jlarcombe

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by jlarcombe 2y ago
Still a strong presence in 98-01 but also lots of functional programming, algorithms and complexity and the tail end of the parallel research boom. I loved it.
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
and they almost got the BBC contract that eventually went to Acorn...
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
StrongARM was DEC originally then developed into XScale at Intel when they acquired that division from Digital as part of a lawsuit settlement I believe. The funny thing about the ARM performance/watts thing is that it wasn't orig
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
ah yes so it is!
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
pedantic comment but the screenshot of Elite on that site is of the original BBC Micro version, not the Spectrum version (which was a technical marvel in its own right)
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
Yes! You do see him standing at the top in one of the long shots. Terry Doe, interviewed briefly in this documentary about Noakes: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6c72u3
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
yes indeed, and any English person of the appropriate age will have seen children's TV present John Noakes climbing Nelson's Column and then going over the edge in a bosun's chair to clean it, with no harness, utterly terrify
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
This video did the rounds many years ago now, still quite an uncomfortable watch especially when he gets to the top! I understand they don't allow 'free climbing' any more... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
Interesting that, Chris Jordan was part of Acornsoft when the original game was being developed and is also well known for his Hybrid Music System for the BBC Micro, way ahead of its time.
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
55378008 was ubiquitous at English schools in the 80s and 90s...
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
Remarc, bit later I suppose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maXRQmwX3-c
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
Yes, the sight of 60 names on the WW1 memorial board in the JCR at Lincoln was always quite sobering, considering what the student population must have been in 1914. It's still a small college but that would have been an enormous propo
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
Always loved this spellbinding string quartet version https://youtu.be/MSEIKRdevjs?si=k2tOSfX8XAyp2-P7
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
Yes as was famously The Hobbit for the ZX Spectrum and all the Psion software (on a Vax I think). Not so achievable for the lone developer though.
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
There are numerous projects completed today for "retro" computers that run on unmodified hardware that would have been almost unimaginable "back in the day" and the vastly more powerful development tools (running on toda
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
Finally an explanation for my hopelessness at childhood swimming lessons. It was a slow pool!
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
Love the Ridgeway. Walked a small section recently near Chequers (the prime minister's countryside retreat) and you cross the driveway behind the security barrier! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqSgQDjvuFI
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
Exactly. Comes up all the time and I'm never sure why. It drives most of the very useful bits of Qt.
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
Well, the two authors of the paper he's talking about are also amongst the foremost mathematicians in the world today. James Maynard won the Fields medal a couple of years ago. So they've probably got used to approbation from the
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
latecomer, but actually shares a lot of the original BBC Micro code! https://www.bbcelite.com/nes/
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
It's funny that the herculean effort of porting NES to Z80 was done twice, completely separately - once for ZX Spectrum and once for MSX. I think the 6502 versions all share the bulk of the logic code (even the NES version).
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
Yeah it's such a shame how much the performance has been affected by recent macOS. I kept my 2019 Mac Book Pro on Catalina for years because everyone else was complaining... finally upgraded directly to Sonoma and the difference in spe
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
giving them grief now though, because the Pi 5's chipset drops support for 32 bit ARM..
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by jlarcombe 2y ago
I still have all my windows overlapping, and I suspect it's because my formative years were spent in RISC OS. Also I still find "File Open" dialogs weird - every app having a miniature and less-functional tiny 'Filer&#x2
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by jlarcombe 3y ago
I rather miss them in the streets. It's only been, what, ten years or so since they've been replacing most of them with white LEDs round my way, but it's almost hard to remember that everything was yellow whenever you went ou
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by jlarcombe 3y ago
Semi-related and of interest to 6502 fans, exhaustive analysis of square root algorithms: https://github.com/TobyLobster/sqrt_test
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by jlarcombe 3y ago
from my own experience, yes it did (never before the change and twice since)
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by jlarcombe 3y ago
definitely worth a listen, saw them live around the time of Bitte Orca and they were incredible!
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by jlarcombe 3y ago
Dirty Projectors are a US band (from Brooklyn).
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by jlarcombe 3y ago
well yeah, "good" meaning "as the artist intended"... that's the other thing with this AI stuff, there is no objective definition of "good sounding record" unless you just want everything to sound like Ste

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