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The game has six different strip-reveal backgrounds, and they’re stored in a custom RLE-based compressed format.

Let’s look at how the decoder unpacks them into the ZX Spectrum’s screen bitmap.

Samantha Fox Strip Poker has a surprisingly accomplished two-channel music player for a card game — especially one that’s only really remembered for other reasons.

Let’s take a look at how it works!

Samantha Fox Strip Poker. Yes, really. I didn’t buy this one - it appeared on a magazine cover tape somewhere along the way, as these things tended to do in the 80’s.

The game itself is a surprisingly competent five-card draw poker engine with a strip-reveal gimmick bolted on. Under the hood there’s actually some interesting code worth poking around in.

Pheenix contains a surprising number of visual elements from the arcade game, especially given it’s only a 16K game.

This article looks at the “transition effect” which I guess is a little like the ship going into hyperspace to move onto the next phase/ level.

I did a thing!

I don’t tend to do talks anymore, and certainly never about Skoolkit and disassembly! So this is very much a first for me.