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Civilization and Battle Chess is in the games folder!
Marathon Infinity is what I was excited to see in there. Runs well too! I can't say how many hours I spent between the base game and Anvil.
Always wanted a proper 3D remake of Marathon - Halo didn't really scratch the same itch
What does one have to do to get as clear and pretty of a UI as that on the modern desktop OSes? Everyone switched from bitmaps to vectors over a decade ago and now everything is fuzzy, antialiased, scalable, flat, hard to make out. Of course you can always run dwm on linux with a hodgepodge of makeshift utility apps, write your own keybinds to set your brightness and volume and other such inanities, but in order to g…
>Everyone switched from bitmaps to vectors over a decade ago and now everything is fuzzy, antialiased, scalable, flat, hard to make out. That makes no sense. Bitmaps have a fixed pixel density while vectors are infinitely scalable.
The alternative is that you convert the vector line with a "nearest neighbour" pixel algorithm (or cleverer but fundamentally similar algorithms e.g. [1]) but then you get the aliasing artefacts that anti-aliasing is meant to avoid. For example, two parallel lines that are rendered 2.5 pixels apart might end up having a gap between them that alternates between 1 and 2 pixels along its length, which looks even worse.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresenham%27s_line_algorithm
With hand-designed pixel graphics, this isn't a problem because you can manually choose to draw everything an integer number of pixels apart or avoid certain constructions altogether.
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For fuzz, anti and anti-aliasing issues, you can sometimes make them worse with a HiDPI display. All of these issues really boil down to render resolution not integer scaling to the display resolution. If the render resolution is an integer multiple of the display resolution or vice versa, you will generally always get beautiful crisp rendering - this is exactly the approach Apple adopted, and is why they had to use…
This is an interesting analytical failure. To explicate. You go through your day wearing only boots. You see people wearing sneakers and so one day you buy a pair the wrong size and put it on with a tag inside and walk around like that for a day. You think to yourself how do all these people do this every day did nobody ever show them a good pair of boots! Sir Boots4Life's analysis is faulty they aren't all walking a…
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It can still happen when different display panel pixel colour arrangements don't match subpixel rendering settings in software, though that'll usually happen with non-monitor displays like TVs.
True, though in practice I haven't noticed it to be nearly as obnoxious as Apple stuff trying to upscale at non-integer intervals
It was better on previous versions, I think Mojave was the last good one.
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Vectors will scale to any pixel density, but they look irritatingly fuzzy at the lower pixel densities you commonly see in large widescreen monitors. Obviously it's not an apples-to-apples comparison, but decades ago bitmapped fonts could give you crisp text on any monitor, and in 2022 I'm using a popular, >$1300, very favorably reviewed monitor, and the text is ever-so-slightly fuzzy. It's plugged into my Macbook Pr…
I've recently gotten a MacBook Pro 14 for work, and tried out Ubuntu 22.04 RC on a laptop, and I was confounded with how fuzzy both of them look today (Ubuntu with fractional scaling, but Mac even with 2x scaling on 4k screen). Whatever setup was there on Ubuntu 20.04 which made text render clearly needs to come back (I used to use slight hinting setting, but it seems subpixel rendering is going away on Linux too). P…
Switch to the X session on the login screen and you should have good scaling again (also, lots of applications that do screen sharing, like Zoom, do not work on Wayland [5]). Or just be like me and use Mint, which has no plans for Wayland support and you don't have to think about any of this.
[0]: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/01/ubuntu-21-04-will-use-wa...
[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-2...
[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/lficfe/wayland_fractio...
[3]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/i...
[4]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m...
[5]: https://community.zoom.com/t5/Meetings/Wayland-screen-sharin...
I'm not sure how many people will remember this, but macOS 8 came with a program called Hotline, who's main activity was "publishing and distribution of a multi-purpose client/server communication software." Most people I knew used it to pirate software and MP3s. The way most of us used it was we'd find a server that had something we wanted (software, a crack, or music), and the login would be password protected. The…
anyone still using KDX? i have a server running on telnet.asia
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> How user hostile technology has become Hm, I don’t know - old DOS was pretty user hostile, but it rewarded people with the patience to stick with it. Nowadays there’s no reward.
Old systems may not have been friendly, but they were never out to get you; they were merely indifferent, and your job was to make them work. Modern systems, for all their aesthetic effort, know that you are a valuable resource, and try to exploit you; your job is to keep them contained.
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anyone still using KDX? i have a server running on telnet.asia
I love how these small online communities have managed to survive over the years!