OnlyMortal

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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
I seem to remember running this back then. I also remember OmniWeb which was a great browser for the time.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
It’s still a dumb way to do computation. The Boost library hides the implementation away though, on Linux and Macintosh, it requires gomp. Really, it’s a wrapper but makes it “easier” for scientists to use who are, in general, not good code
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
What are you talking about? In C++ you have ASIO (Boost) that’s mostly used for IPC but can be used as a general purpose async event queue. There is io_uring support too. You can sit a pool of threads as the consumers for events if you want
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
Amateur! Use a barcode font!
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
I bought a C64 and SD card a few years ago. I enjoyed running up a few technical masterpieces - like DropZone - but the gaming interest has waned. I don’t code 6502 nowadays but I’m active on r/c64.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
Good point. It’s the problem solving. Thing is I’ve solved so many problems, over the years at different companies, that there aren’t many new ones. Obviously, I can knock out the code quickly to the surprise of many. It’s just experience a
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
I’m 55. Started as a 6502 cracker on the C64. I still get enjoyment out of some coding - C++ on Linux for enterprise applications - but I do miss the “magic”.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
EU.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
As an Obj-C guy, if I declare a method as input only and no return, it can run async in the run loop. I assume Smalltalk can do the same?
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
That might be a good idea if space suits are available. It would be risky, tbf.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
I recall opening a Plus and seeing engraved signatures.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
Flint like “churt” used to make tools way back when?
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
Back in the late 80s, the Mac MPW C compiler would create a stack frame every time you used a brace bracket. As a 68k coder (from Amiga)I often looked at the code generated and re-write the pinch points in assembler. A Boyer-Moore text sear
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
Uninteresting fact: I did the code to download TomTom map updates. Mozilla XUL app. The XML required a good 4GB of RAM to load the model. So… I just read the stream to get to the token I needed and read until the end token. Obviously, it wa
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
Used: the Boost C++ libraries. In particular ASIO. Variant has also been very useful. The Mac GUSI BSD socket library is worth a mention too. I built a multithreaded Quark XPress XTension with it that used PowerPlant for UI. Quark even want
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
Interesting read. I come from a C64 origin, cracking games and writing crack intros, where I’d use sprite multiplexing to do top and bottom border sprite scrollers. You could do side borders too if you timed it correctly. Either there were
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
This just reminded me of the “secret” bitmap of the dev team hidden in the OS. I recall using Macsbug to show it.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
If I recall correctly, there was a version of MPI, or something similar, that could be used.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
It depends what you mean by emulation. For instance, I ported a 6502 interpreter from UNIX to Classic Macintosh back in the day. This was to play SID music files. So long as it ran fast enough, clock cycle accuracy wasn’t important. It work
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
Interface Builder was a marvel.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
In our case it was display postscript. We wrote a WYSIWYG editor for Yellow Pages (Gouden Gids in NL). It was also used for the Golden Pages in Ireland, the Puerto Rico YP, the YP for Norway, the YP in SA and the NTT one in Japan. Understan
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
It was so bad, some arseholes started a war at the end of the decade.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
It’s impulsive if it’s blindly obvious. Someone of intelligence would find that so and have no need to reflect or even think about it.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
If memory serves, JPI did a Modula2 compiler that looked quite a bit like Turbo Pascal. http://www.edm2.com/index.php/TopSpeed_Modula-2
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
With Skate or Die, it’d pull a byte off the genuine disk and use it to decrypt (xor) a loop immediately after the current PC. I think it went through about five iterations. My crack was to step it with the original disk to decrypt the encry
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
Good point about 8bit self modifying code. The UK C64 disk for “Skate or Die” had copy protection that did exactly that, as an example.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
“So long and thanks for all the fish”
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
There are tunnels that appear to have been created by volcano lava. Lava tubes.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
Heh. I recall seeing him at a show in London. He was very tall, as I recall.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
Top tip: ensure your ASIO code is not exported from a shared library. I’ve been hit by Cephfs using some version and my own code using another. The fixes were simple though. Edit: as for performance, I’d not focus on that too much. It’ll de

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