Category Archives: Technology

Understanding the Dot Product in 3D Graphics

Posted on 04-Jan-2026 by Lee

I’ve read TONS of books, articles, online tutorials, etc. on 3D graphics because of my passion for understanding the 3D graphics pipeline (all the data structures and math that goes into taking 3D models and projecting them as a scene … Continue reading →

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Paganitzu PCX Library Files – Part 1

Posted on 01-Dec-2022 by Lee

According to https://moddingwiki.shikadi.net/wiki/Paganitzu, Paganitzu has three data files that are “PCX Library” files.  That same site has good information about the format of these PCX Library files (https://moddingwiki.shikadi.net/wiki/PCX_Library). Use this link to see all the posts in this “Reverse Engineering … Continue reading →

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Paganitzu Font Data

Posted on 30-Nov-2022 by Lee

It’s been a bit since I posted last.  Unfortunately, that seems to be normal for me.  I’ve made quite a bit of progress since last time.  I’ve figured out all the data files, written programs in C# for Windows that … Continue reading →

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Reverse Engineering Paganitzu

Posted on 02-Oct-2022 by Lee

One of my most enjoyable hobbies is reverse engineering old 1980s/90s DOS games.  This is very akin to an archeologist learning everything they can about a culture by examining dug up buildings, bones, artifacts, etc.  The original source code for … Continue reading →

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Building DOSBox

Posted on 17-Sep-2022 by Lee

One of my favorite hobbies is reverse engineering 16-bit x86 DOS games. Being able to step through their code as they’re running and set breakpoints is a majorly useful tool. I was using DOSBox and the normal DOS DEBUG command … Continue reading →

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Sorting C# Enum.GetValue(…)

Posted on 28-Aug-2012 by Lee

This one caused me a bit of frustration.  Enum.GetValue(…) returns a non-generic Array.  I tried all manner of ways to sort it (short of writing my own quicksort).  If I typed Enum.GetValue(…).OrderBy, there is no OrderBy.

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The 32-bit version of Visual Studio Remote Debugging Monitor (MSVSMON.EXE) cannot be used to debug 64-bit processes …

Posted on 01-Feb-2012 by Lee

I’ve gotten used to manually starting IISExpress instead of using [F5] in Visual Studio 2010 to start a debugging session. Whenever I need to do server-side debugging, I manually attach Visual Studio’s debugger to the IISExpress.exe process

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XAML Tags and .NET Types

Posted on 17-Oct-2010 by Lee

One concept I had to get my brain wrapped around when learning WPF was the tight relationship XAML tags and .NET types had.  I’ve done a lot of desktop development in the past (GDI/GDI32, User32, WinForms …), but I’ve done … Continue reading →

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