+Andrew Davie Posted August 9, 2020 Author Share Posted August 9, 2020 OK, working on the printing of fine detail. It's difficult/complex with such a basic printer. Image shows three generations. The bottom one is not too bad. As to the naming, I'm leaning towards "Royal Bitchess" as the official name. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 5 hours ago, Andrew Davie said: The suggestion to name it "Andrew Davie" was not to name it something like "Andrew Davie's Chess", but to actually call it "Andrew Davie". As in, I think I'll have a game of "Andrew Davie" How about "Andrew Davie's"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted August 9, 2020 Author Share Posted August 9, 2020 (edited) 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" Edited August 9, 2020 by Andrew Davie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 12 minutes ago, Andrew Davie said: Would you call your game "Thrust's"? No, "Mine"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted August 9, 2020 Author Share Posted August 9, 2020 1 minute ago, Thomas Jentzsch said: No, "Mine"! See edit, above post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 38 minutes ago, Andrew Davie said: See edit, above post. That I didn't know. And I didn't even know the first two names you mentioned (until I looked them up), so using your name would work as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted August 9, 2020 Author Share Posted August 9, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted August 9, 2020 Author Share Posted August 9, 2020 8 hours ago, Thomas Jentzsch said: And I didn't even know the first two names you mentioned (until I looked them up), so using your name would work as well. Ouch! Burn.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 10 hours ago, Andrew Davie said: OK, working on the printing of fine detail. It's difficult/complex with such a basic printer. Image shows three generations. The bottom one is not too bad. They look like cookies! Tasty! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voxel Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_q_atari Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 (edited) Deleted Edited August 10, 2020 by john_q_atari Changed my mind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted August 11, 2020 Author Share Posted August 11, 2020 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devwebcl Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 19 minutes ago, Andrew Davie said: Those three are cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voxel Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 31 minutes ago, Andrew Davie said: I like the scanlines (they match the games visuals) and the easy to read chraracters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Karl G Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 My favorite is the second from bottom, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 1 hour ago, Andrew Davie said: Let me know which, if any, you like... These two, because they read as "Bit Chess" at first glance. The rest all just read as "Bitchess". 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Al_Nafuur Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 1 hour ago, Andrew Davie said: Let me know which, if any, you like... I hope this is not the final color!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted August 11, 2020 Author Share Posted August 11, 2020 Just now, Al_Nafuur said: I hope this is not the final color!! This is just the rendering of OpenSCAD. The colours will be chosen later. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SvOlli Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapitanClassic Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, Andrew Davie said: 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 Edited August 11, 2020 by CapitanClassic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 5 hours ago, Andrew Davie said: Let me know which, if any, you like... These are my top two favourites, with the second one being my favourite. - James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 I like these two, with the first one being my favorite. Chicks dig the scanlines. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 8 hours ago, Andrew Davie said: Let me know which, if any, you like... any of these 3 - in different colors though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bfstats Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 First one, but I suspect there needs to be a little more space between the two words so it doesn’t look like BITCHES with an extra S. Reminds me of a ‘70’s computer manual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepho Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 Combine a couple of them 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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