Category Archives: Technical

Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), MyEtherWallet, and EtherDelta

Posted on September 15, 2017 by

The ICO bubble seems to have become popular among crypto currency adopters in the last few months. We also went through some spectacular price action recently, with some crypto currencies losing 30%-50% of their value in a matter of days. … Continue reading →

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Initial draft of the documentation about Palace Tape Loader F1

Posted on September 14, 2017 by

It’s an early draft, but I thought to share it nonetheless as the “Palace Tape Loader” uses a read bit routine that does not involve the use of timers! You can have a peek at the loader’s code here. Stay … Continue reading →

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Even more maintenance work in TAPClean!

Posted on September 13, 2017 by

Over the course of the last few days I managed to fit a few changes/improvements in TAPClean: I simplified the sync sequence matching logic in a number of scanners; I modularised the Tx scan in “Mega-Save”, “Freeload Slowload”, “Alternative SW … Continue reading →

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More maintenance work in TAPClean!

Posted on September 10, 2017 by

I finally found the time to do some maintenance on TAPClean’s code as per my TODO list. In short, I consolidated “Ocean New F1” T1/T2  and “Snakeload 5.0” T1/T2 scanners into “Ocean New F1” and “Snakeload 5.0”, entirely rewritten. The change … Continue reading →

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CHR scanner renamed and rewritten in TAPClean

Posted on September 6, 2017 by

Before bed today I decided to apply my field learnings about Mega-Save to the TAPClean scanner previously referred to as “CHR”, rewriting it from scratch. One nice addition is the decoding of additional information that’s part of the file header … Continue reading →

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Planning another TAPClean release

Posted on September 5, 2017 by

I decided that the significant changes to the Visiload scanner (which Paul Jones has helped to test thoroughly), along with the addition of two Visiload Tx variants, the rewrite of the Wildload scanner and a fix to the Pavloda scanner … Continue reading →

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More on the tape loader documentation effort!

Posted on September 5, 2017 by

If you’ve not had a look at my documentation of the loader written by the Mega-Save tool, which was announced here, you might want to have a look now and provide some feedback! Since the initial publishing of the information … Continue reading →

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