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by ndiddy 3mo ago
The 32X used the cartridge audio input for its PWM audio channels. For one example of how this worked, Knuckles' Chaotix used the extra channels for the percussion in its music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6BSQVK9g
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
The Sega CD manual says that the RCA jacks are for connecting the Sega CD to a stereo system or stereo TV. I guess they found that doing the sound mixing on the Sega CD made the output cleaner which would have been useful for people wanting
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
Yeah Silpheed is a great example of designing a game around the strengths of its target hardware. Because they were able to focus the art design around what could be streamed at high quality off a 1x CD drive, the FMV works a lot better tha
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
From the article: > I spent the past two weeks reverse engineering the FMV format in my spare time. That was a departure from how I normally work since I did not write a single line of code. I will likely write something about my A.I fra
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
The way the hardware is set up, you wouldn't be able to display anything onscreen that's not one of the predefined font characters, so it's not that much of a loss. The official Nintendo BASIC cartridge had the same issue, bu
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
> Note that, Microsoft had already flagged Stokes to the FBI once before, in an October 2024 criminal referral describing “online services telemetry.” I don’t like the idea of Microsoft taking it upon themselves to proactively report wha
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
Yeah FPV drones have massively increased the cost of invading a country. It's basically a return to WWI style trench warfare, except no man's land is the size of the range of the drones (20+ KM).
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
Yeah the 7800 library was basically a bunch of ports of early 80s arcade games that GCC had done for the initial 1984 release date, then ports of whatever computer or arcade games the Tramiels could get cheap licenses for, done by external
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
> Nintendo was about to release a next-generation console, the Famicom, in Japan. They wanted to export it to other markets, but didn’t want to do it alone. Nintendo really wanted to license the Famicom to Atari and have Atari distribute
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
StatCounter uses browser tracking as its data source, and it seems like Firefox, Chrome, and Safari all froze the OS version they report in their user agent at Mac OS X 10.15 in order to avoid breaking sites that have poorly written parsing
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
> When Xbox launched its Game Pass subscription service in 2017, executives set a goal of reaching 77 million subscribers by fiscal year 2026, which ended last month, according to a document published during a lawsuit contesting Microsof
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Behind Xbox's Big Layoffs, a Streaming Strategy That Failed(bloomberg.com)
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
I think we'll see stuff like this continue to happen over time. As a game company, having your own engine means that you have to be able to cultivate internal expertise in your tooling. Your employees will know this and could do bad th
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
A non-Edge browser would give the OS the domain name from the HTTPS connection and the page title because that's what it sets the window title to. I think that would be enough to identify the URL in a lot of cases (i.e. the sign-up URL
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
Topre keyboards feel nice to type on and are quiet. They're rubber dome but they have the thing most mechanical keyboards have where you don't have to have a key pushed all the way down for it to count as "pressed".
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
Any sort of reform that would successfully get money out of politics would require a constitutional amendment. I have little faith that the current Congress would pass any sort of amendment that would eliminate the system they benefit from
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
As far as I understand it, the missing cycle at the end of the pre-render scanline means that the first scanline will start a cycle early every other frame. When this happens, that scanline will be drawn one pixel to the left of where it sh
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
> U.S. officials believed that Israel might have been plotting to kill Iran’s top negotiators while Washington was engaged with Tehran in delicate talks this spring to reach an interim peace deal, according to current and former American
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
https://archive.is/QIePX > In April, Mr. Ghalibaf was set to travel to Islamabad to meet with Vice President JD Vance. But Iranian security officials were concerned that Israel would use the opportunity to assassinate Mr
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
As far as I understand it, the main problem with keeping Xorg going isn't anything inherent with the code itself (although that's definitely a factor), it's the sheer amount of functionality Xorg clients can access, including
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
Nice, glad some sites are finally trying to move forward. It looks like they only support H.265 video with AAC audio, so this should still be helpful for people who are streaming H.265. https://developers.google.com/youtube&
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
It gets installed when you install iTunes. If you don't want to install iTunes, you can pull out the codec installer by opening an old version of the iTunes installer in 7-zip and extracting the MSI. Here's a copy I keep around fo
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
The biggest advantage for having a good AAC encoder isn't efficiency, it's that for nearly the past 2 decades the de facto standard for live streamed video has been RTMP with H.264 video and AAC audio. There is basically no suppor
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
Nice, I'm looking forward to seeing how this performs in practice. FFmpeg's previous AAC encoder produced poor quality output and often had irritating chirping artifacts, so I've always had to install Apple's Core Audio
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
There's a link on the bottom of this post to another post from today announcing that Sony will be discontinuing physical disc production for all Playstation consoles in 2028. I guess the combination of the two announcements means that
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
It's not intended for a normal person to use. If you're a normal person making something as a hobby project, you'll get a much nicer development experience by using a microcontroller that costs a few dollars rather than a few
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
> And have Microslop banging on my door with lawyers because I show how modern versions of AI-slop-coded Windows are actually slower than older versions coded by actual humans? I'm good on that one boss. I highly doubt they care abo
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
That's interesting, how did you get that to work? I imagine you'd also need to somehow get device drivers for a newer graphics card to run (as well as for newer hardware in general if you don't want to be CPU bottlenecked). I
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
Looking forward to getting my $10 settlement 15 years from now like what happened with the DVD drive price fixing lawsuit (paid as a digital Visa gift card code so it can't actually be spent anywhere).
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by ndiddy 3mo ago
Yeah it was more of a problem back in the day when dial-up and DSL were more common, and home users would often have their computers directly connected to the internet if they didn't have multiple computers and a router. This was espec

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