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Hacking Manic Miner – Part 1

Dec 6, 2022 mikedailly

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…

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Shadow of the Beast

Nov 24, 2022 mikedailly

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…

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Hacking Manic Miner – Part 5

Nov 24, 2022 mikedailly

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.

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Writing a ZX Spectrum Emulator in GameMaker

Nov 14, 2022 mikedailly

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…

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CREATING A COMMODORE 64 EMULATOR IN GAMEMAKER – PART 8

Nov 6, 2022 mikedailly

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…

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CREATING A COMMODORE 64 EMULATOR IN GAMEMAKER – PART 7

Oct 22, 2022 mikedailly

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…

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CREATING A COMMODORE 64 EMULATOR IN GAMEMAKER – PART 6

Oct 3, 2022 mikedailly

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…

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Museum Donations

Oct 2, 2022 mikedailly

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

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CREATING A COMMODORE 64 EMULATOR IN GAMEMAKER – PART 5

Sep 21, 2022 mikedailly

In this part, I’m going to start looking at sprites, and see if there’s anything I can do in order to display “something” so I can better see games running.…

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CREATING A COMMODORE 64 EMULATOR IN GAMEMAKER – PART 4

Sep 12, 2022 mikedailly

In this part, I’m going to start discussing how I handled the screen at the start of this process, and the reasons behind these choices. I said in the first part…

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