About me

• E-mail: alberto.m.dev@gmail.com
• Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/a-marnetto
• Github: github.com/AlbertoMarnetto
• Résumé

Posts (RSS)

2026-01-27 : Two small updates: SuperSight 2.0 and Camel Trophy Game 2026-01-10 : TTT in Detail: the techniques behind a ZX Spectrum retrogame 2025-08-21 : A lost game and other curiosities from a 1989 PC floppy 2025-08-13 : SuperSight: a graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund’s Stunts (part III) 2025-08-08 : SuperSight: a graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund’s Stunts (part II) 2025-03-30 : Adjusting Qt apps’ style and behavior via command line (bonus: extra styling for Dolphin) 2025-02-20 : SuperSight: a graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund’s Stunts (part I) 2025-02-09 : How to ruin your site reputation in two easy steps (part II) 2025-02-06 : How to ruin your site reputation in two easy steps (part I) 2025-01-12 : Windows 95 and a bizarre case of font drag and drop 2024-12-20 : The big map of Cologne parking meters 2024-12-20 : Die große Karte der Kölner Parkscheinautomaten 2024-11-28 : 800% detail: Tweaking Stunt Island’s 30-year-old 3D engine 2024-11-15 : An elegy to Stunt Island

Projects

• Stunts : my SuperSight mod and other resources for Stunts (DSI/Brøderbund, 1990), a racing game also known as 4D Sports Driving.
• Stunt Island 8x detail patch : graphical enhancement mod for Stunt Island (Disney, 1992), a flight simulation and filming game.
• TTT in detail : English translation of a book documenting the making-of of a ZX Spectrum game.
• Beltempo : a hybrid raster/vectorial image editing program, similar to Shutter’s edit mode. C++/Qt (Verdigris). Currently on hold.
• multidim : C++ utilities for multidimensional containers.
• Namensmeister : learning app to guess gender and plural of German names.