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by vunderba 2mo ago
Keen eye! That's an old demo video. The modem panel now (and other panels such as the printer) are now run through the same post-processing shader pipeline as the rest of the editor when you've entered into CRT immersive mode.
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Oh definitely! Some of my earliest memories were my dad helping me type in basic programs that were listed in the popular COMPUTE! magazine back in the day. 10 PRINT "YOU'RE DEFINITELY GOING TO GET FATIGUED" 20 PRINT &q
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by vunderba 2mo ago
> I remember some sound demos on the PC that emulated polyphonic sound by fast/audible switching between notes in a chord Didn't know that about the PCjr! I'll have to see if I can find some examples of the generator onl
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Great question! So DOSBox, which I absolutely love, has some limitations. For example, you don’t really get a lot of period-accurate virtual devices out of the box, whereas Qbasic-Core tries to recreate the experience of actually having a 3
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Definitely. I've used a few of them (Commodore BASIC, Applesoft BASIC) as a kid. I could have worded that a bit better. What i meant was that as far as I'm aware, QBASIC was the first free OS-bundled fully featured BASIC IDE whi
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Haha same. I definitely crashed our family's PC quite a few times as a kid by forgetting to set the segment address to &HA000 and then poking, mistakenly assuming I was hitting mode 13h VGA memory.
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by vunderba 2mo ago
100%. I actually loved Flash for what it was. I get that it could definitely become convoluted especially when you were jumping between various keyframes, some of the control flows could get really messy. But just like QBASIC, it was a “bat
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Thanks! I went so far with it that I was honestly questioning my own sanity. The HAL has a virtualized CPU, and I spent more time than I’d care to admit precisely timing instructions on various period-accurate hardware (386SX, 486DX). I eve
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Nice, there’s also a great in-depth article about an album driven entirely using the primitive PC speaker. The whole COM file comes in at around 40 KB, so you can copy it onto an old machine and run it. Some of it you'd swear you&#x27
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Haha, symphonies with accompanying armaments really make you appreciate where you’re going to be seated as an audience member.
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Loved Visual Basic! VB3 was probably my first experience as a kid to the idea of “threading” and UI-blocking operations. Remember this? DoEvents
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Yeah it's very iconic. It’s actually the same melodic motif that’s played in the intro of GORILLA.BAS and NIBBLES.BAS - it’s a short snippet from Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. Kind of reminds me of how most people don’t know “Korobeinik
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by vunderba 2mo ago
That’s awesome. If you ever end up getting a copy of it, I’d love to stress-test QBasic-Core against it since I built in a virtual hard drive to allow File I/O (PUT for random access, PRINT to file number, etc.) I’ve got a fairly large
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Just as importantly - it was an all‑in‑one. I think a lot of people tend to forget that there were already plenty of earlier BASIC dialects (GW‑BASIC, Apple II BASIC, C64 BASIC, etc). However QBASIC was likely the first freely available, al
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by vunderba 2mo ago
You absolutely should! I’ve already sunk hundreds of hours into building out the fidelity of QuickBASIC (everything down to emulating memory access so you can simulate realistic PEEKing and POKEing), so I don’t have the sanity points left t
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Nice job. The sound effects are a bit too advanced because early IBM computers shipped with pretty simple, magnetically driven dynamic speakers. On a related note, I’ve actually spent the last four months working on a 100% faithful adaptati
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Having purchased a number of 3d models both professionally and personally - it’s just like any other asset you might need. They can be useful in games, as props in larger modeled scenes, and so on. This article is mostly talking about asset
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by vunderba 2mo ago
From the article: > So this is why we’re announcing our first acquisition today which is: Co–Star. Well, that's certainly not what I expected, given the last announcement from them was Midjourney Medical [1]. Going from anatomical
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Nice job. I came across an 8-bit equivalent about a year ago [1]. Switch it from Blocks to Schematic to see a similarly graphically animated component view. Feedback • The problem with using Claude Code (or Codex) is that they don’t have a
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by vunderba 2mo ago
A1111 (or rather Forge Neo at this point) can still be pretty useful (for a Windows user) if somebody just want a batteries-included approach because it makes it trivial to move back and forth between masking, manual inpainting, tacking on
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Invoke AI is also really good if you prefer working in a canvas-style environment, in a more traditional graphical way. It easily has the nicest workflows for outpainting/regional/inpainting by far. https://github.com&#
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by vunderba 2mo ago
When I was working on my PPL, I used VATSIM which is a worldwide network where volunteer hobbyists actually act as virtual air traffic controllers, so you can practice traffic patterns, instructions, and just get more comfortable when you a
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Agreed. This is what happens when you confuse token counts with byte counts. A trivial test through tiktoken [1] ( though technically you really have to match the tokenizer to the specific LLM ) would have shown them that ∅ was a poor choic
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by vunderba 2mo ago
+1 for Typora. One of the things I like is that it gives you some flexibility in how it handles images you drag into a document for embedding purposes. My favorite option is the one where it automatically colocates assets by creating a fold
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Interesting! I tried to find a demonstration of the manual shutter. This is the closest thing I’ve been able to find. Apparently, it was one of the earliest Sony models to feature a semi-automatic shutter. https://youtu.be/H
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by vunderba 2mo ago
haha true. My favorite part is when I start cursing loudly "what hipster doofus wrote this pile of steaming horse crap?" as my eyes bleed Ark of the Covenant style from unblinkingly debugging poorly documented code in a company
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by vunderba 2mo ago
This repo looks neat, but I hope they add some more clear benchmarks because that time (74.58s) is pretty meaningless given that the it/s (and total time) is highly dependent on mode (T2V vs I2V vs REF2V), resolution (0.4, 0.6mp, etc),
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by vunderba 2mo ago
Relatedly, I was recently digging through the attic at my family’s home and came across a 3.5" disk containing a bunch of QBASIC programs I’d written in the early ’90s. Despite sitting for decades in a non–climate-controlled attic, it
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by vunderba 2mo ago
I do a lot of professional recordings with a Zoom H5 field recorder, sampling everyday sounds (mowing the lawn, a plane taxiing, an engine rumbling, a fire crackling, rain, wind, etc) for use in video and game dev. The issue is that the sou
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by vunderba 2mo ago
> I don’t wanna carry another device with me all the time Hopefully they've learned from the mistakes of the Humane AI pin and/or the Rabbit R1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_r1 https:/&#x2F

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