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by bullen 5y ago
I'm still using my Thinkpad X61s. Nothing today even comes close, and never will.
692.
by bullen 5y ago
Try going into space with a lithium battery powered rocket.
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by bullen 5y ago
Ok, but what is the point of a non-VR client? VR does not blend well with non VR unless the headset is the camera! Last time I checked both of those where 1st person not 3rd?
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by bullen 5y ago
Because, if you haven't noticed, we are running out of energy? Basic is not performant enough to make games that are interesting. If you could afford a 286/386 you are not really in the majority of the human population.
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by bullen 5y ago
Tech. optimism is predatory on the generations that follow if they turn out to not happen. And I don't know how many cameras on the back of your iPhone before you realize it still only takes 2D photos? I think you need to understand th
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by bullen 5y ago
1. Electricity is not an energy source, you need to burn something else to create it. 2. Wind, Solar, Nuclear and Hydro can not be built with electricity at scale, you need coal, oil and gas to melt steel and burn lime stone for concrete. 3
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by bullen 5y ago
msie name checks out?
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by bullen 5y ago
It's easier than ever to copy games. If you cannot create original concepts the real value of a game is zero! And you can only create new things if you control the fundamentals. Good luck with money, it's going to get complicated
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by bullen 5y ago
If your game is based on technology you dont understand you don't really own it until you can recreate that stack... this means litteraly nobody owns anything if applied to the extreme (OS + language) but if you use an engine that is s
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by bullen 5y ago
The reality is that the only tech all companies are hiding in plain sight is Skin Mesh Animation and Unity doesn't even implement that in a vertex shader! They use a compute shader which means they have to send all meshes every frame.
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by bullen 5y ago
They are making games they don't own on knowledge they don't own, that they can't sell for real money without being exploited.
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by bullen 5y ago
None of those are source available with affordable commercial license. Minecraft is owned by Microsoft and has issues (does not run on ARM well and the Java/Bedrock are incompatible) Roblox is extortion and ugly. VR Chat is only VR. Ne
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by bullen 5y ago
True, but the energy consumption is key: Raspberry 4 draws 1/3 of a C64 at 1000x perf, at 2Gflops/W not even the M1 (at 2.5Gflops/w) chip is hurting that stat with 5nm vs. 28nm for the Raspberry. Tools are peaking and linux w
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by bullen 5y ago
The whole thing reads like a tragic waste to me. Too bad you couldn't code assembly on a C64/Amiga out of the box properly either. Now with the Raspberry 4 we finally after 40 years of corporate shenanigans have something where ki
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by bullen 5y ago
Programming is the final art. The only reason it's classified as "infrastructure" is that programmers are letting themselves be exploited. Open-source is the key, "source available" is the path. Am I the ony one tha
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by bullen 5y ago
The best way to connect old composite/s-video devices to a modern screen is through the GV-USB2 japaneese capture dongle. Very low latency so perfect for gaming. Resolution is too low for anything else really. Unfortunately it only has
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by bullen 5y ago
"Wanna know one that doesn’t? Java. I know right? How often do you get to say, “Yeah, Java is the one that really does this right.”? But there you go."
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by bullen 5y ago
I use composite on my A1200 because RGB -> anything means trouble with signals and latency. My GV-USB2 capture dongle has zero latency and I only play games.
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by bullen 5y ago
Everything can do anything, you need to look at what the majority did. And not even 0.0000001% of NES/Famicom owners had a keyboard and a disk drive and out of those probably 0% did any coding since Nintendo to this day does not allow
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by bullen 5y ago
Sure, but the RGB standard did not survive so the Amigas are for all intents and purposes limited by composite out of the box today. Again everything can do anything.
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by bullen 5y ago
To me the NES is the precursor of Apple and Google with closed systems that preys on the discovery of the home computer and creates waste (cartridges) when software can be written to re-writeable media (cassettes, floppies and network). C64
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by bullen 5y ago
You need to change your laws to make that TOS illegal. I have mailed the Swedish govt. agency that controls telecom (PTS, "Post och Tele Styrelsen" or "Post Traumatic Stress" both work in this case). ISPs should have to
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by bullen 5y ago
Interesting, we have done very similar things in completely different ways: http://github.com/tinspin (I made my own HTTP server and JSON database and on top of that I made a cloud platform with multiplayer games).
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by bullen 5y ago
I use sandboxes instead of containers. If you can stick to using Java the JVM can hot-deploy code in real-time without any downtime. It leaks memory but if your systems are minimalist you don't need anything else than one JVM process p
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by bullen 5y ago
What was wrong with the PS4?
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by bullen 5y ago
How do you measure watts? First answer on google: "maximal power consumption is around 50 watts" Firestorm is GPU (again google has little info) I'm talking CPU for the Raspberry. The Raspberry 4 GPU uses 1W. You are conflati
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by bullen 5y ago
There is not a single page on the whole internet that states Gflops and Watt on the same page, I did 2 googlings: "apple g13 gflops" and "apple g13 watt"... the results where completely disturbing seen this info should b
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by bullen 5y ago
Nope, 1030 has 37 Gflops/W... G13 786/20W = 40... and that's 14nm vs 5nm... still I'm pretty sure there are things the 1030 can do that the A13 will struggle with. Game Over!
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by bullen 5y ago
Sure, but my point is: why cram more and more cores into the same SoC if they can't talk to each other more efficiently than separate computers over ethernet?
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by bullen 5y ago
And that's exactly my point: they can't. Power does not solve contention and latency! It's over, permanently... (or atleast until some photon/quantum alternative, which honestly we don't have the energy to imagine,

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