Grocer Games

04/25/2026

Learning PXE playfield by converting my DPC+ Bag Boy playfield. I am loving the prospects of the offsets making it easier to do things like change different segments of the screen or even utilize the playfield essentially as a large Sprite!

04/23/2026

My first Bag Boy project was a compromise. The original concept originated about 25 years ago as a possible C64, Apple Basic, or Q Basic game but I could not quite figure out some ideas and moved on to other projects.

Fast forward almost 20 years and I learned of batari Basic and tried again but thought I wouldn’t be able to accomplish my goals so I settled for making a kind of Frogger-style game. I got pretty far, having multiple cars, power-ups, and then levels. I still was learning and put the project on pause to learn other concepts. Several years later here I am returning to Bag Boy. Having the carts attracted to the cars where the cars act as little gravity wells was the original plan. I am confident PXE might allow for the multiple cars and shopping carts my original plan called for.

Bag Boy - GRAVITY CHECK 2

04/12/2026

Been stuck on some parts of Room Raiders and part of me thinks the issues I had experienced (same as with Beyond Parsec) had more to do with how it was compiling. In both I use a similar method of alternating frames for various purposes but I had noticed in Room Raiders there was one spot where I changed something but it had a completely unrelated adverse effect.

So while I use SuperChip in Room Raiders, I was trying to learn a bit of PXE so I can test converting them to that kernel and see if it improves. A couple benefits would be tha I would not have to flicker the sprites.

03/04/2026

After 2 months of computer issues and file recovery I am finally back on track. I fixed some issues with Room Raiders bringing it close to being ready for a demo.

12/01/2025

Noticed some weird things when I was working on Room Raiders as this game was designed with flickering in mind (much like my Beyond Parsec port) but I noticed a weird thing when I added a line of code where the player would shift positions despite the added code have nothing to do with it.

I had wondered if this was an issue due to compiling or just how the code is structured and I am missing something obvious. But a positive of this discovery is that this could possibly explain the skipping asteroids in Beyond Parsec, as I recall trying to clean up the code early on and it was shortly after that I started to notice the skipping asteroids.

If I can figure this out I might actually be able to fix Beyond Parsec to completion!

I was curious. I had been playing around with flickering sprites for a bit where on Frame A I pick one sprite and on Frame B I pick another. I had noticed that if the code in each section of alternating code are not close then weird stuff may happen. For instance, I have one section of code where...

11/11/2025

Found one of my old disks that had the origin of Bag Boy dated 2002.

10/26/2025

After saving my laptop, it looks like my game Lake Eola is gone. I’m there is a chance they accidentally got deleted years ago when I was making backups. Luckily it isn’t too hard to make and a shame because I really liked how it looked but with PXE, I think this could be one to revisit in the future…

10/26/2025

My Laptop had a kind of failure. It is an older Windows 7 laptop where I had some older game projects saved. I had to use slo mo video to capture the blue screen displaying the error message. It would flash so quickly and then I’d get the message that Windows couldn’t start.

I tried different restore points but it started deleting them stating there was an error that occurred in the restoration process.

I tried repairing the files and all attempts failed.

My last attempt was I found an old Windows Vista disk and used that to boot up and install. My saved files migrated to a windows.old folder and a couple days of fiddling with my laptop and I rescued my files to a SSD.

Most of the files I had were already backed up but when I made my last backup for some reason several of the folders were empty. Some didn’t copy at all. Some of these games I wanted to attempt converting into PXE games and see if that would get them over the hump to completion.

As a side note, I forgot what Vista looked like and it feels so weird.

10/01/2025

Room Raiders is almost to a point to where a full game can be played. Just finishing up the boss generation and then cycle into a new dungeon.

09/12/2025

My view for the next couple weeks!