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by pcherna 6mo ago
On the Amiga, accessing the pulldown menus caused the display to be temporarily frozen, so that the menu panel could be rendered off screen and then swapped in using the blitter and the XOR trick. It wasn’t as fast as a straight copy, but i
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Hedley Davis (Amiga 3000, 3DO, Xbox, UDel prof) has died(daniels-hutchison.com)
5 points by pcherna 7mo ago|1 comments
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by pcherna 7mo ago
Hedley Davis, much loved hardware engineer who worked at Commodore (A1351 mouse, Amiga 3000, A2024 "Hedley Hires" monitor), 3DO, Microsoft (Xbox, Xbox 360) passed away on March 9th. If you didn't know him, here's a three
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by pcherna 1y ago
I believe cosmologists generally refer to the Big Bang theory as the progression from the hot dense state to the modern shape. This Hot Big Bang part is very well understood in theory and very well supported in observation, with the Cosmic
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by pcherna 1y ago
We said goodbye to Gail today. She was a true pioneer and a fierce fighter for her team and for doing the right thing. Those of us who worked with her were truly blessed.
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by pcherna 2y ago
On iOS, “Hey Siri, where are you?” works nicely.
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by pcherna 2y ago
I have a hundred or so pages of handwritten letters in Hungarian, but got useless results from AWS Textract and from transkribus. However, I also have about the same number of pages (written by the same person) that I have already gotten ha
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by pcherna 3y ago
I think I'm blending two things then. I looked at a few old notes, and one of the devs replaced Topaz in Kickstart with what you see as the 1.4 font, as a way to kind of force the issue, since we hadn't really done any work to mak
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by pcherna 3y ago
Hehe, thinking maybe the font we used was called "Clean", not "Clear".
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by pcherna 3y ago
Nice. I worked at Commodore and was responsible (ish) for the new Topaz for OS 2.0. We had been told to replace Topaz with a sans-serif font, and we replaced it with a font originally called "Clear" that was on one of the Fred Fis