1993

FreeSynd fork with some Quality of Life improvements

Syndicate Fan Expansion, Open Source implementation of the classic game from Bullfrog, based on Syndicate Plus.

Resident programs that allow forcibly set VGA adapters to 30/34-line mode.

Byte-level study of the Italian CD-ROM edition of Sam & Max Hit the Road (LucasArts, 1993): 64 files, 227,198,319 bytes, 88.11 % of them 150 minutes of Italian voice acting in 3,381 recordings. Container, index, text, speech, music, images and fonts all derived from the bytes, with no reference implementation used.

A project which allows you to use your HP48G/GX as a video adapter

The Jurassic Park control room, running in your browser. Sit at Ray Arnold's desk on the night Dennis Nedry ruined everything. Ah ah ah, you didn't say the magic word.

Reverse-engineering notes on Origami (Philips CD-i, EagleVision 1993): Green Book file system, OS-9/68000 modules, multi-channel real-time files, DYUV/CLUT7 video, Level B/C ADPCM, and a fifth language nobody catalogued.

Byte-level measurements of Crash 'n Burn (3DO, Crystal Dynamics, 1993), the first 3DO disc in this collection. An Opera file system reader written from scratch; 451 files, not the 326 a mis-read next_block field showed; 7,239 frames of a codec the studio wrote because Cinepak had not shipped.

Measurements of Simulman V (MS-DOS, Simulmondo, Bologna, 1993): 120 files, 2,056,643 bytes, zero compressed blocks, one mtime that is wrong by three years. All sixteen unknown formats derived from the bytes; the year is drawn in pixels; one executable is byte-identical to 1000 Miglia's. Recorded media: 0.0000 %.