TapamN

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by TapamN 22d ago
Fun fact: Dolly, the cloned sheep, was named after Dolly Parton. The sheep was cloned from a mammary gland cell, so...
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by TapamN 29d ago
I bought 32GB of DDR4 SODIMMs (16GBx2 Corsair 3200MHz) April last year for $50.
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by TapamN 1mo ago
There's a FMV player for the 8-bit Sega Master System ( https://github.com/bravesoftdz/tiler ,) which compresses to a fixed number of dynamically updated tiles. The codec in TFA and Tiler seem very similar, with T
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Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019)(blog.stuffedcow.net)
164 points by TapamN 5mo ago|8 comments
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by TapamN 5mo ago
Well, it's "256 bytes of x86" (plus X KB of VESA bios) (plus Y KB of FM synth patches) (plus Z KB of microcode) (plus...)
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by TapamN 6mo ago
Oof. The gamma on that screenshot. If you want to see what it's supposed to look like, copy the screenshot into GIMP, go into "Color, Levels" and in the "Input Levels" section, there should be a textbox+spinner with
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by TapamN 7mo ago
Ad blockers typically have an option to select something to disable, like a single image URL.
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by TapamN 7mo ago
The Sega Dreamcast online RPG "Phantasy Star Online" displayed the current time in beats.
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by TapamN 7mo ago
The Galaksija computer used it's Z80 to help generate the video signal. I'm not sure how its implementation compares to your link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaksija_(computer) https://media.c
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by TapamN 8mo ago
What I use for my phone (Planet Computer Astro Slide) has a Psion 5-style physical keyboard built in.
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by TapamN 8mo ago
As a kid, I remember the Windows version from being included on the disk that came with the book, "Windows Magic Tricks," published by Sybex. Years later, I was surprised to see the exact same cat on a "port" to the Sega
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by TapamN 10mo ago
Wow, you're not kidding saying that it's cursed. I thought it would adapt a socket to the BGA pads, but it looks like the pins of the replacement CPU just sit naked on the interposer. https://www.vogons.org/viewtop
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by TapamN 1y ago
Weird coincidence, but I had to look through some old files backed up from the computer I was using 15+ years ago, and noticed it had C:\DeusEx sitting right there, with the SDK files in it. I found the function that handles damage in it.
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by TapamN 1y ago
The headshot collision code in DX is broken as well. This is from memory from looking at the DX SDK years ago (+15 at least), but... The collision shape used for a character in DX is a single cylinder. The game looks at where on the cylinde
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by TapamN 1y ago
I created a (currently not publicly released) driver for the 1998 Sega Dreamcast's video hardware from scratch. It supports additional features over the driver in the open source homebrew OS, KallistiOS (KOS), like better render-to-tex
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by TapamN 1y ago
Oh, yeah, I am. I forgot about that setting. Switching Standard allows the videos to work for me, while Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin are enabled.
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by TapamN 1y ago
I'm using Firefox 139.0.4 canonical-002 Snap on Xubuntu, and the videos don't play for me. Even when not using private browsing, even when I disable uBlock Origin, even when I disable Privacy Badger (and, of course, I've set
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by TapamN 1y ago
Just a week? I have a USB smartwatch with a 1 year battery life, the Timex Data Link USB.
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by TapamN 1y ago
It not necessarily physical RAM. If you memmap large files, like maybe a large file from RAID or network share, you could still need that much virtual address space.
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by TapamN 1y ago
My favorite trick with <marquee> was to nest them, with different, alternating directions. You could make the contents alternate between scrolling and stopping by setting the inner marquee to travel in the opposite direction at the sa
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by TapamN 1y ago
IIRC, Gödel, Escher, Bach discusses comparing chromosome/protein generation and computation.
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by TapamN 2y ago
Some of it, but I'd rather use real hardware.
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by TapamN 2y ago
Shenmue is one of my favorite games. I did a bunch of Ghidra reversing on the Dreamcast version last year, since I wanted to add improvements to it. Like adding bilinear filtering on the sky background, making time run a bit (faster so you
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by TapamN 2y ago
It seems like it should be possible to do the X async method without tearing. When updating the cursor position, check if line being output overlaps with the cursor. If it isn't, it's safe to update the hardware cursor immediately
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by TapamN 2y ago
Does Ken Shirriff have time to look at a 68030?
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by TapamN 2y ago
In 1992, you more options. Your friends could tell you for free, you could stumble on them yourself, or you could get them with a magazine or book (which you didn't necessarily have to buy, you could just flip through it at the store a
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by TapamN 2y ago
I figured out how to fix Hydro Thunder's compatibility issues last year (it would very briefly change the pixel clock). You can either use a Codebreaker code to fix the game if you're running from a real disc, or if you use an ODE
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by TapamN 2y ago
I was hoping, but not expecting, for it to be about the Capcom arcade board.
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by TapamN 2y ago
Also on the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive as F1 World Championship, and a sequel, Kawasaki Superbike Challenge.
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by TapamN 2y ago
True correct behavior would have that if a > b, then a + c > b + c also holds true for all integers, but that isn't guaranteed for wrapping (or clamping.) (e.g. if 250 > 1, then 250 + 10 > 1 + 10 should be true, but with 8-

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