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by 1313ed01 5d ago
Do those services have many more posts than what can be downloaded from archive.org and searched locally?
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by 1313ed01 13d ago
Porting to DOS sounds like a great plan for retro games, to only have to do the port once and know there are stable emulators to run it in, as opposed to porting to some modern OS and then have to port the game again and again to keep up wi
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by 1313ed01 14d ago
If you use Kagi Assistant, you can pick one of your lenses (i.e. lists of domains to restrict searches to) in chats. Not sure if their API has that as well or some other way to restrict searches. Also not sure if the Assistant (or API) resp
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by 1313ed01 17d ago
But what would flat-earthers consider the longest possible paths to be? Not the ones shown in the article, presumably?
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by 1313ed01 19d ago
I think it is the exact opposite. Keep remakes running in DOS instead, and they will run everywhere that DOSBox runs, which is pretty much everywhere, and also everywhere that you can boot up FreeDOS (including in QEMU), plus in other emula
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by 1313ed01 1mo ago
Almost 30 years ago when I wanted to backup my synth, its complete MIDI spec was in the printed user manual. Saving all sysex was just a matter of writing a short C program to send a few bytes to the ALSA MIDI device and then read the respo
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by 1313ed01 1mo ago
PC was a clear winner for RPGs, adventure games, and wargames/strategy, even in the early days of PC/XT. Anything that could make use of more RAM and disk, while also not demanding too much of graphics or audio, was great on PC.
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by 1313ed01 1mo ago
Even as someone that grew up with GW-BASIC and had moved on to Turbo Pascal by the time qbasic came out, I must say you have a point. I think however that the more traditional BASIC "IDE" with line numbers etc, used in GW-BASIC, h
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by 1313ed01 1mo ago
There is this fork that is easy to build: https://codeberg.org/tkchia/GW-BASIC There are some binary releases there from 2022, but I did not try those. The binary I built from source has worked very well. Never tried t
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by 1313ed01 1mo ago
Sounds like pcbasic, that implements GW-BASIC in python, both with a SDL GUI and a TUI, and it contains a partial PC emulator to make it possible to peek and poke some addresses and such. Impressive project, well documented and seems stable
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by 1313ed01 1mo ago
I wonder if the title was meant to say Sweden, as the text mentions Sweden and Belgium? The map at the bottom correctly excludes Switzerland. It does however include Norway and Iceland.
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by 1313ed01 1mo ago
I wonder how many libraries correctly handles the date 1712-02-30 in the Swedish calendar (according to Wikipedia the only official 30th of February in history)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-standard_dates#
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by 1313ed01 2mo ago
At first Windows 95 was not great for games, so at least through 1996-97 many games were still released for MS-DOS and often only for MS-DOS, or only had Windows ports later. Looking back from now, I wish that era could have continued much
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by 1313ed01 2mo ago
Krita, not GIMP, has been the FOSS flagship 2D bitmap editor for many years, the way Blender is for 3D. Can't remember when I last used GIMP for anything.
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by 1313ed01 2mo ago
RIP. Here in Sweden the headlines mention primarily his role in Ivanhoe, a movie that has aired on Swedish TV almost every New Years for over 40 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanhoe_(1982_film) He posted this v
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by 1313ed01 2mo ago
I worked for several American companies in Sweden an all of them insisted on calling us engineers. Many I work with happen to be engineers, but I dropped out before getting my (computer) engineering degree. It's embarrassing. I would n
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by 1313ed01 3mo ago
It bothers me that my large collection of legally bought, drm-free, works (ebooks and digital games, mostly) will basically transform into illegal warez for my heirs, as I understand the law. They can still legally watch my DVDs, read my pr
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by 1313ed01 3mo ago
My understanding is the laws you describe are mostly limited to a few European countries, while most of the rest of the world are more restrictive? Also, with with the limited right to make copies like that comes quite high fees on recordab
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by 1313ed01 3mo ago
I like this boardgame kit that the Germans printed for their soldiers: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30082557
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by 1313ed01 3mo ago
Useless fact I just learned from Wikipedia: Ångström/Angstrom (in Sweden of course we still use the original spelling) has its own UNICODE symbol, Angstrom sign: Å (U+212B) not to confuse with the Swedish letter Å (U+00C5). Looks sligh
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by 1313ed01 3mo ago
The problem with C++ string slices is that after many years of C++ becoming increasingly memory-safe with std::string and smart pointers, now we reverted to something barely more safe than a C string. I guess Rust can keep slices safe using
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by 1313ed01 3mo ago
That's pretty much what git over https does by default (is it even possible to do read-write to a git repo over https instead of ssh?). https://git-scm.com/docs/http-protocol
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by 1313ed01 3mo ago
Except the one on the right is in Swedish.
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by 1313ed01 3mo ago
And Ion Fury, from 2018, made with the Build engine: https://www.gog.com/en/game/ion_fury
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by 1313ed01 3mo ago
There is 16-bit DOS support in Free Pascal these days (yes, added long after 32-bit DOS support). That makes it easier to get a pointer to video memory. Makes other things less easy. Also some (more) free (open source) 16-bit C-compilers no
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by 1313ed01 3mo ago
Same as for GitHub Copilot? "For more on how Anthropic handles this data, see Anthropic’s commercial terms and data retention policy. Enabling the Claude Fable 5 policy constitutes acknowledgement of this requirement. Leaving it off ke
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by 1313ed01 4mo ago
There is also fennel, earlier language originally by same developer, that is similar, but compiles to, and is fully implemented in, Lua. No standard library of its own so missing many nice things like the parser library from janet, but it i
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by 1313ed01 4mo ago
I do the opposite and put all games together, with DOS BAT-files to launch the games. I boot up my virtual dream DOS machine by just starting DOSBox-X and then I launch the games the way they are meant to be launched, from the DOS COMMAND.C
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by 1313ed01 4mo ago
I never had any issues using WINE to install GOG games, but maybe running WINE on a Mac is not as easy now as it was back when I did that on a x86 Mac? I always run the GOG installer in WINE and then copy the game into my git repo for DOS s
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by 1313ed01 4mo ago
Termux and DOSBox are great for running or writing software on a phone. I almost never resort to installing or writing apps anymore as that is just more cumbersome and has APIs that keep breaking (not to mention the threats from Google abou

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