Howard Price

#Amiga reverse engineering tools: IRA, MonAm, Ghidra, and the art of machine code - great article by @AmigamagazineGA generationamiga.com/2026/02/03/ami… (and not forgetting the excellent AiraForce by @howprice which is my go-to tool!) #CommodoreAmiga #ReverseEngineering

@stevegillott @AmigamagazineGA Aira Force is really just an #imgui wrapper for ira for modern OSes. Hoping to get another release out before too long.

@github Please spend a few dollars on fixing basic features such as being able to move the cursor while editing issue descriptions, instead of billions on AI.

@ocornut I know that feeling. Picking apart changes and a page of half-finished half-related tasks. Great when it all starts to fall into place though.

Been having one of those week where I initially wanted to implement A, but had to do B before, then C before B, etc. I'm currently digging myself into a yak-shaving hole so deep my best hope to reach A seems to be through a yak-shaving overflow.

Funding: if your mid/large business uses Dear ImGui - and maybe you are approaching end of year budget/planning - please consider reaching out (PM/email) so I can help you help Dear ImGui !

Here is L-Packer, my new Atari & Amiga executable compressor! Optimized for 64K-style demos, it balances high compression ratios with efficient decompression. Feedback and testing are welcome! More details here github.com/arnaud-carre/L… #demoscene #amiga #atari

@github mobile app survey questions are completely biased towards Copilot despite the app lacking basic essential features such as configurable tab size in src view (8 default on tiny mobile screens is ridiculous) and functional milestone view (who would want to plan on the go?).

Very happy that @ocornut joined for an episode! We've just wrapped our chat :) Every couple of minutes Omar drops a nugget of knowledge that comes from 12 years of Dear ImGUI work - it's awesome! Should be out in couple of weeks!

My little cinematic platformer LUNARK is now 65% off on Steam! ❤️ store.steampowered.com/app/1050370/LU…

Rendering without the CPU. Impossible.

Only a few minutes to go kickstarter.com/projects/spect…

I made a game for the #zxspectrum. Again :) This is the first-ever 3D platformer for the Spectrum, featuring mind-blowing labyrinths and logical puzzles. The game has 6 unique levels, cool gameplay mechanics, and excellent responsive controls. Please vote! yrgb.org

Funded in about 7 mins and 10 seconds! Next fans are just awesome! Thank you!!!! kickstarter.com/projects/spect…

I'm having a chat with @PixelCNinja tonight from 9PM. Come hang out.. youtube.com/live/0zu378A6V…

I talked to @wookash_podcast about some low level programing, C++, graphics, 3D, shadertoy, VR and many other (sometimes rabdom) things: youtu.be/F1ax1iJTHFs?fe…

@ocornut I feel your pain. I just can't get used to macOS. Even Finder and switching windows confuses me. I hope to get the opportunity to sit next to a Mac lover at some point and watch and learn. Great news in DPI front though!

Working on DPI stuff means I need to learn using a Mac… and now I am learning how to use VS Code *and* cmake just to get a bearable workflow. It’s all very tedious & painful right now, but I suppose I could look forward and consider someday using a Mac as my main laptop.

New blog post! "Measuring acceleration structures", in which we will compare BVH costs on various GPU architectures and drivers and attempt to understand the details enough on AMD hardware to make sense of the numbers! Retweets appreciated :) Link in reply because algorithm.

@therealh0ffman @RetroRacing @paradeunavez codetapper.com/amiga/sprite-t…

@RetroRacing @paradeunavez I love them and hate them in equal measure.

FASTER for #Amiga OCS/ECS: Following much head scratching, the speedo in the bottom right has been switched from BoBs to hardware sprites, giving a nice performance boost and other cool benefits that I'll come to later. I did say this would be no lazy STE->Amiga conversion. 😄

@Richard6044392 Yes, it's always fascinating to discover how classic games work. Another World seems to do a lot of it's drawing to off screen buffers. It should be possible to find these in real time in the memory viewer (visualiser) window.

Looking great. In the Another World video you toggle Blitter Fill and the screen doesn't seem to get updated until you go two screens away. That's due to how the game caches backgrounds presumably? youtu.be/2H6l_wrfTDY?t=… It's interesting to see all these new reverse engineering oriented emulators (8 bit analysers, aira force, ...) popping up in the last couple of years. It seems like a concept that took this long to eventuate.

I am very pleased to release Aira Force 0.9.2 Now emulates blitter fill mode, which is used by many more demos than games it seems! Also fixes lots of gnarly Amiga timing bugs. howprice.itch.io/aira-force/dev… youtu.be/2H6l_wrfTDY #Amiga #Emulator #Debugger #Disassembler #imgui