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by livrem 3y ago
WinUAE is the emulator used inside of Amiga Forever. I bought that, thinking I would do that instead of buying a A500 Mini. But then the A500 mini was on sale, so I bought one of those as well. I hope the makers of Amiga Forever support Win
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by livrem 3y ago
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/article...
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by livrem 3y ago
Everyone keeps saying the story is great, but as someone that cares way more about gameplay than story I could not make it very far into this game. It plays basically like Operation Wolf, but in 3D. After being railroaded through a few shoo
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by livrem 3y ago
With all the models I tried there was a quite a bit of fiddling for each one to get the correct command-line flags and a good prompt, or at least copy-paste some command-line from HF. Seems like every model needs its own unique prompt to gi
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by livrem 3y ago
At least OS/2 is still on their list of supported operating systems, so there might still be someone working on improving OS/2 support? DOS support seems pretty good and well-maintained at least, but I have barely tried to compile
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by livrem 3y ago
> Linux was nice for surfing the net, but it lacked all of the fun software I craved: games, demos (as in the demo scene), graphics programs, tracker music. Anecdotally it was bit of a negative feedback loop at the time, sadly, since jus
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by livrem 3y ago
I loved Xenon II, but the PC music was terrible. I solved that by recording the music from a friend's Amiga, looped on two sides of a cassette tape, so I could listen to it while playing the game. It was the only game I ever bothered d
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by livrem 3y ago
This project setting might help a bit with that, on desktop platforms: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/classes/class_project...
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by livrem 3y ago
I used Godot to make a tool that was not really a game at all, and I read about others doing that as well. It works great just as a simple WYSIWYG GUI editor and GDScript is not a bad scripting language.
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by livrem 3y ago
Because including some pieces of irrelevant information as red herrings in probability problems is totally unheard of?
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by livrem 3y ago
SingleFile, yes. Thanks. Did not see it within the edit-window. I agree about permissions. In this case it looks like it needs a bit more, since it has some options like enabling auto-save after page-load for tabs for instance. Not a featur
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by livrem 3y ago
I like Clojure, but I never had any good opportunities to use it other than for a few small hobby projects. It is unfortunate that it is so huge with tons of dependencies and no simpler native implementation. I started looking at various LI
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by livrem 3y ago
I use the SinglePage add-on for Firefox (think it is available for Chrome as well?) to save the current page DOM to HTML as a self-contained file (inlined CSS and data:-URLs for all images) with no dependencies and all the scripts removed e
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by livrem 3y ago
Looks like full text, not just data, so almost certainly covered by copyright? On the other hand Janes Fighting Ships without the illustrations seems pretty boring. Here is what it should look like (the 1929 edition): https://arc
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by livrem 3y ago
I used Scrapbook for years. A nice thing is that even if I stopped using it I still have all the files I saved. There was some kind of export-function to save the tree of documents to an external index.html and I just keep that with all the
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by livrem 3y ago
Any sane document will have numbered headers and sub-headers that you can refer to in an unambiguous way no matter how the document is formatted, or if you view it on a screen or on paper.
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by livrem 3y ago
You do not need segment registers much if you stick to the tiny model. Here is someone compiling Rust to a 16-bit DOS COM executable: https://github.com/o8vm/rust_dos Not sure what the approach would be for them to exp
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by livrem 3y ago
They forgot one: Natural disaster deleted all the data and there was no backup. I was a paying subscriber to a great little site called magweb ~20 years ago. They scanned old and new (military) history and (war) game magazines and posted HT
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by livrem 3y ago
I did not know of a Java port, but this reminds me there is some kind of JavaScript-based environment for DOS that I see linked now and then (think it is bundled with FreeDOS?). Probably this one: https://github.com/SuperIlu
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by livrem 3y ago
Or the more free TIC-80. I have paid for both, but never used either enough to be able to say one or the other has any significant advantages. https://tic80.com/
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by livrem 3y ago
For a kid it might make sense to use something simpler than Blender. I like Asset Forge [1] and Kenney Shape [2], both made by "Asset Jesus" Kenney. Or just use the free assets he has made [3]. [1] https://kenney.itch.i
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by livrem 3y ago
I played around a bit with Godot with one of my kids around that age some years ago and I think it was good. We actually started with Scratch, but that quickly got annoying for both of us, with all the dragging around of boxes on the screen
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by livrem 3y ago
These days there is also a 16-bit GCC port to DOS ( https://github.com/tkchia/gcc-ia16 ). I never encountered one of those back in the day? I think the compiler itself does not run in 16-bit DOS though. Anyone interested
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by livrem 3y ago
Yes, the battle against top-posters was lost. But if someone is bottom-posting a reply to something I wrote, I will immediately switch to that myself and use for that conversation. No point in trying to blend in with the top-posters when th
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by livrem 3y ago
I used to think like that, but 10 years ago I decided to create a git-repo for my .emacs.d and started configuring beyond the most trivial settings (and including all dependencies in the repo too). Diminishing returns? Not sure how to measu
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by livrem 3y ago
That sounds a lot like https://pikchr.org/ .
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by livrem 3y ago
The Castle Game engine is not mentioned often, but it looks pretty mature from the screenshots and has been in active development for many years. Most recent news update was a few weeks ago. I have not gotten around to try it yet. Only star
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by livrem 3y ago
The 1880's boardgame Invasion included the channel tunnel as an optional rule for experienced players, adding another attack vector for the player trying to invade South-West England. As I understand it part of the reason for creating
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by livrem 3y ago
Just don't lie to players. In Tetris it is well-known that a bag is used and that is part of the game rules that everyone but the most casual players will know about. Other games, unfortunately, secretly filter randomness behind the sc
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by livrem 3y ago
The old Infocom parsers were quite advanced and support much more advanced grammar than I think I ever considered using in playing a game like that. Later Infocom games, and later hobby interactive-fiction, has conventions like allowing som

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