Firehawke

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by Firehawke 2y ago
Back then a lot of the time you couldn't just boot from the Windows 95 CD-ROM; a lot of BIOSes didn't support bootable CDs yet, and would have to use a boot floppy as a shim. This would necessitate booting to a MS-DOS environment.
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by Firehawke 2y ago
Wouldn't it be better to call it "compile C to Linux or BSD"? I kid, I kid.
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by Firehawke 2y ago
1440p displays should be just fine for a 2x upscale off 720p.
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by Firehawke 2y ago
It handled One Must Fall 2097, which needed a high-end 486 or low-end Pentium, just fine. Wing Commander 1 and 2 should be fine. WC3 I'm not entirely sure about, though.
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by Firehawke 2y ago
Not to get TOO far off topic, but you just reminded me of the 300+ line batch file I was using for my BBS back in the early 90s. Lots of errorlevel checks to handle door transitions, Fidonet, etc. You could get some ridiculously complicated
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by Firehawke 2y ago
Needs "do the needful" for completion's sake.
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by Firehawke 2y ago
I've used something similar to get MAME's VT240 to talk to a WSL instance. Had to go dig up a forum post I wrote a few years back to find the exact commands. On the WSL Linux side: socat -d -d exec:'bash -li',pty,stderr,
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by Firehawke 4y ago
Another good reason is to prevent the accidental use of bad dumps. A number of the systems supported in MAME have been redumped multiple times as it was discovered that bitrot had set in on chips, or the dumper made mistakes, or any of a do
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by Firehawke 4y ago
I was using 300 baud back in 1986-1987 or so, though 1200 was definitely easily available by the late 80s and 2400 was cheap by 1991.
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by Firehawke 4y ago
It was referred to as PSX by pretty much everyone until the launch of the DVR, y eah.
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by Firehawke 4y ago
Exactly this. And it doesn't guarantee that the code he ran was a stock build of MAME, either. It could be a version with rerecording that lets you go back and fix mistakes until you get a perfect tool-assisted run.
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by Firehawke 4y ago
It's more of a direct clone of Mr. Do.
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by Firehawke 4y ago
Really? Because every time a new dentist office, grocery store, etc. opens up I get unsolicited mail from them to let me know they're now a thing in my neighborhood. Does it bother me? Not in the slightest. It's a community notice
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by Firehawke 4y ago
Well, IRC 3 has been in development hell longer than Duke Nukem Forever was. As someone who was essentially constantly on IRC back in the 90s to early 2000s, IRC is just significantly less usable "out of the box" than Discord or M
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by Firehawke 4y ago
Yeah, absolutely this. There's a bias towards the low end of the skill/intelligence curve as those guys get caught doing really stupid shit and end up in the news as a result. I was looking over Wikipedia articles on software pira
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by Firehawke 5y ago
Yes. Multiple people who knew him have confirmed it a long time ago.
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by Firehawke 5y ago
I think this is where I'd leave any appliances out of the build spec. Give me the outlets, but let me choose my own appliances.
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by Firehawke 5y ago
Absolutely. My friends would only be pissed I got to do it before they could!
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by Firehawke 5y ago
I remember reading a similar deep-dive on the rowscroll trick used in SF2's floor, but I can't seem to dig it up with Google anymore. It's not an extremely complicated effect, but it's certainly one of the most notable e
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by Firehawke 5y ago
It's because there are still significant issues in the average user's stack. If I enable IPv6, my ISP puts me behind a single address still and requires NAT that my router won't do.
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by Firehawke 5y ago
Even if the ads weren't obnoxious and in your face, there's still the elephant in the room of malware. Every ad group has been the carrier of at least one malware ad in the last few years-- it's simply not safe to browse the
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by Firehawke 5y ago
Absolutely not. MAME's primary purpose is to document the hardware and ROM revisions, and to preserve as much accurate data about the machines as possible. You can use MAME sets to actually replace damaged ROMs, and the tools that come
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by Firehawke 5y ago
It's not strictly intentional; it's a consequence of the strict DRM on modern consoles. Decryption keys are needed for content to be loadable and in some cases you need the actual OS the console is running, too.
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by Firehawke 5y ago
Ran smoothly, but not very accurately. There are a LOT of games that do not play correctly (or in some cases, at all) on ZSNES. It's relatively easy to get the first 90%, but each 1% after that doubles the difficulty. This is especiall
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by Firehawke 5y ago
Exactly this. The changes were intentional malware, designed to break the usage of these two modules. GitHub is under no obligation to assist you in hosting malware. The fact that these changes were intended by the original author has no be
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by Firehawke 5y ago
Yeah. I'm using it right now. After doing a single-time setup and making sure that I keep a backup of the .gitconfig, etc, I haven't had any problems. I made sure to point Git specifically to the OpenSSH I provided (which I keep i
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by Firehawke 5y ago
Yubikey is probably the sanest cross-platform solution. Assuming you're using an updated beyond Microsoft's default version, which you'll need to get from https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/
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by Firehawke 5y ago
Yeah, I've been using a Yubikey for a bit over a year and I'm already a huge fan of the way it works with SSH/Git. It's a bit more of a pain to set up with WSL2 since you need something like https://github.com
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by Firehawke 5y ago
Exactly this. As an additional layer of obfuscation, it's useful-- it just should never be your only defense. People take the "never do security through obscurity" thing a little too literally.
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by Firehawke 5y ago
There's a fundamental mistake in this article. I quote: "But the “phone book” mental model might make you think that if you make a DNS query for google.com, you’ll always get the same result. And that’s not true at all!" Phon

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