THE LIFE OF A GAME DEVELOPER

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…

This is my series of articles about using the original Manic Miner binary, and extracting graphics, levels, baddies and paths directly from it. Loading up and displaying the first level…

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…

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…

In this final post we're going to extract the last few bits for this demo, that of the graphics of Miner WIlly, his starting location, and the portal location.

So if you followed my last emulator series, you’ll know that I built up a lot of caches of shapes (characters and sprites) on demand, and then drew them when…

So in this, the last part of my Commodore 64 Emulator series, I want to talk about some of the optimisations I did to help speed things up. But before…

So in this chapter, I thought I’d tackle the tricky subject of SID chip emulation, both how I generate the sounds, and how I get them to play back in…

So, now that we have C64 sprites being rendered, how about characters? Well like sprites they are made from blocks of memory on even boundaries, all be it a lot…

Breakdown of a Museum donation, and what each piece is and how it contributed to my personal development