massifist

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by massifist 3mo ago
If there's enough room, you could add special palette indexes that stay constant or diminish more slowly with distance. To give a glow effect for lights, torches, etc. I always appreciated this effect in Quake. EDIT: Oh nevermind. I g
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by massifist 8mo ago
I have fond memories of Planet Quake and also Blues News (for the latest scoop). I remember it spawned a whole bunch of other planet sites. I think some of them became part of GameSpy (or its parent company). I probably moved on by then.
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by massifist 10mo ago
I found this article very informative. Thanks for writing it.
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by massifist 11mo ago
I like the idea but you could take it a step further and have just a core virtual machine that you could attach virtual (input/output) devices to. So then the canvas and audio would just be virtual devices that met some specification.
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by massifist 2y ago
I thought I remember reading that there is some relation (or inspiration) from an older X11 toolkit called xforms. Which might also be of interest to someone. I've been redoing some old projects in FTLK recently so this sparked my inte
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by massifist 2y ago
Also, allowing unquoted names.
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by massifist 2y ago
I remember sometime back in the 90's buying a used copy of Visual C++ 5.0 from some dude at the mall. It felt kinda shady, like a drug deal was going down, but I turned out well and I scored a legit(?) copy for much cheaper than market
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by massifist 2y ago
I thought I had gotten this (Descent 3) for free with a graphics card I purchased, but Freespace was what I was thinking of, though it might have been Freespace 2. The graphics card was the Diamond Viper V770, if I recall correctly. Good ti
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by massifist 3y ago
Here's an older HN link from an MIT article. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39156463
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by massifist 3y ago
"What is the evolutionary advantage of being able to match abstract patterns?" This reminds me of something I read about the mind preferring patterns because patterns require less (mental) effort (to perform tasks).
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by massifist 3y ago
I has always assumed Program Manager's window decorations were inspired by Motif but apparently it was the other way around, regarding Presentation Manager; Program Manager's ancestor. "Motif was directly inspired by the look
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by massifist 3y ago
I just started reading a book called Almost A Miracle, about the War of Independence. It's really good, I haven't been able to put it down.
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by massifist 3y ago
I'm perfectly fine with a 20+ year old Dell computer. It suits (most of) my needs, unless I need to build or compile even a medium sized project, then it's torturous. Admittedly, some websites are simply too slow but I don't
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by massifist 3y ago
There's also Hare [ https://harelang.org ] which I see mentioned on (rare) occasion. I think it uses a different backend than LLVM.
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by massifist 3y ago
While I do appreciate historical accuracy, I find this news very disconcerting! And here I was hoarding all this salt, hoping for our return to the salt standard. :-( Well ya can't win em all! And at least I'm not on a low sodium
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by massifist 3y ago
Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PWB/UNIX While looking at the old Unix Archives, it's easy to get the impression that Unix really is the ultimate development environm
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by massifist 3y ago
It's just like Blade Runner, where there's thousand ads everywhere, all trying to compete for the consumers attention. Now all we need is holographic ads that project from the screen and dance around on your keyboard (while your t
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by massifist 3y ago
You might want to check out FluidSynth if you don't mind a command line application. I don't think it has a graphical interface but it can run in the background, so you might be able to use it with other applications which do.
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by massifist 3y ago
Four apples a day keeps the doctor away.
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by massifist 3y ago
I've sworn for years that Hostess changed the Twinkie ingredients but no one seems to believe me. They tell me that my tastes have probably changed.
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by massifist 3y ago
This is good to know. I usually stir the fresh grinds with a metal fork which seems help remove static charge. It seems like the static problem gets worse with darker roasts (in my experience).
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by massifist 3y ago
Yes, that's what I wanted to do, change the CSS values (based on ids, I guess). I'm pretty sure I've heard of D3, I'll have to check it out. Thanks.
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by massifist 3y ago
I just switched over to SVGs from bitmap images. I was using PNG images for different icons which worked fine until I had to upscale to higher resolutions. The SVGs work great and are probably smaller too (depending on the complexity). I wa
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by massifist 3y ago
I have an older (cheapo) UPS that I just replaced the battery on, which is probably over 15 years old now. It was much easier than I thought. Coincidentally, right after I replaced the battery and left it to charge overnight, it saved my wo
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by massifist 3y ago
This brings back some fond memories. I still have a copy of the book "Tips and Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus", though it's not in very decent condition. It has this ray traced image on the front cover (with a crazy mo
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by massifist 3y ago
Is there a reason why they don't suggest the possibility that this was a mammal scavenging the carcass of a dinosaur? And would this be a surprise, other than providing an interesting specimen?
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by massifist 3y ago
Awesome!! Slackware is still my favorite Linux distro. I like to think of it as Linux From Scratch for the lazy.
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by massifist 3y ago
Good call. Thanks.
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by massifist 3y ago
This must have been a blast BITD! I can only imagine. I wonder if it was easy to cheat since all the network traffic seems to have been (at least potentially) visible to all peers, if I understand correctly. Maybe it spawned the first insta
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by massifist 3y ago
I don't know, something tells me a (actual) operating system will still be required (at some level). Though, they might eat the desktop environment or UIs (in general).

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