guide to C programming
15/02 A little C Puzzle
14/02 There’s always someone inventing something better
13/02 A mini-project- SDL toolkit
12/02 Games in C on GitHub
11/02 Web development- learning Blazor
10/02 DungeonRush – open source C + SDL 2 game
09/02 Genesis-X a TI-84 game in C
08/02 Handle with care – C programming
07/02 Tutorial 14 on working with strings published
06/02 Amazing multi-platform Asteroids in C#
05/02 Learning a programming language is not so easy
04/02 So I timed a short program with /Gd and /Gr
03/02 How much faster is C code compiled with fastcall?
02/02 C Tutorial thirteen published on allocating memory
01/02 C Tutorial twelve on function pointers published
31/01 Santa Paravia en Fiumaccio
30/01 Other simple game ideas
29/01 BBC Basic with SDL
28/01 An intriguing Matchbox based learning machine
27/01 Thinking about Slay tutorial 7- Game AI
26/01 Thinking about my Inselkampf reimagination
25/01 Slay tutorial three published
24/01 A newish game platform
23/01 A look at a Raspberry Pi Pico
22/01 So someone wanted to know how to go about creating a dating sim
21/01 Thoughts about the Onslaught map generator
20/01 Kilo- a thousand lines text editor in C
19/01 Onslaught (aka Slay on Linux) tutorial two published
18/01 lldb-mi no longer exists
17/01 Interesting article on the state of Linux gaming
16/01 Doing 3D Math(s) in C
15/01 Interesting Visualisation – like tixy.land
14/01 New Tutorial – Implementing the Windows game Slay
13/01 Atoms tutorial three- finishing the game off
12/01 Tronus Project 1945 – Coursework
11/01 Answer to simple C Question
10/01 Simple C question
09/01 Next atoms tutorial added
08/01 Where are the business games?
07/01 Program a NES game in C
06/01 Fascinating online WebGL
05/01 Interesting notes on C
04/01 Is there a market for games on Linux?
03/01 Wizznic – a cross platform game in C
02/01 Tutorial on Atoms added
01/01 Raylib – a C library for videogames

2020 (307)

31/12 First new C Tutorial has been added
30/12 Thinking about future C tutorials
29/12 New tutorial on C loop statements published
28/12 GitHub Gameoff-500 entries
27/12 Some thoughts about game AI
26/12 An amazing repository of articles on Chess programming
25/12 Pacman in C99 that runs in the browser
24/12 It’s blog picture collage time again
23/12 I added an if and switch tutorial
22/12 I like web games
21/12 The L game by Edward de Bono
20/12 New tutorial on installing SDL on Linux
19/12 Coding a text adventure in C
18/12 The C template library
17/12 A possible defer mechanism for C
16/12 Tilengine – for creating Retro games
15/12 How to read a text file into memory in C
14/12 A challenging Puzzle – fitting words in a grid
13/12 Configuring VS Code for C/C++
12/12 Interesting number sequence
11/12 SDL-TTF now on Raspberry Pi
10/12 PagedOut a technical programming magazine
09/12 Networking fun with my Pi
08/12 An uncensored alternative to GitHub
07/12 Fun with optimisation in C
06/12 John Carmack take on C code arrangements
05/12 Timing of SDL vs TTF fonts
04/12 Learning C and SDL
03/12 Could Flash make a comeback?
02/12 The joys of SSL certs
01/12 Drawing dungeon rooms using characters
30/11 How to make a game with QR codes
29/11 Such simplicity- online QR generator
28/11 A first-person-shooter in 32KB
27/11 Back on the Raspberry Pi
26/11 How to move a SDL project from Windows to Linux
25/11 Loads of C Algorithms
24/11 How slow is SDL_TTF 2.0?
23/11 New C tutorial on implementing linked lists with pointers
22/11 C++ Template Metaprogramming Game
21/11 A blog post worth reading
20/11 More thoughts on the design of Rogue like
19/11 Hyper-V VMs are not all the same
18/11 And my Hyper-V Raspi error
17/11 When Raspberry Pi Goes wrong
16/11 Now this is interesting – Interactive Fiction
15/11 A Minecraft clone in C
14/11 A different way of generating a dungeon level
13/11 Time to upgrade Visual Studio?
12/11 Quicksort in C
11/11 My other side project continues
10/11 So I’ve decided- graphics it is for the roguelike
09/11 Tutorial seven on pointers and C strings published
08/11 Rogue like – do you use graphics or text?
07/11 Can you compile this?
06/11 An interesting game system – Fiasco
05/11 So what do you think this code does?
