loadzero @loadzero_dev

Unix hacker, video game programmer. blog.loadzero.com Joined February 2015

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loadzero @loadzero_dev

5 years ago

Writing tests for fun and profit: blog.loadzero.com/blog/on-tests/

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Jason McSweeney ported Chopper Commando from Turbo Pascal to C and SDL2 so it runs super smooth in web page, it's so cool! I created Chopper Commando about 30 years ago and it was downloaded more than 4 million times before the Internet era started. blog.loadzero.com/blog/chopper25…

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loadzero @loadzero_dev

5 years ago

My new game restoration: Chopper Commando blog.loadzero.com/blog/chopper25…

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loadzero @loadzero_dev

6 years ago

A sneak peek at the software archaeology project I am currently working on. Reverse engineering Space Invaders (1979). blog.loadzero.com/demo/si79cs3.h…

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6 years ago

A debug visualization from a game I was developing with a mate a long long time ago.

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7 years ago

My 8080 emulator can now do something a bit more interesting. And it's actually a pretty good game! Haven't managed to crack 3k on the score though.

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7 years ago

Maths trick - the standard deviation of a dataset is approximately a quarter of the range. (range rule of thumb). This can come in handy when doing quick and dirty data analysis. Related to the 68 95 99.7 rule. thoughtco.com/range-rule-for…

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loadzero @loadzero_dev

7 years ago

I am currently working on an 8086 disassembler, as part of that I couldn't help but do a modern reworking of one of the diagrams from the original architecture manual.

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8 years ago

How to get an x86 to surprisingly segfault on unaligned data. This made me think twice about doing quick and dirty casts with primitive types. pzemtsov.github.io/2016/11/06/bug…