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   by zandorg 16y ago

   I find undocumented opcodes most interesting. They were literally holes in the 6502 circuitry. People used them on the C64 to get more speed out of their assembly code. Early C64 emulators couldn't cope with those games/demos. Luckily, they
2. 152.▲
   by zandorg 16y ago

   Nothing about Overture, nothing about shutting down Yahoo Auctions. Not a very good article.
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   by zandorg 16y ago

   Chief Yahoo.
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   by zandorg 16y ago

   I think Groupon has one small problem, and that's when they sell a holiday in Wales in an offer in, say, Sheffield. So the business isn't actually in the city it's selling into. Also, Groupon offering deals in towns (not just cities) would
5. 155.▲
   by zandorg 16y ago

   A donation from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation! I'm glad Bill doesn't forget his roots.
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   by zandorg 16y ago

   My point was that formatting a 800kb disk to 1600kb (as you could on the Archimedes) is likely to - and in my experience has - corrupt after a few days of use, and thus is not worth the amount of money saved. Luckily it was just copied game
7. 157.▲
   by zandorg 16y ago

   I did this on an Acorn Archimedes disk and though okay at first, the floppy got corrupted after a few days. Bad idea!
8. 158.▲
   by zandorg 16y ago

   That's 'cue'!
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   by zandorg 16y ago

   Does anyone know of a Perl-like strings library for C? Perl's string replacing code is miles better than anything I can find for C. For instance, the PCRE library provides Perl compatible regular expressions. Why not the same for strings?
10. 160.▲
    by zandorg 16y ago

    It would probably be heavily based around RSA encryption.
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    I should have said more. I wanted this domain, and it points to Google, but it's owned by some other guy. My point is, why does it point to Google? I think that's odd. Maybe it's not very interesting though. ;-)
12. 162.▲
    by zandorg 16y ago

    Wierdness here: http://sanfransis.co/
13. 163.▲
    by zandorg 16y ago

    I keep telling everyone that I don't need to learn to drive - we'll have automatic cars in 10 years or so thanks to Google.
14. 164.▲
    by zandorg 16y ago

    I think Dave Winer, basically inventor of RSS, would disagree.
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    I know the CDDB guy from an unrelated mailing list to do with binary translation - a hobby of his. When I asked him for business advice, he told me get a good lawyer. Good advice!
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    Brewster Kahle, Archive.org: In the history of libraries, they tend to get burned, usually by governments
17. 167.▲
    by zandorg 16y ago

    I got a notice from teamhint, very pleased as I wasn't sure which email I used for posting to Gawker/Valleywag. I then changed my main logins under that email.
18. 168.▲
    by zandorg 16y ago

    c.l.l. is the best newsgroup I've ever used.
19. 169.▲
    by zandorg 16y ago

    However, it would be useful for the higher-level logic - like a print function. You decompile calls to this function, no matter how the function works.
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    I've written a decompiler with a custom template for the 6502 (the idea is all CPUs are fundamentally the same, from x86 to 6502, so you just define a CPU as instructions affecting flags, etc, and have custom functions for, eg., Vax CPUs).
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    I want to know where Bill gets his jumpers (woolly sweaters).
22. 172.▲
    by zandorg 16y ago

    No asterisk allowed in URLs...
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    I've kept email since I switched from Hotmail to POP3 in about 1998. The wonderful bit is I wrote a desktop application which scans any number of hard drives and finds all mail in the main 5 formats (Mbox, Kmail files, Outlook <2003, Ou
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    I (a UK developer) just dealt with a company who were interested in my Pretext software, which finds text in images. I rang at 2PM their time when I rang, and when his development committee finally rejected me after a month of waiting, he s
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    I replaced about 25,000 lines of C++ into about 9000 lines of Common Lisp. Runs almost as fast, and is incredibly easy to understand and modify.
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    My contact with SJ was when I wanted to scan his book Stonekeep for my 'game novellas' website. He went ballistic and called me a pirate. I pointed out all the other novellas have personal permission from the rights holders to be hosted on
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    So as NeXT founder, Steve Jobs was indirectly responsible for HTML? Of course, Marc Andreessen was responsible for images and also porting the NeXT code to Windows/MacOS.
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    THIS WHOLE THREAD IS RIDICULOUS!
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    I got an Oxford Computer Publishing FORTH compiler for my Commodore 64. A great language, though I only tried to write a text adventure in it!
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    by zandorg 16y ago

    I should say here that I too have the 'old version' problem: The software to send samples to my Akai hardware sampler only runs on Windows 98. I have a Windows 98 PC just for this!