badsectoracula

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by badsectoracula 4mo ago
> A pointer to 0xA0000 was all you needed Though your extender could make things a little more annoying on that front :-P (DJGPP and Free Pascal -which use the same "go32" extender by DJ Delorie- do not do a full linear mapping
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by badsectoracula 4mo ago
Yeah, even this model[0] i made a few years ago for a game i wanted to make for the OG xbox (which has a GeForce3-like GPU) has ~2230 triangles and the entire first level of Post Apocalyptic Petra is ~5800 triangles, so you could say that e
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by badsectoracula 4mo ago
Unless you plan on rendering the level on some very retro hardware (think S3 Virge, maybe Voodoo 1) you can render the entire level in OpenGL with just zbuffer and alpha tested sprites and it'll run perfectly fine - if anything with
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by badsectoracula 4mo ago
As a side note, the visual style in the game reminds me a lot of Exhumed / Powerslave :-).
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by badsectoracula 4mo ago
> Duke Nukem as well used a BSP engine The Build engine didn't use BSP, it treated connections between sectors as portals and rasterized the walls as (90 degree rotated) trapezoids while performing clipping against those portals. Th
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by badsectoracula 4mo ago
A lot of boomer shooters nowadays have a female protagonist, e.g. Selaco[0], Supplice[1], The Citadel[2] and its sequel[3], Zortch[4] (and its upcoming sequel[5]), Nighmare Reaper[6], COVEN[7], Viscerafest[8], Hedon[9], etc. If anything i&#
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by badsectoracula 4mo ago
Nice, i've used similar approach for the lighting in Post Apocalyptic Petra[0] though i did use per-pixel LUT offset calculation[1] because it uses a generic 3D triangle rasterizer (the levels are based on grids like in Tomb Raider bu
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by badsectoracula 4mo ago
Well, for a more positive comment (since everything seems to be negative - and nobody brought that up) the site is very fast. In fact pretty much everything changes instantly when i click on stuff, which is very rare. The only exception see
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by badsectoracula 4mo ago
It is not about being able to make static binaries or really anything that has to do with anything technical. It is more of a cultural thing - the culture in some languages is to link dependencies dynamically (C/C++) whereas the cultur
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by badsectoracula 4mo ago
Not the person who wrote that but i also avoid anything related to Flatpak. The reason is that it adds a lot of extra friction to anything it touches (despite what its proponents may claim), apps ignore various settings, it wastes disk spac
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by badsectoracula 4mo ago
TBH i actually haven't tried that at all (or "skills" in general since my PC isn't fast enough for doing much more than chatbot-style interactions with maybe the occasional -custom- MCP server to let it access files, ext
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by badsectoracula 4mo ago
I've heard about this but i prefer to avoid anything cloud based (not just for AI but in general). I try to avoid relying on stuff i have little to no control over.
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by badsectoracula 4mo ago
Yes, TBH one of the reasons i want to try and finetune my own is to teach it stuff that now i have to explain before anything can be done :-P. Unfortunately i only have a 24GB GPU - and an AMD one at that - so there isn't much i can do
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by badsectoracula 4mo ago
The information about finetuning is interesting (it is something i'd like to do myself at some point, though i'll wait until i can do it with local hardware :-P). However FWIW LLMs are generally good at following a specific style
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by badsectoracula 4mo ago
I don't really use Plasma itself (and soon i wont even be able to if the rumors of them dropping X11 support are to be believed) but i do use various KDE apps, like Krita (which i use for most painting stuff), Kate (my main programming
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by badsectoracula 4mo ago
Last time i checked (and DOSBox hasn't made an official release since then) the vanilla DOSBox isn't able to run the game i made for an MS-DOS game jam a few years ago[0] because it doesn't implement RDTSC properly (that the
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by badsectoracula 4mo ago
> "anthropos" just means "human" in ancient Greek FWIW it means human in modern Greek too :-P
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by badsectoracula 5mo ago
The physics engine glitching is very realistic :-P
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by badsectoracula 5mo ago
When i wrote that comment i checked gsmarena and it looked to me that it cannot get the latest Android, meaning that even if it gets some minor version upgrade, it wont be long before that stops.
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by badsectoracula 5mo ago
I did check gsmarena and it looked to me that it cannot get the latest Android.
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by badsectoracula 5mo ago
I meant UI stuff like the desktop metaphor (Macintosh also had one but Win95's approach was more popular and mimicked in other environments), the start menu, the taskbar, etc, some newly introduced controls like tabs (i think OS&#x2F
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by badsectoracula 5mo ago
I know about the theme, i'm using Window Maker which uses a theme closer to NextStep and occasionally i hack on a toolkit[0] that has a Next-ish look (and feel, to some extent). However i meant stuff like the desktop metaphor (Macintos
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by badsectoracula 5mo ago
AFAIK[0] they are (usually) so-called "special" tokens - e.g <|turn> is token id 105 for the vocabulary Gemma4 uses. When you are tokenizing text you can either tokenize the "<|turn>" as a single token (105)
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by badsectoracula 5mo ago
> not to be confused with the somewhat baffling llama_chat_apply_template exposed in the libllama API, which hardcodes a handful of chat formats directly in C++ As someone who is tinkering with a desktop-based inference app in FLTK[0], i
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by badsectoracula 5mo ago
> the Windows binary works if you install its library dependencies (wine). Yes but all it takes is an `apt-get install wine` or `zypper install wine` or `pacman -S wine` or your distro equivalent and if you are using a Linux distro with
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by badsectoracula 5mo ago
Why not <= then? I'd expect both < and = to be available.
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by badsectoracula 5mo ago
I don't know about converting it to "high concurrent Go" or anything like that, but after searching a bit, i found some old PRG code for dBase III Plus someone posted in a googlegroup, gave it to Devstral Small 2 (local model
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by badsectoracula 5mo ago
There is: this one. Win95's UI was so incredibly influential that stuff introduced by it are still around to this day.
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by badsectoracula 5mo ago
There is Phorge which is a community fork.
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by badsectoracula 5mo ago
Unfortunately it is from 2022, meaning no OS upgrades. I think the next mandatory laws EU should pass is that manufacturers should either allow people to upgrade/replace the OS by themselves or provide mandatory upgrades for the next d

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