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by sehugg 10y ago
FWIW, Sen. Wyden wrote a letter to CBP asking WTF: https://theintercept.com/2017/04/07/sen-ron-wyden-government...
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by sehugg 10y ago
One very early pseudo-3D game (perhaps the first?) was Sega's Fonz, which drew a not-really-perspective-corrected road using discrete logic. AFAIK it hasn't even been emulated by MAME yet. Oh yeah, and shameless plug for my 6502 I
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by sehugg 10y ago
FWIW, Applesoft for the 6502 uses a 5th order poly.
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by sehugg 10y ago
1. Install TeX Live and TeXstudio 2. Start writing your master main.tex file 3. Search a bunch of StackExchange forums, edit main.tex appropriately 4. Now you have to edit /usr/share/texmf/tex4ht so your epub converter r
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by sehugg 10y ago
I'm guessing after some prototype work had been done. I've seen another version of the doc with a back page describing the saucers, which weren't fleshed out until later in the process. Another account describes the game as a
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by sehugg 10y ago
While researching for a book I learned that Asteroids was inspired by three different games: Spacewar! (the seminal PDP-1 video game), Computer Space (Atari's derivative of Spacewar) and Space Invaders . The control scheme comes
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by sehugg 10y ago
It's also easy to run an attack ad saying "Rep. X voted to keep job-killing Obama regulations" without saying exactly what the regulation was so the potential voter never questions whether they might have wanted it in place.
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by sehugg 10y ago
That's the roll call vote, the actual vote is here: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2017/roll202.xml
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Survey Finds Foreign Students Aren’t Applying to American Colleges(nbcnews.com)
29 points by sehugg 10y ago|3 comments
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by sehugg 10y ago
The custom CPU for Cinematronics (Vectorbeam) games used three of these (from https://archive.org/details/ArcadeGameManualRipoff ) The ALU is implemented using three 24LS181 (N6M6L6) function generators, three 74LS85
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by sehugg 10y ago
On early pre-production Atari vector games, you could burn a hole in the phosphor all the way to the glass if you left the electron gun active too long without moving the beam. They added a "spot killer" circuit that turned the be
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The Secret Life of Vector Generators (2001)(jmargolin.com)
1 points by sehugg 10y ago|0 comments
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by sehugg 10y ago
You know, I have never found a "casual" book covering tree-search techniques, from minimax to Monte Carlo Tree Search. Still relevant for game/agent AI (AlphaGo used MCTS for example). You'd think there would have been 1
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by sehugg 10y ago
The Atari 2600's TIA made use of these pseudorandom counters, too, for the current horizontal raster position of sprites and other objects. As a result, the programmer couldn't set the position directly -- you'd have to wait
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by sehugg 10y ago
This looks like a pretty nutty technique, essentially exploiting an undocumented state (or bug?) in the VIC chip. The Atari 2600's TIA had lots of sharp corners caused by the reliance on polynomial counters, which saved silicon but mad
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by sehugg 10y ago
Activision was the first third-party Atari 2600 developer, but they didn't have to reverse-engineer the system from scratch -- they were all defectors from Atari. They did invent plenty of nifty tricks, though. One podcast talks about
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by sehugg 10y ago
I still miss the Star Trek bar in the Hilton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Experience (and there was almost a giant Enterprise, too! http://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/scifi/lifesize-
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by sehugg 10y ago
You can see what one custom arcade builder does with their LCDs here, correcting aspect ratio and adding shaders: http://www.paradoxarcades.com/monitor/ They have light guns too (it uses a Wii-like infrared tracker):
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by sehugg 10y ago
Frank Black (from the Pixies) did a lot of his solo studio albums this way too: http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=961
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by sehugg 10y ago
MS sufferers take it for muscle spasms and neuropathy. Opioids have problems like tolerance and stomach irritation that cannabis does not, and since MS is usually a lifelong affliction this can be bad over the long term.
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by sehugg 10y ago
Also TP would usually link in-memory without creating .obj files (and it had real modules/units which made dependency analysis simple).
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by sehugg 10y ago
There's another Guardian article from yesterday about how Mercer donated free help to the Brexit Leave campaign: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/us-billiona...
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NASA measuring risks and “significant” cost of crew on maiden SLS launch(arstechnica.com)
3 points by sehugg 10y ago|0 comments
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by sehugg 10y ago
There's another native JS emulator with lots of disk images built-in: https://www.scullinsteel.com/apple2/#asteroid
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by sehugg 10y ago
Interesting. I was poking around the MAME database and found that the Z80 was used as recently as 2010 by a company called Igrosoft to make video slot machines, along with some modern PLDs and support chips. They also use a YM2149-compatibl
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by sehugg 10y ago
Well probably, but two years ago we were sanctioning them for a different reason, Crimea.
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by sehugg 10y ago
I just got one of those -- a 30 lb. boxed item in another box twice its size, with just a few air cushions and paper dunnage. It slid around like crazy and was probably dangerous to carry.
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by sehugg 10y ago
Enjoying the attention this is getting! It's been fun making it and learning the VCS tricks of the trade. I'd like to credit a couple of projects that it depends on, Javatari by Paulo Augusto Peccin ( http://javatari.org
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by sehugg 10y ago
I did something like this with a pen plotter and CMYK pens. I biased the random walk to follow/bounce off edges. http://imgur.com/a/n7OOd
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Show HN: 8bitworkshop IDE for Atari 2600(8bitworkshop.com)
289 points by sehugg 10y ago|36 comments

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