jamesrandall

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(BBC Micro) EXILE – rebuilt bit-identically, explained bit by bit(bbcexile.com)
2 points by jamesrandall 1mo ago|0 comments
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by jamesrandall 2mo ago
The weird world of retro game archaeology - it's genuinely fascinating.
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by jamesrandall 2mo ago
Maybe I should pop in an original keyset as an option - I think the original uses the caps key maybe. I'm pretty sure it's weird on a modern keyboard layout. I think the version on the bbcmicro site keymaps it by default, in any c
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by jamesrandall 2mo ago
It's actually in the commented original disassembly and used in some of the original BBC documentation / writing. Which is how it ended up here - the article is a mix of things I wrote and things I asked an AI to write for me from
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by jamesrandall 2mo ago
For what its worth the article was a mix of things I wrote and things I asked an AI to generate from the notes I'd accumulated from the archaeology. My focus was on the recreation - and getting it accurate was a lot of work (and a lot
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by jamesrandall 2mo ago
Managed to find some screenshots. https://www.jamesdrandall.com/old-thrust/1.png https://www.jamesdrandall.com/old-thrust/2.png https://www.jamesdrandall.com/old-thrust/3.png
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by jamesrandall 2mo ago
I think it was Opus but can't remember the version. Would have been whatever was available in Claude Code in February. Managed to find some screenshots. It did work but gravity wasn't really gravity - things fell at a constant rat
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by jamesrandall 7mo ago
Yeah. Different is the word. In many ways it’s just another abstraction but we’re not machines and this, to me at least, just gives a very different feel.
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by jamesrandall 7mo ago
If you bothered to read it you’d find that I am embracing the tools and I still feel there is craft. It’s just different. But snark away. It’s lazy. And yes it is so damn tedious.
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I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed(jamesdrandall.com)
848 points by jamesrandall 7mo ago|668 comments
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Show HN: Building a small psychedelic twin-stick shooter in the browser(jamesdrandall.com)
2 points by jamesrandall 9mo ago|0 comments
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Teaching an LLM to Write Assembly: GBNF-Constrained Generation for a Custom CPU(jamesdrandall.com)
2 points by jamesrandall 10mo ago|0 comments
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Compute “Bang for Buck” on Azure and AWS – 20% to 40% Advantage on AWS(azurefromthetrenches.com)
1 points by jamesrandall 6y ago|0 comments
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by jamesrandall 16y ago
Long time lurker first time contributor. I recently released an iOS app and thought sales stats etc. might be of interest to other iOS developers. Any questions feel free to ask.
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Mocking Pad for iPad – Week 1 Sales Stats and Other Things of Interest(accidentalfish.wordpress.com)
1 points by jamesrandall 16y ago|1 comments