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Trixter 1 day 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?
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- bmonkey325 21 hours ago
  Good catch. Those were only in p5 and p6+ I was watching baseball in the easy chair when I wrote that. Fixed.
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Trixter 12 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.
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Trixter 38 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.
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Trixter 59 days ago | parent | on: Second Reality by Future Crew ported to Windows
:-)