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Darkstar 522 days ago | parent | on: I Am No Longer Attending Vintage Computer Festival...
A simple phone call like "hey, sorry, we have no time/space/energy to do anything with your stuff, pick it up or it will be destroyed by $DEADLINE" would certainly have solved the problem
Darkstar 543 days ago | parent | on: First beta of Nintendo Switch emulator Suyu goes l...
haha wow who could have possibly predicted that...
oh wait...
Darkstar 569 days ago | parent | on: Fans bring iOS classic Infinity Blade back, and it...
I think I still have that game installed on my old iPad :)
Darkstar 590 days ago | parent | on: Thou shalt follow these Vintage Computing Commandm...
> 10. Thou shalt not make vintage computing your G-d.
This one has no explanation. Anyone care to explain what a "G-d" is?
- boofar 590 days ago
  God.
Darkstar 607 days ago | parent | on: Doom Released Under GPLv2
At this point, who really cares anymore? Serious question! I think Doom has more clones, derivatives, hacks and reverse-engineered sources than any other game out there.
There's probably not much that this brings to the table. Or am I missing anything?
- ddingus 604 days ago
  It insures everything that can run DOOM actually does.
  More seriously, Romero at least, likes to contribute to the history. That is the main contribution IMHO.
  - bmonkey325 601 days ago
    Similar to Atwoods law for javascript. Carmack’s Law : all the things that can run Doom eventually will run Doom.
    - Borg 600 days ago
      And do NOT forget that, you can also run DOOM inside DOOM! :)
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6hnQ1RKhbo
      - ddingus 567 days ago
        Of course you can! Should we expect anything less?
        Honestly the whole "run DOOM on it" scene is technically interesting and hilarious!
  - Darkstar 604 days ago
    > It insures everything that can run DOOM actually does.
    How? I mean you can already port one of the existing doom ports to pretty much any system imaginable. Why would another source base (especially one as old and non-portable as this) be of any help there?
    - ddingus 603 days ago
      Now it is an overt intent, rather than implied prior to this release.
- bmonkey325 604 days ago
  I look at this as an action in conservation while preserving a hold on the IP on the game. I still believe that retro and vintage computing and sbc computers helps ,at least a little, to stem the tide in the war on general computing.
Darkstar 609 days ago | parent | on: Winworld software Archive
DosBox-staging would be a much better (and easier) way than QEMU + FreeDOS
Darkstar 616 days ago | parent | on: Denise is a cycle accurate and platform independan...
I'd really love to see a thorough technical comparison of this vs Vice and WinUAE.
I always find it interesting that sometimes, a new emulator suddenly shows up that claims to be as accurate as existing ones that have been in development for 20+ years. I mean there must be some shortcomings, right?
Darkstar 639 days ago | parent | on: Videogamesprites.net, Featuring Over 36,000 Sprite...
I was hoping for a bit more diverse selection. But it's mostly Final Fantasy and its spinoffs...
Darkstar 639 days ago | parent | on: Nintendo has taken down that Link's Awakening PC p...
that will also go dark very soon. grab it while it's hot
Darkstar 648 days ago | parent | on: What happened to Adaptec? I found out.
well it was not exactly a secret who bought/resold/rebought Adaptec... Not much to figure out there.
Still an interesting piece of history. Somewhere around the time U160 and U320 SCSI was a thing, LSI overtook Adaptec in driver/hardware quality, and it all went downhill from there
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