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Understanding x86 Instruction Sizes(swansontec.com)
2 points by ANTSANTS 12y ago|0 comments
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>build scripts, RabbitMQ consumer, web app. Basically as systems-y as you could get. What? Systems programming means things like OS kernels and language runtimes. Places where garbage collection is not acceptable, and assembly language i
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>They canned Star Fox 2 even though it was finished and used much of our code in Star Fox 64 without paying us a penny. There is a somewhat happy ending to this tragic story for Star Fox fans: A nearly complete prototype of Star Fox 2 wa
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A Whirlwind Tour of ARM Assembly(coranac.com)
42 points by ANTSANTS 12y ago|12 comments
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I wasn't really trying to judge anyone's preferred method of learning (though I see how I came off that way), just arguing that the "guy who takes tons of notes but learns very little" phenomenon has nothing to do with t
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>Those students who are trying to transcribe lectures and not actually learning anything? My guess is it's because they're burning cycles mentally saying "'the', I need to find 't' and an 'h',
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
You might also be interested in these efforts to get video playing on the Sega Genesis ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vPe452cegU ) and the TI-84 graphing calculator ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pAeWf3
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
You know you can google "mario roms" and find hundreds of sites hosting the actual games (not just the music) that have been up for years , right? I think this one will be fine.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Streets of Rage 2 is even better, but really, everything Yuzo Koshiro wrote is worth listening to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzo_Koshiro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYGBqmxoLrg https:/&#
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
That link made my day. I can't get enough of retro-style computer graphics.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
A Vocaloid thread on Hacker News? Today is a weird day. Here's the most impressive Vocaloid song/video I've seen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkLJoFp2UAE EDIT: From the artist's bio: "Mitchie M i
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Read the rest of the conversation: >What about grabbing the 9 views, 8 views, etc? We have more time! >The problem is that at some point, we end up with a LOT of disk space used for VERY obscure videos. >Normally, archive t
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
It's not bullshit, because you don't need to own a for-profit prison to profit from the prison-industrial complex. Even non-profit prisons (my, is that a weird phrase) result in the transfer of tax dollars to prison staff, constru
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Not sure why people are downvoting you. The @ symbol is hundreds of years old and originally meant "at the rate of" (as in, "10 boxes @ $1" means "10 boxes for $1 apiece"). It's perfectly possible that the
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
That page froze my browser (Firefox 29) and started leaking oodles of memory until I killed it (along with a bunch of other shit I was working on), so I guess I'll count that as a point in favor of software raycasting.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>This is clearly an old process - when was the last time you saw a 7-segment display, or those big red round thru-hole LEDs, outside of hobby electronics? Remember folks, there is a world outside of Silicon Valley.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
It's a bit of an understatement that hardware vendors aren't known for being very good at software. NVidia and AMD aren't so bad, but look at how awful the mobile GPU vendors are: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog&
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
>could write to the framebuffer MUCH faster than that thing, were it not in the way of the framebuffer. I'd like to see a Z80 blitting to a framebuffer faster than a VDP could chew through some tiles and sprites. There general desig
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
The Japanese game industry is a great place to look if you want to see companies that understand this principle. Companies like Atlus (now owned by Sega) are almost as big as any other AAA developer or publisher, but they've flourished
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
You also have to take demographics into consideration. I'd imagine the average gamer has much less spending money to play with than the average Broadway theater patron. >and that game was very primitive by today's standards Is
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Let me know how that works for you if you ever write Lisp, Haskell, or have to deal with someone who thought they could make their $ALGOL_INSPIRED_LANGUAGE look cute by aligning everything into tables.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Inverted sound waves can cancel each other in air, I've heard (or not heard) the effect with my own ears.
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
If Rob Pike is to be believed, the bulk of the effort in writing an OS goes into providing compatibility with the myriad externally-imposed standards that people depend on to get things done and run the programs they need to do so. From wha
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
The solution is to lurk gaming communities. Find a HoMM community, check in on it once a week, and I'm sure you'll find tons of games that you missed out on over the years, and that you'll be one of the first to know about an
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Typography in 8-bits: System Fonts(damieng.com)
3 points by ANTSANTS 12y ago|0 comments
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
I mentioned this somewhere else in this thread, but before touchpads, most laptops had either a nub (like the kind that Thinkpads still have today) or no mouse at all, and the keyboard was almost always on the lower edge. It really was grea
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Yeah, putting IBM/Lenovo aside, even the average Compaq or Dell laptop from back in the day had a significantly superior nub compared to my X210. I was really disappointed when I got it, because I remembered nubs being lot more comfort
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Save Nintendo Wi-Fi(save-nintendo-wifi.com)
2 points by ANTSANTS 12y ago|0 comments
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by ANTSANTS 12y ago
Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6656197

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