gyrovorbis

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by gyrovorbis 2y ago
Thanks so much for the shout-out and support! If you want more updates, make sure to also follow the lead developer, https://x.com/poiitidis , and another rock-star from our community who is supporting him, https:/&#x2
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by gyrovorbis 2y ago
I hope this is a joke, considering I literally mentioned in the post: Save files sizes are substantially larger, world draw distances are greater, textures tend to be higher resolution, etc.
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by gyrovorbis 2y ago
I do totally agree that I should've just made an engine and the toolkit and just released it as that, but it wouldn't have been "THEY should've constrainted the scope" -- as there would've been no "they.&q
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by gyrovorbis 2y ago
Half fake news, half true. I was king of scope creep, but I was also the engine and tools developer... Does it LOOK LIKE the engine and tools were the ones bottlenecking progress, or does it look like a lack of ACTUAL GAME CONTENT was the p
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by gyrovorbis 2y ago
Uh, for the record, like... I've been more than open about my past history with ES, and have spent the last 2+ years straight giving back to the Dreamcast community, supporting every game and project I've been able to find time fo
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by gyrovorbis 2y ago
Pretty much true. Not only that, but if you look at the Kickstarter page, what exactly was my job? Engine programmer. Not gameplay. Th engine is pretty much complete, as are all of the tools. Problem is it taxed me so hard and left me with
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by gyrovorbis 2y ago
Jokes do tend to be inane...
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by gyrovorbis 3y ago
Haha, somebody knows their Objective-C!
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by gyrovorbis 3y ago
^ This, 100%. GTk's GObject type system which powers the entire GNOME stack is a similar object-oriented C type system with a virtual table pointer as the first member of an object, similar to Microsoft COM and C++. The entire Objectiv
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by gyrovorbis 3y ago
I'm a huge academic fan of what GTk has accomplished (thanks to their GObject type system), and as much as I know the C89 crowd who thinks macros are all evil probably abhor this kind of thing, I think GTk is one of the most epic, impr
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by gyrovorbis 3y ago
Exactly. Amen. GTk is the shining proudest most epic achievement of object-oriented C programming, and they still enjoy massive benefits in terms of being able to interop with every language ever because of this approach.
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by gyrovorbis 3y ago
Reminds me a lot of the magic that is the Objective-C runtime. Fantastic paper. Thanks for sharing.
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by gyrovorbis 3y ago
"Thankfully" he says. Now witness as Rust struggles to produce a compelling widgeting environment that isn't Qt or GTk bindings to other languages which support OO constructs. Witness as apparently creating a "Rust-frien
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by gyrovorbis 3y ago
It's just the latest hipster language trend. When OO was new, structural C was evil. When functional programming happened, everything before that was evil... Because, yes, sharing state among classes for code reuse, is fundamentally ev
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by gyrovorbis 3y ago
This book is an absolute classic. I came from C++20, using concepts and constraints, doing a lot of compile-time metaprogramming and shenanigans, and I set off on a quest to rewrite a lot of my core tech stack in plain ol' C ('17
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by gyrovorbis 3y ago
This. The entire GNOME stack is based on a steroided-out C-based OO type system in the same vein as the OP's PDF... and it's actually how it gets bindings to every language ever so easily... Anyway, I was sent down a rabbit hole o
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by gyrovorbis 3y ago
I'm the author of the libGimbal project linked to there. It's a massive object-oriented C codebase with an entire cross-language type system that was inspired by GTk's GObject, Microsoft COM, and the Objective-C language. I&#
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by gyrovorbis 3y ago
There are a few niche reasons. The entire GNOME/GTk stack benefits greatly in the realm of language interop from being C at its core. This is why it easily has bindings to every language ever.
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by gyrovorbis 3y ago
I'm not porting MacOS. I'm porting just the Foundation layer, and I'm not using Apple's implementation, I'm using GNUStep's. But hey, maybe having a core, foundational framework written in the most performant l
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by gyrovorbis 3y ago
Wow, thank you for sharing! Dude, clicked your profile links, and wtf? Objective-S looks awesome! I had never even heard of it, but creating a more easy-to-use language ontop of the Obj-C runtime is epic! I actually wrote my own C-based met
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by gyrovorbis 3y ago
It really is a beautiful language, and some of the most powerful aspects of Swift are due to its Objective-C roots.
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by gyrovorbis 3y ago
Hot-take from someone who is currently helping to port GNUStep's implementation of the Foundation framework to the Sega Dreamcast: Gross. The whole appeal of Foundation was having this incredibly convenient, beautiful, high-level objec
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by gyrovorbis 4y ago
Amen! Well-said! I grew up in the Dreamcast homebrew scene, and am a pretty accomplished developer academically and professionally, and it all started on the Dreamcast when I was 13. lol.
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by gyrovorbis 4y ago
Uh, guys, I just ported C++20 to the thing and the absolute latest tip of GCC12.2.0, Binutils, and Newlib. I'm also in the process of porting the Objective-C foundation framework to it as well... you have no idea how good the developme
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by gyrovorbis 4y ago
He's also not using the 32MB double RAM mod we now support. My buddy built NetBSD with it the other day.
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by gyrovorbis 4y ago
It sure freaking does. I just upgraded our toolchains on KallistiOS to use the absolute latest GCC12.2.0 with latest Newlib and Binutils and brought C++20 to the damn thing! I'm using freaking C++ concepts and constraints with meta tem
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by gyrovorbis 4y ago
Dreamcast indie developer here. Be sure to check out the 32MB RAM mod. We fully support it in KallistIOS,and it will probably substantially improve the experience you have with running Linux and doing this kind of stuff with it.
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by gyrovorbis 8y ago
This is an internal library for the kickstarted game Elysian Shadows that was not yet ready to go open source. He's plagiarized it... and used his real account with all of his contact information... oooopsies!
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by gyrovorbis 8y ago
I don't suggest that. This man has stolen my work and is about to be in deep shit.
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by gyrovorbis 8y ago
Almost like... this was a private repository that was literally just stolen. A DCMA complaint has been filed. This man literally stole my own work of several years, which wasn't even ready to go open source, and decided to take credit

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