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Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Post by brudgers »

dvt wrote: post #57
brudgers wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People deserve to be treated with dignity regardless. Not doing so says something about me.

I think it's trivially obvious that some people do not deserve to be treated with dignity (e.g. child molesters, mass murderers, etc.). The fact that you treat them with dignity in spite of that is obviously virtuous, but they don't deserve it. As opposed to people that do: Gandhi, Jesus, MLK, and so on.

What a person thinks says something about that person not about the reference objects of their thoughts.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Post by paki123 »

BuildTheRobots wrote: post #117
Mithaldu wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At first i thought that was a bit of an exaggeration, but after listening to him talk in his "What God Wants in Music" video, that is actually a reasonable request to make. He very casually and without warning declares things that might easily make traumatized people relive things.

Well that was unexpected [1]. I can kinda see what he means, but I'm not sure I'd use the same simile. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozt2d8t8hIU

What the fuck? I'm going down a rabbit hole. See y'all later.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Post by digi_owl »

LVB wrote: post #39

Whenever I watch one of Terry's videos, I get highly motivated to program. Not read a blog post comparing frameworks, or a debate about some programming idiom, or even designing some larger project. But literally type stuff into a computer and make things appear on the screen. It is remarkable how watching his TempleOS videos uncovers the fascination I had of computers from my youth, 30 years ago.

Well well now i am curious. That was what drew me towards Linux back in the day as i felt Windows was getting more and more convoluted and opaque. And these days the feeling is rising in me again as i watch what is being introduced above the kernel on almost a daily basis.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Post by executesorder66 »

adrianratnapala wrote: post #99
executesorder66 wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From Wikipedia: > Word salad is a "confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases",[1] most often used to describe a symptom of a neurological or mental disorder. The words may or may not be grammatically correct, but are semantically confused to the point that the listener cannot extract any meaning from them. It isn't word salad. Yes it is not perfect English, but I can quite easily unders…

Meaning is hard. What know I cannot do is construct an coherent or even intelligible argument from the quoted paragraph. I can extract meanings from some of the sentences; but I also can see you have not even bothered to explain your objections to them. More importantly, it seems you don't even care about coherency. It looks like that to you, if something "feels bad" then it is bad.

What the hell are you talking about?

> More importantly, it seems you don't even care about coherency. It looks like that to you, if something "feels bad" then it is bad.

I don't understand where this is coming from. Please explain what you mean, and why you think that.

> but I also can see you have not even bothered to explain your objections to them.

My objection was that the parent post claimed the quote was "word salad" and I claim it is not, because the quote obviously has a message and it is not difficult to figure out what it is.

If you meant that I didn't bother explaining the message, well then here is how I interpret the quote:

>Reputation is worth more than gold. Niggers have a reputation -- no fathers.

He's talking about stereotypes here, and how there is a stereotype that many black men abandon their children/family.

> Irish have a reputation. Germans have a reputation.

Again referencing stereotypes.

> Attacker has the advantage.

Guy who hits first usually wins the fight.

> Jews have a reputation. God said the French once stood for character. (Code of Chivalry) Ironic.

Again, stereotypes. He is obviously referencing WW2 in this context and talking about how the French were easily defeated by the Germans.

> I guess Jews did, too. Woah! God is boss. Too bad the Jews were cowards and didn't assassinate NAZI's.

I'm guessing here he is saying the Jews were God's chosen people, but they didn't live up to that an let the Germans almost destroy them.

So yeah, most people don't talk like this guy in normal conversation, but it is pretty clear to me that he is talking about stereotypes and sticking up for yourself. I might not get the finer details he is trying to communicate, but even so it is far from unintelligible.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Post by rurban »

huangc10 wrote: post #2

Per wikipedia: TempleOS (formerly J Operating System,[1] SparrowOS and LoseThos)[2] is a biblical themed lightweight operating system created over the span of a decade by the American programmer Terry A. Davis. The software is a x86-64 bit, multi-tasking, multi-cored, public domain, open source, ring-0-only, single address space, non-networked, PC operating system for recreational programming.[3] The operating system…

I think he added networking lately. Might be easier to persuade gods followers, when they can interact with each other.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Post by jancsika »

Can someone explain the TempleOS author's sprite and graphics interface? From one of his videos it appears that:

1. Once a sprite set has been defined the user can manually (programmatically?) rasterize it 2. User can set affine transforms 3. It seems like the boundary between 2d and 3d API is small, or easily traversable, or non-existent. In one of his 2d examples it appears he changes a parameter to get animation in the z-axis. 4. Sprites are somehow part of the language (or at least seem to be integrated deeply into it).

To me it looks a bit like editing an SVG, automatically converting it to HTML5 canvas, then switching to WebGL, seamlessly.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Post by pekk »

abrookewood wrote: post #21
notgood wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it seems like 640x480 is a sacred limit for display resolution so I wouldn't get my hopes up, from the F.A.Q: God said 640x480 was a covenant like circumcision. The resolution will remain 640x480 for centuries to come.

Holy cow ... The OS is such a strange mix of impressive feats and crazy conventions.

640x480 isn't a crazy convention at all when you understand what is required to interface with the display hardware and you remember the goals of TempleOS. He wanted to recapture transparency of the C64 system in a 64-bit system. It's pretty clear Terry didn't want to spend all his time writing vendor-specific device drivers and painful workaround cruft.

This also applies to things like the RedSea filesystem and the way memory is used.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Post by pekk »

problems wrote: post #120
bredren wrote: post #64

Is it just me or is the official templeos site hacked / defaced right now.

Nope, it's standard, Terry Davis is the author and he's a very religious schizophrenic. He's a very smart guy, but he got banned many times on HN and Reddit for going off about "India niggers" and spamming blocks of random words.

Actually all the times I've read him use the word "niggers" (and it is an offensive word, I won't dispute that) he actually means something different than you would expect.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Post by pekk »

badminton1 wrote: post #66

TempleOS is a very interesting OS with many original innovations, as mentioned in the "constructive review of TempleOS" (which you can look up). However it is a ring 0 only OS, with all the consequences that implies. You can make irreversible mistakes in this way, especially outside a VM. Other OSes worth looking into are: - Redox OS (Rust) - MenuetOS / KolibriOS (x86-64 Assembly) - Haiku OS - GNU Hurd

Did you pay attention to what TempleOS is for? Do you know what it was like to program for the C64? It is ring 0 only on purpose! That's the whole point!

The idea that someone would go into a thread about TempleOS, trash TempleOS for one of its central and distinguishing features, and then use the thread as an opportunity to promote some new OS written in Rust is boggling my mind.

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