Following five bit routines through Wizardry VI and VII
Five small functions survive between two Wizardry games with identical instruction bodies. Rebuilding them gives us a working recipe and a more interesting q...
Experiments worth sharing
Retro computing, digital art, and practical experiments. Explore a project below, or browse the latest notes.
- Video & graphicsBuild transparent overlays with FFmpeg.
- Retro computingUnderstand a SunBlade boot failure.
- TroubleshootingInvestigate Windows Wi-Fi latency.
From the 2020–2021 archive. See each article for its original software context.
Recent posts
Why changing the battery doesn’t fix my Sun
A small battery causes a surprisingly large headache, and replacing the obvious one doesn’t help.
OpenBSD on SunBlade 100: IDE boot failure and workaround
A technical guide to an OpenBSD boot failure on the SunBlade 100: the firmware limitation, the bisection process, and the historical IDE-write workaround.
Wireless Ping Spikes on Windows 10
Investigating periodic Wi-Fi latency spikes on Windows 10, with ping tests and a WLAN autoconfig workaround, including its connection trade-offs.
Alpha Masking with FFMPEG
Create transparent video overlays with FFmpeg: explore alpha channels, choose codecs, draw masks, and build a circular map overlay step by step.