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And then an insane Welsh game wizard made it real. http://minotaurproject.co.uk/Virtual/Polybius.php

Your mom: Why don't you have a credit card? It helped me so much when I was in your situation.

You, a young adult who doesn't check: I'll get one! runs up debt with an interest rate 4x what your mom had to deal with thirty years ago HELP I'M SUPER BROKE AND BANKRUPTCY IS A LOT HARDER THAN IT WAS THIRTY YEARS AGO TOO

You, a young adult who checks: The interest rates are 4x what they were when I was in your situation. This looks like a much shittier deal than it was for you.

From what I’ve read it was not at all uncommon to have a MS-DOS machine that assembled your code much faster and spat it into the c64 over a parallel link.

From the article:

Only 40,960 words of memory. That’s only 90kb total memory to split between our code and the memory it needs at runtime.

Looking at a copy of Doom on the Internet Archive (https://ia800404.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/15...), DOOM.EXE is about 709k, and DOOM.WAD is about 11159k.

I think that's a pretty solid no.

Also it's a 250khz CPU. Not megahertz. Kilohertz. It's slower than the 1MHZ 8-bit home computers like the Apple ][ or c64.

"Running" Doom might be possible with some insane hack that offloads storage and/or processing to more modern hardware crammed into the UNIVAC case but given that this is one of two UNIVACs in the entire world, and the only one that actually runs, I don't think the museum is gonna let anyone cram a Raspberry Pi up in there.

I don't know, I'm not the one cheering for the machine that steals people's creative work and eats their job.

>The exact machine that will free you from your labor, when harnessed correctly, is the exact thing you hate.

This is a machine that has been trained on vast amounts of stolen data.

This is a machine that is being actively sold by the companies that build it as something that will destroy jobs.

This is a machine that has a lot of cheerleaders who are actively hostile to people who say "I do not like that this plagarism machine was trained on my work and is being sold as a way to destroy a craft that I have spent my entire life passionately devoted to getting good at".

This is a machine whose cheerleaders are quick to say that UBI is the solution to the massive unemployment that this machine is promising to create, and prone to never replying when asked what they are doing to help make UBI happen.

Sure, you can say that most of the problems people have with AI are problems with capitalism. This isn't wrong. But unless you can show me an example of how these giant plagarism machines and/or the companies diverting ever-larger amounts of time and money into them are actively working to destroy capitalism and replace it with something much more equitable and kind, then your "this machine will free you from your labor" line is a bunch of total bullshit.

Student discounts, piracy. Mostly piracy.

> Also, what many of the computer programmer people here downvoting will not understand is that interrupting creative flow with crashes is not an acceptable cost of doing business.

god I wish Adobe understood this

oh hell yeah.

Nice username btw. Very yiffy.

I get a 17, how can I lower this while still keeping my stuff there for actual humans?

I am faintly disappointed that "running Doom" did not involve printing out a series of frames at a hilariously low effective framerate, then taking the pile and using it as a flipbook.

I mean, sure, major props for kludging your own video generator in there, but...

They're still making a lot of things in the US, there's a list on this blog post from last fall (https://www.tombihn.com/blogs/main/fall-2025-factory-update-...). The "materials and transparency" section of each bag's page tells you where it's made. But the process has begun and you should probably grab anything you've been coveting before that list grows.

guess who has a new owner and is starting to make some of their bags overseas

https://www.tombihn.com/blogs/main/fall-2025-factory-update-...

I'm waiting for this to happen to Tom Bihn's bags now that they have new owners who're starting to outsource the smaller bags to Vietnam instead of sewing them in-house in Seattle. Luckily for me, I've got what I need from them and expect it to last for quite some time

New Orleans native here. It's not unfair. We're consistently one of the worst states in the nation in so many measures. Corruption is rampant.

Their logo actually links to their front page for once so it's not too hard to find out that Session is "The decentralized private messaging app", even if you're on a touchscreen. No need to fuss around and figure out how to get from "session.blogplace.org" to "getsession.com" by editing raw URLs like I feel happens with half the posts like this.

It could still use a paragraph or two of "why we believe it's important for this particular decentralized private messaging app to exist when there are about six hundred other decentralized private messaging apps out there that nobody but people who care passionately about decentralization are using", though.

(This is not a question that I feel their FAQ addresses, either: https://getsession.org/faq)

I'm trying to decide if I think it's more likely he wrote this bio or his mom did.

