Firehawke

7 ms·

1.
by Firehawke 1mo ago
Definitely TradeWars 2002. That's probably the most popular door of all time.
2.
by Firehawke 1mo ago
If I recall correctly, the art is done with a form of early vector drawing so that they can use one set of assets on all platforms. They're designed to 16 colors but get downsampled for 4-color CGA mode or monochrome mode.
3.
by Firehawke 1mo ago
I started reading the article with a feeling of "I don't recognize this at all" from the first few images that slowly loaded. Then we got to the metal plates in elevators and the other uses, and my brain immediately turned ar
4.
by Firehawke 2mo ago
Not with bash. If your distro is putting ./ into the path then that's absolutely a high severity CVE with your distro's config.
5.
by Firehawke 2mo ago
As someone who has moderate to fairly heavy lighht sensitivity when I'm not dealing with migraines and extremely heavy light sensitvity with headaches, I'm just going to say that you're absolutely wrong here. Not every user h
6.
by Firehawke 3mo ago
Missed opportunity to call it OpenStreetMac or OpenStreetMac9.
7.
by Firehawke 3mo ago
It occurs to me that some of this could be really useful to implement into SteamInput for players with disabilities. Someone really needs to show this article to Valve.
8.
by Firehawke 4mo ago
Yeah, try the water in most of Arizona, where it's so hard you could cut diamond with it. Only half-joking. You'll get an appreciation for places where you can't really taste what's in the water.
9.
by Firehawke 6mo ago
Yep. I'd just about kill for a decade where we go back to 80s flicks. Some of the best quantity and quality we've ever had for mass-appeal movies, and they didn't cost anywhere near what the average cost is today. And I&#x2
10.
by Firehawke 6mo ago
I was already complaining about the price when it was only $30 for two tickets, two drinks, and popcorn. To think it's more than double that now! Add in the fact most anyone can have access to a pretty good quality 60" display. It
11.
by Firehawke 6mo ago
Yep. "Mother of all X" memes weren't even remotely uncommon for a handful of years during and after Operation Desert Storm. The Iraqi Minister of Information, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, also gave rise to "There are no Ame
12.
by Firehawke 7mo ago
Sure. The reimplementation of the IBM PC BIOS that gave birth to IBM Compatibles is the canonical example.
13.
by Firehawke 7mo ago
Strong disagree. Zoom in and the clusters break up. Without the clustering, the map is a total mess when zoomed out.
14.
by Firehawke 7mo ago
IRCv3 (and many clients are supporting fair chunks of IRCv3's feature set) supports offline state and message history.
15.
by Firehawke 7mo ago
I'd call that a pretty major feature omission since it means splitting things across multiple apps.
16.
by Firehawke 8mo ago
So.. just because a tool can be potentially mishandled (e.g. put in the hands of a toddler, which is basically what vibe code ends up being) because it's easy to use, you never want to take a look at said tool? That sounds like shootin
17.
by Firehawke 8mo ago
I'm getting off-topic with this, but a quick aside: In my teens I began to learn that most of the people on my father's side of the family were horrifically broken people with severe issues. There's at least one town in New M
18.
by Firehawke 8mo ago
I try to consider how I feel about this, and all I come back with is an emptiness, a follow feeling. I'm not going to gloat, nor am I going to consider him even remotely a good person based on things he's said and done. I will nev
19.
by Firehawke 9mo ago
Unlikely. MajorBBS had the ability to act as a SLIP/PPP connection back in 1993-1994 but most people would have still gone with a full ISP.
20.
by Firehawke 9mo ago
I wouldn't even call it a "race" to the bottom. It took until maybe 1995 for prices to drop enough for some of the clone manufacturers to start going out of business. Radio Shack caught on around 1991 and got out early, but Z
21.
by Firehawke 9mo ago
Ditto. Every time I get a "Hey, you should send your father a happy birthday message!" it's a stab to the heart over someone dead over 12 years now.
22.
by Firehawke 9mo ago
That's been my experience. The Pi 3 was notorious for killing SD cards, for instance. I know one guy who eventually just moved all Pi 3 installations he made over to USB sticks because every Pi 3 he used would just kill SD cards at ran
23.
by Firehawke 10mo ago
We already know prices will go up considerably-- they always do after a merger, and you'll lose the option of subbing for one or the other only when they have something you want to watch. Most people are not keeping two subs going cons
24.
by Firehawke 10mo ago
Or, for that matter, using GitHub Actions to do the final Hugo build and remote deployment when you do a git push.
25.
by Firehawke 10mo ago
No, they absolutely know. They've been very very slowly migrating stuff over to the new Settings panel bit by bit. If you look at what's in Control Panel now, it's maybe half as much as what used to be in there ten years ag
26.
by Firehawke 10mo ago
CRT simulation didn't run well on Intel iGPUs for a very long time. While they could run the effects, they couldn't run them fast enough. There was longstanding advice in the emulation scene to not bother using shaders unless you
27.
by Firehawke 10mo ago
Considering that MAME's shaders run fine on a 2011-era laptop with the positively primitive Intel iGPU of the Sandy Bridge era, I can only assume they're intending to run this on something extremely ancient that would end up being
28.
by Firehawke 10mo ago
GoG is packaging a large chunk of their library in an emulator already. DOSBox is what got them started, in fact.
29.
by Firehawke 10mo ago
A lot of the time, they lock the slot to only their officially supported modules. Dell is rather notorious for doing that.
30.
by Firehawke 10mo ago
Something like what's done with https://www.hardfought.org/nethack/ maybe?

More ›