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I'm not a C64 guy but I am an 8-bit era guy and a reverse engineering guy and a Ghidra guy and this video hits all of those spots! I'm now working on my own bunch of stuff for using Ghidra with Retro systems just for fun.

Archon is the most confusing game ever.

This video is a diamond in the rough. So much to unpack.

I played this game so many times, all the music is burned forever into my mind. ;D

awesome rendition!

VC-20 Gorf has such a distinct "PEW" sound for your laser that it stands out amongst all of the versions. Pretty good port for such a limited computer.

Loved this game!

One of my favorite games. Thanks for the video.

Excellent

Those were the times programmers could get away with stuff like that.

The 1st part of the Wander was my friends old nokia phone song.

The Power of Jim is the only parameter anyone ever needs

Thanks

Works every time😂🤙

Beach Head, Castles of Dr Creep, Lode Runner, and Jumpman were some of my favorites as a kid.

You could’ve also used goats blood.

I remember those days like it was yesteryear. Pro tip, use goats. Less hurt for you and the C64 can't tell the difference

Raid Over Moscow anyone? Or can I not mention that game?

Fortunately my copy program never failed.

Unexpected solution!!! :O

Nice video, thanks.

Whenever that Logo appeared on my C64, I knew that a fun game with good quality was about to start. Electronic Arts was a good game company at that time. Good old times.

One of the best game tunes in history..

This is the best song))))

Intuitive is not a word l have ever seen used to describe Retro Debugger.

This is awesome! Great example of working with a disassembler and debugger together. I just wanted to mention a couple of things. - 1:28:45 there's currently no facility to apply a rewrite function (e.g. XOR) to obfuscated portions of the binary in SourceGen. (It's on the to-do list.) - 1:02:15 you can toggle the byte-combining behavior project-wide with Toggle Data Scan (Ctrl+D) when you just want to format something quickly. - 1:00:07 pre-labels are meant to provide access to the pre-relocation address for relocated sections, so the label stuff doesn't happen automatically. (I have a "label alias" item on the to-do list that might be what you want; for now you just have to put the group label on the first byte.) - 44:13 I often turn off "seek nearby targets". Maybe it shouldn't be on by default? It's either really handy or really annoying. - 36:47 if you're uncertain about a label, you can stick a '?' on the end. (If you don't feel like writing out "unknown".) - you can regain some horizontal screen space when recording a video by collapsing Flags and Attr, which are rarely useful.

Lastly I would like to propose an answer to your question about what to do with leftover code up concerning the 6502. I personally would renew, reuse and recycle all electricity that comes out of intelligent work. Because it gains knowledge the same as we do. So use those magic squares. Start by arranging those numbered tiles in silicon warrior according to the art. And the Black hole(a) will guide you in the ways of proper handling the now coherent electricity.

So if one takes the 3 magic squares and multiples each number by 3. You get 9, 12, 15. Add those together and you get 36. Which stands for 369 degrees also ,6*6. The 3 rd 6 comes from 15 not being able to divide into 36 evenly and so leaves a remainder of 6. Now add those 6's together and you get 18. Well 1+8=9 and 3 is the square root of 9..

Wow you are so amazing. I have been watching this video 1-3 times a day since finding it 4 days ago. I do have a hopeful piece of info that should lead to something phenomenal. Those tiles are ,5 wide and five deep. That is a magic square. There are 3 magic squares total that are currently known. And because these magic squares can be added or subtracted from each other. They make up all other squares. I believe the other 2 magic squares are 4 and 3. How many power pyramids are there on that screen. Also how many sides? 4 if you count the bottom. Lol

Very great work. What a pleasure to remind soft old days when playing Ultima III as a teen.

That rewind to last read/write of a particular location would be amazingly useful. All this new-fangled stuff, it's going to put us all out of jobs!

You are definitely a computer scientist. In a way, you are treating this entire video as a puzzle solving a game like Zork's twisty little passages. LOL! I have learned more about assembly language from THIS video than I did back in college. BTW- I hated coding at such a low level but it was a required course. Changing the labels makes it much easier to understand. Fun video watching how your puzzle solving mind works.

Awesome video. Retro debugger looks super fun

Thanks for the video. I learned some good stuff that I will definitely try out. I use this program all the time but I guess didn't rtfm enough!

Thanks again for such an informative video. For the heck of it, I've looked at the Atari code (with Ghidra and my Atari8BitGhidra plugin - it's on GitHub): completely different! I guess there was no shared source code - that was quite common at that time. The "rule of 3" on the Atari implementation: at game launch the variable for the black hole tile is set to 0. When a black hole should appear, the tile index is incremented by 3 and that's where the hole will appear. At 25 it wraps around. So, years, trivially to predict. And the comment suddenly makes sense.

Did you get the chicken?

floppy disk plastic only blocks visible light; it's completely transparent to the infrared that'll REALLY fuck your eyes up. it's like one of those cheap green laser pointers that lacks an IR filter: not enough visible light to produce pain or force your pupils to constrict, but more than enough IR light to fry your retinas. actually staring at the sun with your bare eyeballs would be better for you.

Amazing

Oh nutz would have been nice to know about this trick before the eclipse 😮

Had all the nurses outside with the floppies too 😂

Niiiiice!!!!

super

Thank you! Please more of that

From the wiki entry: Alter Ego was the first game that was also released in a "female version". Furthermore, it was the first game to get a "parental warning". Sounds like something everyone should play at ~14. Bonus points for not being woke =)

Explain Mama Llama in 64 seconds.

Favorito amei esto🎁

legendary

Hey! Nice work. I produced and developed this, and wrote The Big Kill. Thanks for your review!

Fairly good SID interpolation but feels slightly different than what I remember on hardware?

Woah this is so cool!