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by asiekierka 6y ago
To be exact, what you're editing is an array of ten 20-byte Pascal strings (so length-prefixed) which contain the world's flags. A ZZT Object can set or clear flags which are carried across boards; this mechanism was repurposed to
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by asiekierka 6y ago
The amount of worthwhile short games and art created with ZZT in the past has always made me feel rather astonished. That people are still making new, high-quality productions in it in the present - even moreso. By the way - If you're
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by asiekierka 6y ago
ZZT Ultra is an older project to try and re-implement ZZT in ActionScript 3; it did receive an HTML5 port attempt a few years later, though. The best way to play ZZT on the web currently is to use the dedicated Zeta emulator; it's inte
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by asiekierka 6y ago
Minor correction regarding Zeta: It's still technically an emulator of a DOS environment - just an incredibly bare-bones one, with enough implemented to run ZZT/Super ZZT and little more. However, being made to run a specific exec
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by asiekierka 6y ago
I'd like to ask a fairly specific question as a ZZT archivist/researcher; it's okay if you don't remember the answer. Based on interviews with Tim Sweeney, it is said that he would let other people playtest pre-release v
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by asiekierka 6y ago
>People would ship games they called toolboxes. The term was "toolkits". While most probably followed the convention due to Alexis Janson's 1994 Super Tool Kit, or STK - which utilized hex editing to unlock far more color
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by asiekierka 6y ago
Libreboot does not support modern Intel hardware, as it refuses to include proprietary binary blobs. Coreboot is another story entirely.
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by asiekierka 7y ago
Remember that this would probably be much more difficult for modern compilers with their large stacks of optimizations!
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by asiekierka 7y ago
There's an entire genre at the Museum of ZZT dedicated specifically to in-game "magazines" covering community-created games and previews -> https://museumofzzt.com/search?genre=Magazine
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by asiekierka 7y ago
To correct that a little: - I'd love to give a more detailed explanation, but I've never managed to consistently operate a blog, so that might need to wait a while. - After getting some perspective, I may have overexaggerated the
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by asiekierka 7y ago
They indeed were; ZZT is far from the first game creation tool. However, most of those were either commercial products or restricted the editing capabilities in some manner to free users. ZZT was shareware, but the registered version differ
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by asiekierka 7y ago
>I remember the shareware versions that I downloaded from my friendly neighborhood BBS offered the source code for a fee; a large fee, if memory serves. None of the BBS releases for ZZT we found have such a statement; though I do think t
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by asiekierka 7y ago
Incorrect. Japanese Blu-Ray releases do have HDR, but not 4K; and the former is only available in Panasonic's proprietary format, which is exclusive to their very-high-end players.
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by asiekierka 7y ago
PSA: These are bootleg movie collections, not authorized or licensed from the Studio itself. The only official collection in the Western market, IIRC, is the Disney-released Hayao Miyazaki collection.
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by asiekierka 7y ago
Did they make the decision, or did Snopes ask them to blacklist their website?
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by asiekierka 8y ago
Yes, as far as I know both the Tegra 3 and K1 are vulnerable.
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by asiekierka 8y ago
The exploit concerns most Tegra chips currently on the market, not just the Nintendo Switch. Those are used in, for example, cars. I believe that was part of the reason. Not to mention, it's not patchable without a hardware revision,
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by asiekierka 9y ago
You can, nowadays, use a BIOS patch and an X220 palmrest to put the X220 keyboard into an X230.
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by asiekierka 9y ago
The Nintendo Switch runs a modified version of the 3DS OS, not FreeBSD. It does use the (Free?)BSD network stack, however.
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by asiekierka 10y ago
My apologies. Way too often I hear people in the Minecraft community say everything would be magically fixed if the game had simply used C++ in place of Java. I guess I'm too quick to jump on people using "C++", "high pe
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by asiekierka 10y ago
>very high-performance C++ C++ does not automatically mean "very high-performance". A lot of users get worse framerates than with Minecraft (not everyone, though!), and the entity/"mob" code used to be insanely s
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by asiekierka 10y ago
One of the bigger arguments is also "it only works on Linux, what about BSDs, OS X, etc.?"
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by asiekierka 11y ago
IC2 never stopped development, it just became... different.
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by asiekierka 11y ago
Actually, most mods are not closed source anymore and most modders moved to CurseForge over adf.ly (which is not perfect, I admit, but much better). This is not 2012.
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by asiekierka 11y ago
The Minetest API is itself a bit more primitive, as it's server-side-only Lua scripting as opposed to essentially hacking the whole game engine inside out with zero security involved. As for modpacks, they add a lot of RAM usage especi
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by asiekierka 11y ago
Oh, I see - MySQL is taking so long to process the queries that php-fpm runs out of free processes. Trying to "fix" it... Update: I commented out most of the main page, but now at least the rest works. Yay. Needs caching. I'l
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by asiekierka 11y ago
Hello! I am actually the maintainer of the site, and an active user back in its heyday. It is largely kept in maintenance mode, as the codebase is reminiscent of the year 2006 (as was passed on to me from the creators - if not for a rewrite
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by asiekierka 11y ago
It sounds blissful, yes, but then there are many serious problems with that when applied to the concept of someone growing up: All their friends are most likely using websites running propietary client-side code to communicate, enjoying the
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by asiekierka 11y ago
I think plugins like NoCheatPlus did something about it, but with more and more conservative cheat detection methods you start running into the edge cases of legitimate users.
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by asiekierka 11y ago
Bukkit? This does not sound very client side. Even if it runs on LAN, you're still only touching the integrated server. Client-side scripting in Minecraft-esque modding would probably mean things like being able to create proper, inter

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