Chebucto Regional Softball Club

Someone has been here before me

looking at hacking an amiga game's files for the first time.

so far my main takeaway is that there's files in there. what do they do? who is to say

this rant inspired by the sickos who cloned an Arduino Uno, a famously 5v board, but made it 3.3v

and the even worse sicko who snuck one of these fuckers into my microcontroller box

When I win the lottery and become a billionaire I'm gonna set up an organization for one purpose and one purpose only:

To ensure the availability of cheap 5v microcontrollers

this was about the Wonder Tools Cruiser (and the software for it) which I've been hacking on for the last couple days.

Mainly on the software side so far: For the RomChip stream, it was running on old hardware rather than conversion to USB or anything, as that was all we could do in time

I'm back in 32bit windows for this latest (not yet announced) project and GOOD LORD is a linear address space such a breath of fresh air. You can actually find things in memory and in the binary!

FUN_0040fb00 ahh!

a scary function shows up in reverse engineering.

(INCORRECT) MULTIOCULAR O SPOTTED! SHOUT OUT TO THE OBSCURE UNICODE FANDOM

calling my lawyer to ask if it's legal for me to damn my employees to eternal torment in the 6th circle of hell.

like sure, they'll be nailed to inverted burning crosses for all eternity, but that only happens AFTER they die, and if they're dead then they're not working for me anymore, by definition?

sorry, OSHA doesn't cover threats to your immortal soul. separation of church and state and all that. get back to work.

if the thing is fine, hit this green button. if it's full of the souls of the damned reaching out to corrupt all they touch, press the red button. you get one half-hour lunch break per 8 hours worked. you can't sit down.

look, we may have built this factory on a combination native american burial ground, ley line, and temporal rift, but factories aren't cheap, son. It's way more cost-effective to just get a minimum wage guy to check all the output for a patina of ancient evil.

the game is also another one in the new genre of "a company realizes their factory is producing haunted products, so they just hire a guy to QC them and bin the haunted inventory".

It's such a hilarious capitalism trope

the game is Dollmare, btw.

Dollmare on Steam

You've accepted a shady job offer at a doll factory. Inspect dolls for defects and anomalies. Follow strange protocols. Don't get fired and stay alive.

(store.steampowered.com)

also the CRT goes to static at one point. I'm gonna say that's caused by Supernatural Action because there's no way that little monochrome computer CRT has a tuner in it.

BUT THERE'S NO EXCUSE FOR THE PRINTER MAKING THE WRONG NOISES

I let the 6-line CRT slide because it's like MovieOS: you gotta make it big enough to see, and screens-inside-games have different text size requirements to real screens.

I'm watching a letsplay of a horror game and it's got an inkjet printer in it that makes dot matrix noises.

Now that's horror: they've invented the impact inkjet

bad idea: USB-C flash drive shaped like a 5.25" floppy disk.

and it checks which way you plugged it in, and only shows you that half of the files. You want to see the other files? flip it over!