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Star Control 2 (which takes many Starflight influences and also hired Greg Johnson) also used a lot of procedural generation. It has around 500 stars and 4000 worlds with minerals …

It goes beyond drawing inspiration. Greg Johnson, designer of Starflight, worked directly on Star Control 2.

> So instead of finding the NES next to your other PCs at the time, it was near the toy aisle? > Anyone who maybe was able to witness the revival able to comment with their anecdot…

LuaCocoa author here. While the objc_msgSend, objc_msgSend_stret, et. al, is an annoying detail, that isn't really the hard part. (And in fact, all the good bridges use libffi to d…

Swift on Android already exists. https://news.realm.io/news/swift-on-android/

Lua creator Roberto Ierusalimschy just gave a talk about "Functions in Lua" and starts his talk explaining that our (conversational) language has still not evolved a precise way to…

I wrote a little about the QFG1 vs. QFG5 inspirations in my blog entry. But here is a video of the QFG5 dryad dance which will probably start making it clear. https://www.youtube.c…

Carlos Icaza was my co-founder at Lanica (an Appcelerator backed company). He passed away this summer unexpectedly. I wasn’t able to find the right words to say at the time. But si…

Hi, I'm the presenter of the talk. I'm happy to try to answer any questions here. Thanks to try! Swift Tokyo for making this talk happen, and thanks to Realm for posting it. For mo…

Here's a picture of the infamous "Insert Buckazoid" :) http://www.midimusicadventures.com/queststudios/mt32-resourc...

A little more context for those who don't know the history of music in PC gaming, Sierra was the first major company to push hard on PC sound cards. They partnered up with Roland a…

I remember reading a story about how he picked the name "Roland". He wanted a company name that would be pronounced and spelled the same way in any language and country, and escape…

I first learned about Roland because of their partnership with Sierra On-Line and the MT-32. I remember Scott Murphy (Space Quest co-creator) told a story about the first time Rola…

And also iOS, Android, and a native web browser backend via Emscripten :) This was a proposal/prototype/intro video for IUP for iOS & Android for the IUP community. https://www.you…

I was either told or read (during the 2.x time frame) they were likely going to break @_silgen_name. @_cdecl was added to replace this (at least for my usage case), but I think it …

I believe it is the calling convention. When I use it, if you look at the symbols/name mangling, what gets generated looks like a C symbol. 000061b4 T BlurrrSwiftEntry vs. 000061cc…

I'm using @_cdecl on Android which doesn't have the the Obj-C runtime.

I’ll stick my neck out there and praise Lua. While I will admit the stack is tedious to work with, all C binding bridges I’ve worked with are tedious. (With exceptions of languages…