Tag Archives: reversing

Smart meters: what to know before you get one

Posted on September 3, 2018 by

In the last few days I’ve got two unsolicited emails, apparently from the utility company that serves my flat, with the following wording: We’d like to offer you a free, brand new smart meter, giving you control of your gas … Continue reading →

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Reverse engineering a failed LED bulb

Posted on January 29, 2018 by

One of my LED bulbs failed yesterday so I decided to reverse engineer it, pretty much the way bigclivedotcom would himself do. The PCB within my bulb is as per below: It looks like one of the LEDs failed (marked … Continue reading →

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Last Ninja 2 Browser: Frame editor coming along nicely

Posted on June 10, 2015 by

This video is about the frame editor of my LN2 Sprite/Frame/Animation Browser: The interesting thing about this is that I am using a simplified version of the tool to create my own animation for the C64. I can’t reveal the details … Continue reading →

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Last Ninja 2 Sprite/Frame/Animation Browser: sprite saving ready

Posted on June 7, 2015 by

After changing my LN2 sprite/frame/animation browser to remove duplicate sprites I added an option to save the resulting sprite catalogue: The interesting bit of code here is the data packer, which is used to compress sprite bitmap to save RAM on … Continue reading →

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Last Ninja 2 Sprite/Frame/Animation Browser: clean-up ready

Posted on June 5, 2015 by

I had some time this morning to finish the first editing feature I had planned for my LN2 sprite/frame/animation browser: deleting duplicate sprites. The idea is that once a sprite is deleted, all subsequent indexes shift by one position so … Continue reading →

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Last Ninja 2: working with sprites again

Posted on June 1, 2015 by

Over the course of yesterday and today I made a few changes to the sprite/frame/animation browser for LN2. The idea is to introduce a number of editing and clean-up capabilities to this tool. For a start, I can now look up … Continue reading →

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Ninja 2 Framework using SDL2 – Player Animations

Posted on April 4, 2015 by

This is another standalone test application for the player control class that I extended this morning in order to implement all input animations (attacking and picking objects up).

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