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Pretty sure water was just a teleporter? You may be thinking about the mirror effect? I think that was a kind of a portal effect. You had to make a large empty section behind each …

I had to see an eye doctor at the hospital when I was ~7 and I got to do some exercises, but I never learned to cross my eyes, and then it was like it probably wasn't very importan…

Sweden had a series of disasters like that in recent years. A few months ago one region tried to switch from their old healthcare system to something delivered by Oracle, but quick…

I never bought that excuse for walled-garden consoles, since home computer games continued to do just fine after 1983 without locking down platforms.

The java 4k contest was fun (make a java applet game that is at most a 4096 bytes JAR, including all assets the game needs). Unfortunately I only discovered it shortly before it sh…

I never was a big fan of Lua and that was something that kept me from looking closer at Löve, but a few months ago I discovered fennel (Lisp-like that transpiles to Lua) and that y…

Yes, https://www.love2d.org/ has links to both iOS and Android SDKs. For Android you can also install the stand-alone LÖVE Loader app that can open .love files to play. Some games …

I am not sure in what way the state described is immutable at all? It just seems like mutable state hidden behind some access methods?

If I understand the distinction correctly, I run llamafile as a backend. I start it with the filename of a model on the command-line (might need a -M flag or something) and it will…

I have a somewhat common firstname.lastname@gmail.com and others with the same name use it pretty often. Surprisingly often it seems as if sites allow accounts to exist without ema…

My personal observation, even if this is similar to what others already said: I found that in some (two? three?) big Java-based projects I worked on, where almost everyone used a I…

There is a mention of the Glitch assets, but I did not see any link? Looks like this is a good place to look: https://archive.org/details/glitch-public-domain-game-art I remember d…

That is why I mentioned DOSBox. That is just one possibility, but probably currently the best one. DOS(Box) remains a fixed, known, target. Windows, even if it has impressive backw…

Alley Cat was one of very few old PC games that ran at a fixed speed, making it playable on higher end later PCs without having to use tools like MOSLO. Too bad the new version was…

I searched boardgamegeek for games published in 1929. The only thing that grabbed my attention was Shambattle, the first published American miniatures wargame. It is an early, poss…

Two 16-bit numbers could be combined to form a 32-bit pointer. Used as segment<<4+offset they just form a 20-bit pointer. Feels like wasting 12 bits to me.

To keep things simple maybe just handle that using emulator save-states instead?

A bit confused by the goto and skip instructions. Why multiply by 4 in one, but not the other? Sounds reasonable that both keep the target address a valid instruction pointer (alig…

I read an article about humanoid robots yesterday and it scared me that it seemed like the expectation is still that the robot will be 24/7 online and "thinking" using some cloud b…

Ctrl-w and ctrl-u in a default emacs do not even do the same things as in readline. C-w is (usually) kill-region (similar to what most editors call "cut"). C-u is universal-argumen…

There is a workaround I saw used by wcd, a tool for changing directories. To install it you have to add a wrapper function in your shell that executes the actual wcd binary, and af…