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dreadnaut

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    Comment #40891142

    When this first came out I retrieved the list of stations (around 20k, I think it was just a JSON file), converted it to .m3u8, and I have since used it as a playlist for WinAmp. I…

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    Comment #40353243

    The page "What does it take to take an old game apart? (Part 3)" mentions the 'restunts' project to reverse-engineer Stunts / 4d Sports Driving, and finding limited information abo…

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    Comment #38379251

    I've tried several launchers in the past decades, across operating systems. On Windows I'm a happy Keypirinha user — it's fast, uses a twentieth of the memory needed by its C# rela…

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    Comment #36621110

    https://dreadnaut.altervista.org - I can't believe I've been writing on it for 20 years now. I duplicated all content in English and Italian for a few years, then stuck to Italian …

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    Comment #34738637

    > My complaint is it should store each email in its own file Thunderbird supports one-file-per-email (Maildir) accounts, see settings. It's still marked as "experimental" because o…

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    Comment #33710183

    Péter/Zak originally started the competition in 2001. I started helping out in 2012, and took over the main duties a few years later. But indeed, that's Zak from the game! The favi…

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    Comment #33697268

    I run a 22yo online competition for a 32yo DOS racing game: Stunts, or 4D Sports Driving in some countries. The competition has spawned a long-lived community which includes revers…

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    Comment #31282655

    Don't panic: this deprecates `${var}`, which is a less-common syntax for interpolation, but leaves the most common ones, `$var` and `{$var}`, in place. It reduces the number of sli…

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    Comment #31031004

    "Everything in moderation, including moderation."

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    Comment #30243454

    > Does anyone have any examples of any other single-file app with a comprehensive interface like Files app that is entirely self-contained? phpLiteAdmin ( https://github.com/phpLit…

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    Comment #29712961

    No problem, thank you!

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    Comment #29712738

    Did you, by any chance, work on "Stunts" at Broderbund too? There's a reverse engineering effort around http://forum.stunts.hu/ that would dream to have a glimpse of the source cod…