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A blog by Cybergoth

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You can't call a planet "Bob", can't we just call it "Earth"? - No one said you have to live on Bob.

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Colony 7 delayed / Kickman PD

Hi there!   Real life strikes once again. At our company we currently do a mega 5 month project with an (as usual ) impossible deadline. All summer vacation has been cancelled, so I don't think I'll finish Colony 7 still this year. On the other hand that means I have some 5-6 weeks of winter holidays, so I hope I can make it a february/march release.   I also decided to stop all activities regarding Kickman. Toying with this was some fun brain-jogging, finally trying some Multi-Resp trickery
Cybergoth

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GtA Dungeon Creation

Hi there!   History in the making! After starting the analysis of the dungeon creation of the 8-Bit version of Gateway to Apshai some 5 years ago, I'm now finally done with it!   In this attachment here I extracted the bare bones requirements for the Dungeon creation code: The master function, all required subroutines and variables. I also have it fully commented, of course all based on the incredible work from AA member Kroah, who ~ 2 months ago released his reverse-engineering of the g
Cybergoth

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Playing Phantom Fighter (Amiga)

Hi there!   Ah, finally another Amiga shoot'em up!     This one's from Martech, the makers of one of my favorite C64 games of all time: Mega Apocalypse. They never really managed to deliver yet another game as good as that though, so they slowly went out of business. I think Phantom Fighter was one of their last games.   It is a mixed emotions experience. As you can see, the (animated!) background graphics are gorgeous for such an early Amiga game. The guy responsible for these superio
Cybergoth

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Colony 7: Birth of a Label

Hi there!   Since I always like Nathans features regarding certain labels he created, I thought to once present such a "making of..." from a programmers point of view as well. So with Daves permission I can here show the way from a small scribble to the final Colony 7 label. And there's even a picture riddle coming in the end!   DISCLAIMER: Dave created this label in the highest possible resolution, using like a million dpi and more shades of color than the human eye can resolve. Instead of
Cybergoth

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Colony 7 got sprites

Hi there!   Uihjah... what a weekend...   Against all odds I managed reclaiming my 4th rank in the Mini Compo with Crazy Balloon. Half a year ago I'd never thought it'd do that good, especially since it is pretty "unapproachable" due to its rather unique (un)control scheme Well, I guess maybe it got some extra oddball(oon) bonus because of not being yet another a Lightcycle or Tetris game   Besides "watching" the compo and family visits I also found some minutes to finally add Nathans s
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The Checkstyle Terrorist

Hi there!   In my company we're now forced to use checkstyle for java projects in Eclipse. Amongst the ~100 mostly totally stupid checks it does, is also one forcing brackets to reside on the end of a line, as in:   if(bSomething) { doSomething(); }   Few things I hate more Here's my tried & tested workaround:   if(bSomething ) { doSomething(); }     Greetings, Manuel
Cybergoth

Cybergoth

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MiniMiniMiniMinijupe

Hi there!   Since r_type2600 mentioned "Eisbär" last week, I thought it'd make sense to dig out another early work of Stephan Eicher for you. The "Noise Boys" tape was recorded on just a standard cassette recorder and it's pure genious. It's been made available as bonus tracks on the CD version of Eichers debut album "La Chanson Bleue", a total must have. Anyway, here is MiniMiniMiniMinijupe (plus an easter egg ):   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTB613VQU1U     Greetings, Manuel
Cybergoth

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Hair Metal?!? - Southern Rock?!?

Hi there!   These days I have a weird phase of listening to music I'd probably call "Southern Rock", though I think it's more often referenced as "Hair Metal". I agree on the "hair", but not on the "metal"... It's just Rock'n'Roll, no? Anything between Lynyrd Skynyrd and Guns'n'Roses goes I guess...   These are my Top 5 currently:   Great White / Once Bitten Twice Shy Cheap Trick / I Want You To Want Me   Got more recommendations for me?   Greetings, Manuel
Cybergoth

Cybergoth

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Gateway to Apshai Source Code

Hi there!   Since I've been working on it again the past few days, and I think I never really posted it before, here comes my most complete reverse-engineering of the Gateway to Apshai source code.   It's based on my efforts starting way back in 2003 and it is also merged with the source from the Decompilation project.   It is compiling 100% into the available cartridge dump of the game.   It's still far from complete. My efforts during the last days were aimed at making the source reloc
Cybergoth

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I know a Secret!

Hi there!   Assume last E³ I saw the debut trailer of a game, which I somehow associated with a band. Assume I contacted the band and the game developer, establishing a contact between them. Assume the band now just recorded a brandnew song for the game.   More I'm not telling. But I have a totally unrelated video for you:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzDSOwbxn9o     Greetings, Manuel
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Illusion

Hi there!   Even though the song and the animation were created totally independent from each other, they're a perfect match:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu-8wGbWMro     Greetings, Manuel
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Cybergoth

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Fotoromanza

Hi there!   My all-time favorite song from Gianna Nannini - IMO one of the very best 80's tunes that time forgot. That incredible power in her voice. I even still like the look she has in that video. I guess I'm forever stuck in the 80's   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT_CTOllIDA     Greetings, Manuel
Cybergoth

