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Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made

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Re: Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made

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Post by acdha »

antome wrote: post #100
laythea wrote: post #97

I'm not a fan of this essay type thing being on twitter, split into lots of little tweets.

Twitter seems to be in this weird space where they have enough usability positives over other social media (pretty broadly accessible, doesn't pester you to log in, you can post NSFW content without it getting taken down) that I guess people just force themselves to use it, even if a blog post would be better formatted.

I think it’s the combination of feeling easy to do (both UI & not feeling pressure to write a formal essay) and getting immediate feedback. For most people blogging is mostly solitary in comparison.

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Post by kurtisc »

ngold wrote: post #35
caprese wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Less clickthroughs = more engagement = better viral loop Thats the why, since you asked

So money? Or exposure? I just don't get it. It is literally text messages.

Exposure to content is the reason HN exists and why you're reading it at all. If it wasn't posted on Twitter, OP may never have found it (even if a link to a private blog was posted to Twitter) and never shared it for you to read.

Re: Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made

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Post by kurtisc »

larkeith wrote: post #14
gdulli wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not terrible. Twitter just isn't your preferred venue so you find it unnatural. It's natural for me to read and for others to read and for the author to have written on Twitter. Why not put it elsewhere? Twitter is our place. And we like when content is natively published there. I have no interest in Facebook or Instagram or LinkedIn or Tumblr but I don't insist all the content in those places shouldn't be there…

> It's not terrible Low text density, atrocious typography, breaking of standard grammar, arbitrarily-spaced interruptions, no inline images (for mobile), limited external links and quotations, no headings, no custom formatting, random interruptions from other users. I really can't fathom an argument that Twitter is in any way optimal for reading content of any length. Value added is exclusively in convenience and so…

Constraints can be a virtue. The barrier to entry for making a Tweet is very low, so there are a lot of people who do it. To get the features you've listed, you may need something like Wordpress, where the barrier is much higher. You also know everyone who reads your tweet will consume it in largely the same way for as long as Twitter exists.

Re: Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made

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Post by oconnor663 »

seapunk wrote: post #102
laythea wrote: post #97

I'm not a fan of this essay type thing being on twitter, split into lots of little tweets.

Already mentioned here before: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066547670477488128

It's like every time anyone writes anything about CockroachDB, the top comment has to be "yeah but the name tho..."

Re: Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made

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Post by freeone3000 »

Causality1 wrote: post #55
Shakahs wrote: post #6

TLDR: Some NES game cartridges contained coprocessors. The Pilotwings math coprocessor had 3 revisions and one of them produces slightly different outputs, even though the game ROM is identical. Star Fox had a 2D/3D chip called Super FX that sounds a lot like a GPU. It’s pretty cool that console games of that era could augment your existing hardware to support their requirements.

Not just back then. Nintendo has put a lot of wacky stuff in cartridges. Learn with Pokemon Typing Adventure had a bluetooth adapter in its cartridge to communicate with its bundled bluetooth keyboard. Some early NES games were actually Famicom boards with a 60 to 72 pin adapter embedded in the cartridge. Morita Shogi 64 had a modem and a phone jack built into its cartridge. Animal Crossing for N64 had a real-time cl…

Pokemon: HeartGold/SoulSilver have an infrared comms port to communicate with the pokewalker, and to mystery gift - because the Game Boy Color had one!

Re: Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made

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Post by dominotw »

celdon25 wrote: post #63
capsulecorp wrote: post #43

I enjoyed this but I hate twitter as the delivery method for things of this length. Its a terrible way to digest the content.

Came here to say the same. Someone needs to tell these people that Twitter is not a blogging service...

It is a not a blog. Its not one thought, it discreet thoughts on the same topic.

Re: Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made

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Post by cableshaft »

Talanes wrote: post #53
m463 wrote: post #24

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I wonder how many stories will be lost because of stuff like this. In particular, text messages. I can't tell you how many stories have been told between myself and family and friends that are just one lost device away from oblivion. Apple should have an official app to let people save their text with photos and videos, because they are really family heirlooms. I suspect they are one of the primary reasons for icloud…

How many of those stories would have ended up somewhere more permanent without texting though? At least with how I tell stories in my life, text is usually only replacing what would have otherwise been a fully verbal story, not something that would have ever been written at all otherwise.

Before texting there were instant messenger apps that everyone used (ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger). Less people used the internet then, but those who did used those. Back when those were a thing the chat logs could usually be saved automatically as text files. I still have a ton of chat conversations I go back to sometimes from when I was in high school.

It's a lot harder to go back and read text messages, and I only can because the old phones I kept still function. I started transcribing a few text conversations manually though because those phones won't last forever.

Re: Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made

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Post by jcaprani »

dominotw wrote: post #107
celdon25 wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Came here to say the same. Someone needs to tell these people that Twitter is not a blogging service...

It is a not a blog. Its not one thought, it discreet thoughts on the same topic.

Discrete
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