04/11 So much fun from 16 x 16-tixy.land
03/11 So I’m playing Rogue… in my browser
02/11 A collection of app ideas
01/11 Star Ruler 2 – Open Source 4X game
31/10 Thoughts on generating a dungeon level
30/10 How to implement a Roguelike
29/10 Single file libraries
28/10 Tutorial six on pointers added
27/10 Restarting the Raspberry PI C Games tutorials
26/10 Interesting looking Game Handheld device- Odroid-Go
24/10 More on Shuffledness
23/10 Compiling and linking C
22/10 How to visit many many places in one go
21/10 How to count lines of code in Visual Studio
20/10 39 Puzzles in C
19/10 A better random number generator
18/10 More thoughts on shuffledness
17/10 Visual Studio Code Now supports ARM
16/10 I’ve updated the C tutorials
15/10 Ingenious games in just 13KB of JavaScript
14/10 A list of open source physics engines
13/10 How to measure how shuffled a deck of cards is
12/10 The biggest problem with C
11/10 Microsoft appears to reembracing game development again
10/10 Creating a maze in C
09/10 Curated C library
08/10 New C Tutorial published on arrays
07/10 Discussing the use of break in C
06/10 A comprehensive small C compiler
05/10 Don’t create a game with Ville in the name
04/10 Actually going schemaless in C#
03/10 Fascinating look at the BBC Micro game Elite
02/10 Where do I get a lot of my information from?
01/10 Tutorial 3 on Enum variables published
30/09 To brace or not to brace
29/09 Tutorial two on variables published
28/09 A lovely MiniGolf game in C
27/09 A portable Windows Devkit
26/09 First C Tutorial published
25/09 My earlier work in C, C++ and C#
24/09 An example of what you can do with MonoGame
23/09 Adding Security to Web apps and Games
22/09 Adding an SSL Cert
21/09 Quake II – still a favourite
20/09 How to measure the area of a circle
19/09 C11 and C17 support in MSVC
18/09 The joys of setting up a server
17/09 My code is buried in the Arctic!
16/09 Just passed the 200th blog entry
15/09 Godot and IO games
14/09 How to extract text from an Image
13/09 Undefined behaviour in C
12/09 Chess in C
11/09 How to install WSL 2 and Linux on Windows 10
10/09 Sometimes it’s not software to blame
09/09 Modern C – a Free Ebook
08/09 Eight free online courses
07/09 Essential C – Free 45 page PDF
06/09 Changing your default Font
05/09 Interesting C Program- What do you think it does?
04/09 Monetising a game
03/09 How to calculate how effective a Riffle is
02/09 How many riffles are needed to shuffle a deck?
01/09 How to install SDL2 in Visual Studio
30/08 Trying to go schemaless
29/08 The fun of game design
28/08 Completely off-topic but how to tether an iPhone to Windows 10
27/08 NoSQl or SQL?
26/08 So no response to the programming challenge
25/08 Consider entering a game jam
24/08 How I track ideas
23/08 An example of a game idea
22/08 How to create an Alphabet bitmap in CSharp
21/08 A spot of market research
20/08 A graphics editor in C
19/08 Monogame 3.8 is now out
18/08 Geomorphing for the masses
17/08 Now for some mobile networking
16/08 Some awesome listings
15/08 MonoGame – How to make a clickable button
14/08 In praise of Hyper-V
13/08 A simple Rock, Paper, Scissors game
12/08 How to use indexed sequential files
11/08 How to use some advanced data structures in C
10/08 What is the best way to include text?
09/08 A free C Book – “C Programming Notes for Professionals”
08/08 An irritating bug with MonoGame/Android
07/08 Ideas for multi-player games
06/08 Very useful free resource website
05/08 Useful list of tutorials in C
04/08 Programming Language Surveys
03/08 Mobile game development progress
02/08 How to create a big image from a number of smaller ones
01/08 Very nice guide to Threads and Processes
31/07 A test of resource loading in MonoGame
30/07 Space Invaders done faithfully in C
29/07 Improving on C strings
28/07 Trials and tribulations of mobile development
27/07 Another extension to the scope of this blog
26/07 A game development website recommendation
25/07 My different programming style from before
24/07 Using Excel for level design
23/07 A tictactoe (aka noughts and crosses) game in C
22/07 Useful reference to C operators
21/07 Playing Solitaire in a terminal
20/07 A simple programming challenge
19/07 The Wayback machine-slightly offtopic
18/07 Who needs asm? cc65 C compiler
17/07 Deciding what level features to be used in the Match Three game
16/07 Back writing book two
15/07 How to run C snippets quickly
14/07 How to stop access to Global variables in C
13/07 Working with Mice in SDL
12/07 Do you declare variables at the top of functions
11/07 More open source games on Sourceforge.net
10/07 Slight change of pace
09/07 Using heap memory with malloc
08/07 Do you use assert in your code?
07/07 Thrusting in different directions
06/07 A command line editor in C
05/07 Using small delays in C with SDL ticks
04/07 How to Draw a circle in C
03/07 Open source repositories are worth a trawl
02/07 Should you use #pragma once?
01/07 Willing to take a Risc?
