Coding projects

By Plrang Art

Here is a small preview through the several software projects by @plrang

My first opportunity for real coding was the beautiful small Sinclair ZX Spectrum 8 bit computer. I learned BASIC and some bits of ASM. Then Commodore 64 and mastered the ASM for 6800 processor + more BASIC.

Later on, I did not code on my AMIGA computers for some reason. Next was my first PC 486 where I began to use Turbo Pascal/Delphi, C and ASM. After I started to work for a local computer company I used also JS, HTML, MySQL, PHP, JAVA and Linux to code for web and to host own company store server.

As for today, my favorite language became Python, yet I still use many of the web technologies in my projects. This page code name is a WIP

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Experimental

• 3D Software Rendering Vanilla Javascript Demo Project HTML5 3D Programming, No Libraries, Progress

  So here is the #javascript fill versus my triangle rasterizer. For obvious reasons, the rasterizer is slower, but it will allow to draw the model more accurately on the Commodore Plus/4. No libraries, vanilla javascript software rendering pic.twitter.com/sNP7sdYUcA

  — Plrang (@plrang) March 12, 2021

• 3D Software Rendering in BASIC 3.5 Retro computing with Commodore Plus/4, 3D Graphics. Triangle Rasterization, Scan Convert Demo
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  BASIC is getting slow... Commodore Plus/4 Yape emulator pic.twitter.com/TvKcmjcIOc

  — Plrang (@plrang) February 23, 2021

• Starfield: C++ / SDL2, Emscripten (LLVM to JavaScript compiler)
  STARFIELD is a small application written in C++, running live in the browser. Compiled with Emscripten to WASM (Webassembly)
• CHIP 8 emulator - a virtual machine for running retro games like Breakout, Pong, Space Invaders, Tetris. Python 2.7
  Also ported this CHIP 8 emulator into Blender 3D Viewport. Python 3.4
• Here is the CHIP 8 emulator rewritten in pure Javascript.

  Everything looks fine, now I'm gonna fool around. And so, reworking this into Javascript helped me to optimize the Python version #js #javascript #chip8 #emulator #interpreter #spaceinvaders #retrogames #retrogamer #codingisfun pic.twitter.com/W7K61FMJEs

  — Plrang (@plrang) January 22, 2021

Bots

• ArtAhead: for interested in watercolor paintings (currently it's the watercolor area WIP). Python + Tweepy
  
• Picturesays: friendly twitter bot for interested in photography, Projects 365 and graphics. Simple curated Feedburner and Twitterfeed
• Catsome: Friendly twitter bot for cat lovers. Doesn't work at the moment because... Yahoo Pipes / killed by Yahoo :-/, maybe one day!
• IRC: Back in 1998 trained a few IRC bots. Egg-drop

Utils

• Syxtra: Wordpress plugin for the first versions of the Symbiostock theme for microstock contributors. WP API, PHP, JS, AJAX, CSS, HTML ...
• SS SiteBooster: Unafilliated with Shutterstock free app/script extension for contributors of this photo agency. JS, PHP, CSS, HTML
• Clean Titles – Shutterstock pseudo spam: A tool for Shutterstock contributors who would like to clean up their titles. JS, HTML
• CMS: fully featured CMS solution for internet stores, working nicely for a few years on a self made Linux server. Over 190k lines of code. PHP, MySQL, HTML, JS, CSS
• Fence calculator: Standalone / web application for creating and measuring fences. JAVA
• 3D rendering: Simple 3D engine for rendering .3ds object files. Different shading techniques up to unfinished texturing though. Standalone MS DOS application in Pascal + ASM and the JAVA version
• CRM for computer service company: standalone customer management tool written in Delphi
• PC performance tester: standalone MS DOS app for testing newly built PC computers (internal tool for the same company)
• Several websites: ...
• and more: ...

Games

• Astral 2D arcade Amiga game 1995 - video - music, graphics and algorithms. Sold in a few thousands, now it's a free game
• Battle Space 2D arcade Amiga shooter 1995 - video - music, graphics and algorithms. Shareware, now free, with AMOS source code
• Tetris clone 2D arcade MS DOS application. Pascal + ASM
• War 2D strategy game based on Dune 2D and Warcraft 2D, MS DOS application. Pascal + a lot of ASM Unfinished due to hardware HDD crash (that was the age without CDs and pendrives :-/). Exodus game was the one coded by my friend for Amiga computer, which actually went to the stores

  Something I worked on a long long long time ago #rts #strategy #indiedev #pixelart #gamedev real time strategy pic.twitter.com/0QUgdqXDTg

  — Plrang (@plrang) March 15, 2021

Colophon

• Plrang Art Home
• Code - blog category I do not write much about;)