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Agon Newsletter, July-August 2026

During July and August I have been busy showcasing the Agon platform at various events: California Extreme, Vintage Computer Festival West, and MagWest. So I’ve gotten behind on actually posting this newsletter although I’ve tried to keep a log going. For the rest of the year I’ll be back to my First Friday showcases at MADE.

• New episode of Agon Bits: Vector Graphics Transformations with Buffered Commands

• Envenomator’s Agon BBC Basic released version v1.0RC1

• Luisvolkyazul has been writing a Frogger clone in BBC Basic V

rafd_electrotux has been busy adding networking utilities:

• route
• uptime
• ifconfig

• ping

• Chris Garret created a WASM version of the Fab Agon Emulator for his Online Retro IDE project

• AndyMcCall’s (bitriot) Agon Pac-Man will be revised with a new version compiled from C, also used for his Commander X16 version.

• Richard Turnnidge has started working on a new language “KISS” meant to aid in learning assembly coding starting from BASIC.

• The AED text editor has been updated to version 0.16.

Cartooning the Screen and a-nib projects:

• As part of showcasing I started to produce comic pages. The intro can be seen on the CTS front page and the rest are under the “Cartooning the Screen” header on that page.

• I implemented a breadboard version of the Console8 joypads, my first digital electronics project.
  • I also made a comic for it!

• I created a launcher application to help demo the system. It can be seen in the current a-nib distro(it starts up from autoexec.txt)

• The a-nib framework is entering its fourth iteration, with one more revision to the architecture to try to work through things revealed by the launcher project.
  • I still haven’t made a game in it yet, but I’m getting closer.