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superfamicom
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About superfamicom
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Comment #46620544
https://eludevisibility.org/
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Comment #46317773
Super Fine Cuts, super low run custom "vinyl" records. I have been working on automating some processing but currently it is all manual. Had an overwhelming response as people are …
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Comment #45852341
Reminds me of the beautiful M+ fonts. https://mplusfonts.github.io/
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Comment #45570748
I grew up with CRTs and bought one at a retro game conference to put on my desk for some gaming. I had all but forgotten the deafening noise they make. The sound is hard to describ…
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Comment #43347283
Nice! Remarkably similar to my own PNG implementation. I don't think I have pushed up the encoding work I did but should. I would highly recommend anyone / everyone to write a pars…
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Comment #42934674
One important item was a custom OCR for the magazine scans, particularly those with text on a crazy background. This was discussed in a Patreon call but might also be discussed in …
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Comment #41972688
I signed up for the iOS beta and haven't used any of the writing tools, but the AI summary of texts or emails has been really nice for glancing at the phone and getting a glance, e…
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Comment #41659556
I run several sites but 2 of them tend to come up more in interviews and are all linked from my GitHub profile: https://sfc.fm - A website to listen to Super Nintendo music in the …
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Comment #41226903
Love this! I've been working on and running https://sfc.fm for about 7 years now so very similar interests! One thing I did notice was the in the SPC emulation, particularly in Sup…
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Comment #40116454
A similar thing happened with the Wolfenstein 3D port as well, where John Carmack gave Rebecca Heineman kudos for learning Japanese to read the patents to get the technical documen…
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Comment #39265660
We met on Tinder, both with "joke" profiles and neither of us seriously "playing the game". We ended up meeting and hitting it off. That was a decade ago and through COVID and ever…
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Comment #34549505
https://wiki.superfamicom.org/ A custom made wiki for documents and resources related to developing software (games) for the Super Nintendo / Super Famicom. Started in 2010 and sti…
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Comment #34386183
Shared previously in 2011 with some good discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2915537
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Comment #33626768
Right now Handmade Seattle is happening and has job booths specifically target low level programming, check out some of those companies https://handmade-seattle.com/
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Comment #32472378
On macOS this can be really useful, change the current terminal to the top most folder in Finder, do not recall where it came from: # Change to the Front Folder open in Finder func…
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Comment #30939865
Fun: https://sfc.fm/ Super Nintendo music emulated in the browser Emulation Blog: https://eludevisibility.org/ Mostly retro gaming prototype and other development hardware or other…
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Comment #30631209
It seems odd to go out of the way to not break older libraries like mootools by renaming built in functions only to now break all older parsers for hints that don't convert to any …
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Comment #30304441
I've been waiting on this for decades. I think the not being popular is helping out on this front. Also that it only ever costs money and never makes any really helps.
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Comment #30296899
I made a website to listen to Super Nintendo / Super Famicom music emulated in the browser. It was a great way to learn about Emscripten. Not sure what it would succeed at other th…
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Comment #30186537
There was a more recent Kickstarter that got my interest in the DOS style games restarted: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eniko/coding-history-3d...
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Comment #30093173
I'm sorry you had so many less than awesome teachers. I had an Algebra 1 teacher in middle school (United States) that really made a huge difference. The way she taught was so diff…
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Comment #30002699
The article seems more against manual dubbing and related difficulties than actual subtitles. The best subtitles I've seen included relevant context on cultural jokes I would have …
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Comment #29954103
If anyone else was curious and wanted to extract the samples to a usable format you can extract the contents with the repo linked in the article, convert with the other tool linked…
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Comment #29937069
I've developed a routine of walking to my local grocery store (Metropolitan Market) and getting a soup from their lunch counter / deli area and sipping on it while I work.
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Comment #29885863
I saw it, and enjoyed it for what it was. I will say that it very much felt like a few "Matrix" projects mashed-up together. I especially feel like the new characters could have st…