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by dansalvato 27d ago
I had always thought that table sorting seems like the perfect job for HTML, given its data-driven nature, and the possibility of implementing sort information into the attributes of table cell elements. But thinking about it: Is there a pr
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by dansalvato 3mo ago
It's cool to see your interest in running Linux on highly constrained systems. I might check out eXe Linux, since I spent a bit of time messing with Linux on my Cr-48 Chromebook, which has an Atom N455. Although, if I'm getting si
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by dansalvato 5mo ago
Wow, what a delightful surprise! I'm a huge NetHack fan and have been waiting a long time for the official 3.7 release before switching over to it. I've been a 3.6 holdout, haha. AFAIK, the backend has moved a lot of map generatio
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by dansalvato 5mo ago
I wrote that L-cancel training code! Funny to see it come up out of nowhere. I too have always adored the Wii and its moddability. It'd be my go-to choice if I someday ever get the itch to write console homebrew software of my own.
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by dansalvato 9mo ago
I see CarPlay (and CarPlay Ultra) as being for auto makers who don't want to put in all the effort to design and drive a good proprietary UI (CarPlay is a godsend in cars with crappy UI, i.e. most of them). Rivian is a luxury vehicle b
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by dansalvato 10mo ago
From the last interview question in the article (pertaining to Arm): > We don’t really try to steer the market one direction or another; we just want to make sure that good options are always supported. Sounds like their priority is to s
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by dansalvato 10mo ago
I can't believe these "smooth scrolling" scripts are still a thing. I was wondering why I was having a hard time scrolling the page on my phone, when I got to my PC and felt the reason. It's incredible to think how many
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by dansalvato 1y ago
The first thing I noticed when seeing the SGI demos for the first time is that the menu UI is strikingly similar to the file select screen in Super Mario 64. Of course, Nintendo 64 was developed in partnership with Silicon Graphics, so ther
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by dansalvato 1y ago
This article inspired me to check if Google has something similar for Google Workspace, which also just increased its price due to a bunch of Gemini integration I have absolutely no need for. As it turns out, they do—but it's hidden fr
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by dansalvato 1y ago
The CRT effect is immediately what stood out to me as well. It's the first time I've ever looked at a "CRT filter" that really gave my eyes the sensation of looking at a real CRT, specifically Amiga. It's so good th
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by dansalvato 2y ago
Let's be real, Commodore has no one to blame but themselves for squandering their 5-year lead in hardware and OS. They were carried hard by the passion of their engineers, but irredeemably greedy and soulless at the top. At Microsoft a
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by dansalvato 2y ago
I think some of this stuff isn't the responsibility of HTML. If HTML already has a full autocomplete spec, isn't it the fault of browsers/extensions/OS if the implementation is broken? Or are you saying the spec is too a
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by dansalvato 2y ago
> There's also BTST #0,xx but it wastefully needs an extra 16 bits say which bit to test (even though the bit can only be from 0-31) That reminds me, it's theoretically fastest to do `and d1,d0` e.g. in a loop if d1 is pre-load
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by dansalvato 2y ago
That is true, I deliberately set up an isolated scenario to do these fun theoretical tests. It actually took some effort to stop the compiler from being too smart, because it would want to transform the result into a return value, or even i
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by dansalvato 2y ago
The interesting thing about testing values (like testing whether a number is even) is that at the assembly level, the CPU sets flags when the arithmetic happens, rather than needing a separate "compare" instruction. gcc likes to u
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by dansalvato 2y ago
I'm thrilled to see someone bring up Magicore! I don't do much publicity because it's been a quiet 2 years working on the game engine, without much flashy content to show for it. But we're ramping up to begin production
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by dansalvato 2y ago
> For all its flaws, it's the only service that reflects society's pulse in real-time. Is there such thing as accurately "reflecting society's pulse" within individual posts? Sure, maybe you can pull big data to
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by dansalvato 2y ago
Others in the thread have already made good points about Yuzu, but to add to the discussion: A lot of people think Nintendo is indiscriminate with their takedowns, but they typically only go after things that: * They think will significantl
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by dansalvato 2y ago
I wasn't really on MySpace either, but I think it's exactly where your complaint lies that drew such a huge demographic. When I think MySpace, I think teenagers who are still discovering their identity—not seasoned creators with a
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by dansalvato 2y ago
I've spent most of my life as a hardcore tech enthusiast, always excited for the latest and greatest. But in this era of homogeneous Electron apps, and now LLMs, I can't find much to be enthusiastic about anymore. Most of the nove
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Decoding Impossible Mission 2 for Amiga(dansalva.to)
3 points by dansalvato 2y ago|0 comments
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by dansalvato 2y ago
The Steam releases of original Myst and Riven are the ScummVM ports, which work great on modern hardware. You'll find it as "Myst: Masterpiece Edition". Masterpiece Edition is effectively the same as the original release, but
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by dansalvato 2y ago
As of now, I'm loading all the level assets in advance, but many of the assets in RAM stay compressed until they're needed, such as backgrounds and fullscreen graphics. I decompress those asynchronously into video memory when I ne
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by dansalvato 2y ago
I'm working on a game for Amiga (another 68k-based platform) and settled on ZX0 to decompress assets on the fly: https://github.com/einar-saukas/ZX0 I was originally using LZ4, but I switched to ZX0 after learning
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by dansalvato 3y ago
I use the same trick today! I have some "benchmark" macros set up which forcibly override the background color when I want to see where in the frame my operations are taking place. > Didn't know there were people still try
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by dansalvato 3y ago
I was born in 1991, and we had an Amiga 1000 before eventually upgrading to a PC running Windows 95. So, I was always nostalgic for Amiga, but my passion grew once I began to understand more about the unique and powerful chips driving its c
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by dansalvato 3y ago
Amiga has its strengths, but I find that the SNES outperforms it in video games, because the SNES graphics chips were designed for video games first and foremost. One major reason is sprites: Amiga can display 8 4-color sprites, or 4 16-col
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Coding the anime "woosh" screen on Amiga(dansalva.to)
200 points by dansalvato 3y ago|36 comments
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by dansalvato 3y ago
I often see sentiment that x86 architecture itself is fundamentally a bottleneck, compared to ARM/RISC, when it comes to efficiency and performance per watt. Does someone with the right expertise have insight to share on this? I'm
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by dansalvato 3y ago
Thanks for your insight, you are more knowledgable on this than I am. I guess it speaks for itself that I don't tend to see the Amiga community strictly taking sides, and most are just tired of seeing this happen at all.

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