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by livrem 3y ago
What Free Pascal seems to do amazingly well is platform-support and backwards compatibility. I think it may be worth considering for some of my future hobby projects for that reason alone, assuming that there will remain some critical mass
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by livrem 3y ago
My impression from my limited experience with Pascal (more recently only playing around a bit with Free Pascal) is that much of the basic parts of the language, that a beginner like me is mostly exposed to, is very safe with strong typing a
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by livrem 3y ago
I think that is what Free Pascal's backwards compatible graph unit is implementing? Sad to see it is deprecated, but maybe it still works? I could not use it for porting my ancient Turbo Pascal 2.0 game since it was relying on an older
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by livrem 3y ago
I have fond memories of using Turbo Pascal. It was quite useful and pragmatic and it looks like Free Pascal inherited that. I also remember having to use some other (standard?) Pascal at university and it was much more limited and had annoy
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by livrem 3y ago
FreePascal still has official support for creating Amiga binaries. I never tried it since I have no idea about how Amiga development works in general, but I tried FreePascal a bit for other systems and it seems pretty good (underrated?) (bo
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by livrem 3y ago
I am not sure I would consider much of what he did very simple (or easy) compared to what most of us are doing today. The last few chapters of Michael Abrash's Black Book is about his work with Quake (he was involved doing some of the
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by livrem 3y ago
I reacted to how his way of working sounded actually agile (vs some method sold as agile but mostly consisting of a lot of processes and automatic tools to keep everyone from having any hope of being agile), like: > When I accomplish som
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by livrem 3y ago
In MS-DOS 5.0 and later at least you could make a menu at start-up to pick what to activate. I looked at my old config.sys and autoexec.bat recently and it was amazingly simple. 100% of system configuration in maybe 1-200 lines of text, in
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by livrem 3y ago
DR-DOS also had some kind of limited multitasking or at least switching between tasks. I do not remember using it much or know how stable it was. I do not think MS-DOS ever copied that either?
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by livrem 3y ago
Yes, crazy that something this good could turn so bad in just two years. In hindsight I am happy their move to Windows pushed me to switch to Linux though.
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by livrem 3y ago
> Google Groups is where you can find what has been preserved of the historical USENET archives I recommend archive.org instead. There are many great collections there with USENET groups saved as mbox files that you can download. Install
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by livrem 3y ago
Harpoon predated Panzer General by 5 years. I bought the latest version of Harpoon (that is over 10 years old) on a sale from Matrix Games a while ago and it included a collection of old versions of the game, going back to some pre-release
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by livrem 3y ago
Here is an article from 1982 arguing that more video games should have a coop mode: https://archive.org/details/Softline_Magazine_Issue_1.5/page... Also there was a bit of a solo boardgame boom around 1980 with so
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by livrem 3y ago
It's a difficult balance to do "partially cooperative, partially competitive multiplayer" as the author describes their game. Almost every year there is at least one thread started on the boardgamegeek forum where someone wan
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by livrem 3y ago
A few months ago I started reading the CGW issues from the first one in 1981. I got to somewhere around 1986-87 I think before I got distracted by something, but I have to remember to get back to it some day because it was a lot of fun, and
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by livrem 3y ago
Thanks! That is like a sad follow-up to Bertrand Russell's In Praise of Idleness (1932). That essay ended "there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever"... but so far there are not many signs of things improving. https
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by livrem 3y ago
This is probably one of the reasons why there is finally talk in some countries of moving on to a four-day week.
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by livrem 3y ago
I have been slowly working my way through the nine AD&D Goldbox games, with no end in sight after over 30 years (and that is also the reason I have a quite long backlog of unplayed RPGs). It is likely to feel more modern than what I am
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by livrem 3y ago
"I’m especially proud of Martian Dreams, an Ultima-engine game even if no one remembers it even came out" No idea if it is fun, but it is one of the permanently free games on GOG and somewhere in my too large pile of old games I w
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by livrem 3y ago
Reviews for the PC version of Triple Town on GOG says the same thing. They removed the option to spend real money, that was part of the popular mobile version, but they did not replace it with anything else, so supposedly you have to grind
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by livrem 3y ago
I mostly just use emacs in termux. I think vim makes more sense to be honest, since the modal edit mode is perfect for touch screens, but I do not know it well enough. Keyboard-combos in emacs are not great without a real keyboard, but at l
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by livrem 3y ago
I would not want a simple browser to replace gemini, but I would be happy to use a simple web browser in addition to gemini. It would be nice to only have to fire up a big bloated real browser for doing banking and such things.
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by livrem 3y ago
There are many mentions of C# there, but it is just a C library that can be embedded without involving C#, right?
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by livrem 3y ago
You get an image that is yours, that you do not need permission from OpenAI to do anything you want with. (Fine print: But you definitely need permission from Disney to use it.)
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by livrem 3y ago
My first was a Vx (OS 3.5 iirc) and that was really snappy and overall a great ux compared to other handheld devices I have had. But after that I had two different Tungstens (OS 5.x) and those felt far slower and had much worse battery life
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by livrem 3y ago
We need good locally installed LLMs (and cheap hardware to run it). I hope there can be some kind of breakthrough for this similar to what Stable Diffusion made for image-generators. I tried to generate some simple code using a few of the l
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by livrem 3y ago
This worried me as well when I started looking at Godot. It seems like it is, like other game engines, designed to not really allow you to separate your code from the engine code in any meaningful way. The only things I have thought of, or
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by livrem 3y ago
Looking in sqlite.fossil there are 27 tables in it and most are not used for storing blobs. I know when looking up how to do things in the past the answer has sometimes been "run this SQL query". The event table for instance looks
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by livrem 3y ago
What most seem to do is to use an application like Godot or Unity to build the engine in step 2. You do not have to start from scratch you know. Those things are more or less toolkits for building your actual game's engine. Not like th
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by livrem 3y ago
That was basically what happened to Blender, I think? I have been thinking it would be nice if someone was organizing crowdfunding and taking care of all the legal work to buy out old works properly. Thinking mostly of stuff with little val

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