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...
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2026
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.
2021
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.
2020
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.
Thoughts on using FFMPEG instead of Davinci Resolve
Building a map overlay for Wizardry 7 videos exposed the limits of my editing setup. Here is why I explored FFmpeg for pre-rendering the effects.
Should I buy a domain for my new website?
Does a small hobby blog need its own domain? Some thoughts on cost, identity, and spending time on useful content instead.
Lets start with a Cliché
Every experiment starts somewhere. A brief hello and welcome to Curio Museum, beginning with the classic first program: Hello World.