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> All no$gba program code, both emulation and user interface, is all hand-crafted and pure assembler code. https://problemkaputt.de/gba-dev.htm

I think it is more likely that the "amazing" things, as described, will become mundane, thus shifting the definition of what becomes interesting or noteworthy. Even then, I believe…

Does it being a creative transformation rob the derivative work status? Personally, I'd liken the process of decompilation to that of translating a book from one language to anothe…

For whatever it's worth, the one resource I recall for DS homebrew dev with Rust is https://github.com/SeleDreams/libnds-rs , but it hasn't been maintained in a while.

For the sake of public record, I would like to state that I was doing nothing "behind the scenes". My part of the conversation in question is public - I was pinged as a gbdev Disco…

It is not possible to create a license that would satisfy the Free Software Foundation's "four freedoms" while also solving the issues many of those vendors have with the AGPL. At …

We already know what the main remaining issue is - LLVM-MOS's register allocator is far from optimal for the 6502 architecture. mysterymath is slowly working on what may become a m…

Here's a benchmark of all modern 6502 C compilers: https://thred.github.io/c-bench-64/ - do note that binary sizes also include the size of the standard libraries, which means it i…

> it creates a huge disincentive to those who want to create open platforms since it is going to be nearly impossible for them to get any traction when they are up against jailbrok…

> Thing is, GPL requires you to explicitly allow that behavior, so HBC can't use GPL software. Couldn't, not at the time. HBC has been open-sourced some time ago, sans DRM, as the …

IIRC, at least a few years ago, Mumfrey had a tendency to develop Mixin in private and only push the commit backlog for releases, leading to periods of time where no activity was p…

Doe it literally check for the specific solution? Writing to = append(to, ctrl) which is functionally equivalent and, in my personal opinion, with clearer intent (ctrl = 0 at that …

The Linux kernel did not even compile on most non-GCC compilers (like LLVM) as recently as a few years ago: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Clang-Kernel-2018 Therefore, for the Linux…

The key words are "optimized" and "OpenGL 4.6 with Zink". "Functional" and "OpenGL 2.1" is a different story, and the same trustworthy source said in https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asa…

Yes, the Apple laptops need a whole host of proprietary blobs for bringup and firmware.

For me personally, there's a few reasons: 1. It's a kind of code golf - or rather, it's about seeing how much one can squeeze out of a highly limited and fixed platform. Writing th…

For me at least, an AMD/Intel desktop box plus its multi-year power bill still is likely to come out cheaper than a comparable Apple desktop or high-end laptop plus its multi-year …

The only world in which fair product reviews lead to no product review units whatsoever is one in which no company ever actually considers their own product to be of quality. Ultim…

3DMM was a lucky one, because Microsoft and Foone managed to get sign-offs from the rightsholders of third-party code utilized. Not even Windows 1.0x, 2.0x, or 3.x got open-sourced…

If $30k is at stake, it might be better to spend a little bit more money and ask a professional lawyer.

Drastic had its own, recently open-sourced, reimplementation of the BIOS which claimed to be clean-room.

Regarding image compression, have you considered using jpegrescan on top of mogrify resizing? In my experience, it can shave off a few percent losslessly. https://github.com/kud/jp…