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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
Whoops, that's a pretty big oversight. I was aware that the C64 had vblank and timer interrupts, but not that it could do hblank interrupts.
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
I'm not as knowledgeable about the Amiga as I am about other classic systems, but the Copper was (according to Wikipedia) a component of the Amiga's graphics coprocessor that took very simple commands that one could make "programs" out of t
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
Very cool stuff. Trying to figure out how various classic (mostly Sega Genesis, in my case) games pulled off their graphical effects was endlessly entertaining as a teenager. It's a shame that the art of cycle-accurate raster techniques had
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Pseudo-3D Road Graphics Explained(extentofthejam.com)
10 points by ANTSANTS 14y ago|0 comments
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Message in a Binary Bottle(cabel.me)
115 points by ANTSANTS 14y ago|1 comments
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
Maybe not as much when compared to piracy of new releases, but very little? That's simply not true. How do you explain the majority of modern independent music being heavily inspired by 80s pop and 90s hip-hop, especially when most of the
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
That's 62k resident, not 62m, and the screenshot is of awesome, not evilwm.
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
Well, posting an angry rant is beneficial in at least one way: It's guaranteed to be read by all the kernel devs. Hell, we're reading it, and I doubt everyone on HN is a kernel dev or follows their mailing list. If Linus had been more polit
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
On my desktop (using Chrome), I have about 50 tabs open, which is apparently using about 3 gigs of memory (EDIT: and certainly even more of the address space when you count memory mapped files). Granted, I have heard that Firefox uses less
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Fast Pathfinding via Symmetry Breaking(aigamedev.com)
2 points by ANTSANTS 14y ago|0 comments
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
> We had a discussion here a while back about "living" on a couple hundred dollars a month for food in the Bay Area. Got a link? Couldn't find anything with HNSearch.
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
IIRC, Valve negotiates a different cut with each developer, and requires them to keep their terms secret. I would not be surprised if Activision ended with more favorable terms than your average indie studio.
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
I don't know how it compares to the modern scene, but there was definitely a large amount of RTS modding and mapmaking going on long before 2005. Particularly for the old Command and Conquer games, which were much more accessible to modders
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
If I'm remembering this correctly, the Playstation had another large problem in that it used integer coordinates for everything, making it very difficult to avoid the infamous "wavy textures" with textured polys. I think a decent portion of
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
I think the tradition model of long hardware cycles, taking huge losses in an attempt to beat Moore's law, and writing to the "bare metal" to squeeze the most out of outdated tech is merely what consumers and the current console manufacture
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Homebrew Channel Release for WiiU (in Wii sandbox mode)(hackmii.com)
1 points by ANTSANTS 14y ago|0 comments
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
The existence of r/4chan is met with scorn every time I've seen it mentioned on 4chan. People seem to either completely hate Reddit itself, or meekly admit that they follow a few tiny subreddits. Given that (and the response you received to
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
I'd usually agree (grey text on a light background, anyone?), but honestly I'm much more interested in combating the trend of obscuring content with floating navigation bars than I am in yet another story about Tim Cook and Apple.
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New Media Rights: You gotta fight for your right to be an indie developer(joystiq.com)
2 points by ANTSANTS 14y ago|0 comments
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
Gemini blew the socks off of all my middle school friends, but I'm embarrassed by the amount of time I spent on Galaxian in math class. Maybe one of these days, I'll dig out my 83+ and complete the no laser, no death run that I was always a
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
I have to agree with this. I believe threaded reply systems (in combination with upvote systems) work reasonably well to produce digestible and shallow conversations (in terms of the number of participants, not necessarily quality) for news
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
"Mom/dad, can I please please please have Minecraft? All my friends have it and it's only $15 and blah blah blah" Depending on the household, what follows is probably either loads more whining, the parent arranging some kind of deal involvi
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
Agreed. I'd never heard of Everlane before, and now that they finally have my attention, I can't actually look at any of their products. Leaving their product pages up and simply disabling purchasing would have been a better idea.
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
I have to wonder if the average user of a light-on-dark color scheme simply has their monitor's brightness turned up too high. I have my brightness turned down pretty low on every display I own, to the point that even a pure white screen ca
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
"You don't know if it's a bad idea or not because it hasn't been done yet" is a conversation killing sentence if I've ever heard one. Ok, we agree to disagree, let's stop talking about this for a few months and see what happens! Meanwhile,
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
That's not a problem for a government agency to solve, that's a problem for an OS vendor to solve with proper sandboxing and a clean permissions system. Are you seriously arguing that it is acceptable to allow your government to censor and
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
This "we'll control the whole ecosystem by standardizing the interface!" scheme honestly sounds about as ridiculous to me as "it's a 5 billion dollar market, so if we take just 1% of it, we'll be rich!" It doesn't take a genius to understan
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
The saddest part of Other M might be that its development was lead by the surviving co-creator of the original Metroid games, who does not appear to understand why people liked Metroid in the first place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosh
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
https://www.4chan.org/news?all#109 https://www.4chan.org/news?all#110 It's worth mentioning that moot has managed to keep 4chan running since 2005 without accepting any donations, while paying for what I imagine is a ridiculous amount o
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by ANTSANTS 14y ago
This seems a bit overkill, like trying to prevent yourself from wasting time on a site by blocking it in your hosts file. I worry it would make "mental context switches" too expensive, which might help to discourage you from wasting time on

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