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by d3VwsX 2y ago
Pretty sure water was just a teleporter? You may be thinking about the mirror effect? I think that was a kind of a portal effect. You had to make a large empty section behind each mirror that was used by the engine to render a mirrored copy
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
I had to see an eye doctor at the hospital when I was ~7 and I got to do some exercises, but I never learned to cross my eyes, and then it was like it probably wasn't very important since I did not have to go to the doctor again and no
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
Sweden had a series of disasters like that in recent years. A few months ago one region tried to switch from their old healthcare system to something delivered by Oracle, but quickly had to roll back to the old system. https://ww
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
I never bought that excuse for walled-garden consoles, since home computer games continued to do just fine after 1983 without locking down platforms.
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
The java 4k contest was fun (make a java applet game that is at most a 4096 bytes JAR, including all assets the game needs). Unfortunately I only discovered it shortly before it shut down (when no browsers supported java applets anymore). I
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
I never was a big fan of Lua and that was something that kept me from looking closer at Löve, but a few months ago I discovered fennel (Lisp-like that transpiles to Lua) and that you can use that to write Löve games. This looks like an up-t
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
Yes, https://www.love2d.org/ has links to both iOS and Android SDKs. For Android you can also install the stand-alone LÖVE Loader app that can open .love files to play. Some games on itch.io comes with a .love-download (in
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
I am not sure in what way the state described is immutable at all? It just seems like mutable state hidden behind some access methods?
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
If I understand the distinction correctly, I run llamafile as a backend. I start it with the filename of a model on the command-line (might need a -M flag or something) and it will start up a chat-prompt for interaction in the terminal but
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
I have a somewhat common firstname.lastname@gmail.com and others with the same name use it pretty often. Surprisingly often it seems as if sites allow accounts to exist without email confirmation. I estimate at least 50% of the accounts out
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
My personal observation, even if this is similar to what others already said: I found that in some (two? three?) big Java-based projects I worked on, where almost everyone used a IDE, the codebase became almost impossible to navigate or mod
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
There is a mention of the Glitch assets, but I did not see any link? Looks like this is a good place to look: https://archive.org/details/glitch-public-domain-game-art I remember downloading everything when it was rele
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
That is why I mentioned DOSBox. That is just one possibility, but probably currently the best one. DOS(Box) remains a fixed, known, target. Windows, even if it has impressive backwards compatibility, breaks older games often enough that it
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
Alley Cat was one of very few old PC games that ran at a fixed speed, making it playable on higher end later PCs without having to use tools like MOSLO. Too bad the new version was not completed for MS-DOS. If it was it would have been poss
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
I searched boardgamegeek for games published in 1929. The only thing that grabbed my attention was Shambattle, the first published American miniatures wargame. It is an early, possibly the first, modern miniature wargame that used dice to r
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
Two 16-bit numbers could be combined to form a 32-bit pointer. Used as segment<<4+offset they just form a 20-bit pointer. Feels like wasting 12 bits to me.
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
To keep things simple maybe just handle that using emulator save-states instead?
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
A bit confused by the goto and skip instructions. Why multiply by 4 in one, but not the other? Sounds reasonable that both keep the target address a valid instruction pointer (aligned to 4 words)? Adding two words to create an address is a
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
I read an article about humanoid robots yesterday and it scared me that it seemed like the expectation is still that the robot will be 24/7 online and "thinking" using some cloud brain. The current models described more in de
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
Ctrl-w and ctrl-u in a default emacs do not even do the same things as in readline. C-w is (usually) kill-region (similar to what most editors call "cut"). C-u is universal-argument, that is used as a prefix for other commands to
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
There is a workaround I saw used by wcd, a tool for changing directories. To install it you have to add a wrapper function in your shell that executes the actual wcd binary, and after possibly interacting with the user to figure out what di
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
Some applications print usage information (e.g. with --help flag) to stderr. That is a bit annoying when there is a lot of output and I just want to grep for some flag, since the first attempt will fail and then I have to try again after ad
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
Some nice things have been introduced to Sweden, definitely, but unfortunately also garlic+onion has gone completely out of control. For instance going to France or Greece or India, countries known for their garlic, and I assume most countr
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
I can not find any recent updates, but this one (from 29/11, in Swedish) mentions ongoing discussions with China making progress on reaching an agreement to allow the Swedish navy to board the ship: https://www.svt.se/n
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
You could use Godot (has a nice set of GUI widgets in addition to the game-specific stuff) or Lazarus (Free Pascal IDE) for instance. I did not use Lazarus much, but Free Pascal as a compiler and the language is nice and stable and supports
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
You could probably have done something similar using Android with Termux, yes. I use rsync in Termux to move files to or from my phone all the time. Android is a complete mess when it comes to app permissions and the file system, so I would
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
PlayOnLinux worked great for me in Linux. It installs Windows games into their own separate wine-directories, with their own C: contents and their own configuration, and with an option to pick a specific WINE-version for each game, when nec
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
The Fate books (at least several of them) are also free to download, with some Creative Commons license or similar, so you can read the rules without having to buy anything if you do not want to.
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
Old boardgame (wargame) rulebooks used to have numbered sections and subsections. I often miss that in modern rulebooks, even if some wargame rulebooks still have them luckily. It is so much easier to discuss the rules of a game when you ha
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by d3VwsX 2y ago
I have not encountered a wargame that shipped with two rulebooks in the box, but often the latest rulebook PDF is available as a free download, so when playing a large wargame we often have printed one copy for each player, or at least almo

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