Lord_Nightmare

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by Lord_Nightmare 4y ago
AngeTheGreat's Engine Simulator: Procedurally Generating Audio Using a Real-time Fluid Simulation (Technical Breakdown)
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Engine Sim: Procedurally Generating Audio Using a Real-Time Fluid Simulation(youtube.com)
3 points by Lord_Nightmare 4y ago|1 comments
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by Lord_Nightmare 5y ago
My personal issue with the LLVM re-licensing and its exception clause is that it made no effort to deal with a few projects which had used the LLVM core in an LGPLV2.1 context, only those projects in a GPLV2 context. This screwed over a few
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by Lord_Nightmare 5y ago
I second this.
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Ghidra 10.0 Released(github.com)
1 points by Lord_Nightmare 5y ago|0 comments
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by Lord_Nightmare 6y ago
It should be possible to run the results of Unix speak.c through a real (or emulated) Votrax Type 'n Talk unit. I know MAME has emulation of said unit, and while it isn't perfect, its pretty understandable. I took a shot at making
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by Lord_Nightmare 6y ago
Also see https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201221/09573745928/congr...
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Released text of stimulus bill still contains the PLSA, CASE and TM Acts
1 points by Lord_Nightmare 6y ago|1 comments
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Testing whether passwords are stored in plaintext(twitter.com)
5 points by Lord_Nightmare 6y ago|1 comments
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Curt Vendel, curator of Atari Museum, has died(twitter.com)
3 points by Lord_Nightmare 6y ago|0 comments
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by Lord_Nightmare 6y ago
There was once another sort of 'competitor' to csound called cmusic, I believe the last surviving unmaintained port of it can be found at http://yadegari.org/carl.html
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“Fake” Chips?(youtube.com)
2 points by Lord_Nightmare 7y ago|0 comments
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by Lord_Nightmare 7y ago
I've got access to an 8" drive as well as plenty of 5.25" drives, and the hardware to do flux images. There are others with access to similar hardware. As kjs3 suggested, contacting people via the classiccmp and vcfed lists i
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by Lord_Nightmare 7y ago
The calendar view on archive.org shows the page was archived 6 times while active, but all of those copies seem to have been manually deleted from archive.org (or perhaps hidden/blacked out?), or something else weird is going on.
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by Lord_Nightmare 7y ago
Yes: The Gameboy Player for the Gamecube has a GBA processor and some glue logic inside it. There is at least one Nintendo DS cartridge which has a bluetooth chip inside it: Pokémon: Typing Adventure/ And several Gameboy Advance cartri
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by Lord_Nightmare 7y ago
It depends on whether it is an essential dll or an optional plugin. I probably could have phrased that better originally.
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by Lord_Nightmare 7y ago
I was excited, but the fact that this is (well, WAS) violating the GPL by being MIT licensed was a major downer. I'd be very interested in an org-mode parser which is NOT GPL-licensed, specifically because it is effectively impossible
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by Lord_Nightmare 8y ago
AFAIK this is not activated by default in FF65; the about:config key for it is 'network.trr.mode'. The default is currently 0 (off). 5 is also off, but explicitly user-set to be off (opt-out). See https://wiki.mozilla.o
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by Lord_Nightmare 8y ago
They're using SEE, see https://eighty-twenty.org/2018/06/13/mendeley-encrypted-db
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by Lord_Nightmare 8y ago
Well, it eventually was released, unclear if earlier, but for sure today (20181004): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18142287
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by Lord_Nightmare 8y ago
Before today, was this version of MIT Logo for the Apple II EVER released? I'm asking because of reaperducer's comment from just a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18086566
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by Lord_Nightmare 8y ago
Is the LGPL part of the license actually LGPL 2+, 2.1+ or 3.0+? At least some of the file headers say 2+, the readme says 3.0+, but this note was added after the fork, with commit https://github.com/daviddurand/iText-4.
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Andrey A. Chernov (ache), long-time FreeBSD core team member and dev, has died(twitter.com)
18 points by Lord_Nightmare 9y ago|1 comments
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PICO-8 Lighting by hand #4: into the shadows(hackernoon.com)
2 points by Lord_Nightmare 10y ago|0 comments
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by Lord_Nightmare 10y ago
Sadly, the Bradley trainer doesn't actually work properly in MAME, because the mathbox (a math accelerator circuit) in the Bradley Trainer used custom PROMs which differ from the stock Battlezone (implementing several more commands tha
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by Lord_Nightmare 10y ago
The reason for this (at least as I understand it, which could very well be incomplete and/or wrong, as I have little background in dealing with shaders) is that the version on itch.io (which is compiled from source code on github at h
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by Lord_Nightmare 10y ago
hunting for another copy... Found an intact copy: ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/lang/postscript/pdb2.1-demo.tar.gz which someone recompressed from compress to gzip at some point. The original compress archive seems t
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by Lord_Nightmare 10y ago
If anyone wants to play with the demo from 23 years ago, the code can still be found at ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/languages/pdb/
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by Lord_Nightmare 10y ago
The Game genie gameboy code "encryption", if anyone cares: each letter is one hex digit. GG CODE: ghi-jkl-mno Address = lijk XOR 0xF000 Data = gh Compare = mo ROTATED right by 2, and the result XOR by 0xBA Mystery value = n Codes
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by Lord_Nightmare 10y ago
That's a relief, I was really worried about that. LN

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