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Reverse-engineering notes on Prey: An Alien Encounter (Almathera / KirkMoreno Multimedia, 1993) for the Amiga CD32 — an hour of speech streamed as 1,225 identical 60 KB files, no audio track, and the disc that says where the Commodore trademark block's exec fragment came from

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• Updated Aug 27, 2026
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James Pond 2: Codename RoboCod (Amiga CD32, 1993) — measurements of the pressed disc: a 128.000000 MiB hole, 93.9 % of the file bytes as CDXL video, a three-language manual with no characters in it, and a boot script that is a signed development diary. Nineteenth disc in the CD32 set.

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• Updated Aug 29, 2026
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Structural documentation of Gunship 2000 (MicroProse, 1994) on Amiga CD32: a 100 MiB zero hole, an unreachable Pirates! Gold demo, little-endian IFF, and 542 validated RNC2 streams. Documentation only.

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• Updated Aug 28, 2026
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Reverse-engineering notes on Marvin's Marvellous Adventure (21st Century Entertainment, 1994/1995) for the Amiga CD32: disc layout, Puzzle V2.0 level format, planar graphics, in-house music modules, CDXL intro, and a great deal of leftover development material.

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• Updated Aug 27, 2026
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