Update: The port is a lie Yes that’s right. For those who took the time to actually run the ROM, you were greeted with this. A full motion video Rick Roll running on your NeoGeo. Anyway, I’ve had my fun. I’ll leave the stuff below for archival purposes. I’ve been porting arcade games to the […]
It’s time to take down the future of law enforcement. Following on from my discovery that RoboCop arcade has bootleg protection, see here , I decided it would be fun to crack it. TL;DR – RoboCop uses a separate HuC6280 CPU as it’s copy protection. The CPU is a variant of the very common 6502 […]
Arcades in the late 80’s / early 90’s were a big deal, the cutting edge of gaming. So big in fact that bootleg versions of top of the line games would appear on the black market. A quick dip into MAME and you’ll find a raft of bootleg PCB’s listed and supported. In the home […]
Back at the start of October while scrolling through BlueSky, I came across a post from “Vanessa Vananass” with the tag #MODtober. It was the start of a megathread celebrating tracker music in all its forms. Being somewhat of an enthusiast of various trackers and sound chips, I thought this would be a great opportunity […]
During the development of the Amiga port of Cecconoid, I was constantly posting updates to a discord server so that Gareth (original dev) and Andy (Thalamus) could see the progress. With the game now shipping to players, I thought it would be fun to look back at what’s there. The channel is literally full of […]
Word up blog followers ( yeah I know it’s not a lot of you but hey! ) it’s release day!!! Over the last 6 months I’ve been working with Toni Galvez to bring another classic MSX game to the Amiga and now it’s finally ready!. Pop to the blog, link in the top bar. Get […]
Finally, got the loose ends wrapped up for what surely the final release. Mostly minor bug fixes and compatibility issues but also you can now download the original ProTracker modules, which is always nice. List of bug fixes below. detection using the cardboard box when entering some rooms fixed max rations at max class fixed […]
In this rather lengthy post I’m going to talk about the soundtrack I made for the new Amiga 500 demo – Eon by The Black Lotus. I’ll be covering everything from the early beginnings and creative decisions through to the tech that was built to enable us to break out of the memory restrictions of […]
Yep, put this up so I have somewhere to put write-ups on stuff I do. Oh yeah, I’m Hoffman and I’m a musician, DJ and coder who is heavily involved with the demoscene (go look that up if you don’t know what it is otherwise the rest of these posts ain’t gonna mean jack!) Anyway, […]