Cybergoth

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Giant Monster Games

Hi there!   I'm trying to research this interesting topic. There seem to be only a very few games made within that particular theme and most of them seem to suck. I compiled a list of the major ones that seem to have a better reputation or at least some "historical value". It's mainly derived from the mobygames "Giant Monster Games" category, but I'm almost certain that there must be some more "good" ones   Crush, Crumble and Chomp! 1981 C64 Epyx The Movie Monster Game 1986 C64
Cybergoth

Cybergoth

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Mii and the Wii - 6 / 2009

Hi there!   I'm still on a dry spell, again I only managed buying two Wii games since the last report. At least my shopping list didn't grow anymore either. And the year should end better again, with christmas just around the corner   The list of games I'm done with: Wii Sports, Zelda TP, Excite Truck, Metal Slug Anthology, Geometry Wars, Bully , Eledees, Zack & Wiki , SMG, Death Jr., Battalion Wars 2, Disaster , MP 3 , Fire Emblem , Boom Blox, de Blob, Opoona, Lego Indiana Jones, Okami
Cybergoth

Cybergoth

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Mii and the Wii / 4th quarter 2008

Ladies and Gentlemen,   what you've all been waiting for, here's my quarterly Wii report! And this time I bought more Wii games than ever before! Here's all the dirty details:   The games I'm done with: Wii Sports, Zelda TP, Excite Truck, Metal Slug Anthology, Geometry Wars Galaxy, Bully , Eledees, Zack & Wiki   The rest of my Wii collection:   Super Mario Galaxy => After playing it on/off for almost a whole year, me and my wife finally beat this one. Just once though, as we coul
Cybergoth

Cybergoth

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The Damned in Germany!

Hi there!   Finally, finally, finally!   The Damned make two of their rare visits to Germany!!!   Fri July 20th, Glaubtiz Back To Future Festival:     Youtube videos for some of the bands: The Damned Sat July 21st Essen Funbox Amalie I think I will make both of these dates   (When The Damned did their last German tour in 2000, I managed to see most of the dates, following them throughout the country for a week )   Greetings, Manuel
Cybergoth

Cybergoth

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Amiga MOD music

Hi there!Here I have something very special. Talking in superlatives, it's IMO "The best computer music ever made".What is it? It's 4 age old Amiga soundtracker tunes. I've searched for them a long time through the whole internet, as these where my favourite tunes on the Amiga. Actually they where one of the reasons I bought an Amiga back then.You can now listen to them, simply by installing this winamp plugin:http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=2266The four tunes are:dns.modThis one bl
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Mii and the Wii - 1 / 2009

Hi there!   so here comes my first 2009 Wii report. As I told you before, I'm going to sync it with the release date of the German "Wii Magazin" from now on.   Since this report took a bit longer to happen and also still covers my winter holidays, I'm featuring more Wii games than ever before. Here's all the dirty details:   The list of games I'm done with: Wii Sports, Zelda TP, Excite Truck, Metal Slug Anthology, Geometry Wars Galaxy, Bully , Eledees, Zack & Wiki , Mario Galaxy, Death
Cybergoth

Cybergoth

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Fight Back

Hi there!   I know I'm 30 years late to the party, but I'm just getting into "The Alarm". This two year old song about fighting cancer sounds so incredibly '76 - my absolute favourite:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot26NBjxins     Greetings, Manuel
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They Must be Russians!

Hi there!   A rather mysterious band (I know nothing about them), with their weird song "Don't Try to Cure Yourself". The lyrics are apparently taken from a slide show dealing with venereal diseases   NOTE: Don't turn up the volume too much during the verse, else the chorus will blow your speakers.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfOvct1U3Ls     Greetings, Manuel
Cybergoth

Cybergoth

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Song for a Mad Choir Singer

Hi there!   I'm a fan of "Deine Lakaien" almost as long as they exist, getting their 2nd album "Dark Star" the day it was released. While I love everything they do, I like them best where they go totally mad   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYTSuFZ_3OA   Greetings, Manuel
Cybergoth

Cybergoth

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812 asm lines = 471 C++ lines

Hi there!   So, I'm done with a first draft of translating the Gateway to Apshai dungeon creation code to C.   Given 2 Seed values, my GTATo2600 tool manages to produce a "dungeon.h" file, containing something that vaguely resembles a GtA dungeon it seems   I'm pretty sure there's still a bunch of minor and major errors in it (At first glance there's way too many 'S'ecret 'P'assages), so the next step would be verifying it against a real 8-Bit GtA dungeon. Or even better, verify it again
Cybergoth

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Colony 7: Title Tune?

Hi there!   I'm experimenting some to find a fitting title tune for Colony 7. Here's one that's pretty wild:     How do you like that?   Greetings, Manuel
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Idle Gossip

Hi there!   I don't think any words could describe The Toy Dolls better than this video:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNqG51cG4kw     Greetings, Manuel
Cybergoth

Cybergoth

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The Damned German Date!

Hi there!   Wild times ahead once again! Today finally a german "The Damned" date has been announced!   On 16th June they'll play an Open Air Show on Castle Abenberg (near Nuremberg), together with Billy Idol!   http://www.feuertanz-festival.de/abenberg2010/   The ticket price is an insane 53 Euro and it's a 3 hour ride, but since it's the only German show announced so far, I'll definitely be there   I've never seen Billy Idol before, but I hear he's still got it, no?   Greetings,
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