Welcome

This is quite lame, I don't know what to say. I really suck at HTML, and I would have an excuse for this page if only I was colorblind which is not the case.

Who am I ?

I'm a software engineer and a retrogaming/retrocomputer enthusiast, with little time now to pursue my projects (work, kids) but every now and then there's a little window where I can improve/bugfix some stuff. Needless to say starting something big and new is just out of the question, but I'm trying to support the old projects, and I always provide source code to my programs now, just in case someone wants to fix them!

What am I doing ?

I was into amiga game patching/hacking until now (using WHDLoad, but I slowed that down since I thought it more fun to re-make some classics that I played 20 years ago and that I still enjoy playing.

Why am I wasting my time with that crap ?

Well, I'm retrogaming-addicted, Arcade, 8-bit computers, Amiga. My parents reluctantly bought me an Oric in 1984 and it was not bad but lacked serious arcade action. I had to wait until 1991 until I was able to buy an Amiga 500. That was great. And I remember a lot of excellent games.

For the games that I liked very much, I was very frustrated when I had explored all the game possibilities, and the main goal of remaking games is not re-doing things 100% the same (first: you cannot without the game code, and second: what's the point when every emulator does the job), but rather re-doing things 200% the same, with possibility of extending the games using a level editor. Now that's something new.

Game remakes by me

Supercars 3 - Status: Completed
Gods - Status: Completed
Bagman - Status: Completed
Magic Pockets - Status: first level playable.
Cadaver - Status: first level "wanderable".

Oric game remakes/conversions by me

HERE

Amiga-related stuff

HERE

My other work

O2EM launcher - a GUI frontend for the Odyssey emulator. I am not the original author but I took over to adapt to newer versions of O2EM and add nice stuff. This is the latest version. I cannot update the sourceforge versions for technical reasons (and also who cares about this program anymore?).
O2EM Odyssey/VideoPac Emulator for Nintendo DS
Portable FImp in C - A conversion of the 68000 version of the famous "Imploder" algorithm in C. Handy for remakes/editors such as Exl's Superfrog level editor.
Level map writer - Generic tool to create map images from tiles & level map index file.

Some MP3 tunes I have composed/remixed/remade (contains 99% of private jokes)

It was a long time ago. My fellow classmates will hopefully like it.

Judges Of The Night - Lame intro song for a short-lived volley-ball team
Jean-Claude Ripoll - Homage to the former ENSAE/ISAE head
L'amphi de nazes - borrowing a famous Jonasz tune, with nerdy lyrics, 100% private joke. Avoid.
Je danse le MIA - wanabee a faithful remake of this excellent IAM tune

The movie "Blood Debt" (1995) at least transfered to DivX !!!

A huge improvement over the crappy VHS copy that I have. I've started sub-titling it but I miss the motivation because noone cares

Anyway, download the movie and cut scenes here

Useful software

Free & legal software that I use and like very much

Links

What's the use? First, the links will be outdated in a short time, and second why should I waste my energy trying to maintain a working list when you can Google ? (ok so there's at least one link here, I bet you didn't know it)

Contact

Contact me at:

This webpage is under construction