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Porting Games From Binary

Posted by michael on from the meaningless-and-time-consuming-are-our-middle-names dept.

CowboyRobot writes "My favorite Slashdot links are those that inspire me to embark on meaningless and time-consuming quests. This is one of them. Two Canadian game developers at Digital Eclipse have a thorough explanation of how to port a game using nothing but the binary stream coming out of the cartridge. They use the TRS-80 and Phantasy Star III as examples."

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  1. This article is unreadable by Zathras11 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The font used on the page is TINY and I'm
    sorry, but if I have to mess around with
    changing fonts just to read something, screw
    it! It sounded interesting though...