Vezza - Agon

Devlog

• New immersive font experience
  October 04, 2024 by sijnstra#update, #fonts

  To enhance your game experience, you can now select one of nine fonts to play your game. When you load the game you can now select from the command line which of the 9 fonts built in to the binary for... Continue reading

  
• Updated - colour bugfix
  September 22, 2024 by sijnstra#update

  This is a minor bugfix release to resolve a rare colour related issue in the previous VDP 2.7 and 2.8 releases. The issue only occurred in colour games which specified the colour code for "current", r... Continue reading
• New version using VDP 2.8.1 features
  May 26, 2024 by sijnstra

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  #Vezza, #Infocom, #Inform, #Interpreter, #z-machine

  The new version of VDP firmware, version 2.8.1, allows the Agon to manipulate fonts in a more flexible way than the previous 2.7.0 VDP. The new method allows fonts to be created, then manipulated, and... Continue reading

  
• New Console8 VDP 2.7.0 version released
  March 31, 2024 by sijnstra#Infocom, #inform, #z-machine, #vezza, #MOS, #VDP

  With the additional features and bugfixes in the newest Console8 VDP code (thanks Steve Sims !) it inspired me to take advantage of them, and see how far I could push the code to make the Infocom adve... Continue reading

  
• Work in progress - new Agon/Console8 version
  March 26, 2024 by sijnstra#Infocom, #Agon, #Console8, #AgonLight2

  The next development stage was to try out some of the newer features available in the latest version of the VDP firmware 2.7.0, and run in the Agon/Console8 VDP mode instead of Terminal mode. There's... Continue reading

  
• Updates for MOS and Console8
  January 08, 2024 by sijnstra

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  #Agon, #Agon Light, #Console8, #8-bit, #eZ80, #z-machine, #interpreter, #Vezza

  I've been working to update Vezza across multiple platforms over the past few months, and now it's Agon's turn. It's recommended to update for anyone using Quark VDP 1.04 or above, or Console8. Vezza... Continue reading
• VDP v1.04 version released
  November 17, 2023 by sijnstra

  With the finalisation of version 1.04 of MOS/VDP, it is highly recommended to update so that the screen resolution changes work as intended. Additionally, the options you can specify have been expande... Continue reading

  
• VDP 1.04 RC2 compatibility issues
  October 01, 2023 by sijnstra

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  #Agon, #VDP, #update

  The new VDP release candidate, namely VDP 1.04RC2, changes how the Agon Light resolutions work. This means the screen dimensions no longer behave as they did previously for the terminal mode used by V... Continue reading
• Software review!
  July 29, 2023 by sijnstra

  It's always excited to have your software reviewed by someone . This came along as a very pleasant surprise for me - LuzrBum's Agon News Network has reviewed Vezza on the Agon platform. Not only does... Continue reading

  
• Minor update - key mapping and $verify
  July 02, 2023 by sijnstra#update

  Hi everyone, I have made some minor updates to the code to achieve 2 things: $verify now works Arrow keys and Function keys (F1-F4 only) now work A couple of things on the arrow/function key part of t... Continue reading