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by TapamN 3y ago
Fun fact: It's possible to password protect apps using the PC software with a two character password (there's no encryption, it's just intended to slow down anyone from casually examining user data if they happen to find the
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by TapamN 3y ago
I got one of these for my birthday in 2003, and I'm still using it. The Data Link USB "only" has a battery life of about a year. The 3-year life Data Link would be the older model, that optically received data from a PC by wa
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by TapamN 3y ago
A society can do multiple things at a time, and it's a more efficient use of resources to do so. Progress made in an activity versus resources put into it is generally logarithmic or even asymptotic when investing extreme amounts of re
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by TapamN 3y ago
>C was designed to let compilers have a field day so that 1980s supercomputers could get 5% more FP performance, by hook or by crook. C was designed to help create Unix. It just happened to turn out to be something that could be compiled
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by TapamN 3y ago
Explaining the joke/reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsgnrYog6W0
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by TapamN 3y ago
I didn't make StrongForth, I just based my own Forth on it. I've really only used it in my game engine.
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by TapamN 3y ago
Might not be quite what you're thinking of, but for typed Forth, there's StrongForth, which is statically typed. I wrote a Forth-based scripting system for Dreamcast homebrew, and used StrongForth's type system in it. I would
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by TapamN 3y ago
Does this have the Nintendo logo in the ROM header? Real GameBoys check the ROM for an image containing Nintendo's logo during boot up as a way to prevent unlicensed games. The idea is, to make a GMB/GBC boot, you must at least co
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by TapamN 3y ago
I'm adapting QOA to the Dreamcast for streaming music. I've modified it to use 32-bit little endian values instead of 64-bit since (besides avoiding having to byteswap) the CPU in the Dreamcast is badly suited for 64-bit shifts. F
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by TapamN 3y ago
I loathe things "magically" disappearing and reappearing. I want a predictable, consistent interface. I can work faster when things are consistent. Scrollbars, besides allowing me to jump around in a document, give me an indicatio
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by TapamN 4y ago
If someone from Framework is reading this, page up and page down are among my most used keys. Having to use an extra hand for something so common is crazy. I absolutely will not buy a laptop or standalone keyboard without dedicated page up
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by TapamN 4y ago
StrongForth ( http://www.arestlessmind.org/2009/02/03/intro.html ) is a statically typed Forth that checks (and requires!) the annotations. It traces how the stack changes after every operation, and guarantees
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by TapamN 4y ago
I did a bit of work on re-implementing SC2K years ago (it was going to be called "21st Century Micropolis") that never got much further than creating asset rippers, a city viewer, and researching into how the simulation works. Not
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by TapamN 4y ago
There are a few homebrew releases that used WinCE, but that makes up something like 1% or less of homebrew software. I think there was some MP3 player, a 3D FPS that was never released, and a Duke3D port? Maybe a couple more? KallistiOS is,
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by TapamN 4y ago
That really seems like something that should generate warning, when a value assigned to a size_t was cast to a type smaller than size_t from a value that was as >= size_t. size_t v; //64-bit size_t v = (unsigned)0xff0000
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by TapamN 4y ago
The light gun used by the arcade version of House of the Dead 2 (and I think Virtua Cop 3 and Ghost Squad) also worked the same way as the Wii Remote's pointer, using a camera in the controller to sense infrared LEDs. So the screen doe
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by TapamN 4y ago
I replaced the batteries on my three US Dreamcasts earlier this year. Each one had a different sized battery. My VA0 revision console, with a date code of July 1999, had the largest battery with a Sanyo ML2430. My other two were VA1 revisio
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by TapamN 4y ago
Eh. I really don't like the majority of 2D Mario. I find that Mario games are only somewhat enjoyable the first time though, and get even less interesting if you try to replay it. The good Sonic games are enjoyable the first time thoug
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by TapamN 4y ago
It was only Phantasy Star Online that used Beats.
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by TapamN 4y ago
I wrote and tested SuperH assembly on the Jornada. The 32X and Dreamcast both use a SuperH CPU like the Jornada, so if the assembly works on the Jornada (baring some instruction set differences), it works on the others. In particular, one t
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by TapamN 4y ago
I have a small collection of Windows CE devices ( https://imgur.com/a/Mn15nab ) because a few years ago I wanted something pocket sized with a physical keyboard to program on (I use a Comso Communicator now). All of the
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by TapamN 4y ago
I don't understand what the advantage of an expansion card that sticks out like that is over using something external on a cable. The main point of the self contained expansions is that you are unlikely to loose them and they can safel
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by TapamN 4y ago
A quick search shows that LOADALL can only be run from ring 0, so the same might be true for STOREALL. So ring 0 kernel could use STOREALL to return to real mode, but ring 3 user code would probably get an illegal instruction trap.
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by TapamN 4y ago
For some kind of write once archival storage, it would probably still have a use. But with flash that fragile, I'd be worried about how sensitive to read disturb it would be.
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by TapamN 4y ago
The reason no one would accept the 999999/1 split is because it is a terrible choice from an evolutionary perspective. You're getting pretty much nothing while your genetic competitor gets a huge advantage. This is not rational. N
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by TapamN 4y ago
>had half the VRAM removed at the last minute I've never heard anything suggesting that video RAM was removed. AFAIK, the SNES was planned to have only 8KB of main RAM, which was increased to 128KB by release. I think any support fo
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by TapamN 5y ago
Install FFUpdater, then you can use that to install Brave.
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by TapamN 5y ago
The CPU in the PlayStation is nowhere near a 90 MHz Pentium. The CPUs in the Saturn, PlayStation, and N64 were single issue, and could execute at most one instruction per clock. The Pentium was superscalar and could execute two instructions
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by TapamN 5y ago
There's some activity on the mailing list.
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by TapamN 5y ago
I think the main problem is that the mutation rate and transfer rate of memes is still optimized for tribal settings. Most mutations are disadvantageous, but if you never mutate, then you can never improve, so you need some mutations to mak

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