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Drawing. I used to. Back at university and at the pub. Graduated almost a decade ago and had the one drink too many a while back. The soul's too broken to draw for now. The skill's…

I'm tinkering with a PlayStation homebrew (voxel space renderer) and development for fifth generation consoles has never been easier. Modern toolchains, programming languages, dev …

Everyone doesn't need to know SIMD. Mechanical sympathy is an important passive perk for software architects to cut down the number of reworks down the line, but I would rate bench…

I've actually went far in planning and acquiring gear for my apartment, though it's a low priority task for me. Turns out there are tons of stuff that sip power (set-up boxes, Ethe…

Careful, or at this rate you'll end up running Linux on the Sega Saturn's 68000.

Doesn't that message date back to a time that either predates or is almost concurrent with the introduction of x86 hardware-assisted virtualization? I wasn't around playing with VM…

Some of us work with industrial SoCs, with puny in-order Cortex-A7 cores and tiny L1/L2 caches. Sometimes, you really need to optimize for the hardware and micro-architecture you h…

The Sega Saturn might also qualify, as its sound subsystem has a 68000 with 512 KiB of RAM. Running Linux on it might be trickier though.

The making of is well worth a read: https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/09/q1k3-making-of

If I understand it correctly, it basically boils down to copying bits from the source to the destination, in order from the least significant bit to the most significant bit. It's …

I've received a couple of emails about ghidra-delinker-extension, but I would not limit this to only emails. I've also had numerous people contacting me through GitHub issues or Di…

I can't seem to find a list of supported hardware (or at least hardware which is supposed to work). Will it run on a UltraSPARC T2 server? I've got one collecting dust in the basem…

It's https://boricj.net and you should read it if you like software development and Doctor Frankenstein combined. (hint: I showcase Mad Max-driven software development on it)

Personally, a voxel space renderer for the PlayStation (Comanche terrain style rendering). In theory, it's really not suited for this because (at least back then) this was designed…

I'm only pointing out that ever since the French revolution, we have a rich history of regime change (and also of strikes and demonstrations). Some were due to external factors (li…

Probably because we have a well established history of regularly changing regimes. Since we overthrew royalty in 1789 we've had five republics, two empires, three monarchies and a …

Isn't the information in this already largely known and documented? There have been over 30 years of tinkering, reverse-engineering work and assembly programs on the (e)z80 TI grap…

I'm tinkering with a voxel space rendering tech demo as a PlayStation homebrew. After one weekend of work I'm getting decent results (like, 10-15 FPS) and I've yet to use the DMA, …

> The Dassault family has very close ties with the French government and defense industry. There's no doubt in my mind that if the French government gets serious and says "Jump!" D…

If you want a good horror bedtime story, you can peek at OpenBIOS within the pcsx-redux tree: https://github.com/grumpycoders/pcsx-redux/tree/main/src/mip... The commentary section…

The days of nationalized French defense companies and state arsenals have been over for quite a while. Assuming I didn't make any mistakes: GIAT was privatized, then renamed to Nex…

When you are interacting with the government for official business, what purpose is there to hide one's identity? You can't exactly not fill in your name in your tax return. For th…

For France it certainly is, probably because of our stubborn focus on strategic autonomy. For example, offshoring passport printing to me sounds like a great opportunity for identi…

As a French person, I'm confused as to why DigiD is not a government-run project like FranceConnect is. I'm even more bewildered that an American company thought that they could ta…

You could do that on PC too, if you mmap() one given block of memory at multiple locations. I think that's how PS1 emulators handle mirroring (it's been a long time since I took a …