asiekierka

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by asiekierka 1mo ago
I had no issue with the toolchain, as I happened to work on a game (ZZT) whose toolchain of choice was documented by the author himself (well, he was off by one Turbo Pascal release). Lucky! What took me the most time was actually the begin
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by asiekierka 2mo ago
> All no$gba program code, both emulation and user interface, is all hand-crafted and pure assembler code. https://problemkaputt.de/gba-dev.htm
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by asiekierka 2mo ago
I think it is more likely that the "amazing" things, as described, will become mundane, thus shifting the definition of what becomes interesting or noteworthy. Even then, I believe people who continue to write by hand will still b
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by asiekierka 3mo ago
Does it being a creative transformation rob the derivative work status? Personally, I'd liken the process of decompilation to that of translating a book from one language to another - the copyright on the original work does not become
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by asiekierka 8mo ago
For whatever it's worth, the one resource I recall for DS homebrew dev with Rust is https://github.com/SeleDreams/libnds-rs , but it hasn't been maintained in a while.
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by asiekierka 10mo ago
For the sake of public record, I would like to state that I was doing nothing "behind the scenes". My part of the conversation in question is public - I was pinged as a gbdev Discord community member and that is the extent of my &
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by asiekierka 10mo ago
It is not possible to create a license that would satisfy the Free Software Foundation's "four freedoms" while also solving the issues many of those vendors have with the AGPL. At the same time, the "source available&quo
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by asiekierka 10mo ago
We already know what the main remaining issue is - LLVM-MOS's register allocator is far from optimal for the 6502 architecture. mysterymath is slowly working on what may become a more sutiable allocator.
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by asiekierka 10mo ago
Here's a benchmark of all modern 6502 C compilers: https://thred.github.io/c-bench-64/ - do note that binary sizes also include the size of the standard libraries, which means it is not a full picture of the code
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by asiekierka 1y ago
> it creates a huge disincentive to those who want to create open platforms since it is going to be nearly impossible for them to get any traction when they are up against jailbroken devices from huge multinational corporations. I'm
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by asiekierka 1y ago
> Thing is, GPL requires you to explicitly allow that behavior, so HBC can't use GPL software. Couldn't, not at the time. HBC has been open-sourced some time ago, sans DRM, as the Wii has long lost commercial relevance beyond e
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by asiekierka 2y ago
IIRC, at least a few years ago, Mumfrey had a tendency to develop Mixin in private and only push the commit backlog for releases, leading to periods of time where no activity was publicly visible. (Also IIRC, this is part of the reason why
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by asiekierka 4y ago
Doe it literally check for the specific solution? Writing to = append(to, ctrl) which is functionally equivalent and, in my personal opinion, with clearer intent (ctrl = 0 at that point in the code), returns "incorrect".
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by asiekierka 4y ago
The Linux kernel did not even compile on most non-GCC compilers (like LLVM) as recently as a few years ago: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Clang-Kernel-2018 Therefore, for the Linux kernel specifically, I think the only
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by asiekierka 4y ago
The key words are "optimized" and "OpenGL 4.6 with Zink". "Functional" and "OpenGL 2.1" is a different story, and the same trustworthy source said in https://rosenzweig.io/blog/as
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by asiekierka 4y ago
Yes, the Apple laptops need a whole host of proprietary blobs for bringup and firmware.
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by asiekierka 4y ago
For me personally, there's a few reasons: 1. It's a kind of code golf - or rather, it's about seeing how much one can squeeze out of a highly limited and fixed platform. Writing this, I think of things like Mahoney's Cub
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by asiekierka 4y ago
For me at least, an AMD/Intel desktop box plus its multi-year power bill still is likely to come out cheaper than a comparable Apple desktop or high-end laptop plus its multi-year power bill. The lower-end Apple laptops are not an opti
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by asiekierka 4y ago
The only world in which fair product reviews lead to no product review units whatsoever is one in which no company ever actually considers their own product to be of quality. Ultimately, follow-ups are rare because they don't sell -
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by asiekierka 4y ago
3DMM was a lucky one, because Microsoft and Foone managed to get sign-offs from the rightsholders of third-party code utilized. Not even Windows 1.0x, 2.0x, or 3.x got open-sourced. In terms of complete operating systems, we got source code
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by asiekierka 4y ago
If $30k is at stake, it might be better to spend a little bit more money and ask a professional lawyer.
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by asiekierka 5y ago
Drastic had its own, recently open-sourced, reimplementation of the BIOS which claimed to be clean-room.
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by asiekierka 5y ago
Regarding image compression, have you considered using jpegrescan on top of mogrify resizing? In my experience, it can shave off a few percent losslessly. https://github.com/kud/jpegrescan
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by asiekierka 5y ago
Presumably it targets the Homebrew Channel, not Nintendo's official methods.
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by asiekierka 5y ago
I was thinking specifically of the BBS platforms of the early 90s, not the descendants of Ayashii/2channel.
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by asiekierka 5y ago
The page linked was targetted to community oldbies who haven't been around for the last few years and the revival of the scene. If you're new to ZZT, try https://museumofzzt.com/about-zzt instead.
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by asiekierka 5y ago
That quote you brought up is referencing, in a veiled manner, a specific time and events in the past of a specific, major ZZT community. The people who were harassed then certainly didn't deserve it. Some oldbies feel guilty, in retros
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by asiekierka 5y ago
Obligatory PSA: If you have any backups of community ZZT game worlds from the 90s and early 00s, please let us know! The past year has brought hundreds of rediscovered worlds, previously lost or not known about, particularly from the AOL er
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by asiekierka 6y ago
The save file check is separate to the SECRET flag, but they are both meant to not be editable. (Of course, community-made external editors like KevEdit lift this restriction.)
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by asiekierka 6y ago
For the past 2-3 years, I've been working on archiving many of these games made by the ZZT and MegaZeux communities. I do have to say, though, that the DigitalMZX administrators have already been making attempts to keep track of and lo

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