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by pan69 8y ago
Great find and a great read as I just happen to be implementing a version of Pac-Man in C (with a sprinkle x86 assembler) for 16 bit DOS using the original Namco graphics. The biggest problem I currently have is to find a solution to someho
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by pan69 8y ago
There is always a new generation of gullible suckers waiting in line to be taken advance of, once I was one of them. I started smoking when I was 15. I smoked for 15 years and manage to quit 17 years ago. I can honestly say that to quit smo
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by pan69 8y ago
> I grew frustrated at teaching 16-bit real mode programming and decided to change to 32-bit protected mode. However, I soon ran into a problem. I could not find a textbook that covered 32-bit protected mode assembly programming! I skimm
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by pan69 8y ago
This is a great ray casting tutorial to get started: https://permadi.com/1996/05/ray-casting-tutorial-table-of-co...
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by pan69 8y ago
Maybe just a person who solves problems by writing/creating software.
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by pan69 8y ago
I've been a professional software developer for over 25 years and in that time I have seen very few "computer science" related problems that needed solving. Sure, it depends what type of work you do. E.g. if you work on limit
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by pan69 8y ago
Nice work! Reminds me of the type of projects that used to be posted as "Image of the Day" on Flipcode. http://flipcode.com/archives/iotd.shtml
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by pan69 8y ago
Yes, I'm pretty sure you can set FT2 in a record mode and then "play" notes on your computer keyboard, but I don't think that's what OP is asking. How I understand OP's question is; you make a drum pattern in F
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by pan69 8y ago
This tracker seems to resemble a PC tracker such as Fast Tracker II. Did Amiga play 16bit 32 channel XM files? Hardware mouse cursors on PC were fast, software (custom graphics cursors) were much slower.
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by pan69 8y ago
> But it feels kinda wrong to have that mouse cursor and have it not move perfectly smooth. So you get the full immersive experience. :)
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by pan69 8y ago
With "keyboard" you mean, a musicians keyboard, right? I assume you need a midi interface to the software but I don't know of any tracker that supports midi. My personal favourite tracker is Fast Tracker II, but it also don&#
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by pan69 8y ago
For me the page turning itself doesn't seem to be slow but choosing this gimmicky mechanism as a delivery vehicle for this kind of content is, well, a silly choice. I can't zoom in enough and when I do zoom in I can't pan aro
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by pan69 8y ago
You might be over simplifying things a bit. Your statement might be true for "healthy bodies" but not everyone is healthy, or even has the same body chemistry. I'm by no means an expert and the subject of obesity doesn't
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by pan69 8y ago
Asking Google questions without context is confusing. > Who invented Rust language > Who invented Rust game Would give better results.
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by pan69 8y ago
Anecdote. I was in China a few weeks ago, Shanghai to be precise. Me and my wife were walking around the city and there is scooters everywhere (the ones you sit on) and they're electric and because of this you don't hear him! A fe
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by pan69 8y ago
I think that the purpose of a design system like this is the ability to create a uniform UI over various government agencies. Not to serve as a general purpose framework.
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by pan69 8y ago
Mid last year I also upgraded to a 5X after my trusty Nexus 5 gave up on me (nearly 5 years I used that thing!). Super happy with the 5X. I'm simply not going to shell out $1000, or some other ridiculous amount of money, for a phone li
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by pan69 8y ago
About 10 years ago Peter Jackson made a "short" movie called Crossing the Line. It was the first real footage shot with a Red camera. It's kinda like a trailer for a movie that was never made. It clearly shows Jackson fascina
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by pan69 8y ago
That's pretty cool!
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by pan69 8y ago
Ah. That reminds me, I used to use TheDraw on DOS back in the day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw
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by pan69 8y ago
I don't believe that is the case, Those versions of DOS might ship with some version of BASIC though. GW-BASIC was/is a Microsoft product. If I'm not mistaken (or as lore tells us), the GW-B stands for Gates William Bill. :)
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by pan69 8y ago
Up until MSDOS version 5, MSDOS was shipped with GW-BASIC. From MSDOS 5 onward it shipped with QBasic. If you can create an assembler with batch files it should certainly be possible to create one with BASIC. :) Hmm, interesting idea...
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by pan69 8y ago
Many many years ago I had a small web development business making websites for clients. These clients were typical small to medium sized business. Most of the websites we produced were made with WordPress, because, all our clients wanted to
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by pan69 8y ago
And where do you think this entitlement comes from? Not from a system that is designed to make them feel they have these kinds of entitlements?
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by pan69 8y ago
Did patterns really fail? Or did we just out grow them? For me personally patterns have always been valuable as a means of communication. Before patterns one team would talk about "device for when at rest" and another team would t
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by pan69 8y ago
It reminds me of EBN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQZsKWV4mDo
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by pan69 8y ago
As with everything, it depends. To me, whiteboard interviewing makes sense when hiring for a role that leans toward a comp-sci background. People who do well in these roles typically have a brain that works in a certain way. The roles that
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by pan69 8y ago
45. Just learned how the vga's modex works after it being a mystery to me for 25 years.
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by pan69 8y ago
Reading through the comments already made, a grim picture is painted for you. I agree with what @mikestew wrote. If you do happen to go forward with this then I would suggest; focus on helping the team ship the product, not changing the pro
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by pan69 8y ago
To content publishers; It's not the ads I have a problem with, it's the spy-ware tracking behaviour associated with the ads you show is the reason why I'm using an "ad" blocker.

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