Don’t forget trademarks, even if your maps are drawn completely from scratch then I am sure whoever has the license for selling maps of A Song Of Ice And Fire (TM) will take issue with you presenting them as such, if your business becomes large enough for them to bother noticing you.

It may not be traditionally "composed" but there was a lot of human thought that went into creating the loops and balancing how they play off against each other.

It's aleatoric music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleatoric_music

"Back in April 1986, ANALOG Computing ran an article on page 113 called Paperweight by Curt Cox."

If you don't want to subscribe to this newsletter to read about this program, https://archive.org/details/analog-computing-magazine-41/pag... is a link to the original article. And here's a video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1glIV5yulw8

Finding letters regarding it in subsequent issues, is left as an exercise for someone else. :)

This article has now made me intensely envious of the Atari users who got actual assembly code source along with their long strings of hexadecimal type-ins, us c64 kids just got pages and pages of incomprehensible hex in everything except for Transactor.

This was something a friend had in his office when I visited him at Activision back in the late nineties. I have no clue. :)

"Just" sure is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this sentence.

You do realize that a significant portion of the population is encouraged to grow their nails long, right? Women exist.

It's honestly kind of amazing how many things seem to never be tested by anyone with long fingernails. My favorite was the time I picked up a video game controller and physically could not use it because the buttons were in a stylish little recess that meant my thumbnail would have to pass through the plastic housing before I could get the button to make contact.

...for them.

I wonder how well this would work with my bright blue fingernails that are about .5" longer than my finger.

I then wonder how much recalibration I would have to do when one of them broke and I was poking directly at the screen.

Artists and animators (like me!) make some fine distinctions between different ways of studying reality and transferring it onto the canvas.

Using a model is posing a live person and/or some objects and setting up lights and painting from that. Artists have done this for years. I've done this. Rockwell did this.

Using photo reference is taking photographs (yours or others') and working from those. I've done this. Rockwell did this too!

Tracing is placing your reference image beneath or over your canvas, and tracing the contours you see in it. Tracing paper, chroma-key, projectors, camera lucidia, tracing the image onto acetate and taping that to your Amiga's monitor to trace it again in DPaint, dropping ref into one layer in Photoshop and working over it in another one, these are all methods of tracing. I've done them all! Rockwell probably did this now and then, with the caveat that a pro's tracing is a very different beast from a beginner's - it's easy for a beginner to just trace the contours with no thought as to how they come together into a 3d shape, and get a drawing that feels dead and lifeless and subtly wrong. Saying someone's work looks like a tracing is kind of an insult.

Rotoscoping is explicitly a process of tracing/referencing a sequence of images to produce a sequence of images rather than a single image. It is related! But this article is entirely discussing the way demoscene artists would reproduce a static image, so roto does not apply here. Rockwell painted static images; he never did this.

(It's certainly possible that Rockwell could have taken single frames of film and had them printed for reference, but that's still not roto. Roto's explicitly an animation process that results in a series of drawings based on your film/video ref.)

Rotoscoping is specifically tracing over a sequence of images - usually video or film frames - to create a sequence of drawings that can be used in an animation workflow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping

Spaceballs’ State Of The Art and 9 Fingers are a couple of Amiga demoscene productions that relied on rotoscoping.

Magicore Anomala seems to actually be a sideview non-scrolling bullet hell game for the Amiga, which came out in 1985. Teen me owned one of the first Amigas in my city and the in-progress videos I can find of Magicore don't feel too out of place with the games I was seeing on it by the early nineties. It's moving around a couple of sprites and rendering a single-bitplane image of projectiles, and has some basic copper list tricks to get a 3-plane background image to have more than eight colors, which was pretty normal for the Amiga.

Here's a dissection of the title screen of Shadow Of The Beast (1989), for instance: https://codetapper.com/amiga/sprite-tricks/shadow-of-the-bea... - you can find a ton of video of this game very easily, go have a look.

Magicore is generally a bit zippier than most Amiga games, so many of them were kind of chunky and sluggish when I look back at them. Also the dev notes on using modern compression schemes that use what would be apocalyptic amounts of RAM and CPU by 1990 standards to crunch the data are amusing, but it's not like 1990 me wasn't used to chilling out for a few minutes between levels for a disc load, it was still worlds faster than the horrible load times of the C64 that was my first computer.

this is an invitation to toe crimes