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…
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…
I found this article very informative. Thanks for writing it.
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…
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…
Also, allowing unquoted names.
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…
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…
Here's an older HN link from an MIT article. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39156463
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…
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.
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…
There's also Hare [https://harelang.org] which I see mentioned on (rare) occasion. I think it uses a different backend than LLVM.
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…
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 environment, by and for…
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…
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…
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).
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.
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…
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…
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…
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?
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…
I remember hearing about a computer called the Jupiter Ace that used Forth. I think it was similar to the ZX Spectrum.
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…
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…
I found this article very informative. Thanks for writing it.
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…
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…
Also, allowing unquoted names.
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…
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…
Here's an older HN link from an MIT article. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39156463
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…
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.
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…
There's also Hare [https://harelang.org] which I see mentioned on (rare) occasion. I think it uses a different backend than LLVM.
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…
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 environment, by and for…
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…
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…
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).
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.
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…
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…
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…
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?
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…
I remember hearing about a computer called the Jupiter Ace that used Forth. I think it was similar to the ZX Spectrum.