SAGE 2015 Delayed

SAGE 2015 Delayed       Bad news :(! The Sonic the Hedgehog fans who were going to host SAGE (Sonic Amateur Games Expo) for 2015 have decided to postpone the event from Dec 2015 until Spring 2016 now. Full details about this delay (and why) can be found at Sonic Retro's post. EagleSoft Ltd submitted a Demo #3 release of Sonic CD Breakout to the event, and was planning on submitting a first demo build of Colonial...

New mobile section!

New Mobile Section!       Good news! Although EagleSoft Ltd mostly does not like mobile app development for "smart" devices (because we're too cool and old-school for hipster new school), for what few apps for smart devices we may make, we now have a NEW Mobile Section on the website! Check it out; we have a new app for a graded project (mostly as a PoC) for an equations database called "The Equator", and have...

Sonic CD Breakout: Demo #3 RELEASE!

Ho ho ho! Finally! It's here, DEMO #3 of Sonic CD Breakout, just in time for Christmas 2015 and SAGE 2015!     This demo has been in the works for 2 years (since 2013), and is finally ready for a release! To summarize the changes, bugs were squashed, two new zones were created (Desert Dazzle Zone and Quartz Quadrant Zone), 3 special stages were created, and time zone based backgrounds and borders were created...

Site cleanup and additions

Site cleanup and additions!   During the week of 09/20/15-09/26/15, I cleanup up the site and add a few pending items. I converted the leftover, hard-coded URL links to soft-links that will update as pages/content is moved around with our web host provider tools. Most importantly, I added a few pending items, including an update to the music page, now including YM2612 Genesis tunes and YM3812/YMF262 tunes for OPL2/OPL, an...

Sonic CD Breakout: Special Stages & Future Dev

Sonic CD Breakout: Special Stages & Future Dev       Way back in 2014, we showed a preview of what was in the works for Demo #3 release of the Sonic CD Breakout fangame, including Desert Dazzle Zone, Quartz Quadrant Zone, and the training special stage. Although in that post we predicted having a release of Demo #3 for Act 2 of SAGE 2014, that did not happen, since we decided to hold off on doing so after...

Sonic CD Breakout: Quartz Quadrant Zone (Full)

Sonic CD Breakout: Quartz Quadrant Zone (Full)     It's been exactly one year (Sept 2014) since any major progress was made on Sonic CD Breakout! However, we have finally put some effort and finally finished Quartz Quadrant Zone! Both main level acts involve finding the goal sign, which requires traveling through the Time Zones in order to hit a switch to reverse the direction of conveyor blocks, which are preventing...

BreakGOLD: PoC Asset transplanting

BreakGOLD: PoC Asset Transplanting Nope! BreakGOLD modding and development on Sonic CD Breakout is not dead yet! Although development of both has been put on the backburner, I did determine how to transplant a custom BreakGOLD table mod (such as Sonic CD Breakout) to the Android version, and Android-exclusive assets to the PC version. The results and method are not streamlined yet, but as a PoC, it works. Bugs with the transplant...

Quick 8.3 filename conversion

Quick 8.3 filename conversion    It has been sometime since I have posted some Windows Tips at this blog. The other day, I was tinkering around with a Windows 95 Virtual Machine, in order to try and install/play a CD copy of Megaman X I found at Goodwill two years ago. Unfortunately, the video game installer and the game itself on the CD were MS-DOS based, and would only accept 8.3 filenames for the installation...

New misc section

New Misc section at EagleSoft Ltd!   Nope, EagleSoft Ltd is neither dead nor undead, but still alive! We at EagleSoft Ltd have created a new section on the website: the misc. section! At this section, we have added some Sonic Robo Blast 2 lua scripts, moved the old music page from the Sega section here, and added some racetracks/mods for Trackmania! Soon, we shall have a page with some Microsoft Office macros we have created.   ...

Ultra Air Hockey v1.1 Android port, now on Google Play!

UAHDX v1.1 Android Port, now published on Google Play!    Ultra Air Hockey DX (UAHDX) has been updated to v1.1, as well as an initial release of a new Android Port, both as a side-loadable app, and as an officially signed app at the Google Play Store! Due to lack of full-version purchases for the PC version (read: none!), the demo and full-versions of the game have been merged into a single, full, freeware version! It...

