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by Dwedit 2y ago
The zapper goes into port 2, and a standard controller goes into port 1. The game manual says that you can control the duck with the control pad (which is in player 1's controller port), which would usually be controlled by a second pl
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by Dwedit 2y ago
It's basically the XKCD random number generator: https://xkcd.com/221/ Also on Windows, randomized address space layout changes only on reboot.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
The illustrations on Wikipedia show some marked cards, hopefully they wouldn't have been marked cards at the time when they were new.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
If you look at old Japanese video games before the hardware could do Kanji, they used spaces to separate words. But when the game was capable of Kanji, the spaces went away.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
There used to be a URL redirection service called HugeURL. Your URLs were extremely long.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Very mean webpage, you are forbidden from reading the article if you use side-by-side browser windows on 1920x1080. On another note, the Mac having only 128K of RAM was somewhat balanced out by having much of the operating system code (Quic
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Not an article about Twitter.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Do people just not realize that you are supposed to resize images? You don't just upload a 2560x1440 image, then have the client shrink it down to 930x523, unless you can take the server-side hit, and don't care about the time sp
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Upon reading the headline, my guess for how to copy a file off would involve a Parallel-port ZIP drive on the old computer, then using a USB ZIP drive on the modern computer. Or a USB disk enclosure that uses IDE. Now I'll go read th
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Is Edge still sending all URLs and images to Microsoft by default?
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by Dwedit 2y ago
It's .net
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by Dwedit 2y ago
There's also another class of game, ones that can be fully decompiled. Such as most Unity games.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Shared webhosting is still done with multi users.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
I think you might be using the wrong unit.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Has anyone successfully run a faster protocol on Thinnet Coax Ethernet cable?
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by Dwedit 2y ago
King's Quest 8 (Mask of Eternity) is a terrible game. King's Quest is an adventure game series. It is known for hand-drawn 2D character sprites moving over hand-drawn 2D backgrounds, collecting items and solving inventory puzzle
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by Dwedit 2y ago
WizTree directly reads the MFT, and is a LOT faster, but it is not a free program.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
The Famicom version of Air Fortress has a ridiculously large amount of stuff unintentionally making it into the ROM. There is some uncompiled ASM code in there, some MS-DOS directory listings, some text strings from one of the EXEs used to
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Previous Discussion (1 day ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40426890
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Not a joke, a spectrogram is where you split a sound signal into its frequencies and amplitude for each frequency using a Fourier transform. 2D images can be encoded that way, though they usually don't sound like anything significant.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Duckduckgo is just Bing with location-based ads injected into the bottom of your search results.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
9 and 25 are the common ones, 19 is the rare one.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Hmmm, when I quick-formatted a drive (which TRIMs the whole thing), then tried reading it back in a disk hex editor, I just saw zeroes.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
You read zeroes.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
That looks a lot like what Zig does. One problem with the proposed defer there is that it has no way to interact with stack unwinding, which is part of the platform ABIs for handling exceptions. Maybe some alternative syntax, such as &quot
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Unlike public web data, slack data is not public. This is a problem.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
Basically a wrapper for "__attribute__(cleanup)" GCC took the best C++ feature (destructors) and added it into C. Not sure about compatibility with other C compilers.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
There are DOS-based MOD and MP3 players that output to the PC speaker.
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by Dwedit 2y ago
There have been Linux-based clones of Winamp for a long time, such as XMMS (which directly supports Winamp skins).
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by Dwedit 2y ago
There's two Dominion Online games now, one from Temple Gates Games where you buy expansions, and the other one from ShuffleIt which is subscription-based. At least the Temple Gates version honors past purchases made on Making Fun domin

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