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Note: the ☛ symbol indicates my recommended readings.

Reverse engineering

2024-11 : ☛ 800% detail: Tweaking Stunt Island’s 30-year-old 3D engine 2025-02 : ☛ SuperSight: a graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund’s Stunts (part I) 2025-08 : SuperSight: a graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund’s Stunts (part II) 2025-08 : SuperSight: a graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund’s Stunts (part III) + Appx. 2026-03 : ☛ Reverse engineering “Hello World” in QuickBasic 3.0: bloat & bytecode from 1987

Projects

2024-12 : The big map of Cologne parking meters 2024-12 : Die große Karte der Kölner Parkscheinautomaten 2026-01 : Two small updates, part 1: SuperSight 2.0 2026-01 : ☛ TTT in Detail: the techniques behind a ZX Spectrum retrogame

Reviews

2024-11 : An elegy to Stunt Island 2025-08 : ☛ A lost game and other curiosities from a 1989 PC floppy 2026-01 : Two small updates, part 2: Camel Trophy Game

Reprints

2026-02 : Reprint: “Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?”

Miscellaneous

2025-01 : Windows 95 and a bizarre case of font drag and drop 2025-02 : How to ruin your site reputation in two easy steps (part I) 2025-02 : How to ruin your site reputation in two easy steps (part II) 2025-03 : Adjusting Qt apps’ style and behavior via command line (bonus: extra styling for Dolphin)