Ridge Shrubsall

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Software developer and reverse engineer
Websitehttps://ridge.dev
Our first video from RE//verse 2025 is live! Part journey of personal discovery, part technical deep-dive, this presentation from Markus Gaasedelen was the highest rated in the feedback survey and is a must-see talk: https://youtu.be/hGlIkgmhZvc
RE//verse 2025: Full-stack Reverse Engineering of the Original Microsoft Xbox (Markus Gaasedelen)

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Releasing DaTArrest, a savegame exploit for Rock Band Blitz (even the free trial version) by myself and @ihatecompvir that can be used to run Grimdoomer's Xbox360BadUpdate hypervisor exploit and gain code execution on a retail Xbox 360!

https://github.com/grimdoomer/Xbox360BadUpdate/releases

Releases · grimdoomer/Xbox360BadUpdate

Software only hypervisor exploit for Xbox 360. Contribute to grimdoomer/Xbox360BadUpdate development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
EA just open sourced Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Renegade and Generals

I can't quite believe it either. Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Command & Conquer Renegade and Command & Conquer Generals (inc. Zero Hour) have their code officially open sourced.

GamingOnLinux
Release 3.2.0 · libsdl-org/SDL

Announcing the SDL 3 official release! SDL 3.0 is finally here! We have many many people to thank on the road to get here, but I'd like to call out special thanks to: @slouken and @icculus, lead d...

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Wine 10.0 Released - Slashdot

BrianFagioli shares a report from BetaNews: The Wine team has officially released Wine 10.0, marking a full year of extensive development with over 6,000 changes. This stable release introduces major updates designed to enhance performance, compatibility, and visual experience when running Windows a...

Blitz Basic v1.50 (Windows 9x, 2001)

I have fond memories of working with Blitz Research products, and being a part of the community.
RIP Mark Sibly.

Today is a big day for DOS emulation, now we have 100% authentic Sound Canvas (Roland SC-55) emulation in Staging via Nuked SC-55 🥳 🎉 🍻 🎊

Grab the latest dev build from here:
https://www.dosbox-staging.org/releases/development-builds/

Then follow the installation instructions from the PR below:
Search "manual testing" and follow the steps under "usage" (this will be more streamlined in the final; the plugin (without the ROM files) will be included in the distribution package)

https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/pull/4090

#DOSGaming #MS-DOS #Emulation #RetroGaming #LinuxGaming #MacGaming #FOSS #Roland #SoundCanvas #SC-55 #MIDI #GeneralMIDI

Development builds - DOSBox Staging

DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices.

​VMware has announced that its VMware Fusion and VMware Workstation desktop hypervisors are now free to everyone for commercial, educational, and personal use.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/vmware-makes-workstation-and-fusion-free-for-everyone/

VMware makes Workstation and Fusion free for everyone

​VMware has announced that its VMware Fusion and VMware Workstation desktop hypervisors are now free to everyone for commercial, educational, and personal use.

BleepingComputer

After a lot of work I am now ready to release Tim and Geoff Follin's Software Creations Music Development Disk Archive. Following on from @breakintoprogram's initial release I have been able to recover more source files and add lots of extra resources. Enjoy!

https://github.com/KevEdwards/TimGeoffFollinMusicDevDiskArchive

GitHub - KevEdwards/TimGeoffFollinMusicDevDiskArchive: Tim and Geoff Follin's Music Development Disk Archive ( Software Creations )

Tim and Geoff Follin's Music Development Disk Archive ( Software Creations ) - KevEdwards/TimGeoffFollinMusicDevDiskArchive

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Winsider is also pioneering a new type of Sponsorship. They wanted to sponsor a new "Windows Security" learning path, where all the #OST2 Windows-related classes are laid out. You can see the full LP here:
https://ost2.fyi/Windows_LP_pdf