Reversing the “nokelock” BLE padlock
I’ve been reversing a couple of cheap Chinesium “smart” padlocks that unlock via Bluetooth instead of with a key. My intent is for a talk and a couple of posts on how “smartness” doesn’t stop…
Author: dave
Reversing the Recreated ZX Spectrum Part 1
A couple of years back I kickstarted the “Recreated ZX Spectrum”, a creation by Elite who basically made a Spectrum case and turned it into a Bluetooth/USB keyboard with an Android/iOS app to interface and…
Reversing the ZX Vega: The Emulator
If you’ve been reading this, I’ve been (over a couple of years) messing around with my ZX Vega to try and work out how it works. You can read part one, where I look at…
Reversing the ZX Vega: Hardware
It’s been a while since I wrote part one. I promised I’d have a look at the hardware on the Vega. Here is the front of the board: And the rear: As can be seen…
Reversing Robico’s Island of Xaan
Overview This is a basic description of a reverse engineer of Robico’s first text adventure: Island of Xaan. Although it is one of their weakest, it shows a number of trademark features of Robico’s adventures:…
Reversing the ZX Vega: Firmware
Introduction A while back I got a ZX Vega for the LOLs and trying to remember what the Spectrum was like. Of course, I didn’t need to remember: I have quite a few in watertight boxes…