I'm just gonna say Pilotwings 64 is one of the few games out there that really hasn't had a ~proper~ sequel.
Come on Nintendo.
Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made
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#32TLDR: 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.
The most hilarious enhancement chip is the SA-1, used in the Super Mario RPG and other games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_NES_enhancement_... It's essentially the same exact chip as the SNES's main CPU. Except three times faster. Imagine buying a game for your 3ghz PC that ships on a flash drive. And that flash drive also contains a 9hz (edit: whoops, 9ghz, haha) Intel Core i9 CPU.
This was almost a thing with Xeon Phi... 57 CPU cores for 2 slots...
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#33TLDR: 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.
The most hilarious enhancement chip is the SA-1, used in the Super Mario RPG and other games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_NES_enhancement_... It's essentially the same exact chip as the SNES's main CPU. Except three times faster. Imagine buying a game for your 3ghz PC that ships on a flash drive. And that flash drive also contains a 9hz (edit: whoops, 9ghz, haha) Intel Core i9 CPU.
A 9hz microprocessor would indeed be something. Start the game up, come back 10 days later and one frame would almost be rendered...
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Heh, from foone themself: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1066547670477488128.html Not to humblebrag or anything, but my favorite part of getting posted on hackernews or reddit is that EVERY SINGLE TIME there's one highly-ranked reply that's "jesus man, this could have been a blog post! why make 20 tweets when you can make one blog post?" CAUSE I CAN'T MAKE A BLOG POST, GOD DAMN IT. The short story is they are qui…
Just copy tweets to post?
I've tried on multiple occasions to go on twitter, but it like trying to read a newspaper with strobe lights as a reading light. How this became a format will haunt humanity for generations. There is no difference in updating a blog versus being forced to open one of the worst applications known to humanity.
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#35I often enjoy foone’s discoveries, and this was a particularly interesting one. I just wish it wasn’t all on Twitter. Why not put the text, plus pictures and whatever else (links?), into a blog posting, or just some HTML page with basic formatting? And then link to it with just the first Twitter post. Provide an RSS feed if you feel extra charitable (which is the way I enjoy most of the content related to this that I…
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.
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#36Earlier 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…
Imagine a feature length movie delivered as 300 webms.
Searching (2018) shows what can be accomplished for storytelling with hard constraints on the medium.
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#37There is a good debugging advice related to this story: "if your code is the same but suddenly starts behaving differently, check for hidden state."
You're right – but I don't think "hardware" usually counts as state!
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're listing values or things that are specific to your client or your understanding of the platform. For example, I didn't see "random interruptions from other users" when I read that because I know the best way to consume that content isn't on my timeline. And it's fine not to like Twitter or not be savvy with it or not be interested in becoming savvy with it. But when you see an absolute position that one's valu…
Twitter's code and formatting very often causes chunks of threads to become detached, and it's not a simple matter of whether you're on your timeline. And especially with replies, twitter has very strong opinions about what to show you and 'savvy' doesn't override that. And defaults matter. Complaints about the standard client are valid complaints.
>Twitter's code and formatting very often causes chunks of threads to become detached,
This nearly never happens these days. About the only time I see it is from the President.
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#39I'm just gonna say Pilotwings 64 is one of the few games out there that really hasn't had a ~proper~ sequel. Come on Nintendo.
Pilotwings (SNES) would like a word with you.