EagleSoft Ltd: Now on Facebook!

EagleSoft Ltd: Now on FaceBook!      Yep, you read the title correctly! EagleSoft Ltd now has a FaceBook page to further inform and to keep customers in the loop of current events with the indie dev group. The page will be used to relay blog information, and to give the latest news about the group. "Like" us today and shar...

UAH (Sega, Redux) Progress: Paddle Movement

Ultra Air Hockey (Sega, Redux) Paddle movement!       After days of arduous experimentation, debugging, SGDK discovery, forum chats, and sweat, managed to get some more progress done on the redux of the Ultra Air Hockey Sega ports with SGDK. Managed to implement the following: Created github repo for project! Implemented flying eagle sprite for intro FMV Added game initialization...

Ultra Air Hockey (Sega ports, redux)

Work resumes (again) on the Sega ports of Ultra Air Hockey    As I may have mentioned earlier in older news posts, the BEX/Sega homebrew port of Ultra Air Hockey was cancelled around Winter 2014/2015. (BEX is a BASIC language for the Sega Genesis/CD/32x.) This was due to several issues that occurred while developing it, including instability of the BEX compiler and other bottlenecks. As the homebrew ROM executable became bigger, internal errors of the compiler being unable to compute jump offsets of large "bsr.w"...

Still Alive

EagleSoft Ltd is still alive!    No, I have not flunked out of college, defaulted on my evil Satanic student loans and committed Grant Theft Education, been assassinated by the NSA, or died as a hobo... however, it is Tamkis' birthday! So, being still alive (for the time being), what have I done for my birthday, and what are my upcoming goals and plans for EagleSoft Ltd? ___________________________________________________________________________________  ...

0xdbin Release!

0xdbin Release!    As part of a quick project for Computer Architecture class, I wrote a binary/hexadecimal/decimal converter called 0xdbin! It not only converts between the 3 data types, but does so intelligently and with plenty of options, including sign processing modes for unsigned, sign magnitude, one's complement, and two's complement; the ability to pick binary and hexadecimal prefixes, and more! Try it today...

Schell Games studio tour!

Tour to Schell Games Studio!  (Disclaimer: The following post is not sponsored/licensed/endorsed by either Schell Games, Robert Morris University, or ACM. Statements and opinions expressed in these articles are solely those of the author, not of EagleSoft Ltd as a whole.)    A few months ago, the ACM Chapter at my university of Robert Morris and I were able to book a March 2015 tour to Schell Games, one of the more...

UAHDX v1.1 and Android ports in progress!

UAHDX v1.1 and Android ports    A v1.1 update of UAHDX (Ultra Air Hockey DX) is being created for PC/Mac/Linux, as well as a new port to Android KitKat! This updated version will fix some serious bugs, including poor flipper AI and flipper positioning in Pinball mode, fixing of the score digits upon gameover (they were at the wrong angle); the inability to use the pause, respawn paddle, and respawn puck cheats/features if...

New website domain!

New website domain!     At the advice from a few colleagues, EagleSoft Ltd has decided to move its old, standard Google Sites EagleSoft Ltd web address (https://sites.google.com/site/eaglesoft92/) to its own, professional, custom domain (www.eaglesoftltd.com)! Currently, both site addresses still work, but it is recommended to now use the new domain and to update your bookmarks! The updated website is still hosted and powered by Google Sites, while the custom domain is handled by a domain registrar. Furthermore,...

UAHDX Release!

Finally, its here! The release of Ultra Air Hockey DX for PCs!     Starting in October 2014, EagleSoft Ltd worked on its first Indie Unity3D video game, Ultra Air Hockey DX, not only for fun and for software engineering experience, but also as a university project for a Fundamentals of Software Engineering class programming project. This project was much more difficult than we first imagined, since we had to self-teach...

EagleSoft Store Deployed!

EagleSoft Store Deployed!         For those whom have visited the EagleSoft Ltd website from Novemeber 2014 to February 2015, some may have noticed a new "Store" tab on the page's navigation bar; however, many were disappointed with the contents of the page:    However, after finding some free time and after finishing the development of Ultra Air Hockey DX, I finally implemented...