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by rasz 27d ago
> mid-development DSP chips (sort of proto 56002) "The physical pinout of the DSP56001 is different from the DSP56002" https://digisolutions.de/downloads/Differences56001_56002.pd... Buying new unproven wo
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by rasz 27d ago
> faster chip from Motorola could have been only MC88100+MC88200 So all Next had to do was 1 Develop another set of ASICs for fully incompatible CPU bus in parallel and in secret 2 Develop another motherboard in parallel and in secret 3
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by rasz 27d ago
The point is there were no chips to put on the Next Cube that would make it faster in 1988, and the whole system was designed and tuned for specific fixed clock so bus overclocking is also very unlikely. The only possibility is April 1989 a
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by rasz 28d ago
I dont know if im buying magic CPU upgrade story. CPU/FPU are soldered and non overclockable. Motorola didnt have a super beefed 68030 version, extra special 68882 fpu, nor faster pin compatible 56001. The only socket on board is for
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by rasz 28d ago
> "solve" by playing over and over nah, you were supposed to buy official Hint Books https://www.sierragamers.com/hint-books/ or call 0-700 tip line. This cruel design printed money.
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by rasz 28d ago
https://decafjedi.itch.io/stair-quest surprisingly fun
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by rasz 28d ago
Sure, but the question wasnt about solving world hunger, wars and global piracy :) Its a solution for limiting pirate-ability of this particular CDs contents. Encode data in a way short ECC code dictated over the phone is enough to reconstr
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by rasz 28d ago
> since there is only 1 master disc you destroy every retail disk a little https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343326
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by rasz 28d ago
Very firsts Philips/DEC LMSI controller did DMA https://github.com/AkBKukU/CM153-Repro https://github.com/AkBKukU/CM153-Repro/blob/main/EDA/ISA-Car... Panasonic (MKE) was
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by rasz 29d ago
>gave users control over the directory structure try making an AUX directory, or CON file, or PRN
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by rasz 29d ago
Every game separately encrypted then compressed into solid archives. Pressed in a way every game lands on different precise height of CD, padded before compression if necessary so it takes enough space on CD. Separate machine burning tiny h
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by rasz 1mo ago
This is often a gilded cage. Think about it. On one hand Great, you dont have to redesign your SBC, that would take whole ~1-2 engineering man months (small simple SBC at not bureaucratic nightmare small to middle size company, obviously ma
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by rasz 1mo ago
CH32v303 costs more than much more capable ARM based RP2354A
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by rasz 1mo ago
VIA rights did not come from Cyrix. Cyrix famously had to skirt IP laws by using TI and IBM foundries because those two companies had full Intel 3rd party licenses. Cyrix was sued and paid big bucks settlement just to be able to use Intels
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by rasz 1mo ago
With current US administration? Do nothing, win.
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by rasz 1mo ago
>It's impossible to run full UBO (not Lite MV3 version) on current versions on Chrome. Current version of Chrome seems to be 152.0.7977.39 released August 14, 2026. August 14, 2026 Chromium 152.0.7977.38 based vivaldis napshot http
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by rasz 1mo ago
For all possible MV2 extensions this is unsustainable for a small company. Supporting just uBO used by tens of millions of people? pretty doable as it only relies on few hooks into C functions that arent going anywhere.
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by rasz 1mo ago
uBO still works in newest Vivaldi.
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by rasz 1mo ago
Vivaldi 8.1 still supports it (Chromium 150) as loaded unpacked extension. Edit: and latest August 14, 2026 Chromium 152.0.7977.38 based Snapshot https://vivaldi.com/blog/desktop/address-field-calculator-an... has
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by rasz 1mo ago
Size cap doesnt mean much when its a constant stream of small writes.
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by rasz 1mo ago
>Examples of games that either required or benefited from MMX enhancements in their software renderer were Eraser Turnabout, POD, and Extreme Assault POD "Designed for Intel MMX" meant _one_ optional audio filter effect. It was
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by rasz 1mo ago
Dont like SSD wear for no reason. I wont look at those logs anyway on my personal gaming pc so its all useless.
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by rasz 1mo ago
Painfully and slowly clicking one item at a time in computer management/event viewer/windows logs/applications and services :| Im sure this can be automated, but I want to see what Im disabling instead of going bulk all.
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by rasz 1mo ago
>Saudi Arabia needs oil prices at ~$86.60/barrel to balance their budget They can always cut down on candles, they will be fine.
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by rasz 1mo ago
One of the first things I do on win10 is disable most of excess logging.
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by rasz 1mo ago
Oh how I love totally predictable poetterings reply to previous bug report that got closed because "measuring it wrong" and "this is not a support forum".
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by rasz 1mo ago
Which makes me suspect its because they were looking up their superiors or politicians. With Flock, like cell site data, its trivial to determine who you are sleeping around with.
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by rasz 1mo ago
Wasnt the patent pretty much "and then I dump raw sensor data to a JPEG2000 codec"?
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by rasz 1mo ago
Sounds like similar paper "win" to DEC OpenVMS lawsuit against Microsoft where MS penalty was supporting Alpha while DEC trained its enormous sales/engineering arm to sell and support NT thus killing any incentives to buy DEC
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by rasz 1mo ago
> Even the PC compatible lines of the era were built to a very high quality standard. DEC had a moment between 1990-92 when they did pretty good in PC market. Oral History of Grant Saviers, part 2 of 2 https://www.youtube.com&

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