cy384

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by cy384 3y ago
if you want to mess with Mac ROMs now, I think Ghidra is a nicer experience than most of the vintage tools, and you can use QEMU with GDB (at least for the Q800 ROM).
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by cy384 3y ago
>Do you have anything specific you'd do with an Altix 3000? nope, I just like weird computers and distributed systems, itanium is possibly the weirdest CPU architecture that modern linux can run on, and SGI is an interesting part of
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by cy384 3y ago
numalink, 1.6GB/s in 2003! there's an altix 3000 on ebay that I'm kinda tempted by https://www.ebay.com/itm/174917876903 it only runs like one specific version of suse or red hat
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by cy384 4y ago
I was looking at my qube 3 this morning and thinking I should sell it; I never got around to hacking it up as a compact PC case send me an email (this username at cy384.com) if you're interested!
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by cy384 5y ago
yes, I think I'm going to make a dozen or so copies, just to make it feel real
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by cy384 5y ago
thanks, I had fun making it! there's full design for a box and a floppy label that I've made for the upcoming 1.0 release
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by cy384 5y ago
it's no problem, the killer feature (that it works at all, and can connect to modern servers with default configs) is solid, and more people using it will help flush out bugs
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by cy384 5y ago
if you want to go period-appropriate, you can run Macintosh Programmer's Workshop or CodeWarrior natively I use retro68 on linux, which is a modern GCC toolchain, so it's just like developing any other C/C++ (well, without so
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by cy384 5y ago
the GUI code for the earliest macs was absolutely a great feat of engineering by getting my hands dirty with the system, I'm impressed by the way things were designed for the wimpiest processors (and also getting a lot of insight into
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by cy384 5y ago
more specifically, I should say that re-rendering everything is kinda slow, the DrawText function which, uh, draws text, seems very heavy blitting from a buffer onto the screen is, indeed, pretty fast, I've been experimenting with it a
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by cy384 5y ago
unfortunately, file transfer isn't in yet, but it's the next feature I'm working on, probably within a week or two
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by cy384 5y ago
the crypto code actually has some 68020 assembly (credit to the mbedtls devs), it could probably be made faster, but I would need to sharpen my assembly skills a lot doing the initial key exchange before timeout is barely possible for a 680
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by cy384 5y ago
oh hey everyone, author here, ssheven is still beta quality, so I wasn't really posting about it anywhere yet, but it's usable and has the core functionality working ok I plan to do a writeup about it, and the experience of develo
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by cy384 5y ago
bike tires have a manufacturer's specified width, but it's very common for the actual width of any given model to be 1-3mm wider for competition purposes, there may be maximum widths (depending on the exact rules, more like 33-38m