MenhirMike

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by MenhirMike 2y ago
Oh, there's plenty of good uses for it, but I was specifically wondering why the previous poster cared for it being RDNA 2 instead of RDNA 3 since I don't think it makes a difference outside of gaming, and it's a pretty bad g
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
Yeah, I have several GT 710's which also came in a PCIe x1 variant so I could keep the x16 slot free for something better. Glad that's no longer needed - the built-in GPU is a legit good thing.
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
Good point. Makes me wonder if they'd consider a Threadripper version that uses that chipset, since the Non-Pro Threadripper have been in a weird spot ever since Ryzen went up to 16 cores. An AM5 Threadripper might not make sense becau
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
Non-Pro Threadripper 7960X/7970X/7980X are Quad Channel. (The Threadripper Pro's are Octa-Channel) But yeah, Desktop Ryzen's are all Dual Channel.
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
Given that there are only 2 CUs in the GPU (and fairly low clock speeds), does the architecture matter much? Benchmarks were kinda terrible, and it looks to me that the intent of the built-in GPU is for hardware video encoding or to run it
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
If you follow people of certain hobbies - for example, retro computing - then it's a great way to discover others sharing the same interest. You can check their timeline to see if that's someone you want to follow or just choose n
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
That makes it harder to find new accounts to follow though. I would say that the vast majority of accounts that I follow were discovered because other people that I follow retweeted (or boosted in the case of Mastodon) them.
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
Indeed it was! https://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
I'm not aware of any direct copier, most disk duplicators that were sold to regular people were just a bunch of floppy drives with regular disk copy software. These days, there is the delightfully named Greaseweazle ( https:/&#x2F
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
That makes sense, I do remember some Commodore 64 games that even a Nibbler couldn't properly duplicate, and how some people modified their 1541 drives to have a different timing to work with some of that stuff.
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
Still could be worse. For example, the King's Quest 8 Master CD-ROM contained a copy of King's Quest 8.
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
Yeah, Duplication Houses usually duplicate the disk sector-by-sector, instead of on a file system level. (This makes a lot of sense, because it allowed the disk to contain any file system). But that also means that data that was still on th
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
It did apparently happen with quite a few games, where the Master Disk wasn't a brand new disk but some random disk that someone formatted and sent over to duplication. There are other games where cut content or early source code was r
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
And if the 2020 remake* is anything to go by, this should be amazing. If you want to play Myst, get the 2020 version. *not to be confused with the 2000 Masterpiece Edition, the 2000 remake RealMyst or the 2014 remake realMyst: Masterpiece E
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
Yes, yes it is.
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
> I also remember it being pretty fast on the G3 Mac's when they first came out. One of the comments that Steve Jobs made in the Boston 1997 speech was "No one at Apple has reached out to Adobe to ask how to build the ultimate
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
40 years of the Rumpelstiltskin puzzle (that also depends on a misspelling of the character as Rumplestiltskin). Thankfully, that puzzle was optional at least, unless you wanted to full score. I can't say that I love or even like any o
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
Yes! Anytime you see a function signature like "int timeout", it's safe to assume that the unit is in femtoseconds and pass a gigantic number while you curse out the incompetence of the developer. Either name your variables c
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
So, a bit like docker container commit but actually good?
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
> defining constants for 0-999 That person might just be an old school Java <5 developer.
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
Plot twist: Ray Tracing was the name of a person that was very important to both of them and unfortunately passed away, so they named their son Ray as a tribute.
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
Could name the building "Grenfell Tower S.F.".
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
Someone already mentioned Mike Bison, but FWIW, in the fighting game community - which includes people from Japan and outside of Japan - those characters are generally called "Boxer", "Claw", and "Dictator" spe
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
Somebody also just recently discovered that Shin Akuma is playable on the SNES version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF2AiG2MN2I Between this and the SA-1 fixes for Gradius III and Super R-Type, we live in a golden age o
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
That's actually a pretty good question. The NTR-031 IR cartridges were used for a few games, and there was also one for Motion Sensors and a TV Antenna. From what I can see, it looks like even though they can't extend the function
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
Some Details on the Doom Wiki ( https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Super_NES ): Randy Linden, the port's sole programmer, initiated the port of Doom for the Super NES on his own initially, as he was fascinated by the game. S
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
I do really like how cartridges on the old systems were essentially equivalent to a PCI Expansion Card in a PC. It was directly connected to the Bus and could do essentially anything. Sadly, that practice ended after the GameBoy Advance, an
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by MenhirMike 2y ago
In the US, the people that were born in the 1950s got to spend their teenage years not knowing if the Soviet Union is going to start World War III (the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 was definitely a forming event for many teenage minds), the
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
From the comments, it even seems to account for some instructions needing an extra cycle when crossing page boundaries, nice! This seems pretty comprehensive then.
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by MenhirMike 3y ago
> You just copy office 97 and can't go wrong with it. Clippy had its debut in Office 97, so let's please NOT copy that one. Other than that, yeah, I agree. Anything up to and including Office 2003 really, those were all great.

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