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by shdon 4y ago
Indeed. Those notches, hole-punches etc, I could do without. I very much prefer to have a bit of bezel and have a proper screen (preferably even with angular corners, rather than rounded corners). This also helps when handing the phone to s
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Writing an Apple 2 game in 2021(nick.zoic.org)
77 points by shdon 4y ago|17 comments
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by shdon 4y ago
lol, I wish. No, mine is Blood Nova, which I ran the Kickstarter campaign for.
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by shdon 4y ago
I recently had a blast (no pun intended) by porting a new point and click adventure currently being in development to DOS. That includes a sound mixer and MIDI player. Was a lot of fun revisiting those skills from 25 years ago.
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by shdon 4y ago
I'm a little amused by its weather report classifying the night as "Sunny", when it probably just means the sky will be clear.
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by shdon 4y ago
What controls? Those aren't sliders... it's an HTML Canvas. The only control there is a textarea to get the input formula.
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Pegasus Mail and Mercury Developer News – On OAUTH2(pmail.com)
2 points by shdon 4y ago|0 comments
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by shdon 4y ago
Decoding JPEG doesn't leave much room for interpretation and the images should essentially always be decoded the same. For encoding, it's a different story, as there are steps to downsample the image data (chrominance data is ofte
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by shdon 4y ago
That's only for one of the many optimisations he did, making use of different sections of memory to improve throughput. Many (all?) of the other ones don't increase the memory requirements. Quite a few (such as re-rolling unrolled
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by shdon 4y ago
I recently installed this to do a DOS port of a new point and click adventure game my teammates are currently writing for Windows, Linux and macOS. As it has a retro aesthetic and I didn't have anything better to do, I figured that I m
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by shdon 5y ago
Thought it looks plausible enough, are we sure this is actually real? The date on the article is 1 April.
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by shdon 5y ago
He tweeted in 2013: "If I ever get to make another Monkey Island, I'm going to announce it on April 1st." [1] Really playing the long game there! 1: https://twitter.com/grumpygamer/status/38081975120
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by shdon 5y ago
400 scanline modes gave us 50 lines of text by virtue of loading the 8x8 pixel font (400/8=50). There was no incompatible trickery going on for 43 line mode. That was just the 8x8 pixel font at the standard 350 scanlines (350/8=43
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by shdon 5y ago
This was true even for Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest companies in the world. A few years before he retired, my dad led a team responsible for coordinating implementation of SAP and for training thousands or even tens of thousands of
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by shdon 5y ago
One thing I couldn't find in the post is how big the estimated error rate is. Particularly false positives or negatives. Probably impossible to track by definition, but I'm not so much interested in reducing the number of captchas
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by shdon 5y ago
15-20 years ago, I had a pretty good opinion of Google, as they seemed competent and true to their then motto "don't be evil". Now I avoid them wherever I can personally (unfortunately, and to my great dismay, my employer is
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by shdon 5y ago
Hm, since that link didn't work for me either, I switched my DNS from Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 to Google's 8.8.8.8 and that allowed me to view the page. Some weirdness going on there.
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by shdon 5y ago
Is that URL working for people? I get an NXDOMAIN result.
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Embeddable JavaScript engine Duktape 2.7.0 released(duktape.org)
2 points by shdon 5y ago|0 comments
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by shdon 5y ago
Really cool concept. Some oddness to be found: run MSBASIC.EXE, then enter the command "FILES" (which is the BASIC command to get a listing of the files in the current directory), essentially a DIR command. That gets stuck in an e
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by shdon 5y ago
The actual Midnight Commander Guide PDF link leads to a "repository not found" page on Bitbucket. Archive.org still has a single copy, dated December 2014.
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by shdon 5y ago
Completely unrelated to the content of the article, but I find this website very annoying to read as it changes the scrolling behaviour adding some inertia. It takes a fraction of a second to stop scrolling after I've stopped moving th
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by shdon 5y ago
I honestly quite like this. Was looking for a quick way to store and transmit some small images both with and without alpha information without having to bring in a relatively large dependency like libpng and still have a modicum of compres
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by shdon 5y ago
They're a Continuous Integrator at Backblaze, according to their LinkedIn.
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DOS game “Cosmo Chicken” patched after 25 years(shdon.com)
4 points by shdon 5y ago|0 comments
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by shdon 5y ago
Does it solve the crash I often experience when deleting messages from large IMAP folders?
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Netflix will reportedly offer video games within the next year(engadget.com)
3 points by shdon 5y ago|0 comments
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by shdon 5y ago
The town itself is called Baarle, the Dutch part is part of a municipality called Baarle-Nassau (a little under 7000 inhabitants) and the Belgian part is part of a municipality called Baarle-Hertog (a little under 3000 inhabitants). Both mu
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by shdon 6y ago
They launched in 2013 as a website for high quality copyright- and royalty-free images. The license has changed a few times, which is unfortunate. There is a bit more on their "about" page (which is hidden in the three-dots-menu)
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by shdon 6y ago
Personally, I've found it really helps to limit the patterns as much as possible to best match the valid input. My own rules of thumb: - Prefer character classes like \d, \s or \w over . - Prefer non-greedy .*? over greedy .* - Exclude

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