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  • Borg 577 days ago | parent | on: Previous : A NeXT Computer Emulator
    Yeah, you are not alone with paranoia... I will quote famous words from System Shock 2: "Paranoia keeps us alive..."
  • Borg 582 days ago | parent | on: Ruby on the Apple II: Adventures in Retro Programm...
    Damn, pretty amazing. Ruby is great. I personally still use good old Ruby-1.8.7 because its not bloated with Unicode and its very portable. I run it on Win32, Cygwin, Linux, FreeBSD. And I bet it can compile on more exotic platforms as well.
    • bmonkey325 581 days ago
      I also carry a fondness for this version. also rare to know of rubyists outside of the Rails world. Rarer still with the tsunami that is Python. Seeing it run on a machine with less ram is quite remarkable.
  • Borg 583 days ago | parent | on: The Hayes Code
    Ahh, those where the days.. Famous +++ATH ;)
    • bmonkey325 583 days ago
      The stuggle of figuring out if you needed ATDP or ATDT was real
      • Borg 583 days ago
        I remember also some magic AT codes for my ISDN external modem for PPP multilink.
  • Borg 589 days ago | parent | on: A visual history of Visual C++
    Ahh, the Visual C++. I used Visual C++ 6.0 for a looong time. It was decent compiler. I used it both from IDE and from cmd.exe using nmake. But, later, I found Mingw project and I moved to GCC.
  • Borg 590 days ago | parent | on: The Retro Web
    And not to vanish later...
  • Borg 599 days ago | parent | on: Doom Released Under GPLv2
    And do NOT forget that, you can also run DOOM inside DOOM! :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6hnQ1RKhbo

    • ddingus 565 days ago
      Of course you can! Should we expect anything less?

      Honestly the whole "run DOOM on it" scene is technically interesting and hilarious!

  • Borg 627 days ago | parent | on: The long-lost MVS/XA operating system found in Kaz...
    Hmm. Thats so much different from todays UNIX environment. Having just pure BASH terminal where you slap commands looks so much more productive, compared to this. SCREEN utility itself was amazing as well.
    • jgrahamc 626 days ago
      Fun fact: Two Stop Bits runs in a screen session that I detach from and leave running. When I need to do something I ssh in to the machine and re-attached. There I have access to the REPL.
  • Borg 633 days ago | parent | on: Elite: "The game that couldn't be written" [video]
    Thats amazing to look how all that was stuffed into less than 24KB of memory.

    Today we have GBs of RAM, CPUs clocked at 3GHz or more and software become very bloated (web and webbrowsers to the extreme).

  • Borg 656 days ago | parent | on: GRX Graph Lib
    An old C and Borland Pascal graphic library that runs on DOS, Win32 and Linux (X11 and framebuffer).

    I myself used it to port good old DOOM editor called ZETH. I also added it to my Ruby so I can do basic graph drawing from scripting language.

    • jgrahamc 656 days ago
      Ah. Thanks! The site doesn't seem to work for me. All I see is a picture of space.
      • Darkstar 656 days ago
        same here, on Chrome
      • Borg 656 days ago
        Wow, what browser are you using? This site is old. It should render pretty much on anything I guess.. FF 2.x included ;)

        What about IA version? I wonder if IPv6 is a problem here:

          grx.gnu.de is an alias for https.gerwinski.de.
          https.gerwinski.de is an alias for mx3.gerwinski.de.
          mx3.gerwinski.de has address 88.198.170.59
          mx3.gerwinski.de has IPv6 address 2a01:4f8:192:4405::170:59
        • jgrahamc 656 days ago
          Chrome. Maybe IPv6 is the issue.
  • Borg 658 days ago | parent | on: Doom8088: Doom for 16-bit DOS computers
    Ugh, thats crazy stuff.. I remember playing DOOM on my 386DX40 and peformance was not good. I had to reduce screen size and do double pixels. 486SX25 peformed much better, especially when I overclocked it to 33MHz.
    • anthk 656 days ago
      https://github.com/viti95/FastDoom

      An optimized Doom for the 386.

      • Borg 655 days ago
        Nice. I still play good old DOOM, using source port.
    • anthk 656 days ago
      There's a better Doom hack for 386 without sacrificing too much quality.
      • Frenkel 655 days ago
        There's a 32-bit build of Doom8088. It's twice as fast as the 16-bit build.
    • bmonkey325 657 days ago
      Amazing hack. Definitely in the amazing it even works category.
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