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Trixter 23 days ago | parent | on: The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outs...
Every retrocomputing article from slicker.me is partially, or completely, generated with an LLM. There is even residual copy-paste the "author" forgot to remove from the bottom of the article: "Further context: For specs, market share, and sales estimates, see historical summaries and technical overviews of the C64’s hardware, software ecosystem, and market impact."
Please don't post these; they don't provide benefit.
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- bmonkey325 23 days ago
  ChatGPT and Grok indicated to me that this is likely LLM assisted but not fully LLM generated. Example in this related link : https://slicker.me/emulator.htm - the heading about "caution find something better to do" is just against the LLM ethos. I've seen graduate level draft papers with "As an LLM..." stuck in them so I get your frustration.
  I will leave it to our benevolant overlord to decide if the site should be in the kill file. I am more than happy to comply if that is the will of the site.
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Trixter 49 days ago | parent | on: Optimizing a 6502 image decoder, from 70 minutes t...
RDPMC was introduced with the Pentium; was there some other instruction or method you were thinking of for 386 or 486 CPUs?
- bmonkey325 48 days ago
  Good catch. Those were only in p5 and p6+ I was watching baseball in the easy chair when I wrote that. Fixed.
Trixter 60 days ago | parent | on: The Demo Scene is Dying, But That's Alright
I first heard this in 1997, out of my own mouth, seeing the first wave of 3-D hardware-accelerated demos. I felt that removed all of the challenge. Clearly I was wrong, and clearly the scene is not (still) dying.
Trixter 85 days ago | parent | on: When the IBM PC Came to Town
That was exactly my reaction. Feels like the entire article was just a listicle generated by an LLM with Deep Research.
It is both a blessing and a curse that most LLMs and generative AI were not adequately trained on vintage computing materials.
Trixter 107 days ago | parent | on: Second Reality by Future Crew ported to Windows
:-)