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Screwtapello 456 days ago | parent | on: BSNES - Snes Emulator
Please don't link to bsnes.org, it's an unauthorised SEO operation by unknown authors.
The only official source for bsnes remains its github repository, https://github.com/bsnes-emu/bsnes/
Screwtapello 465 days ago | parent | on: The Amiga as "a computer built to last 50 years"
I love the idea of a "long term" computer, but the thing that terrifies me about the Amiga (or the C64, or the Atari 400/800, or the Apple IIe) is how dependent they are on custom no-longer-produced chips. Sure, those chips might last a long time, but there's only going to be fewer and fewer of them over time.
At least the 6502 is still being commercially produced, and most TTL 74* chips too, so the original Apple II should easily last 50 years... but I/O is kind of a pain and the lack of full ASCII keyboard and display is crippling.
Screwtapello 477 days ago | parent | on: Doom Released Under GPLv2
I knew Quake and later released games were under the GPL, somehow I forgot that DOOM was under a custom licence until now. Good on you, Bethesda!
- pcvarmint 477 days ago
  Boom and MBF were relicensed under GPL circa 1997.
  id Doom -> Linux Doom -> DosDoom -> Boom -> MBF -> Eternity [0]
  0. https://doomwiki.org/wiki/James_Haley_(Quasar)
  - Screwtapello 476 days ago
    According to the DOOM wiki:
    > The Doom source code was released December 23, 1997, initially under a not-for-profit license. Later, permission was granted by John Carmack to re-release the source code under the GNU General Public License on October 3, 1999, albeit only via an email conversation.
    And then about 24 years later, the licence file was updated in the git repo. :)
Screwtapello 479 days ago | parent | on: FlyingToasters: A recreation of the After Dark scr...
I think what killed screensavers was monitors supporting power management - once your monitor can turn itself off to save power, you want that to happen as quickly as possible, which leaves no time to display any animations.
Screwtapello 485 days ago | parent | on: As of April 15th, 2024 Hobbes OS/2 Archive will no...
Jason Scott of the Internet Archive says[1]:
> Nobody should worry about Hobbes, I've got Hobbes handled.
[1]: https://mastodon.archive.org/@textfiles/111728995296654678
Screwtapello 487 days ago | parent | on: The 6502/65C02/65C816 instruction set decoded
Programming in JavaScript feels like being adrift in a realm of pure thought. Programming in 6502, you can feel the electrons pulsing through the thin carpet beneath your feet.
Screwtapello 488 days ago | parent | on: The 6502/65C02/65C816 instruction set decoded
As somebody who's been learning about 6502 internals recently, this web page has been incredibly helpful. It's not a silver bullet, there's a lot of instructions that don't fit the pattern, or they do fit the pattern and there's only one or two of them so there's little point, but for the most regular operations (Group 1: ORA, AND, EOR, ADC, STA, LDA, CMP, SBC) it makes things so much easier.
Screwtapello 491 days ago | parent | on: 1995 Programming on the Sega Saturn
> We do not use C++, as I was told it produced prohibitively large object files. However I have not experimented with this, and those // comment would be useful. Feel free to experiment.
Thank goodness line-comments were added to C99!
- qingcharles 463 days ago
  lol the only feature of C++ used by a lot of game devs in the 90s - // comments :p
Screwtapello 493 days ago | parent | on: Grasshopper, a low level language for the 6502
Is there an implementation of this language available anywhere? Or is this thesis the only surviving record?
- classichasclass 493 days ago
  Near as I can tell this is all that's left. There is fragmentary source in the thesis.
Screwtapello 504 days ago | parent | on: WinUAE 5.1 released
I love that one of the "extension packages" on the downloads page is "Improved drive sounds"
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