Paradise Deferred

I had hoped to be regaling you with tales of fun and adventure on the shoot-em-up coding front but I have hit a wee bit of a brick wall. The plan was to get the latest version of PyGame (1.8) for use with Python 2.5 and get started on the basic initial application framework but, unfortunately, it hasn't quite been released for download yet (despite their web site news claiming it has...) and version 1.7 doesn't seem to work with Python 2.5 :-(

I could have rolled back to Python 2.4 and started work in earnest with that but I've already installed and setup the current version and my Eclipse / PyDev combo is working nicely with it... so I've decided that I'll just have to wait...Could be waiting a wee while, too, as the rest of the bloody world seems to be celebrating some big religious event or other at the minute :-/

Anyhoo, I am still really looking forward to getting properly started - even bought myself a lovely Python book the other day which is a damn good read, er, as these things go...


Made with the help of -

Chopin "Favourite Piano Works" (Vladimar Ashkenazy) - Tell you what, music lovers, Fantaisie-Impromptu op. 66 is a long standing favourite of mine and I'm 90% sure it was the main theme tune from an old horizontal scrolling arcade shooter that I used to play down in Electronic Experience...but I will be buggered if I can remember the name of the f***er. Pretty sure it was from Konami, it was well post the R-Type era, and it had plenty of fancy parallax, some vertical scrolling parts and even some right-to-left sections. A wee sub-project of mine for the new year is to get the name of this one - answers on a postcard please.