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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxraOrl_DPk&fmt=18

It's official, I've done 10 years of ColecoVision programming.

Story : My first ColecoVision project I programmed and compiled sucessfully was named Breakout and it was exactly 10 years ago now.

This little video is showing a bitmap picture with a special happy birthday music. I did this in a single day with my tools and my new ColecoVision SDK which is still in beta version. The result is a 5 kilo-bytes rom file... it's less than the gif file you may do with the same picture and the mid file with this music.

FAQ


Q1 - What is the meaning of this video?
A1 - It's a picture of a cake with presents and a special happy birthday music in the background. I made this to celebrate my 10 years of ColecoVision programming, and I decided to share this with you.

Q2 - How did you draw this picture?
A2 - I converted a bitmap from the net with BMP2PP by Marcel de Kogel. I did clean up the result with MS Paint and my tool CV Paint. It did takes hours to make this picture clean, cool and optimized.

Q3 - Are you using sprites in your image?
A3 - It's a plain bitmap splash screen without any sprite. I'm keeping the sprites to do mobile objects on screen. But a future version of this picture may uses sprites to animate it.

Q4 - Where this picture come from?
A4 - The original picture came from the following link. http://www.talkingnfl.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/birthday_cake_girl.jpg

Q5 - Did you compose this music?
A5 - Yes and no. I was inspired by a video "Happy Birthday" made with Mario Paint, and seems to be easy to find on Youtube in a second or two.

Q6 - Which music composer did you use?
A6 - None. I did write every single code for every single note by hand. Hopefully, I did use my Java sound applet to help me testing and adjusting the notes to make this music.

Q7 - Did you write this in assembler?
A7 - No. I'm using a ColecoVision SDK I made for my projects which allow me, and many other programmers, to code new ColecoVision projects in C language; which result normally into a faster development process than programming in assembler.

Q8 - Can you make a cartridge of this?
A8 - Yes, but before I want to make a game to use this image and music as a secret bonus or a reward... I'm not sure yet.

Q9 - Can I make a cartridge with this?
A9 - I put it into public domain so, yes!

Q10 - Can I re-use your source codes to make my own Coleco project?
A10 - If it can help you to make your own games, yes... otherwise, no.

The following links is for my Coleco SDK in development and the project of this 10 years celebration rom file.

http://newcoleco.dev-fr.org/p4124/2009-02-09-colecovision-10-ans-deja.html

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