30/06 How to find files in Ubuntu
29/06 Publishing excerpts from my 2nd ebook
28/06 A large collection of ARM links
27/06 Added the sources of another game
26/06 Raspberry Pi – a couple more tips
25/06 Bit of an oddity with VS Code
24/06 A pleasant surprise – scrot handles multiple screens
23/06 A rather powerful C Graphics library
22/06 A Game engine in C – permafrost
21/06 Playing with VSCodium
20/06 Benchmarking my Raspberry Pi
19/06 How to install VSCodium on a Raspberry Pi.
18/06 Creative computing games
17/06 Browsing the source code of old and commercial games
16/06 Goto is considered bad programming in C but
15/06 My trial by Windows Defender is over
14/06 Another Visual Studio Code source – VSCodium
13/06 My raspberry Pi touchscreen arrived but it wasn’t smooth going
12/06 Playing with 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS
11/06 C Amalgamation – for SQLite
10/06 Raspbian vs Raspberry Pi OS
09/06 A very small sort in C
08/06 Looking at Intrinsics in C
07/06 Working with SDL_ttf
06/06 Developing a game for the SNES
06/06 100 Blog entries published
05/06 Expanding my virtual hard disk
04/06 John Conways Game of Life
03/06 Raspberry Pi 4B with 8 GB RAM on sale
02/06 Function pointers in C and understanding them
01/06 Progress on the Match Three game
30/05 An interesting way to find a bug
29/05 Working on the Match Three game
28/05 Array vs pointer in C
27/05 On apt vs apt-get
26/05 My encryption code is now live on GitHub
25/05 Hex Editor for Raspberry-Pi
24/05 A fast random number generator in C
23/05 Binary editors – Useful tools
22/05 A remarkable piece of C code
21/05 Build Android apps in C
20/05 Using printf type variable parameters in your function
19/05 Fixing an unbootable Raspberry Pi
18/05 Code::Blocks revisited
17/05 So I thought I’d try Code::Blocks
16/05 A page of tips
15/05 Success with gamepad mappings
14/05 More on Raspberry Pi Gamepad
13/05 Fun with game pads
12/05 My Orange Pi – self resurrected
11/05 1566 Compile errors with just two characters!
10/05 Developing for Raspberry Pi without one
09/05 Free Programming Books
08/05 Another mini project – a resource manager
07/05 A new mini game console
06/05 My stab at encryption in C
05/05 SDL. Surfaces or textures?
04/05 A useful function to know- atexit
03/05 C is top programming language in Tiobe?
03/05 More on generating random numbers
02/05 The Joys of C++
01/05 Want to learn C by doing projects?
30/04 A small C++ Tip. Return values from Constructors
29/04 C++ enum class vs enum
28/04 C++ Asteroids is progressing
27/04 Slight change in direction – more C++ and Pi
26/04 Raspberry Pi 4 – Perfect for arcade quality games and development
25/04 Here’s the Raspberry Pi temperature code
24/04 Asteroids now runs on a Pi 4
23/04 Two bugs on Raspi – one fixed
22/04 I’ve started on the C++ Windows eBook
21/04 Fun with Raspberry Pi 4
20/04 How to read a Raspberry PI temperature in C code
19/04 Identifying a Linux system in code
18/04 New version of Visual Studio Code
17/04 Building Asteroids on a Raspberry-Pi
16/04 Here’s the cover of e-book 2
15/04 Install Clang and Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu
14/04 Why C and not C++?
13/04 How I write my ebooks
12/04 A little trick in Visual Studio Code
11/04 Made it to the end of the Linux EBook
10/04 Laptop vs Hyper-V
09/04 How to view disassembled C/C++ code in Visual Studio Code
08/04 Just a picture post!
07/04 And the bug is fixed
06/04 Another Windows vs Linux Difference
05/04 Bugs and crashes!
04/04 Another new page – C Code links
03/04 Visual Studio Vs Visual Studio Code?
02/04 Logging on Windows – OutputDebugString
01/04 Comparing MSVC vs Clang
31/03 SSSnakes – a game for the next Ebook
30/03 Using rsyslog to log
29/03 Problems debugging SDL2 with Visual Studio Code
28/03 Linux E-book Progress
27/03 A tale of two diffs
26/03 Some useful tips for Visual Studio Code
25/03 New page added to Website
24/03 My next Book – Match three
23/03 The mighty Blit
22/03 More on function pointers
21/03 Some free C Courses from MOOCs
20/03 Function pointers in C
19/03 Using recursive fill to count maps
18/03 About that Empire Map Generator
17/03 I’m tempted to go Nuklear
16/03 I’m considering switching to C11
15/03 Other ways to time code
14/03 Added Empire 9 to the C Games repository
13/03 Why I like C for creating games
12/03 Update on the sdldemo
11/03 I do like Visual Studio Code
10/03 That Clang C compilation
09/03 The joys of Linux C Compilation
08/03 SDL on Linux
07/03 The missing SGN function
06/03 High speed timing in C
05/03 More on pointers in C. The use of typedef
04/03 A look at pointers.
03/03 Games sources code
02/03 Something in my past
01/03 How pixel perfect collision detection works
29/02 Fast Random Number Generators in C
29/02 Learn C Games

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