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It’s a Spectrum. You’re going to do a HALT to sync with the start of the frame and then cycle count to prevent tearing. You can disable interrupts if you know how long you have to …

And there’s still mercury contamination from the gold rush in San Jose.

If I remember from poking around at the 16 bit version in that timeframe (1.52?) there was still an option to generate P-code and (this is now nearly thirty years ago) that was use…

Did you ever work on the cross edition that would compile Windows apps for the Mac? I think that was a version 4 fork that never got another version.

After Visual C++ 6. They broke a lot of the C++ IDE features and they weren’t as good as the prior versions (dialog editor etc) so for a long time we preferred staying on 6. I thin…

And then there’s the apex sex in The Player Of Games. I think at least Excession has one of the protagonists transition at the end of the novel.

He wrote Programming Windows 3.1 which was the classic reference for Windows programming in the 90s and just known as ‘Petzold’. All Win16 and C. The managed languages are much lat…

ClearCase?

You can print from iOS to printers that support AirPrint. No drivers needed, but the printer needs to support the AirPrint protocol.

I seem to remember on one of the special features on the DVDs that they needed to change to a lighter more comic style with Moore because of the reaction to the Vietnam War.

Garmin has incident detection and will send a message within fifteen seconds unless you cancel.

It’s not only that but it’s also that drivers could ship custom property pages in an accompanying DLL. All using property page / dialog box classic Win32 technology. So unless you …

Google TV for two completely different products. The initial one was an OS on Sony / Logitech devices that came out in 2010.

There is SourceLink where you can get the mapping into the pdb files: https://github.com/dotnet/sourcelink

Good luck getting that through a regulated company’s Quality Management System or their legal department. Way too much business risk and the last thing you want is a yellow or red …

But Apple doesn’t have the industrial and commercial uses that Linux and Windows have. Where you can’t suddenly switch out to a new architecture without massive amounts of validati…

Look at what Cellares is doing. Building a manufacturing cell called the shuttle.

Along with the reasons others have mentioned, it would also bypass any filter driver in the file system stack (Windows has the concept of a stack of filter drivers that can sit in …

There was some game (and I think a program in a book) where the border color would be changed at a specific scan line to get a horizon that would span the entire screen. I pretty m…

Cycle counting was key on the Spectrum - for obvious things like the tape load routines but also for advanced techniques like the ‘Rainbow processor’ - updating the attribute bytes…

That’s great! Back in the day I’d have to take a snapshot with my +D and then disassemble parts of it and print them on my dot matrix printer. At least the HiSoft Devpac Mons debug…

But you would use unbuffered writes if you really cared. Otherwise there’s nothing actionable that can be done by the application unless there was some kind of signal or callback /…

There is something like a 171 clock cycle delay in the regular tape loaded routine between looking for edge transitions in the audio signal. You just break your program up into pie…

It’s your brain. You could always do that in ZX Basic

It didn’t used to be this way. Books would ship in a tight fitting corrugated cardboard package that would protect them. I suspect it was some kind of custom packing machine that w…