PSX Serial transfer
When going through my archives, I discovered I’d written a simple serial send program – VSSend and stuck it on a PSX boot disk, way back in 2000 while I…
Porting Lemmings to the ZX Spectrum Next
Can I port Lemmings to the ZX Spectrum Next? Follow alone with my journey and lets see how far I can get!
Hacking Manic Miner – Part 2
In last week’s episode we loaded up the original ZX Spectrum Manic Miner snapshot, and started ripping level information from it. This week I want to extend this and lift the tile…
Hacking Manic Miner – Part 1
So, I thought it would be a nice little change of pace to do a little retro game hacking, and at the same time learn about binary files. Since most…
Shadow of the Beast
This games been part of my life for some time, I did the PC Engine port of it, and gave some advice on the C64 one, and did a Spectrum…
GTA 16/32Bit discussion
Part of the GTA 1 story, is how the 16/32bit high colour modes came about. This engine, came about with me speaking to the SCITECH guys. There was a message…
And then there was Lemmings (1991)
At the start of the year, Dave was at a lose end, and he set about tidying up the code, while Brian and Russell finished up their versions. I was…
Finding a Focus (1990)
After the experience with his last games, Dave decided he needed a dedicated games debugger. A debugger is a tool that allows the programmer to find his bugs and makes…