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388h is indeed the original adlib base port. Most sound cards that feature an OPL chip will also monitor reads/writes to this port for backward compatibility with older software, b…

Coincidentally I'm currently working on a Sound Blaster driver for some DOS homebrew, so here's quick rundown of how an SB is programmed and what its resources do: Base Address: Th…

I'm glad somebody mentioned this book, I was just about to reply with it myself. I'd summarize the core premise as anxiety and depression, while some people are more naturally pred…

Similar experience, including multiple trips to the ER fearing my imminent death. Still waiting for the bill on the latest one. The first time it happened I had dialed 911 on my ph…

This website is such a blast from the past. I remember using DJGPP in highschool in 1998 and it still looks just the same. Glad to hear that it's still being used and updated; mayb…

Is DJGPP still maintained? All I could seem to find are very old versions, unless the project has moved somewhere that I couldn't find.

There's an interesting book on this topic of individualized philanthropy by the powerful and its effect of masking the deeper systemic problems. It's called "Winners Take All" by A…

Also from the Seattle area and this hits home as well, except I am a bit agoraphobic and need to build up courage to go out. I used to push myself to go to dev meetups and such, ev…

This is an insightful observation that I feel is worth unpacking further. I've had similar experience when attending interest-based meetups, which I thought would be an ideal place…

Thanks for the tip on the area. Not surprising that it would be seeing climbing costs; that's all too common these days. Increasing cost is a pretty significant problem all around.…

As a disabled person who's spent his entire life dependent on others for transportation basically anywhere, I'll confirm how badly I'd love to live in a place like that. (I underst…

On the contrary, I think perhaps the best thing for the preservation of the history of windows gaming is for windows to stop changing. A frozen or deprecated win32 API will give WI…

It's important to remember that anxiety and panic are neurochemical responses and can have strong physical and genetic components, they don't always need to have a psychological "c…

SQIII always felt a little short to me. SQV is probably my pick, but they're all great. There's also some great Space Quest games made by the community, such as Space Quest 0, Spac…

I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers those. For the longest time I thought only my brother and I had ever played them at all. Just a shame the series ended on a cliffhanger.…

I'm one of the authors of this PR, and yes, WebAudio's baffling lack of proper consecutive buffer queuing has been no small source of frustration. They seem to have put so much eff…