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by mikejmoffitt 11y ago
Lenovo support has been great to me as well. With my second-hand machine, a year out of warranty, they paid to have my laptop shipped to them for a keyboard and possible motherboard replacement for free. This is after I'd damaged the k
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by mikejmoffitt 11y ago
I got briefly excited that maybe somebody decided to post my computer game called "Ghost in the Machine" on HN, but then naivety died down and I read the rest.
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by mikejmoffitt 11y ago
I'm writing a metroid-like game for Sega Genesis in C and 68k assembly. Probably nobody is going to play it.
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by mikejmoffitt 11y ago
For testing, some of the available flash or RAM cartridges are good bets. For distributing in small hand-built volumes, an NES cartridge is really just some parallel storage for the 6502 CPU(be it an EPROM, or a FLASH 29-series ROM (easier)
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by mikejmoffitt 11y ago
It's fascinating to see this thing for the first time, but now it is understandable why Nintendo was not interested. It is a good demo to show that (relatively) smooth scrolling can be achieved on such a low-end machine not designed fo
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by mikejmoffitt 11y ago
What? The cloud tile re-use is from the first game, and no part of any Mario game plays back the melody backwards to generate the victory music. The victory music is a distinct musical track.
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by mikejmoffitt 11y ago
This shadertoy generates a scene from the game Gimmick! using a complicated shader. It was done for SIGGraph '15 but was rejected because it has trouble running on the judge's computers. Many browsers get upset while trying to com
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Show HN: “Gimmick!” scene, image and music, rendered in GLSL(shadertoy.com)
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I am glad to see somebody write this because it still astonishes me that I'm faster than the computer. I don't want to wait before I'm ready to input things, I know it can work faster! There are two sides to it - poor choices
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by mikejmoffitt 11y ago
I would use a Linux or OS X client. I would appreciate a good CLI as well.
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by mikejmoffitt 11y ago
"These operators increase the burden to learn Swift as a first programming language" Come on. There are legitimate reasons not to carry one language's expressions to another, but this isn't a good one. Most people first
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by mikejmoffitt 11y ago
No worries, it's also awful in a browser.
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by mikejmoffitt 11y ago
Disagreed - the X220 top lid is flimsy and cracks easily, and the resolution is impressively terrible (WXGA! In 2015!). I do appreciate its moderate battery improvements, but I'd prefer an X201 in just about any other way. EDIT: I almo
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by mikejmoffitt 11y ago
If you don't need the newest and fastest, I recommend a ThinkPad X201 (upgrade the LCD to an AFFS one if you like a little DIY), or you can go really hard and get an X61. Debian has worked great on both.