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coldcity_again

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About coldcity_again

Currently building a fintech data processing platform, Vectrex games, and demoscene prods

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48677757

    In the most general terms, a procedurally generated world with permadeath. The term's inspired by Rogue[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(video_game)

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    Comment #48464936

    https://archive.ph/My7GF

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    Comment #48426044

    Just a ping to say that's done and waiting to be merged.

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    Comment #48426036

    Now done.

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    Comment #48415682

    Happy to PR. I'll do in 2 parts, as needs the platformio env as well as UART-aware serial init in adapters and terminal.

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    Comment #48412010

    There are 1300 commits. What is everyone smoking today?

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    Comment #48411958

    The snark in these comments! @geotp please don't be put off, this is great work. Found it in recent days and couldn't have been better timing for what I needed to do. I have it run…

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    Comment #48390508

    A great position to take. Strong opinions, weakly held.

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    Comment #48382594

    I love to see stuff like this. And an active Vectrex gamedev and PC/Amiga sizecoder I strongly agree with the sentiment!

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    Comment #48361262

    Thanks very much. I'd forgotten that these were Westmere generation! Experimenting anyway; at least the RAID controller is behaving, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has gone on cleanly.

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    Comment #48355529

    This is great work. I'd love if anyone knows how I might fare with an old Dell R710 with 2 x Xeon 5600 (12 cores total) and 96Gb of DDR3.

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    Comment #48265497

    Great to see how far this has come on. Brilliant work!

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    Comment #48265495

    Strongly disagree. Looks coded with love and fingers.

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    Comment #48265484

    Ahh THAT's what it was reminding me of. Thanks! CEP2 was great indeed.

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    Comment #48265479

    For a realtime-ish solution I wonder if you've seen Ninjam[1]? It used to be that most evenings one could find various populated rooms; the serverlist[2] shows that the infrastruct…

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    Comment #48180001

    This coherer also must be bumped between received sigs.

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    Comment #48125113

    are you familiar with the actual game Brogue[1]? 1: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/

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    Comment #48098703

    dBase was one of my first exposures to databases. As a largely penniless computer-obsessed kid in the late 80s/early 90s I was big into sending off for any freebies offered in the …

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    Comment #48095237

    I like that. And if poetry can be defined as succinct use of language (perhaps a dubious assertion), then code can be poetry.

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    Comment #48095171

    Yes, very much so. A ping is a request, a pong a response.

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    Comment #48022550

    I hoped for a moment this was a mouse pointer replacement that adds a tiny human character, who starts the day with energy and vigour... only to become more decrepit and worn out a…

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    Comment #47896329

    There are certain usage tracking anomalies that can be advantageous.

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    Comment #47896173

    It goes! Great, thank you!

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    Comment #47896110

    Nice writeup and great domain. I don't know Zola and don't know if this is a common template or a custom jobbie but it's lovely.