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Comment #49220681
Once you control the hosts CPU it's game over for the guest. The best you can do is to fetch old PPC G4 Apple computers or Thinkpads.
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Comment #49212594
As a good example of what Common LIsp can do in real life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACL2 On more mundane software, both Maxima and FriCAS are good examples (Math CAS). On game…
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Comment #49212540
Good. Get either SBCL or CCL for it. As for the editor, on modern 64 bit machines, trying setting up either Mine or Lem. On legacy 32 bit ones, Emacs+Slime+SBCL/CCL.
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Comment #49198004
Also I'd love an Alan Wake PSX demake with the Resident Evil portview engine/graphics (easier, it has a WIP port for Scummvm) or the Parasite Eve one, which are really close. PE 1 …
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Comment #49197964
You can map this syntax to a Lisp (be Common Lisp or Scheme) with ease. Macros will do the 90% of the job for this. There's some Common Lisp package to code for the web: https://gi…
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Comment #49195255
Not with Fdroid's release.
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Comment #49195247
MAME and Proton are not the same at all. You can reuse Wine/Proton libraries even on Windows.
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Comment #49188527
Pattern matching and replacing can be Turing Complete, from sed to rewriting languages. So it's just a matter of combinatorics. https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/rewriting.html
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Comment #49188473
Thanks to Martin Gardner's books back in the day we had genious hackers doing just that, recreative programming... until it guided our lifes: GNU/Linux, GNU itself, GNU Emacs, the …
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Comment #49168268
Also the author forgot Cataclsym DDA:Bright Nights. Contrary to the former CDDA, here you have a proper ending. If you like something like a blend between a 2D Minecraft, object cr…
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Comment #49168160
Get Shadowrun 2058 for the Genesis/MegaDrive version ROM plus an IPS patcher and enjoy a much better gameplay experience (and balancing). On Deus Ex (the first one) installing GMDX…
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Comment #49165749
Merchants, sheperds, peasants and the like travelled for sure to nearby towns to sell their goods.
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Comment #49160638
That would be cool... in 2001. After emulation and such, I had more interest on emulating old and weird hardware such as the WonderSwan, Pokémon MIni and Neo Geo Pocket.
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Comment #49151862
COBOL is not about the language, it's about the whole environment in the mainframe. LLM fanboys won't understand this. You need something like a mainframe with a 99.99% uptime no m…
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Comment #49151740
>cultural stereotypes. Again, check HAKMEM from ITS/Maclisp/PDP10's (The OS from Richard Stallman took all the ideas for GNU Emacs, the GPL license, the free software movemement an…
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Comment #49151715
FreeBSD is not GPL and in that era FreeBSD was almot the low-level Mac OS X testground for ex-FreeBSD developers working for Apple.
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Comment #49146086
Install emacs with gnuplot and run M-x calc.
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Comment #49111210
FreeTube can.
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Comment #49108871
Also they are easier to clean in a bathroom/kitchen.
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Comment #49107857
You forgot about HAKMEM under PDP10 assembly/ITS/MacLisp/Macsyma (these three/four ovelapped)
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Comment #49104418
I forgot about Oni, I might play it again.
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Comment #49104382
I know both CL and Scheme, thanks. And both philosophies overlap a lot. Heck, there's an Scheme interpreter in PAIP as en exercise... I'd woudn't consider SICP negative, the same w…
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Comment #49104378
I mean, both Scheme and CL have good libraries and a set of standards.
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Comment #49103712
> Lisp culture genuinely prizes getting-shit-done attitude. SICP tells me otherwise.
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Comment #49103692
You can with Guix, just save your config in a new deployment for a new boot.