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In a fit of 90s nostalgia I’ve also been going back to software rendering, though I’m doing a hybrid of 2D style CLUT banks with a more modern binned triangle and barycentric techn…

Ditto the ST equivalent STOS. Amiga owning friends preferred Blitz BASIC though. Unfortunately, due to one Dijkstra quote about it, people tend to be quite snobbish about BASIC.

Blue needs to be paler, and the dot smaller ;-)

A subgroup of MAGMA, for owners of secret volcano lairs.

“Designed in California, for Californians” was too long.

Interesting. I was on PlayStation so I only heard about N64 dev at lunch. Factor5 were much closer to Nintendo than we were, and also known to be a bit good. Plus SDKs change over …

They’re called off ramps for a reason right?

Yes, 2nd party privileges.

Probably more accurate to say the custom microcode tools were not given to third party developers. From what I remember, you had to list the microcode used on your submission form,…

Why do they do it? To make money. How do they make money? Advertising. Designate them broadcasters and hold them to the same advertising standards.

Which, despite the VCR-like appearance, meant no faux wood detailing ;-)

I wish they’d bring back the original PlayStation logo though, not just on anniversary editions.

Their presumed lack of regression testing.

For big games, it’s a legal thing. Ever since the Hot Coffee debacle, we are not allowed to hide content, all of which has to be approved by legal.

I have been in the situation of standing outside an after-hours pick-up only window at a McDonald’s in the UK, able to talk to the staff, but unable to order because they only acce…

Or pasta as a cereal, in a bowl with milk.

In space, no-one can ... serve you warrants.

How long before a phrase is found that causes a predicted birthdate of 1970/01/01 ?

I'd imagine that at most [e: of their] stores the loss from theft is less than that of spoiled goods.

Can PowerToys remap it?

Sometimes it does seem like they’re just showing off how much data they’ve gathered on you.

It was a smash & grab.