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Wrong composer, but I very recently managed to reverse engineer the music driver for Dune (or two out of four, at least). Here's the AdLib/SoundBlaster Pro version of the track Mor…

There's nothing "natural" about the Fahrenheit scale either. Fahrenheit took the Rømer scale, multiplied it by 4 and rounded it off a bit.

I've been slowly reverse engineering Cryo's Dune, coded by Rémi Herbulot in assembler, and the code is both brilliant and insane. Every function (to the extent that you can call it…

Music for Real Airports is one of the albums I put on to block out the world when I’m trying to get work done.

> Fortunately `f64::parse` accepts a strict superset of JSON number grammar Just for the sake of completeness, and not to imply that you don't know this, but the JSON spec doesn't …

On the other hand, about a decade ago I sent them a feature patch to support multipage tiff images and they sent me a Christmas card for a couple of years, so my impression of them…

I've stopped going to Ars Technica exactly because their cookie pop-up lets me know that Condé Nast wants to share my data with at least (according to the popup) 159 partners. They…

I've been entertaining myself lately by reverse engineering Cryo's Dune. I've got all graphics resources (videos, sprites, rooms) decoded, and I have recreated most of the intro (w…

There's no general purpose virtualization involved in ScummVM. It's a collection of game engines derived mostly from reverse engineering old games.

Most game engines have scripting languages built in.

ScummVM isn't an emulator, it's a collection of game engines based on reverse engineering and, on occasion, original source code donations.

Why do you feel the need to make up nonsense examples about moon-cheese to make the discussion relatable to "common men"? Do "common men" not understand sensible examples or do you…

TDC has stated to Danish media that they "recognize parts of the story" but have refused to elaborate. They haven't wished to refute any parts either. https://nyheder.tv2.dk/busine…

Ask reddit, they used to have an API.

Of course I'm talking about an idiomatic implementation, what else would I be talking about in this context? > The idiomatic way to represent a growable list in C is to make a list…

> For C and Go, there really is only one prevailing idiom on how to write code What’s the one idiomatic idiom in C for a growable list of items? Because I must have a seen a hundre…

There are no original compilers of SCUMM script available online as far as I know, although certainly Ron Gilbert and Aaron Giles and probably some other LucasArts programmers have…

You can study the reverse engineered code of a lot game engines. ScummVM is a massive collection of reverse engineered game engines, with the occasional donation of original game c…

ScummVM is not emulation, it's primarily a collection of reimplementations of game engines based on reverse engineering, with the occasional donation of original source code from t…

Bash? So VanJS will make the simple things easy and anything else nigh-on impossible?

The Wire even has a scene where Dominic West's character puts on a British accent. So a British man pretending to be an American pretending to be a Brit. The Wire is very good. It …

No representation without taxation :)

> "I am sinking!" Wat are you sinking about?

Aaron Giles was just lamenting the other day that the GDI ellipse drawing is apparently slightly lopsided, since he's trying to recreate it :) https://corteximplant.com/@aaronsgile…

It what I responded to was “an extremely on-point criticism” then so was my comment. The comment I responded to was phrased insultingly. There’s no way to start a critique with a p…