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by phoboslab 7y ago
IIRC the NES PPU only supports one background layer. You can just change the scroll position mid-frame to give it the illusion of multiple background layers. See here for some clever examples of this technique. Everything that's overla
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by phoboslab 7y ago
The 2015 game SOMA[1] paints a far darker picture of precisely this topic: a brain donated to research. It really explores this in depth. If you're remotely interested in games I can only recommend it. [1] https://www.somaga
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by phoboslab 8y ago
BPS.space is attempting it. Test Launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQt-9SSJ51c Test Landing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXy-x6lkQvQ
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Show HN: Play Connect 4 against the other half of the internet(foursnet.com)
3 points by phoboslab 8y ago|0 comments
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by phoboslab 8y ago
Ha, didn't expect to find my own comment there. I also mentioned selling jQuery plugins (remember jQuery?) and advertising my own game engine (now free) in the thread. Feels like such a long time ago. Gratz for pulling it off, Sahil!
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by phoboslab 8y ago
Wider columns are harder to read. That's why newspapers and magazines typically divide a page into slimmer columns. https://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability
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by phoboslab 8y ago
Oh, so the physical size on the die, not the size in bytes. That makes sense!
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by phoboslab 8y ago
> Each of the 2-8 main CPU cores (...) has its own private cache (bigger than most computers’ RAM up to even recently) That sounds odd. I take it the author is not talking about the L1, L2 L3 caches, as they are typically only a few MB i
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by phoboslab 8y ago
Just a friendly reminder that AWS pricing is still insanely high compared to dedicated bare metal servers. On AWS you'd pay around $1500/mo for 24 cores ("m5a.12xlarge")[1] while e.g. Hetzner offers a 24 core AMD bare me
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How to match “A B C” where A+B=C: The Beast Reborn(drregex.com)
2 points by phoboslab 8y ago|0 comments
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by phoboslab 8y ago
Should be fixed with https://github.com/phoboslab/underrun/commit/2477c5a45f5be4d... Rolling back X and Z when any collision occurs would prevent you from "hugging" (i.e. sliding along) walls. The
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The Making of Underrun – A WebGL Shooter in 13kb of JavaScript(phoboslab.org)
434 points by phoboslab 8y ago|37 comments
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by phoboslab 8y ago
It only worked because the Impact community had people like you. Thank you so much <3
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by phoboslab 9y ago
> Bandwidth at AWS costs about 50 times as much as with Hetzner for example. It's actually closer to 70x Hetzner: 1.25 USD per TB (after 30 TB free per server) [1] AWS: 90 USD per TB [2] So, 100 TB at Hetzner will cost you 125 USD (
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RPCS3 begins to emulate several awaited AAA exclusives(rpcs3.net)
2 points by phoboslab 9y ago|0 comments
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by phoboslab 9y ago
I just tried it, but it simply hangs on connect. After ctrl+c it quits with "Connect to 127.0.0.1:11211 failed.". Doing `echo "stats" | nc 127.0.0.1 11211` on the console returns the current memcached stats (and keeps th
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by phoboslab 9y ago
The result is dependent on your Browser. This library uses the Browser's native `ctx.toDataURL('image/jpeg', quality)` method to re-encode the image. The actual compression algorithm is not implemented in JavaScript.
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by phoboslab 9y ago
As I understand it, this library draws the image into a Canvas to then re-compress the Canvas' via the Browser's native `toDataURL('image/jpeg', quality);`. You can optionally specify a width/height to downscal
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by phoboslab 9y ago
I'm hosting ztype on the same server as all my other personal sites ( http://phoboslab.org , http://impactjs.com and a few more) and pay 50€/mo for everything. The project with the 14m visits/mo generate
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by phoboslab 9y ago
Build a community site and wait for 9 years. I'm not joking. The first 6 years saw maybe 2k visits/mo.
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by phoboslab 9y ago
I make about $600/mo pretty consistently with a typing game ( http://zty.pe ) - about 200k visits/mo. I once managed another project that had about 14m visits/mo and made a meager $3000. Bad target demographic.
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by phoboslab 9y ago
http://jsmpeg.com/ work nicely in Safari.
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Basic 2D Rasterization(magcius.github.io)
3 points by phoboslab 9y ago|2 comments
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by phoboslab 9y ago
Almost true. Even Microsoft's Edge supports Opus now, but Safari still does not.
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by phoboslab 10y ago
Interesting clip from Good Hair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCEX34-1o6M
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JSMpeg – Decode It Like It's 1999(jsmpeg.com)
235 points by phoboslab 10y ago|78 comments
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by phoboslab 10y ago
This is the kind of bug report that will keep you busy (and occasionally drive you crazy) as an Open Source maintainer. The bug is real, but the reporter completely fails to (or is too "lazy" to) isolate the problem or build a sim
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Wolfenstein 3D – Gameboy cartridge with co-processor(happydaze.se)
493 points by phoboslab 10y ago|55 comments
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Alone in Pico: Postmortem of a 3D demake(lexaloffle.com)
83 points by phoboslab 10y ago|15 comments
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by phoboslab 10y ago
This happened to a site I managed a while ago. The cause was a comment a user posted that was flagged as a "batch virus". The content of the comment was all text, along the lines of @echo off echo "Speeding up your PC

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