madmoose

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by madmoose 15d ago
You either held in the Commodore key while powering it on or you typed in GO64. It's firmly lodged in my fingers still.
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by madmoose 4mo ago
Wrong composer, but I very recently managed to reverse engineer the music driver for Dune (or two out of four, at least). Here's the AdLib/SoundBlaster Pro version of the track Morning played by a reverse engineered driver, render
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by madmoose 9mo ago
There's nothing "natural" about the Fahrenheit scale either. Fahrenheit took the Rømer scale, multiplied it by 4 and rounded it off a bit.
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by madmoose 1y ago
I've been slowly reverse engineering Cryo's Dune, coded by Rémi Herbulot in assembler, and the code is both brilliant and insane. Every function (to the extent that you can call it a function in assembler) is manually tail call op
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by madmoose 1y ago
Music for Real Airports is one of the albums I put on to block out the world when I’m trying to get work done.
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by madmoose 2y ago
> Fortunately `f64::parse` accepts a strict superset of JSON number grammar Just for the sake of completeness, and not to imply that you don't know this, but the JSON spec doesn't limit the size or precision of numbers, althoug
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by madmoose 2y ago
On the other hand, about a decade ago I sent them a feature patch to support multipage tiff images and they sent me a Christmas card for a couple of years, so my impression of them is pretty god.
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by madmoose 3y ago
I've stopped going to Ars Technica exactly because their cookie pop-up lets me know that Condé Nast wants to share my data with at least (according to the popup) 159 partners. They have so many "partners" that their cookie po
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by madmoose 3y ago
I've been entertaining myself lately by reverse engineering Cryo's Dune. I've got all graphics resources (videos, sprites, rooms) decoded, and I have recreated most of the intro (which exercises a good deal of engine). I also
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by madmoose 3y ago
There's no general purpose virtualization involved in ScummVM. It's a collection of game engines derived mostly from reverse engineering old games.
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by madmoose 3y ago
Most game engines have scripting languages built in.
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by madmoose 3y ago
ScummVM isn't an emulator, it's a collection of game engines based on reverse engineering and, on occasion, original source code donations.
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by madmoose 3y ago
Why do you feel the need to make up nonsense examples about moon-cheese to make the discussion relatable to "common men"? Do "common men" not understand sensible examples or do you not have sensible examples?
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by madmoose 3y ago
TDC has stated to Danish media that they "recognize parts of the story" but have refused to elaborate. They haven't wished to refute any parts either. https://nyheder.tv2.dk/business/2023-06-16-tdc-genken
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by madmoose 3y ago
Ask reddit, they used to have an API.
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by madmoose 3y ago
Of course I'm talking about an idiomatic implementation, what else would I be talking about in this context? > The idiomatic way to represent a growable list in C is to make a list (using some implementation) and put it in a structu
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by madmoose 3y ago
> For C and Go, there really is only one prevailing idiom on how to write code What’s the one idiomatic idiom in C for a growable list of items? Because I must have a seen a hundred of those in my time. What’s the one idiomatic idiom in
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by madmoose 3y ago
There are no original compilers of SCUMM script available online as far as I know, although certainly Ron Gilbert and Aaron Giles and probably some other LucasArts programmers have the originals. I don't think there were even any sampl
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by madmoose 3y ago
You can study the reverse engineered code of a lot game engines. ScummVM is a massive collection of reverse engineered game engines, with the occasional donation of original game code from kind developers.
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by madmoose 3y ago
ScummVM is not emulation, it's primarily a collection of reimplementations of game engines based on reverse engineering, with the occasional donation of original source code from the developers. So with ScummVM you can study how the or
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by madmoose 3y ago
Bash? So VanJS will make the simple things easy and anything else nigh-on impossible?
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by madmoose 3y ago
The Wire even has a scene where Dominic West's character puts on a British accent. So a British man pretending to be an American pretending to be a Brit. The Wire is very good. It also features Idris Elba, so it has two British people
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by madmoose 3y ago
No representation without taxation :)
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by madmoose 3y ago
> "I am sinking!" Wat are you sinking about?
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by madmoose 3y ago
Aaron Giles was just lamenting the other day that the GDI ellipse drawing is apparently slightly lopsided, since he's trying to recreate it :) https://corteximplant.com/@aaronsgiles/110121906721852861
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by madmoose 4y ago
It what I responded to was “an extremely on-point criticism” then so was my comment. The comment I responded to was phrased insultingly. There’s no way to start a critique with a phrase of the form “Imagine doing what you’re currently doing
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by madmoose 4y ago
Imagine making something you're proud of, putting your work online for free and having people insult you because they didn't like how you presented it. I'm sure you've really motivated them to improve it now!
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by madmoose 4y ago
I reverse engineered the Dune globe renderer and managed to get it compile to WASM: https://thomas.fach-pedersen.net/dune/wasm-dune-globe/ Did you ever notice that there's an eye on the bottom of Cryo's
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by madmoose 4y ago
So you're saying that the more people disagree with you, the more entrenched you become in your position? That doesn't sound like a healthy way to form opinions.
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by madmoose 4y ago
It might not be ”the solution” but it seems like this is the best solution these particular women have been able to come up with in the situation they’re in. I certainly won’t shame these women for talking to each other about what men to av

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