djmips

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by djmips 11mo ago
mhm
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by djmips 11mo ago
It is my conjecture that due to the 8 bit index registers, contrast that to 6800, 6809 and others, the 6502 becomes fundamentally a structure of arrays (SOA) system versus C which is coupled in it's libraries and existing code base wi
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by djmips 11mo ago
I feel like our minds work a bit like this.
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by djmips 11mo ago
I get that. Sometimes it feels like we are like Dynamic RAM.
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by djmips 11mo ago
And yeah, there was a 6502 Apple I too!
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by djmips 11mo ago
The 6809 was SOURCE compatible with the 6800 - you can assemble 6800 code on a 6809 assembler and it will run with perhaps very minor tweaks.
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by djmips 11mo ago
Great point. And you can even extend that to think like a 6502 or GPU programmer on an AMD, ARM or Intel CPU as well if you want the very best performance. Caches are big enough on modern CPUs that you can almost run portions of your code i
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by djmips 11mo ago
More often than not the slow IO devices were coupled with optimized speed critical code due to cost savings or hardware simplification. Heap is an approach that rarely works well on a 6502 machine - there are no 16 bit stack pointers and it
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by djmips 11mo ago
I feel like no amount of optimizations will close the gap - it's an intractable problem.
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by djmips 11mo ago
Do you have that checklist still? Can you share it?
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by djmips 11mo ago
it didn't improve
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by djmips 11mo ago
That's very cool. A very good use of your free time. The world needs more whimsy!
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by djmips 11mo ago
This is just a meme now. Doom running on X. I don't get it but congratulations on your very whimsical accomplishment!
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by djmips 11mo ago
We used to do that back in the eighties. We likened it to working out with weights or saving for a rainy day. Keeping some memory preallocated so that when you really needed it during the final push, you'd have some on hand.
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by djmips 11mo ago
How long did it take you guys to write the dynamic layout/loader and packer? How long did it take to run it on a level when an artist changed a turtle or something?
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by djmips 11mo ago
That's been shown not to be true. Concious observers are not required for reality.
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by djmips 11mo ago
it definitely sounds like AI
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by djmips 11mo ago
nice detective work. Global FPU state had sure caused a lot of headaches.
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by djmips 11mo ago
yeah but he remarried
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by djmips 11mo ago
I always wanted to know how those worked!
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by djmips 11mo ago
I just saw a picture of Maren Jensen, Athena in the 1978 Battlestar Galactica posing in costume with a Tektronix 4051 (1975) - I guess a very up to date piece of equipment at the time. https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-battl
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by djmips 11mo ago
Well, I'll be darned! I wonder if Paul Stoffregen knows about that! edit: probably? It was posted at the Teensy forum about a month ago. https://forum.pjrc.com/index.php?threads/the-deepest-teensy....
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by djmips 11mo ago
That's a striking image! Thanks for sharing - that really hits home on the pressures involved.
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by djmips 11mo ago
Wasn't the pilot Stockton Rush? His wife was alive. Who are you referring to? I tried to check your claim but I couldn't verify it.
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by djmips 11mo ago
Small quibble - did you mean 'steelman assumption'?
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by djmips 11mo ago
Ignore me then because I agree with you. :) He sounds like someone who upon first hearing jazz to complain it was ugly.
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by djmips 11mo ago
I've observed children who have had tremendous close friends in childhood but were unable to recreate that in adulthood. Sometimes it's easier to make friends when you're 5.
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by djmips 11mo ago
As Steve Jobs muses that Snow white was enjoyed 60 years after it's release but computers go to the sedimentary layer. While it's true that you can't re-release the 1984 Mac debut to fanfare and profit 40 years later - a smal
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by djmips 11mo ago
Go back to Wiring. Is it possible?
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by djmips 11mo ago
He said BYE and I was like phew, he's gone but then nope. Doesn't know what BYE means I guess.

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