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- Sat Sep 08, 2012 5:06 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Forum
- Topic: Best, most thorough political summary I've seen in a while
- Replies: 3
- Views: 950
Re: Best, most thorough political summary I've seen in a whi
The article touches on some important points and is a decent summary of current problems with Republican Party rhetoric. Some similar things have been said by a few among the Republican old guard, though it's easy to imagine that they have an ulterior motive in wanting the party to be seen as respec...
- Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:22 pm
- Forum: /dev/null
- Topic: Im' a Commodorian are you?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 345
Re: Im' a Commodorian are you?
LOL WUT?
Jack Tramiel?
6502 was pretty sweet in all seriousness.
Commodore Semiconductor Group LOL
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Jack Tramiel?
6502 was pretty sweet in all seriousness.
Commodore Semiconductor Group LOL
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- Sun Aug 12, 2012 12:34 am
- Forum: Gaming Forum
- Topic: So... Ouya. Thoughts?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2292
Re: So... Ouya. Thoughts?
Android really seems like a double-edged sword for a home console. On one hand it means that there are existing games to port and that it will be a bit less work to put together the BSP and SDK. On the other hand virtually all extant Android games are designed around the assumption of a relatively s...
- Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:09 am
- Forum: Homebrew Software and Indie Games Discussion
- Topic: Smash Pack programmer wanted Echelon to release ROM Loader
- Replies: 59
- Views: 88777
Re: Smash Pack programmer wanted Echelon to release ROM Load
It is 896 kb. The sizes are in bytes, not KB. main.dat alone wouldn't fit on the disc if the sizes were in KB. Anyway, if I paste the letter posted in the OP into a text editor, make sure there's a newline at the end of the file, and recode to have MS-DOS line endings, it's 895 bytes. My guess is t...
- Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:56 am
- Forum: Homebrew Software and Indie Games Discussion
- Topic: Smash Pack programmer wanted Echelon to release ROM Loader
- Replies: 59
- Views: 88777
Re: Smash Pack programmer wanted Echelon to release ROM Load
You have it exactly backwards. The file is on the retail release and is not on the Echelon release. If you're going to write such giant walls of text the least you could do is read other peoples' posts properly first.
- Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:16 pm
- Forum: Gaming Forum
- Topic: PS2 Question?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 832
Re: PS2 Question?
Considering that it hasn't yet been discontinued and that there are still upcoming games, I think it's still running its course.
- Sun Jul 15, 2012 11:10 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Forum
- Topic: GOP Candidate Quits Race to Join "Alternative" US Gov't.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 702
Re: GOP Candidate Quits Race to Join "Alternative" US Gov't.
This sounds very much like tax protester kookery. Many of them adhere to bizarre conspiracy theories about how the US government is actually a corporate entity owned and operated on behalf of <insert nefarious powers here -- Rothschilds, Bilderbergers, Illuminati, etc.> with no Constitutional author...
- Sun May 27, 2012 3:09 pm
- Forum: Programming Discussion
- Topic: Game Development - Where to start?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3935
Re: Game Development - Where to start?
MVC is proprietary, but there's exist a free version of this compiler. This is true for now, but MS has announced that the free compilers for Visual Studio 11 will only be allowed to build Metro apps. They have also removed the compilers from the Windows 8 SDK package. The reaction to this has been...
- Sat May 26, 2012 6:41 am
- Forum: Programming Discussion
- Topic: About Free Software
- Replies: 1
- Views: 505
Re: About Free Software
The key thing here is that there is almost no real cost embodied in an additional copy of a program. The real cost is in the work done to produce and support the program. In the retail proprietary software world, this cost is mostly sunk up front by the developer/publisher and when you buy a copy of...
- Fri May 25, 2012 9:10 pm
- Forum: Programming Discussion
- Topic: C++ and KOS
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1210
Re: C++ and KOS
predictable speed of acces to the element in the container class (as you all already knew, those times are described as a various variants of O(n) function for each class). Yes, but watch out for the words "amortized constant time" (or similar) in those descriptions. It's a way of saying ...
- Thu May 17, 2012 9:12 pm
- Forum: Programming Discussion
- Topic: C++ and KOS
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1210
Re: C++ and KOS
Another thing is that a lot of OO libraries/runtimes/frameworks are built by people who think of real-time applications as a small esoteric corner of the universe, and hence don't optimize for predictability/consistency of performance. For example, they don't care if some iterations of your game loo...
- Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:29 pm
- Forum: /dev/null
- Topic: READ THIS. IMPORTANT DREAMCAST 2 NEWS.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1305
Re: READ THIS. IMPORTANT DREAMCAST 2 NEWS.
FUN FACT OF THE DAY: "POST" IS AN ACRONYM FOR "POST UP MY POST".
- Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:22 pm
- Forum: /dev/null
- Topic: A Message From Steve Ballmer...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 471
Re: A Message From Steve Ballmer...
BlueCrab wrote:He really is that crazy by the way. Just saying.
Actual quote.Steve Ballmer wrote:Developers developers developers developers developers developers. DevELopers devELopers devELopers devELopers devELopers devELopers devELopers develop... Yes!
- Sat Feb 18, 2012 1:15 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Forum
- Topic: Tapatalk support
- Replies: 5
- Views: 644
Re: Tapatalk support
I can understand why someone might want to avoid using a web browser for this kind of thing (most forum layouts are crap, just like most blog layouts), but It seems like there should be some kind of open protocol/format for this purpose rather than a proprietary app/plugin/API combo. For example I'v...
- Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:49 pm
- Forum: /dev/null
- Topic: why are woman with major psycholgical issues good in bed.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 655
- Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:06 am
- Forum: Gaming Forum
- Topic: Xbox 720 GPU details
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4414
Re: Xbox 720 GPU details
The way I see it, is that it's all about taking control away from consumers (a form of capitalism if you will). All in all, large corporations in the tech industry are ever moving forward in trying to take full control of how, when and where you purchase your content/product. And it seems that slow...
- Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:17 am
- Forum: Gaming Forum
- Topic: Xbox 720 GPU details
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4414
Re: Xbox 720 GPU details
Hopefully there will be more use of DX11 than just the shaders. AFAIK, shaders pretty much do everything these days, to the point that "shader" is really a misnomer anymore. I don't know about DirectX, but on modern ("core profile") OpenGL you can't even render anything without ...
- Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:49 pm
- Forum: Programming Discussion
- Topic: Tinkering with Dreamcast's Sh4's architecture
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4683
Re: Tinkering with Dreamcast's Sh4's architecture
gcc doesn't know how to parse the asm to figure out whether the code is reading and/or writing any given variable: Output operand expressions must be lvalues; the compiler can check this. The input operands need not be lvalues. The compiler cannot check whether the operands have data types that are ...
- Sat Jan 21, 2012 3:05 pm
- Forum: Programming Discussion
- Topic: Tinkering with Dreamcast's Sh4's architecture
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4683
Re: Tinkering with Dreamcast's Sh4's architecture
I think the way it works is that GCC guarantees the mapping when those variables are referenced by name as operands in an asm block. However, the mapping is not necessarily maintained beyond that (e.g. the variables might "really" live in memory and are just copied in/out of the specified ...
- Sun Jan 15, 2012 2:58 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Forum
- Topic: Need some help on a research project
- Replies: 2
- Views: 494
Re: Need some help on a research project
Does your school have full-text access to IEEE Transactions journals? That's where I'd look. See http://ieeexplore.ieee.org for their search engine, preferably from an on-campus computer. This search covers more than just journals, but once you've plugged something in there will be a checkbox on the...