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If there's enough room, you could add special palette indexes that stay constant or diminish more slowly with distance. To give a glow effect for lights, torches, etc. I always app…

I have fond memories of Planet Quake and also Blues News (for the latest scoop). I remember it spawned a whole bunch of other planet sites. I think some of them became part of Game…

I found this article very informative. Thanks for writing it.

I like the idea but you could take it a step further and have just a core virtual machine that you could attach virtual (input/output) devices to. So then the canvas and audio woul…

I thought I remember reading that there is some relation (or inspiration) from an older X11 toolkit called xforms. Which might also be of interest to someone. I've been redoing som…

Also, allowing unquoted names.

I remember sometime back in the 90's buying a used copy of Visual C++ 5.0 from some dude at the mall. It felt kinda shady, like a drug deal was going down, but I turned out well an…

I thought I had gotten this (Descent 3) for free with a graphics card I purchased, but Freespace was what I was thinking of, though it might have been Freespace 2. The graphics car…

Here's an older HN link from an MIT article. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39156463

"What is the evolutionary advantage of being able to match abstract patterns?" This reminds me of something I read about the mind preferring patterns because patterns require less …

I has always assumed Program Manager's window decorations were inspired by Motif but apparently it was the other way around, regarding Presentation Manager; Program Manager's ances…

I just started reading a book called Almost A Miracle, about the War of Independence. It's really good, I haven't been able to put it down.

I'm perfectly fine with a 20+ year old Dell computer. It suits (most of) my needs, unless I need to build or compile even a medium sized project, then it's torturous. Admittedly, s…

There's also Hare [ https://harelang.org ] which I see mentioned on (rare) occasion. I think it uses a different backend than LLVM.

While I do appreciate historical accuracy, I find this news very disconcerting! And here I was hoarding all this salt, hoping for our return to the salt standard. :-( Well ya can't…

Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PWB/UNIX While looking at the old Unix Archives, it's easy to get the impression that Unix really is the ultimate de…

It's just like Blade Runner, where there's thousand ads everywhere, all trying to compete for the consumers attention. Now all we need is holographic ads that project from the scre…

You might want to check out FluidSynth if you don't mind a command line application. I don't think it has a graphical interface but it can run in the background, so you might be ab…

Four apples a day keeps the doctor away.

I've sworn for years that Hostess changed the Twinkie ingredients but no one seems to believe me. They tell me that my tastes have probably changed.

This is good to know. I usually stir the fresh grinds with a metal fork which seems help remove static charge. It seems like the static problem gets worse with darker roasts (in my…

Yes, that's what I wanted to do, change the CSS values (based on ids, I guess). I'm pretty sure I've heard of D3, I'll have to check it out. Thanks.

I just switched over to SVGs from bitmap images. I was using PNG images for different icons which worked fine until I had to upscale to higher resolutions. The SVGs work great and …

I have an older (cheapo) UPS that I just replaced the battery on, which is probably over 15 years old now. It was much easier than I thought. Coincidentally, right after I replaced…

This brings back some fond memories. I still have a copy of the book "Tips and Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus", though it's not in very decent condition. It has this ray trac…