Daniel is based in La Jolla, California, United States.

Daniel is relatively new on the CV programming scene.
His first contribution to the scene was by adding ColecoVision support into his emulator blueMSX.

The emulator gives CV developers new possibilities to develop productions, especially when using the powerful built in debugger.

The CV support is constantly improving, and the next release of the emulator will include support for plugging in a real Expansion Module #2 to the
emulator and use the steering wheel when playing CV games on the PC.

With the emulator Daniel is supporting homebrew hardware projects by including support for the new hardware early in the development.
This gives software developers a chance to start writing code for the new hardware without needing to wait for it to be ready. One good example is the OpCode expansion module.

Daniel has his roots in the MSX scene and has been programming for MSX since the early 80’s so the transition to ColecoVision was not that big.
Daniel is an expert on Z80 and TMS9918 VDP and has done some quite amazing demonstrations on MSX, and this certainly carries over to the ColecoVision.

Daniel has made several short technology demonstrations that really raise the bar of what is technically possible to achieve on the CV.
For example, he ported his and Arturo Ragozini’s sample player to ColecoVision.

The new sample player produces sampled music with a higher quality than previously achieved on the CV.
The algorithm utilizes advanced math to maximize the sound quality with the limitations of the SN76489 PSG.

Apart from short music demonstrations with Sabrina’s “Boys Boys Boys”, Alice in Chain’s “Check my brain”.
The sample frequency of the sabrina song is 16kHz @ 4bits/sample and 7.5kHz @ 4bits/sample for Check my brain.
The sample player is used in the soon to be released ColecoVision port of “Peek-A-Boo” by Daniel and Vincent van Dam, a game featuring the Sesame Street character Elmo.
 

Peek-A-Boo	Burn Rubber	Zippy Race
Pyramid Warp & Battle Ship Clapton II	Kobashi	Sudoku

Another Technical achievement is the multi-directional pixel scroller in the upcoming game Burn Rubber which he made together with Vincent and graphics support by Luc Miron
Demos of the game has been previewed to the public.
The game is a top down view rally game that besides the multi-directional scroller features a custom music tracker and support for two simultaneous steering wheels.

Daniel and Vincent made ports of several MSX and Sega games to ColecoVision, including “Zippy Race”, “Pyramid Warp”, “Battle Ship Clapton II”.
Other ports are in the pipe. Some of their MSX games are also being ported, including “Kobashi” and “Sudoku”.

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