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It's cool to see your interest in running Linux on highly constrained systems. I might check out eXe Linux, since I spent a bit of time messing with Linux on my Cr-48 Chromebook, w…

Wow, what a delightful surprise! I'm a huge NetHack fan and have been waiting a long time for the official 3.7 release before switching over to it. I've been a 3.6 holdout, haha. A…

I wrote that L-cancel training code! Funny to see it come up out of nowhere. I too have always adored the Wii and its moddability. It'd be my go-to choice if I someday ever get the…

I see CarPlay (and CarPlay Ultra) as being for auto makers who don't want to put in all the effort to design and drive a good proprietary UI (CarPlay is a godsend in cars with crap…

From the last interview question in the article (pertaining to Arm): > We don’t really try to steer the market one direction or another; we just want to make sure that good options…

I can't believe these "smooth scrolling" scripts are still a thing. I was wondering why I was having a hard time scrolling the page on my phone, when I got to my PC and felt the re…

The first thing I noticed when seeing the SGI demos for the first time is that the menu UI is strikingly similar to the file select screen in Super Mario 64. Of course, Nintendo 64…

This article inspired me to check if Google has something similar for Google Workspace, which also just increased its price due to a bunch of Gemini integration I have absolutely n…

The CRT effect is immediately what stood out to me as well. It's the first time I've ever looked at a "CRT filter" that really gave my eyes the sensation of looking at a real CRT, …

Let's be real, Commodore has no one to blame but themselves for squandering their 5-year lead in hardware and OS. They were carried hard by the passion of their engineers, but irre…

I think some of this stuff isn't the responsibility of HTML. If HTML already has a full autocomplete spec, isn't it the fault of browsers/extensions/OS if the implementation is bro…

> There's also BTST #0,xx but it wastefully needs an extra 16 bits say which bit to test (even though the bit can only be from 0-31) That reminds me, it's theoretically fastest to …

That is true, I deliberately set up an isolated scenario to do these fun theoretical tests. It actually took some effort to stop the compiler from being too smart, because it would…

The interesting thing about testing values (like testing whether a number is even) is that at the assembly level, the CPU sets flags when the arithmetic happens, rather than needin…

I'm thrilled to see someone bring up Magicore! I don't do much publicity because it's been a quiet 2 years working on the game engine, without much flashy content to show for it. B…

> For all its flaws, it's the only service that reflects society's pulse in real-time. Is there such thing as accurately "reflecting society's pulse" within individual posts? Sure,…

Others in the thread have already made good points about Yuzu, but to add to the discussion: A lot of people think Nintendo is indiscriminate with their takedowns, but they typical…

I wasn't really on MySpace either, but I think it's exactly where your complaint lies that drew such a huge demographic. When I think MySpace, I think teenagers who are still disco…

I've spent most of my life as a hardcore tech enthusiast, always excited for the latest and greatest. But in this era of homogeneous Electron apps, and now LLMs, I can't find much …

The Steam releases of original Myst and Riven are the ScummVM ports, which work great on modern hardware. You'll find it as "Myst: Masterpiece Edition". Masterpiece Edition is effe…

As of now, I'm loading all the level assets in advance, but many of the assets in RAM stay compressed until they're needed, such as backgrounds and fullscreen graphics. I decompres…

I'm working on a game for Amiga (another 68k-based platform) and settled on ZX0 to decompress assets on the fly: https://github.com/einar-saukas/ZX0 I was originally using LZ4, but…

I use the same trick today! I have some "benchmark" macros set up which forcibly override the background color when I want to see where in the frame my operations are taking place.…

I was born in 1991, and we had an Amiga 1000 before eventually upgrading to a PC running Windows 95. So, I was always nostalgic for Amiga, but my passion grew once I began to under…