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by TapamN 2y ago
Usually, speedruns aren't actually faster than the TAS, unless the speedrun used some new technique was developed after the TAS was made. Normally the biggest different is that TASes and regular speedruns use different methods of timin
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by TapamN 2y ago
>Possibly the earliest shipping game with stencil shadows is Severance: Blade of Darkness from 2001 whose shadows look great. Revolte, for the PowerVR PCX1, had stencil shadows in 1996. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bv
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by TapamN 2y ago
An LLM does have a model of reality. An LLM's reality is built on the experiences (words) it's been feed. Humans are similar. A human's reality is built on the experiences (senses) it's been feed. There definitely are se
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by TapamN 2y ago
It's not really the addressing modes, but the instruction format. Immediate values on RISC-V are not stored contiguously on certain RISC-V instructions. On all MIPS instructions, the bits for a immediate add, load constant, branch, etc
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by TapamN 2y ago
>Are delay slots unique to mips? No, several other architectures of that period have delay slots (80s/90s), and modern VLIWs/DSPs still often have them. Sometimes the slots longer than a single instruction.
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by TapamN 2y ago
Normal fluorescent lights will glow in a microwave. Mr. Wizard demonstrates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_iQ54aQ_-I
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by TapamN 2y ago
That seems to be what I remembered. I did try a few searches; But I didn't find it in the first few results of "byte magazine gpu" on Google, and my search on IA wasn't completing. I didn't feel like spending more t
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by TapamN 2y ago
I think I remember seeing the term GPU used in a Byte article from the 80s? It was a while ago when I saw it (~15 years), so I can't really remember any details.
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by TapamN 2y ago
I could have sworn I read on folklore.org that it was for speed, but I'm not finding it. You do have a point. Maybe Atkinson thought his dithering was more elegant without the multiplies or preferred how it looked on his test images. I
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by TapamN 2y ago
The point of Atkinson is that it's much faster than Floyd-Steinberg on old CPUs. Floyd-Steinberg requires multiplying most source pixel by a small number (3, 5, 7) and doing a right shift by 4. Atkinson is just doing a right shift by 3
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by TapamN 2y ago
I worked on a port of Micropolis to the Sega Dreamcast, but never finished it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlFu-y1LDbs One thing I really disliked about the SNES port of SimCity Classic was how slow the interface was. H
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by TapamN 2y ago
It's older than that. I remember that from ~2002, when I used POV-Ray for a class project.
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by TapamN 2y ago
I read the Epsom's Version PDF before the video was released, and the typesetting was absolutely terrible. https://imgur.com/a/wjK5br5 After the opening on how he's bothered by minor errors, I thought it had
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by TapamN 2y ago
I didn't realize that thread was totally paywalled. Here are direct links to two of the images: https://lpix.org/4545647/IMG_8335.jpeg https://lpix.org/4545648/IMG_8336.jpeg
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by TapamN 2y ago
There are a few here that are actually pretty good: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=40...
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by TapamN 2y ago
It looks like they're compressed sizes. If I gzip SMW.SMC, I get a 347 KB file. It's very misleading. There are other issues in there. The writer makes it sound like MVG was the one who discovered that the pause in SFA2 was from l
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by TapamN 3y ago
I don't have a source, but I think I remember reading somewhere that Switch games are some kind of archival flash, designed for 50+ year retention.
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by TapamN 3y ago
MDK2 on the Dreamcast did render-to-texture to do mirrors. https://youtu.be/-nVw_q3yEA4?t=210 The PC version lacked all R2T effects. The developers went with "Chaotic Insane", and replaced the mirrors with a color
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by TapamN 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Ants
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by TapamN 3y ago
I was wondering if pointer size is still a problem. Hopefully this explanation is clearer: int compare_char (const char *a, const char *b) { return strcmp(a, b); } int compare_void (const void *a1, const void *b1) {
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by TapamN 3y ago
>The reason for that is that C does not offer a generic function pointer type, and standard C disallows casts between function pointer types and object pointer types. I've wondered why this hasn't been relaxed a bit when void*
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by TapamN 3y ago
It's not because of their temperature. One version of the SH3 (single issue, at 80 MHz) is speced at 260 mW. The SH4 used in the Dreamcast (dual issue at 200 MHz), seems to be 4W. Hitachi apparently had a trademark on "Cool Engine
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by TapamN 3y ago
Yes, I do Dreamcast homebrew, and even with GCC 12.2, the compiler does such stupid, stupid things. The SH has addressing modes for postincrement reads and predecrement writes, so something like var = *ptr++; can be compiled down to
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by TapamN 3y ago
I have a German magazine/pamphlet from 1985 for IBM's 75th anniversary. It omits any reference to IBM's involvement in genealogical processing, and instead mentions things like the the Mark I, the Z3, and von Neumann. Low eff
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by TapamN 3y ago
I haven't done much on it since then. While it's something I would like to finish, I realized that there are other, higher priority things that I should do first.
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by TapamN 3y ago
I do Dreamcast homebrew, and my opinion is the SH ISA is way over-optimized for 90's embedded applications. It wastes the tiny instruction space on useless things like read-modify-write bit operations, intended for setting hardware reg
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by TapamN 3y ago
These "advantages" to sealing the battery are incredibly weak/false. The weight difference from sealing the battery is negligible. If it saved several hundred of grams, it would one thing, but a replaceable battery adds at mo
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by TapamN 3y ago
On the topic of the Dreamcast: the writer of the article, Jörg Tittel, appeared in the Dreamcast comedy horror game, Illbleed. https://illbleed.fandom.com/wiki/Jorg_S_Baker
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by TapamN 3y ago
On Firefox, go to View, Page Style, No Style to make it readable without JavaScript.
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by TapamN 3y ago
Ruputer/OnHand PC? Another smartwatch from late 90's/early 2000s. The specs were on part with the original Mac, 128KB RAM, with 102x64 pixel display and 2MB of flash, but VERY sluggish OS and poor battery life (but still bett

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