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How much is yours, and how much is the LLM's?
This experiment was a guidance experiment for me with Fable. Heavy spec and planning architecturally and UX, and strictly no JS frameworks or dependencies.
I do these kind of experiments with new models, and Fable has been the most successful so far for capturing the intended UX and feel per spec.
holy gorilla! i think QBasic Gorillas is the first graphics game i have memory of playing as a child. i remember attempting to read the code as a kid and being wildly confused by it. thanks for the brief trip down memory lane.
Opening up the QBasic source code was eye opening for me: that computers weren't the realm of hackers typing incomprehensible text on TV and swapping floppy disks, but something that could start to make sense. My TRS-80 came next, and, for me, the rest was history.
Good memories. I wonder what the memories will be for kids right now in the age of LLMs.
As somebody who grew up in the era of MS-DOS and QBASIC - it's pretty amusing to see two AI-assisted GORILLA.BAS web games in the past week. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48856350 Can also play the original as well online https://classicreload.com/play/qbasic-gorillas.html Feedback - the wind/round text should NOT be placed over buildings because.... one of the buildings is gray thus making it almost impossibl…
As somebody who grew up in the era of MS-DOS and QBASIC - it's pretty amusing to see two AI-assisted GORILLA.BAS web games in the past week. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48856350 Can also play the original as well online https://classicreload.com/play/qbasic-gorillas.html Feedback - the wind/round text should NOT be placed over buildings because.... one of the buildings is gray thus making it almost impossibl…
I don't know if the poster changed the filter after reading your comment, but the filter that is there now looks great to my eyes.
As somebody who grew up in the era of MS-DOS and QBASIC - it's pretty amusing to see two AI-assisted GORILLA.BAS web games in the past week. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48856350 Can also play the original as well online https://classicreload.com/play/qbasic-gorillas.html Feedback - the wind/round text should NOT be placed over buildings because.... one of the buildings is gray thus making it almost impossibl…
I don't know if the poster changed the filter after reading your comment, but the filter that is there now looks great to my eyes.
I grew up in the era, and a couple of my buddies still keep a few CRTs for playing NES games so its immediately apparent to me. Similar to when laymen use AI to generate "pixel art" without doing any grid alignment or palette reduction.
Retroarch also has some decent approximations of CRT scanline using shaders as well (see crt-geom crt-lottes)
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I don't know if the poster changed the filter after reading your comment, but the filter that is there now looks great to my eyes.
I don't think they updated it - it still looks a very simplistic combination of slightly high frequency noise + artificial horz scanlines. I grew up in the era, and a couple of my buddies still keep a few CRTs for playing NES games so its immediately apparent to me. Similar to when laymen use AI to generate "pixel art" without doing any grid alignment or palette reduction. Retroarch also has some decent approximation…
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I don't think they updated it - it still looks a very simplistic combination of slightly high frequency noise + artificial horz scanlines. I grew up in the era, and a couple of my buddies still keep a few CRTs for playing NES games so its immediately apparent to me. Similar to when laymen use AI to generate "pixel art" without doing any grid alignment or palette reduction. Retroarch also has some decent approximation…
I understand, I'm not going for accuracy, just suggestion. For someone like you it won't feel right, I totally get it.
If you want to see a neat example, check out cool-retro-term, it’s been around for a while but is still super impressive.
As somebody who grew up in the era of MS-DOS and QBASIC - it's pretty amusing to see two AI-assisted GORILLA.BAS web games in the past week. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48856350 Can also play the original as well online https://classicreload.com/play/qbasic-gorillas.html Feedback - the wind/round text should NOT be placed over buildings because.... one of the buildings is gray thus making it almost impossibl…