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 […]
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 […]
Code and Waveforms 