breadmaster | 1 year ago | on: Neo Geo Architecture: A practical analysis
Love these articles so much and I just love learning about all these systems that obsessed me as a child.
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breadmaster | 1 year ago | on: Sega Saturn Architecture – A practical analysis (2021)
And they had Nintendo paying 'em in that generation (and the one before) too.
breadmaster | 1 year ago | on: Sega Saturn Architecture – A practical analysis (2021)
Yes, it's really quite good right now, and very accessible under programs like OpenEmu. I have a Saturn hooked up to a CRT still, but the emu doesn't feel very different these days.
breadmaster | 8 years ago | on: Why So Many Men Hate the Last Jedi but Can’t Agree on Why
I finally saw this a few days ago knowing that there was some controversy but not what it was about. When I googled "TLJ Controversy" the first thing I found was not the controversies, but articles criticizing the people who found the film controversial. Very odd.
Anyway, after finding out that the main concern for fans was the amount of women in the film and the attempts at making Luke Skywalker interesting, I was pretty surprised. Those are some of the better decisions in the film.
The film was fine. It's too bad people are tripping over themselves to hate on the film, other viewers, the cast, etc etc. Just so much mean spiritedness being thrown around in all directions over what was a perfectly enjoyable film.
Internet continues to suck.
breadmaster | 8 years ago | on: Coda, a “next-generation spreadsheet” – from rows and columns to custom apps
Replying for no greater reason than to shill for Panic. Coda is an amazing tool.
breadmaster | 8 years ago | on: Ikea has bought TaskRabbit
I use wooden dowels that I get for free from Ikea. Drill a hole large enough in the stripped area or the dowel, use a bit of wood glue and then hammer the dowel in.
It's perfect.
breadmaster | 8 years ago | on: NYC cops did a work stop, yet crime dropped
The reports of crime dropped.
breadmaster | 8 years ago | on: MIT’s Senior House dormitory closes, and a crisis blooms at colleges
Hey, Administrators need to feel like they're doing something.
breadmaster | 8 years ago | on: The Simpsons Fires Longtime Composer and ‘Secret Weapon’ Alf Clausen
Probably has a lot to do with the fact that you have 30 years of music queues you can draw from now. Instead of having a 35 piece orchestra score each episode, they can just re-use.
breadmaster | 8 years ago | on: Metal Slug 2 – reducing the slowdown (2015)
There is an official emulated version available on the PS3 PSN store. It was developed by a supremely talented small Japanese company called M2. In the game, they included an option to overclock the CPU and it makes a big difference. My favourite way to play the game.
M2 was also responsible for the 3D Sega classics on 3DS which are incredible.
breadmaster | 8 years ago | on: Metal Slug 2 – reducing the slowdown (2015)
Both 16-bit machines, but vastly different CPUS. Motorola 68K vs a Toshiba of some sort. They bot have Zilogs for sound though, so maybe SNK used some code sharing there?
End of the day, SNK wisely chose to create unique experiences based on their arcade games for the system, but it was ultimately crushed by the Gameboy Color and Pokemon.
breadmaster | 8 years ago | on: Transmit 5
This app store thing just burned me pretty bad when I cleared my machine and did not back up Airmail 2. When I went back to install it, It was no longer on the app store and I was informed that there was no way to get it again unless I paid for Airmail 3.
This is where just having a license key and a dmg somewhere is preferable.
breadmaster | 8 years ago | on: Transmit 5
Always worth the money I've spent for a Panic app. Coda 2 got me through my previous gig as a web dev.
breadmaster | 8 years ago | on: As Workouts Intensify, a Harmful Side Effect Grows More Common
Only the strong survive spin class.
breadmaster | 8 years ago | on: Tania – PHP-based free and open source farming management system
That's what I like about Symfony. It's all in my hands to configure.
breadmaster | 8 years ago | on: The Beauty of Programming (2001) [pdf]
Evenly distributed pairs.
breadmaster | 9 years ago | on: Sega’s Plans for World Domination (1993)
Think more flat plane with software scaled sprite-based rocks moving along the ground approximating motion.
breadmaster | 9 years ago | on: Sega’s Plans for World Domination (1993)
For a company to be so visionary and forward thinking on the arcade front, being a pioneering force of 3D polygonal games, it is astonishing that they released the Saturn in the form they did. You had to be a assembly savant to get decent 3D performance out of the Saturn that your average programmer could easily obtain on the Playstation using C. The VDP2 was pretty impressive though...
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