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Inspired by the o.g. classic cloud-to-butt.

I think at least some of the NOPs are due to this From my C transliteration: https://github.com/loadzero/si78c/blob/master/si78c.c // xref 0462 // // This code is using the shot co…

I have been down this road a little bit, applying the ideas from jockey to write and ship a deterministic HFT system, so I have some understanding of the difficulties here. We need…

Sounds a bit like jockey applied to qemu. Very neat indeed. https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/xyzhang/spring07/Papers/HPL-...

I use this in my `~/.jq` when I have a problem like this. def flat_json_keys: [leaf_paths as $path | {"key": $path | map(if (type=="string") then (if (test("([?:\\W]+)")) then "['"…

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After reading a few paragraphs and skipped to the end, I was almost certain it was going to end with "The Aristocrats!"

An interesting (if horrifying) exercise: $ ndisasm -b 64 /dev/urandom

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Ah, it does have a Microprose feel with the campaign, mission structure, and ejecting. Thanks for giving me permission to publish the port, and cheers for writing a game that has g…

As a postscript, For the web hackers out there - the lossless animation at the start of the article is not a or a gif. I got annoyed with how video codecs destroy pixel art, and ot…

I have not played it, but it does look to likely be an early inspiration for Chopper Commando. It would be nice if someone made a web version of 'Sopwith', too.

With these restoration projects, I am usually looking to maximise code portability and minimise dependencies, which for me means C. Sticking with Pascal would have been more authen…

I'm glad to see that others remember this fondly as well. The Pascal to C translation was a bit gruelling. I'd like to say that I'd written a fancy transpiler for it, but it came d…

Author here. I used to play this 2D flick-screen CGA DOS helicopter game as a kid, and I remember enjoying the simple presentation combined with what would now be called sandbox el…

Yes, it is coming from the ROM. Well spotted, it looks like you are right. A quick glance here https://computerarcheology.com/Arcade/SpaceInvaders/Code.htm... and here https://www.…

This is a good answer, and does reflect a good chunk of the reason for picking C. Dealing with such low level tasks is what the language was made for. The other big reason I used C…

It's a great technique. Using it, and a suitable test program, you can bootstrap an emulator core for something simple like a mips, z80 or 6502 in a day or two. I highly recommend …