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13 minutes ago, Thomas Jentzsch said:

How about "Andrew Davie's"?

I'm not sure if you're getting the point.

Would you call your game "Thrust's"?

 

 

Edit: Perhaps the "joke" wasn't clear enough. It had been common practise for chess programmers to give their programs a "famous" person's name. Such as Belle, Sargon, Houdini, Ikarus. I was just suggesting that a continuation of this might be to call the program "Andrew Davie" ;)

 

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Much as I have enjoyed the design/building of a box with a 3D printed chessboard on the front, it's proving way too time-consuming and complex to continue with the graphics part of it.  That is; a 3D printed box that folds out is pretty straightforward. But embedding a multi-coloured chessboard and artwork into the surface is just not productive enough to be viable. Each box I've made comes out with significant errors and takes most of a day to print. I'm going to be far better off just printing the box proper in a single-colour, and pasting on a laminated/printed chessboard cover over the top of the outer of the box. It's not going to be as elegant in terms of uniqueness, but will look far better in the final visuals.

So, I'll wrap up the 3D box design - single colour - fairly soon.

 

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6 hours ago, Andrew Davie said:

Much as I have enjoyed the design/building of a box with a 3D printed chessboard on the front, it's proving way too time-consuming and complex to continue with the graphics part of it.  That is; a 3D printed box that folds out is pretty straightforward. But embedding a multi-coloured chessboard and artwork into the surface is just not productive enough to be viable. Each box I've made comes out with significant errors and takes most of a day to print.

Not including your planned 10 for release I'd have one of your earlier protos, think the look they are hinting at is pretty decent even with the flaws.

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I'm doing some thinking/exploring about options for an eventual cartridge release. One of those is to tag onto the tails of the amazing PlusCart, and implement a "self-updating" binary.  That is, allow me (or you) to post-production connect to the "bitChess" online repository and update your cart with a bugfix/new release. Or new speech, new behaviour, whatever. That's one possibility; let's see what happens.

 

Another option is to go for a plain-vanilla cartridge. In that case I'd be looking to see what the cheapest (production-wise) cartridge would be possible for the 3E+ bankswitch scheme, so that I could make the game as cheap as possible, too.  I'm scouting around to get some idea of prices for this option.

 

Anyway, all this is to just avoid doing any programming.

 

I've not abandoned the idea of a 3D-printed box (at least for a few made-by-me copies). I have pretty much abandoned trying to embed fine-detail as in the chess pieces worked on earlier. But I can still do fonts. Here are a selection of ones that have caught my eye - rendered by openScad in the available box margin area, and then screen-captured...

 

Let me know which, if any, you like...

 

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On 8/8/2020 at 2:17 PM, Andrew Davie said:

Thanks; it's the modified design I'd really like to find!

Then look at your hard drive or mail/atariage inbox. ;-)

I sent you the design, at the time I did it. If you can't find it, let me know and I'll send it again.

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2 hours ago, Andrew Davie said:

 

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I think these three are the best. They can either be read as “Bitchess”, as in this cart bitches at you, or as “BitChess,” as this cart is an 8-bit chess program.

 

i personally prefer the last/scanlines. Not sure if a similar font has been used in a VCS game before. The first one is the least readable , but has an interesting futuristic style. The middle is reminiscent of some computer font I have seen before but just cannot place it.

 

edit: Data 70 for 2nd example?

https://www.linotype.com/314/data-70-family.html

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