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kroc, to DOOM
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Why yes, you should be playing The Golden Souls 1 & 2! https://batandy.itch.io/goldensouls #doom #mario

A doom level set inside Van Gogh's Starry Night, part of a DOOM mod called "The Golden Souls"

kroc, (edited )
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@dimillian Imagine DOOM meets Super Mario World / Mario 64 but there's actually decent jump mechanics [for DOOM]. All the levels are crazy creative!

kroc, to javascript
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#JavaScript was a mistake: https://tonsky.me/blog/js-bloat/

kroc,
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@svrjs I fear that a generation of web-devs have been raised that literally don't know how to do things without JavaScript and the bloat will never stop just as with app RAM bloat

kroc,
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@svrjs Mine has never had any JS, was using HTML5 in 2008, and has no DIVs, SPANs or CSS IDs https://camendesign.com

gameboycamera, to random
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I don’t need a Vaio P, I don’t need a Vaio P, I don’t need a Vaio P, I don’t...

kroc,
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@gameboycamera Hurts every time seeing what a waste the P-series was. It was barely usable on XP (Japan) and utterly unusable on Vista(!). Too many proprietary hardware gubbins means they're hell to get working and getting acceptable performance is insurmountable :(

kroc, to Slovakia
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Less than 12K views! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-d-W_v34Ao There's so much non-English music being missed out on

foone, to random
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Do you have several/all ascii codepoints memorized or are you a normal person?

kroc,
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@foone I used to have a number of ALT codes down pat, does that count?

kroc, to programming
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TODO: Invent a language where the global namespace is shared by EVERYONE

kroc, to Frieren
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was incredible; I didn't think it was possible to create a series that set its own pace in this day and age. Now to catch up on Shield Hero season 3, which I can only compare to having a clown try warm up the crowd at a funeral for someone who died in a horrific car accident.

kroc, to random
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Turn-based VATS-inspired basketball game. Every pass & shot can be carefully analysed and planned beforehand

olimex, to retrogaming
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Guess what is this new AgonLight2 add-on board? Wrong answers only!

kroc,
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@olimex Flux capacitor

NanoRaptor, to random
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Power Macintosh G3 Orb.

kroc,
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@NanoRaptor The entire computer acted as the mouse, one less cable!

thelastpsion, to random
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If I want to have any hope of learning to write #EPOC16 device drivers in the future, I'm going to need to learn x86 (specifically 8086 and NEC V30) assembly.

That is DEFINITELY not a Today Problem. It's not even a This Year Problem.

#Psion

kroc,
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@thelastpsion If we consider an alternative universe is forked off at every decision, then we are in the reality where given every choice Intel made in the design of x86, they made the worst one.

kroc,
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@bread80 @thelastpsion A company of too many hardware engineers and not enough software ones; if they weren't creating over-engineered designs that should have left behaviour to software (OOP in hardware!) they were making awkward and broken software interfaces (ISA)

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“as fast as hand rolled assembly” oh so slower that c then?

ducks

kroc,
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@jacqueline We should never have ventured beyond 8-bit computing, we could have all been gods

kroc, to random
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That’s a nice general-purpose computer you got there, would be a shame if it were to turn into an appliance where you can’t change the firmware

thelastpsion, to random
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Idle thought today re :

I wonder if it's worth making a little interface using (the -compatible library that comes with ) to display information about OO category (class definition) files?

Yes, I realise this is feature creep. But currently I'm outputting a lot of information to the terminal that the original CTRAN.EXE doesn't do. How much do I leave in as a "verbose" option, and how much to I move to a shiny TUI?

Something for another time.

kroc,
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@thelastpsion You're getting well off track here, it won't get your closer to a working tool. Dump everything to stdout and use grep

NanoRaptor, to random
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Vantabeige.

kroc,
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@NanoRaptor Vantabeige is the only colour without a fixed wavelength -- it naturally drifts towards yellow over time

gameboycamera, to random
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Exactly how am I supposed to fit a microwave in there?

kroc,
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@gameboycamera Instructions unclear, I am now trapped in a microwave — please send help

kroc, to ps4
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I love the idea that there are and GTX 1080 PC players holed up in their gamer rooms that haven’t noticed the events of the last 5 years go by, still rocking the latest games like nothing happened

kroc, to VintageOSes
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FINALLY. That was hell, but my Z80 assembler in Z80 now parses all Z80 opcodes (794!) and unlike other native assemblers it uses a static binary tree to match strings to opcodes so the lookup code is only 179 bytes and the table is 3'733 bytes! #z80 #v80 #cpm #retroprogramming #retrocomputing

kroc,
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Total size is currently 5K but it's not finished yet and the limit will be 8KB. Once complete I will rewrite it in itself meaning that you'll be able to assemble your projects using a native Z80/CPM assembler, even on PC via RunCPM, rather than massive PC-only toolchains. Z80 software that can't be built on real HW is useless!!

https://github.com/Kroc/v80

huwr, to random
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What’s the biggest object in the universe that’s named after a person? Is it one of the Magellanic Clouds?

kroc,
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@huwr Is this a setup for a Your Mum joke? 🤔

dosnostalgic, to random
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Last year someone finally (after 22 years!) made a patch to disable the broken adaptive scaling algorithm from Max Payne's starting difficulty setting. Playing the game with it is like playing it for the first time. Final levels are no longer an exercise in patience and savescumming. I recommend it highly.
https://www.moddb.com/games/max-payne/downloads/mpadaptivedifficultyremover

kroc,
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@dosnostalgic Oh man, that must have been hell. Max Payne was the last time I ever had a top-tier PC that could handle it maxed out -- PIII 1GHz and Voodoo5500. Of course, I've never been able to afford an up-to-date computer since and play games on a decade-long delay :P

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