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silverfroston Boriel BASIC

18 years ago! I haven't used it myself but I know there are plenty of people who love it.

silverfroston Learning Fortran (2024)

Real programmers can write FORTRAN in any language...

silverfroston Why xor eax, eax?

Back on the Z80 'xor a' is the shortest sequence to zero A

silverfroston The History of F1 Design

unusable for me

silverfroston Possible new dwarf planet found in our solar system

26000 year period and yet it has still been around the sun 2000+ times since the dinosaurs went extinct. Make me feel a bit insignificant and awed at the same time.

silverfroston A single line of code cost $8000

In other news a screen recorder app is a 250MB (presumably compressed) download...

silverfroston Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died

Proposed - not discovered. He put it forward as an explanation, he didn't make the actual discovery.

silverfroston Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Unreal Engine

404 for me

silverfroston Conway's Game of Life digital clock

Witchcraft

silverfroston Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island (2007)

returns an empty page for me

silverfroston Hexatrek: The long distance thru hike in France

In my experience the French are very tolerant provided you are not making a nuisance of yourself.

silverfroston Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

Red Gate's SQL Prompt for SQL Server Management Studio. Saved countless hours in very small increments: https://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-prompt...

silverfroston Wipeout (PSX and Windows Source)

Error 512, website is down for me.

silverfroston How much did VHS tapes cost in the 80s?

They tried adding a tax in the UK but it never got there: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/09/endless-cycl...

silverfroston How much did VHS tapes cost in the 80s?

In the mid 80s I bought some 720KB 3.5" disks at the (what seemed) cheap price of £25 for five. At the time that would have been around $40.

silverfroston I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app

mb and MB - beings out the pedant in me...

silverfroston Polaris Program

A constellation is a pattern of stars in the sky -- all of which were determined with the naked eye. Polaris is a triple star -- appearing to us as a single point of light.

silverfroston Polaris Program

"Polaris, a constellation of three stars more commonly known as the North Star...". Nope. It is a triple star system, something completely different.

silverfroston Shader School - An introduction to GLSL shaders that runs in your web browser

7 years old?

silverfroston A Summary of Fortran [pdf] (1992)

and Fortran 77 is compatible with Fortran 66

silverfroston ZX Spectrum Next: The Evolution of the Speccy

I think it sold out a while ago. There was a kickstarter and then some cancelled orders were put on the shop.

silverfroston Tiny Emus: 8-Bit emulators

How do I load a game into the 48K Emulator - I notice there are some in the github repo.