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Essentially mouse aiming (meaning just rotating left-right in Doom) coupled with strafing breaks Doom 1 and 2. The enemies simply aren't designed to deal with a player that can seamlessly sidestep and precisely aim at the same time.
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Rendering a Light Wave (2019)
(webdiis.unizar.es)
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krige
7y ago
NASA had a few Mars problems too, Mars Observer, Polar Lander and Climate Orbiter all failed.
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krige
7y ago
Indeed, however Firefox often masks its user agent as websites falsely report broken and missing features for non-chrome browsers. User agent is growingly meaningless as a metric.
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Recall reading a 70s novel called Man Plus, which was mainly about making a cyborg capable of surviving Mars surface as part of a space program, also from the perspective of said man.
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How differential steering works (1937)
(youtu.be)
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I've seen two mildly differing explanations for this particular version of rendering visuals being called 2.5D, one that it's 2.5D because the geometry looks 3D, but the actors are all sprites, the other is that the geometry looks
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7y ago
Overwatch already seems to have faded from collective consciousness. TF2 still flares up every now and then.
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Can confirm, when in 1985 we moved to our house in a small (~10k) town, the street it was on didn't even have a water supply to each house, instead everyone had to use a public drawing point in the middle of that street. We had to lay
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It's been over 40 days since Google Stadia got a new game or update
(reddit.com)
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When Discord was making that move, Epic store did not exist, the period when both stores existed was rather short and unevnentful, discord's being on clear decline, epic's not even bare bones and tossing money on any and all early
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7y ago
Yes indeed, but typically displaying a fullscreen HAM image takes up several seconds [0] of very visible scanline progress. This is pretty much instantaneous and runs on even the base 68000 models, as long as they fulfill the memory require
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I know of one game that actually used HAM (specifically HAM6, the original OCS version) during gameplay and it seemed to run very fast as well - it was a PD game called Zdzisław Bohater Galaktyki 3D and it's, well, not very serious [0]
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7y ago
Ignoring the extremes, why would a child's opinion be taken into account in a situation like this? What experiences does the child have that makes their opinion valid in parenting issues?
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7y ago
I mean, I'm in the same boat as you. 2600 pacman is the only one I knew for a long while and I still kinda prefer the meaty beep sounds over the original sound effects. But for people who knew arcade pacman beforehand, the perception w
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Pretty much everything: the flickering and the altered map with misaligned dots is the most obvious change, but it's missing all the different value bonus items, the iconic sounds, and lots of tiny graphical touches like ghost eyes fac
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7y ago
that's small time. even identically spelled words are pronounced differently, see polish (shoe polish) / Polish (nationality)
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seems to be rather inconsistent, one moment no input lag, but next: https://twitter.com/GenePark/status/1196488999524802562
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Even if you don't connect to the IRC network, even under Windows 10 MCC can still serve with minimal issues as a comic strip generator. That means that yes, you too can have your "own" Jerkcity if you want to.
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The catch is, we simply don't know. We do not know if Solaris is a "superior" intelligence. We may guess it is an intelligence of sorts. There is also very little to suggest that it understands us in turn. My interpretation
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It doesn't even have to be a "world leader", TOS enforcement seems to be stronly partisan (or worse, completely random) and only really big outcries change that.
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Also fired both casters working on the event, even though they did not know what was going to be said: https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1181443974420189185
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Not any more. See the recent (still current?) push towards cancelling David Chapelle.
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Most VMs don't really work with Windows 9x which tends to crash even more than usual (NT based windows is fine though). The only one tool I know of that's running 9x relatively stable is PCem, and that's more of an emulator t
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7y ago
Check out AROS sometime, it's aiming to be binary comaptible and the feel is quite similar
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It is seriously amazing how inventive the speedruns get once you do what is humanly possible to achieve the best time. Glitch hitboxes? Sure. Abuse internal map workings to skip to "parallel universes"? You bet it's been do
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The story of how Jay Miner and the rest of very talented engineer crew actually ended up under Commodore is a whole essay and a half - needless to say, that wasn't what they had in mind when they started out at all! There's a fant
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8y ago
Unreal, a Quake 2 contemporary, already had it and managed it on meager hardware like P200MMX
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>I completely understand why people do not want to pay the Steam tax According to anonymous developer comments, Epic Tax is higher than Epic advertises due to extra "associate" (or "influencer") packages that add extr
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Also compare this: https://lodev.org/cgtutor/raycasting.html It's a bit old but also explains a lot of the underlying logic. And it's not written in javascript so it may be more readable to some.
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