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There's an entire community of video game hackers (smwcentral.net) using a cross-assembler I wrote in 2001 named xkas. I added a few minor patches and by early 2004 I had released the final version, v06. I never really intended for anyone to use it seriously. I made it for myself, but went ahead and posted it online anyway. It is a 1500-line single-file, nearly-commentless, nearly-spaceless abomination of code with n…
Roughly a decade. The VB6 program that I wrote to test a prototype of a measurement instrument, is still used in the factory, supporting manufacturing of the released product. It's a couple thousand lines, and nobody wants to touch it with a ten foot pole, but it also has no known bugs, and will live for the remaining lifetime of the product.
>no known bugs I don't think I have ever heard that phrase. Every non-trivial piece of software I have ever worked on has a collection of bugs that just get carried forward indefinitely ie hard to fix, only affects a small number of people and there is an easy work around so just ignore it. The idea of having zero open bugs is... foreign.
There's an entire community of video game hackers (smwcentral.net) using a cross-assembler I wrote in 2001 named xkas. I added a few minor patches and by early 2004 I had released the final version, v06. I never really intended for anyone to use it seriously. I made it for myself, but went ahead and posted it online anyway. It is a 1500-line single-file, nearly-commentless, nearly-spaceless abomination of code with n…
Okay. That is hilarious.
Surprised to see it's still being downloaded actively, supposedly by Linux distributions that include it still for some reason.
Was tired of Aumix back then being buggy, so I wrote my own replacement. I think my biggest wtf moment was this being included in the FreeBSD project (at least 4.0), and many Linux distributions also, so it's now out there forever.
1985, a printer driver for c.itoh matrix printer (assembler), still working. p.s. I was a 10 years old boy. (:
You wrote a printer driver when you were 10!? Jesus ... about all I managed at that age was lasting through a few waves of Space Invaders.
There's an entire community of video game hackers (smwcentral.net) using a cross-assembler I wrote in 2001 named xkas. I added a few minor patches and by early 2004 I had released the final version, v06. I never really intended for anyone to use it seriously. I made it for myself, but went ahead and posted it online anyway. It is a 1500-line single-file, nearly-commentless, nearly-spaceless abomination of code with n…
>(one user proved it was Turing complete and wrote a Brainfuck parser in it.) Okay. That is hilarious.
http://bin.smwcentral.net/u/1686/boredom.asm
You won't believe me unless you try it for yourself, but ... download xkas v06 here:
http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/269/
Then download the above boredom.asm. And now run the following on the command-line:
touch boredom.sfc
xkas boredom.asm boredom.sfc
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel like I have stockholm syndrome after using Notes from several years. I hated notes, but I really miss the 'Copy to New' function from creating new emails from already sent items. Anyone know of a client that supports this other than Notes? (sorry for the hijack)
I just use "forward" for that in outlook/gmail and delete the first few lines that get injected. Is that what you mean?
Copy to New just gave the identical email, recipients and all, in a new email window. For sending things like monthly reports to a list of people, this was fantastic. 'copy to new, delete attachment, drag+drop new attachment, send'
I am the original author of LatexMk[1], a Perl script that runs Latex the correct number of times to ensure all cross-references and such were resolved. It can also run continuously with a previewer and several other goodies. I wrote it around 1993 to scratch my own itch, adapting it from a little script called “Go” by David J. Musliner. At the time I was using a literate programming tool that generated Latex from C…
Second one dates back to 2008. It's a webapp written in Django for real estate agents. Full of bugs, requiring careful input of data in order not to mess up the listing. I went on a 3 day hackaton somewhere back in 2011 to fix all the bugs for free and got some very angry calls, because things weren't working like they used to before. Turns out people were aware of these bugs and made their own workarounds. I was forced to roll back all my changes and backport just a single change - the ability to reorder images by using drag and drop.
A section of macro assembler written in 1983/84 that I wrote that validated the MICR encoding on the bottom of a cheque ran as far as I know every day without error until at least 2007 processing 30-40% of the daily cheques in a European country It may still be running but all the guys I knew are gone! I'm the reason banks have technical debt. They'd track me down every 10 years or so when a major change was required…
