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There's a FMV player for the 8-bit Sega Master System ( https://github.com/bravesoftdz/tiler ,) which compresses to a fixed number of dynamically updated tiles. The codec in TFA an…

Well, it's "256 bytes of x86" (plus X KB of VESA bios) (plus Y KB of FM synth patches) (plus Z KB of microcode) (plus...)

Oof. The gamma on that screenshot. If you want to see what it's supposed to look like, copy the screenshot into GIMP, go into "Color, Levels" and in the "Input Levels" section, the…

Ad blockers typically have an option to select something to disable, like a single image URL.

The Sega Dreamcast online RPG "Phantasy Star Online" displayed the current time in beats.

The Galaksija computer used it's Z80 to help generate the video signal. I'm not sure how its implementation compares to your link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaksija_(computer…

What I use for my phone (Planet Computer Astro Slide) has a Psion 5-style physical keyboard built in.

As a kid, I remember the Windows version from being included on the disk that came with the book, "Windows Magic Tricks," published by Sybex. Years later, I was surprised to see th…

Wow, you're not kidding saying that it's cursed. I thought it would adapt a socket to the BGA pads, but it looks like the pins of the replacement CPU just sit naked on the interpos…

Weird coincidence, but I had to look through some old files backed up from the computer I was using 15+ years ago, and noticed it had C:\DeusEx sitting right there, with the SDK fi…

The headshot collision code in DX is broken as well. This is from memory from looking at the DX SDK years ago (+15 at least), but... The collision shape used for a character in DX …

I created a (currently not publicly released) driver for the 1998 Sega Dreamcast's video hardware from scratch. It supports additional features over the driver in the open source h…

Oh, yeah, I am. I forgot about that setting. Switching Standard allows the videos to work for me, while Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin are enabled.

I'm using Firefox 139.0.4 canonical-002 Snap on Xubuntu, and the videos don't play for me. Even when not using private browsing, even when I disable uBlock Origin, even when I disa…

Just a week? I have a USB smartwatch with a 1 year battery life, the Timex Data Link USB.

It not necessarily physical RAM. If you memmap large files, like maybe a large file from RAID or network share, you could still need that much virtual address space.

My favorite trick with was to nest them, with different, alternating directions. You could make the contents alternate between scrolling and stopping by setting the inner marquee t…

IIRC, Gödel, Escher, Bach discusses comparing chromosome/protein generation and computation.

Some of it, but I'd rather use real hardware.

Shenmue is one of my favorite games. I did a bunch of Ghidra reversing on the Dreamcast version last year, since I wanted to add improvements to it. Like adding bilinear filtering …

It seems like it should be possible to do the X async method without tearing. When updating the cursor position, check if line being output overlaps with the cursor. If it isn't, i…

Does Ken Shirriff have time to look at a 68030?

In 1992, you more options. Your friends could tell you for free, you could stumble on them yourself, or you could get them with a magazine or book (which you didn't necessarily hav…

I figured out how to fix Hydro Thunder's compatibility issues last year (it would very briefly change the pixel clock). You can either use a Codebreaker code to fix the game if you…