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by hcs 8mo ago
Maybe this is too obvious to say but it doesn't matter what they're selling the access for, it's the unwanted installation of the proxy that's malware. If you're buying access from a service that gets its residentia
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by hcs 8mo ago
Seems much more likely it's just going through a list of all games, collated from databases that humans have painstakingly curated.
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by hcs 8mo ago
Do you need assistance?
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by hcs 8mo ago
Surely you've been on HN long enough to know people just read the headline. Not that it would stop all sniping, but that headline doesn't even include "program" (or "compute").
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by hcs 8mo ago
On Switch 2 there are also pure license dongles in the form of the Game-Key Card. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Game_Card#Game-Key_Ca...
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by hcs 8mo ago
After decompression, with the performance characteristics you'd expect. If it has to come off disk it's still a win or at least usually breaks even in their measurements. https://cedardb.com/blog/string_compre
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Virtual Boy on TV with Intelligent Systems Video Boy(hcs64.com)
97 points by hcs 8mo ago|44 comments
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by hcs 8mo ago
Flips switch How about now?
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by hcs 9mo ago
Oh this looks right up my alley, I'll check it out on desktop. Posted a few times previous, without discussion, though I'd missed it: Show HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45524890 Links on author's si
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by hcs 9mo ago
Though it doesn't directly answer your question, isfdb.org is a great reference for publication history of SF: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?55700
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by hcs 9mo ago
Related seriously: You can make it more likely to have long runs of the same letters, reversibly, with the Burrows-Wheeler Transform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_transf... (No magic, though it
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by hcs 9mo ago
If you don't have a good drive and a clean disc you may get skipping/jitter and thus possibly never get a AR or CueTools DB match. (CTDB has parity records that can be used to repair some small errors.) This is the point of the el
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by hcs 9mo ago
Speaking of Max Payne and graphics, there's an amusing hidden sketch with references to engine development in the game: https://youtu.be/Ca04hCF9FL4
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by hcs 10mo ago
Thanks! I keep meaning to add a table of players to the page, here's what comes to mind. Victor/JVC sold a few decoder/karaoke components (VS-G2, VS-G3), as in this '92 catalog: https://extended.graphics/
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CD Extended Graphics(extended.graphics)
5 points by hcs 10mo ago|3 comments
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by hcs 10mo ago
A bit buried in this catalog is a link to a recording from a demonstration disc: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uoHQfNd8eb4 Also of hackerly interest, I have modified a CD Graphics decoder to handle CD-EG: https://g
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by hcs 10mo ago
Neat idea, but it looks like the math doesn't really work out: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/66295/is-interstel... Though it looks like these folks are thinking about blocking from near the star,
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by hcs 11mo ago
Popup blood donation sites are pretty common in the US, too, though run by orgs like the Red Cross. I've done it a few times, there's no payment involved besides some free snacks + drinks.
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by hcs 11mo ago
I saw the other when it was first posted so it must have made the front page (or second page)
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by hcs 11mo ago
You still see dithering from time to time as a cheap transparency, it's been a few years since Mario Odyssey but that's when last I recall it really stood out: https://xcancel.com/chriswade__/status/92407
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by hcs 11mo ago
I'm imagining a place for boarders to stay confrontationally
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by hcs 1y ago
Christmas comes early this year
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by hcs 1y ago
Oh I get the Larson humor, I mean Physkal's comment and iancollmceachern's implication that a reference was missed by stickfigure
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by hcs 1y ago
For the benefit of me 30 minutes ago baffled by the responses to this down thread, this is perhaps a r/BirdsArentReal thing? e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/BirdsArentReal/comments/1n1yr3d/wha...
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by hcs 1y ago
Not exactly a fork but there was a separate MESS, for a time, expanding the scope to non-arcade systems, until it was reenfolded.
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by hcs 1y ago
> there's two hard problems in computer science: we only have one joke and it's not funny. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42046226
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by hcs 1y ago
I don't know what ever happened to Netscape's version, but various homebrew attempts have been made. One Linux on N64 project was discussed here a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25539319 There
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by hcs 1y ago
There ver zwei Slugs, valking down der Straße, und von vas assaulted
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by hcs 1y ago
I need to deslug my computer, it's getting sluggish.
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by hcs 1y ago
The author's Olympus language is amusing, programs are expressed as prayers to ancient Greek gods. https://danieltemkin.com/Esolangs/Olympus/ It reminded me of an overambitious educational game idea: The play

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