Wannabe 80s arcade tech and author of several homebrew games for obsolete systems such as the Atari 2600.
I like retro programming, old video game and computer hardware, electronics, web development, reading, car repair, history, volunteering, also self-deprecating humor. I try to be a decent person and give people the benefit of the doubt (except for the creators of CSS).
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I received an NES cart with some extremely corroded pins. After cleaning them and also using some high grit sandpaper, it would run, but there were major graphics problems.
On a lark I opened up the cartridge and started checking continuity. Wouldn't you know it one of the traces near one of the pins was totally corroded through.
1 bodge wire later and it works like a charm.
The game is 'Zanac' by the way.
Now available in dark mode!: https://github.com/bentlartson/bop1990/
Seems kinda fitting given the dark subject matter of the game...
It's been a decent amount of work, but the port of 'Balance of Power' I've been working on is now pretty much fully playable.
Feel free to download it and let me know what you think (Windows only at the moment).
https://github.com/bentlartson/bop1990
https://github.com/bentlartson/bop1990/releases/tag/v0.1
More progress being made in this porting project - I'm actually surprised that this is going as well as it is.
Of course now that I said that, a major showstopper will come up...
Pascal is not the most intuitive language. I can see why nobody uses it anymore lol.
Nevertheless, I made more progress today tinkering around with this old source code.
Stared working on one of my backburner 'bucket list' projects - which is to try to port the 1989 Mac/DOS game 'Balance of Power' to modern OSes (using Free Pascal).
Not sure exactly how far I'll get but so far I got the game map displaying...
