- KODust 314 days agoAs a fellow child of the 80's I totally get what you mean, but you still can't really do that. You can get close with a simulation inside a closed roadway, I guess. People would probably pay for that experience, actually. Hmm.
- bmonkey325 314 days agoMy first touch of ELIZA came in the version integrated into SAM the Software Automatic Mouth. Blew my mind. I was 13 or 14.
- Doesn't contain Choco-Banana Shake Hang?
https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-8/q157668-mystery-solved-...-
- Incredible footage! So glad this survived.
- This is actually an interview with Jordan Mechner! It's great. Also highly recommend his book about the making of PoP. Really great read.
- I wanted C# code to do this recently, taking a globe bitmap and spherically projecting it and rotating it. I used it as a test for GPT. I asked it for the code. I pasted it into my app and it worked perfectly first time.
- [Author of the blog post here.]
For a more old-school approach, see "Sphere Mapping" by Frédéric Goset.
http://fredericgoset.ovh/informatique/oldschool/en/spheremap...
(This may well be why the LLM "knows" about this. May be interesting to compare approaches and variable names. – It's also linked in the article.)
- I agree. As soon as you booted Windows it almost entirely sidelined DOS. DOS was more of a bootloader for Windows OS.
- I liked OS/2 more than Windows, but there were no decent apps.
- This is awesome.
Just finished reading this relevant article before the above link popped up too:
- The Spectrum was huge in Spain in the 1980s. Literally any store you walked into had huge racks of pirated games on sale for practically nothing. Piracy was rampant and part of the culture in Spain well in the 90s.
I used to look forward to regular trips to Spain from England to haul back a ton of pirated tapes. Good for pirated multi-game cartridges in the early 90s too.
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It's crazy to think that in 2025 you can make a fully working KITT -- a car that drives you around on its own and talks to you in perfect English with a snarky sense of humor -- and it would barely raise an eyebrow.