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by jcmeyrignac 1mo ago
Similar to this project: https://github.com/fuzzballcat/milliForth The ZEROEQUALS function can be replaced by: pop ax; neg ax;sbb ax,ax;push ax
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by jcmeyrignac 6mo ago
Delivering is cheap, but maintenance is expensive... if not impossible!
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by jcmeyrignac 10mo ago
I remember him, since he won a PHP contest of DownNOut (I finished second). Another programmer had the same pseudo, but was working on the Atari ST.
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by jcmeyrignac 1y ago
Impossible to connect to JIRA here (France).
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by jcmeyrignac 1y ago
You can optimize further by unrolling the loop. For example: .L2: move.w d1,(a0) move.w d1,(a0) move.w d1,(a0) move.w d1,(a0) dbra d0,.L2 rts
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by jcmeyrignac 1y ago
Sorry, but these tricks cannot work on aphantasic people (I'm one of them), since they cannot visualize.
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by jcmeyrignac 1y ago
In Europe, the average age for buying a new car is 50. This means that most of the cars sold are second-hand. Most people think that the car is a luxury and prefer to focus on their home first, then their family, and after that, their car.
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by jcmeyrignac 1y ago
There are 2 main problems with XSLT. The first one is that manipulating strings is a pain. Splitting strings, concatenating them is verbose like hell and difficult to read. The second one is that it quickly becomes a mess when you use the &
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by jcmeyrignac 1y ago
Yes, I programmed Snow Bros for the Atari ST. It was finished but never released. And no, I have no copy either. When I worked for Cryo, I coded a game "Trashman" for the SNES. I still have a copy of the game but it's not fin
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by jcmeyrignac 1y ago
I worked for Ocean Software France at this moment. Ocean Software stopped all development on Amiga and Atari ST, so there were a few games that we working on that were never released. They wanted to focus on licenses, so all the other games
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by jcmeyrignac 1y ago
Nice work! Here is a similar idea: https://wordassociations.net/en In french, there is a game to build relations with words (they provide a word, and you have to type the most related words): https://www.jeuxdemo
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by jcmeyrignac 2y ago
A better value could be 0x7EEEEBB3, as in: https://github.com/parallella/pal/blob/bd9389f14fe16db4d9630...
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by jcmeyrignac 2y ago
More experiments here: http://david.li/
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by jcmeyrignac 2y ago
The MO5/MO6/TO7 were based on the 6809: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_MO6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_TO7 Since I met the engineers, I believed that they implemented th
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by jcmeyrignac 2y ago
Here are a few other 6809 FP libraries: https://gitlab.com/dfffffff/fpo9 https://github.com/spotlessmind1975/ugbasic/blob/main/ugbc/s... If I remember correctly, the ROM of MO6
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by jcmeyrignac 2y ago
Any plan for languages other than english? This would be a perfect tool for french language.
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by jcmeyrignac 2y ago
Some related links: http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190703172150/http://www.hacker...
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by jcmeyrignac 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39482641
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by jcmeyrignac 2y ago
In France, there is one that seems to match your needs: https://www.leboncoin.fr/ad/ordinateurs/2379851136 but it's quite expensive!
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by jcmeyrignac 2y ago
Sorry to nitpick, but in the language tokenisation part, the french part is incorrect. The exclamation mark are surrounded by spaces in french. "c'est un plaisir de vous rencontrer!" should be "c'est un plaisir de v
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by jcmeyrignac 2y ago
It depends on the rice. 2 cups of water is good for 1 cup of rice for 1 or 2 cups of rice. If you use 4 or more cups, you'll get something soggy. Probably the correct ratio is 1.5 when using 4 cups.
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by jcmeyrignac 2y ago
I read somewhere that the correct proportion is around 1.7 of water for 1 glass of rice. The rice is rinsed at least 5 times, to remove the starch.
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by jcmeyrignac 3y ago
The jb .5 can be removed, saving 2 bytes. There are other optimizations, like inc di/jmp short avoid_command which could be moved before avoid_command, saving another 2 bytes.
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by jcmeyrignac 3y ago
In France in 1982, the magazine Science & Vie published a cardboard computer simulator, named "Ordinapoche". It was designed by Joel de Rosnay. Here is a cached copy in french: https://archive.wikiwix.com/cach
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by jcmeyrignac 3y ago
Why is this considered a "gaffe"? It may be the act of a mole who works at Microsoft as an admin.
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by jcmeyrignac 3y ago
And what if Z-Library or Anna's Archive (respectively 11 and 25 millions of books) were used as sources? Do you remember Recaptcha, which displayed words extracted from scanned material? Maybe the content of these books was extracted w
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by jcmeyrignac 3y ago
No mention of https://www.qwant.com
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by jcmeyrignac 3y ago
My polish mother called them "pirojki", which is the french term. She made 2 variations: - mashed potatoes and white cheese - rice and meat rolled in a cabbage leaf One of our neighbors offered one with mashed potatoes and apricot
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by jcmeyrignac 3y ago
I prefer https://wordassociations.net/en which is also multilingual.
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by jcmeyrignac 3y ago
This is nothing new. In 1913, Max Ringelmann measured the effort of individuals when working in a group. The results are impressive: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k54409695.image.f14 A group of 8 persons p

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