Thwaite: stuff blowing up

[rainwarrior]

What was the July 4th plan for it?

I wasn't home on that day, but I have been trying to stream NES homebrew now and then. (KHan also uses twitch for stuff like that too, BTW.)

[tepples]

I was hoping that someone would put it into their mix on that day.

[tepples]

Lately I'm on an effort to make sure all my major projects on GitHub have at least one tag (that is, one release). So I decided to push out Thwaite 0.04, with mostly behind-the-scenes improvements from the past month.

• Chain certain initialization functions
• Group functions into conceptual sections using a call graph
• Use other libraries I've since made (ppuclear, Popslide)
• Pently audio: Rename subroutines to match the latest driver version
• Build a second ROM as NROM-256 (32 KiB PRG ROM + 8 KiB CHR ROM), with libraries in the top half, in case I build a multicart
• Fix a bunch of uninitialized variables (#5; reported by jroatch)
• Port build tools to Python 3
• i18n: Move dialogue, tips, copyright screen, and practice menu text to separate UTF-8 text files
• Compress all text using DTE
• Cut scene draws all 12 buildings and pans across them
• Zipfile: No more zip bombing

Release on GitHub; ROM and source snapshot of 0.04 mirrored here