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A quote from the Guidelines: "What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

The MSX computers regularly had two cartridge ports. Some cartridge games by Konami had extra features and cheats that could be triggered by inserting certain other cartridges to the secondary port.

Here is a list of them: http://www.msxblue.com/manual/romcombis_c.htm

I follow 70s Sci-Fi Art account on twitter for this kind of art https://twitter.com/70sscifiart

I often use some of the book cover art pictures as my phone wallpaper.

The 8-Bit Guy on Youtube made a great video series on character LCD screens and how to run them.

In the first video he shows how to drive one manually using just switches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZRL8luuPb8

In parts 2 and 3 he shows two ways how to drive them with a C64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV8FbwobrKY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQk3XgpuaJ4

This obviously doesn't apply to all C code, but one thing that I like to do is to find some sort of endpoint. A piece of code that communicates with the "outside world" and start from there. See what commands you can send to the software and how they are the handled. This is often a good way to get into what the code does and how it does it.

I can't help but to wonder how much difference there actually is when playing the piano or typing on a keyboard as a child.

Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18236372 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18230610

It's a backhanded compliment. I agree that the author thinks he showing appreciation but that is insulting. It's the same inherent condescension that I've seen a lot of Americans show towards foreigners.

> “Waterloo! / I couldn’t escape if I wanted to.” You wouldn’t think foreigners would be able to come up with that.

Wow, condescending much?

userbinator's post clearly mentions cloning the hardware being problematic legality-wise and I was replying to that. Nobody's saying the cloned BIOS is problematic legal-wise.

PC clones were deemed legal back in the day. No reason this wouldn't be.

If you check the "Who?" page, the author mentions writing an SQL tutorial software "GalaXQL" and an 8051 simulator at school. I went to the same school and remember that they were used as teaching aids in different courses.

Just because that's the only part of their planning that we know of doesn't mean that it's the only planning that they actually did.

Doesn't fit on my full HD screen either

An extension was made for tea brewing in 2014. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7168

As an interesting side note, that capsule building was used in the old DOS PC game Transport Tycoon as one of the futuristic type of buildings that would appear in cities in late game. http://sidenote.hu/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/nakagin_capsul...

I was obviously talking about the Discord emojis. I didn't think I needed to specify.

Why on earth don't you have a separate button for emoji on iOS like you have on Android? Having to manually type :emojiname: every time is absurd. Yes, I know it shows a list when you start typing but it's still horribly cumbersome.

I think the first Settlers game on the Amiga had the same feature.

Vim adventures also helped me to get started in Vim. I never finished it but it definitely was useful in learning the basics. I recommend it.

This would never work for me. The idea of lying awake in bed for 8 hours doing nothing sounds like torture.

I think he means the _release_ of the source code is the outcome, not the code itself.

Don't worry, the hubbub will calm down quickly when the 'next big news story' happens and mainstream media concentrates on that. The general public will have completely forgotten this incident in a month or two.

Here is an excellent video about the history of Amiga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP1nLzT_t0o

There are several other related videos on the channel that are very much worth to watch.

Luckily there is a vaccine for this

I like the idea. One small suggestion though. I'd change "great" to "good" or "OK" or something. At current state the jump from "average" to "great" seems too big to me somehow.

Edit: The difference between "Difficult" and "tough" are kinda vague too actually IMO.

I wish I could share your optimism

Captive, another cult classic from early 90s used another novel method of calculating the stats for the characters. The game used an algorithm that determined the stats based on the name the player gave to each character. I even remember seeing some recommended names on the cheats & tips sections of some computer games magazines back in the day.

The article briefly mentioned that different stats are useful for different character classes but didn't really take that into account in the model.

For example if a barbarian get really high rolls for all stats except strength is it actually a really a good roll for that character or should you consider re-rolling?

Edit: Oops, I completely forgot about the ability to reassign points between stats. Thanks to batiudrami & beloch for pointing that out.

As an interesting side note: An older (A)D&D game series, Eye of the Beholder, allowed you to modify the stats any way you wanted after rolling, which meant you could just set all stats to max if you wished. I've read from somewhere that this was done so players could "import" their pen & paper RPG characters with the correct stats points into the game. Dunno if that's true though.

It's a similar phenomenon as the video game crash of the early 80s. Companies flooded the market with hastily made shoddy games just to get a quick buck but it resulted in nobody wanting to buy games anymore because most of them were garbage.