Crinus

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by Crinus 8y ago
16bit Windows software will not work natively on 64bit Windows. However this isn't a recent change, this is happening since the introduction of 64bit Windows and consumers started getting 64bit Windows already for more than a decade ag
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by Crinus 8y ago
I'm not sure what you have in mind... generally speaking Windows software keeps working. PCs aren't speeding up much anymore, but what functionality is lost? I can still run (and i do run) software from the mid and late 90s on the
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by Crinus 8y ago
These lists are a nice idea, but i do not like the execution - they are little more than a dump of someone's bookmarks. Personally i'd like to see a bit more information about each entry, including screenshots and a short explanat
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by Crinus 8y ago
Yeah, actually the other day i was thinking about getting a 2990WX to try writing a software renderer on it and see how it performs. Too bad it is way too expensive (and Zen 2 CPUs are around the corner).
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by Crinus 8y ago
Yeah, i think his Google-fu skills need improvement, in another page he mentions that there weren't any IRC clients in Pascal, but i remember at least a couple of IRC libraries for Delphi (and personally i wrote an IRC component in Del
786.
by Crinus 8y ago
Most likely. For example, this: > passing in a member of a record rather than a pointer to that record... No idea why ...sounds like a difference in how the Windows API was exposed. In Delphi and Free Pascal there are two ways to expose
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by Crinus 8y ago
The two main issues that GLQuake has over software one are that the textures are squashed down to the nearest power-of-two and lightmaps are clamped in the "0..100%" range whereas the software rasterizer has a (sort of) "0..2
788.
by Crinus 8y ago
OpenGL games should run fine, some old games that used static sized buffers to hold extensions (like all Quake/Quake2 games that dump the available extension string to the console and the console having a hardcoded buffer for each line
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by Crinus 8y ago
The only success the drivers had were the lock-in they created to the hardware with Glide, which itself was a thin layer on the underlying hardware. Many games used Direct3D or OpenGL without Glide support and worked just fine. Hell, Quake
790.
by Crinus 8y ago
Yes, that is how it usually goes, you exchange code performance for compiling performance but my point (a couple messages above) is that most of the time this performance is perfectly fine and it is only a tiny part of the codebase that may
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by Crinus 8y ago
I bought a few books a couple of months ago from Amazon for use with their PC viewer and the first thing i did was to remove the DRM (so i can read it on my phone using my preferred ebook reader... and i trust myself more than Amazon to kee
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by Crinus 8y ago
Note that some games on Steam are DRM free, you can download the game via Steam and then make a zip with the files for your own safekeeping. Sadly it isn't obvious (nor mentioned anywhere, except some very incomplete lists in various w
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by Crinus 8y ago
Some yes, others no. Sadly HIB has a lot of games that are available DRM-free outside of Steam, but they only provide Steam keys.
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by Crinus 8y ago
I'd say most people, by far, are perfectly fine with -O1 performance. -O2 (and higher) is only needed for very small and specific parts of a codebase (e.g. the inner parts of encoding and rendering). The problem is having both at the s
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by Crinus 8y ago
Half of those you call dead (desktop, ftp, simple html) are things i use all the time :-P. And i'm sure free webspace isn't dead as i used one about 3 years ago which was the first hit on google among many and i doubt all of them
796.
by Crinus 8y ago
I think filling the sidebar with the proper tags would be the first to be done since right now the tags do not work. After that i'd do the clickable tags since it sounds the easiest once you have a tag filter there. Including the tag i
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by Crinus 8y ago
> the browser APIs necessary to make this "90s" effect possible, and when they were first shipped ... In 2019 it only takes a few lines of code to do the kind of creative things we struggled with in 1999. Uh, none of the mentio
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by Crinus 8y ago
I'm not looking for a job ATM, but i took a quick look at the site and while it looks clean and nice, the tags do not seem to work: the tags bar (why is it hidden by default? Initially i thought there wasn't a tag feature at all)
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by Crinus 8y ago
I wish GPUs had evolved to be, essentially, CPUs with some specialized graphics-related instructions instead of the fixed-and-parallel soup that modern GPUs are (and i see Nvidia's RTX cores as a regression on that front, GPUs should b
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by Crinus 8y ago
It is still technically more advanced and looks better than the vast majority of indie games and my point was that if something like Doom 3 (or Rage) can be made using OpenGL 1.5+exts (or OpenGL 2.0+exts, for Rage) then OpenGL 4.1+exts that
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by Crinus 8y ago
OpenGL is deprecated, not removed, you can still use it in current versions of macOS as long as you are fine with the version it ships (which in general should be fine for a ton of 3D games, remember that something like Doom 3 was built on
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by Crinus 8y ago
And people generally tend to be inconsistent in what they say and what they do.
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by Crinus 8y ago
On Windows, you do need some effort if you have no idea what is going on, but it isn't like those systems were sloppily put together, there are some design ideas and you get used to them... eventually. But once you do, things more or l
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by Crinus 8y ago
Aren't "patches in Git" just "patches"? Git can give you a patchfile that can be applied with "patch" regardless of VCS.
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by Crinus 8y ago
My reaction was due to the "And boy, were they awfully buggy. And you didn't have access to the source to understand why it didn't work" part. They were not buggy, especially if you compare the equivalents of today and m
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by Crinus 8y ago
It rounds up :-P.
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by Crinus 8y ago
Oh, interesting. I suspected it might be from an older language, but i expected Algol, not FORTRAN :-P. Personally i associate it with Pascal because i first saw it on an IRC channel's topic back in the mid-90s :-).
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by Crinus 8y ago
I think this is a reference to an old joke about "God is Real, unless declared as Integer" since in Pascal Real and Integer are data types.
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by Crinus 8y ago
POSIX != C and from what i understand from the official docs, they already have a (musl derived, even) C library.
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by Crinus 8y ago
Delphi comes with the full RTL and VCL source code. You don't get the source for the compiler, but this is useless for anyone than a 0.0000001% of the people who use GCC or Clang. Also all the tools you mentioned were incredibly produc

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