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For the first time in the history of the universe, as far as we know, an object built by a living species had left the protective bubble of its home star system...
Seriously?
Good intentions, but the site is hosted by Wix which add their own trackers.
It's probably this discussion about DiskClick: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39406098 (DiskClick: Ever wanted to hear old hard drive sounds - Feb 2024 - 81 comments). Also, the software was last updated 1 month ago.
And discussed here a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40962767 - Fusion – A hobby OS implemented in Nim (110 comments)
Related: Cramming Solitaire onto a Nintendo E-Reader card - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42010136 - Oct 2024 (43 comments)
Double Dragon II: The Revenge for DOS from 1989 was distributed on two floppy disks, one of which contained the entire source code in a deleted archive file, invisible from the DIR command but easily recoverable: https://tcrf.net/Double_Dragon_II:_The_Revenge_(DOS)
I think the correct link is: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=96536 The source code is also included
Comparisons between unsigned bytes can be done natively with JC, JNC and JZ, JNZ instructions. Things are more complicated with signed comparisons as there is no overflow flag. It is possible but requires more instructions.
You're persistent. I remember you asking the same question on another thread almost four years earlier [1]. I'm curious to know the name of this game.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24099035Also, it reminded me of this "The Zilog Z80 has a Protected Mode" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLSUAVPKeYk posted to hn, but got no discussion.
Here is a thread with 138 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33229526
Then certainly that my expectations were too high from what I'd read in the reviews, I was expecting a lot of changes like the second edition of the dragon book. You can see that some programs were obviously written to get around the memory limitations of the computers of the time, such as the assembler and emulator for an imaginary machine.
And to think that's where we come from. The Intel 8008, the ancestor of the x86 processor family, just has a 7-level call hardware stack only used by the unconditional and conditional call and return instructions. So, there is no push and pop instructions. As the only way to access a byte in memory was to store the address in the HL register pair (no absolute addressing mode) before the load or store instruction and as there was no way to disable hardware interrupts, it was almost impossible to write useful interrupt routines without some external hardware trick.
It was in October or November, I think. The book doesn't add much to the first edition, I was quite deceived.
Also, the Website of the author of mTCP is served by a PCjr running PC-DOS 5: http://brutmanlabs.org/
Discussed here last year: 2,500 continuous runtime hours on a 4.77Mhz DOS web server (90 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36731566
This seems to match this demo from Eclipse: https://www.atarimania.com/pgesoft.awp?version=31698
The program will only run on a CoCo 3 tweaked with a Hitachi 6309 and 512K of RAM. Very cool project though.
Related: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37359310 from September 2023 (356 comments)
I really appreciate his work. He had a full life. Since yesterday, without knowing, I was just studying a section of a book detailing the code generation of one of the first Pascal compilers for the CDC 6400.
Is any work being done to preserve full versions of these sharewares?
I'm not Dave, but here's a thread on Vogons in which he announced his project, you could possibly contact him from there: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=97034
Related: "Samsung and other manufacturers disable phones bought on gray markets" (10/23/2023, 164 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37990528
I played it on a 486DX33 in 1993. This game left a deep impression on me. I recently bought the CD-i version for 50 cents, found in a second-hand CD bin. I don't have the console to play it (yet) but the second CD is an audio CD and contains the soundtrack.
My ISP just fucked up their interface and I cannot create aliases anymore. For Two Stop Bits, you can put anything as e-mail, they don't try to confirm it anyway.
In effect, Gordon Henderson. He is the author of WiringPi. http://wiringpi.com/
also, the possibility to unvote.
Be able to register without providing an email address.
The lines of BASIC code are tokenized according to the shortest words.
Not the GP but you can find it on the "HEBDOGICIEL, les listings" Website [1]. Deulignes section, page 15 [2] (Casse-briques by Laurent Auble). Published in issue 104, page 12 (second box) [3]:
1 SPRITEON:IFK=2THENR=-2:B=2*SGN(X-Z-4):RETURNELSEIFK=0THENCOLOR4,0,0:SCREEN2,1:DEFINTA-Z:J=186:X=140:Y=80:VPOKE14336,128:VPOKE14344,248:LINE(80,40)-(183,61),7,BF:LINE(78,7)-(184,J),2,B:LINE(Y,8)-(183,10),1,BF:R=2:B=2:Z=X:ONSPRITEGOSUB1ELSEIFL>5THENRUN
2 K=2:S=STICK(0):Z=Z+2*(S=3)*(Z<174)-2*(S=7)*(Z>80):PUTSPRITE1,(Z,161):Y=Y+R:X=X+B:PUTSPRITE0,(X,Y),11:P=POINT(X,Y):IFP=0THEN2ELSEIFP=7THENR=-R:A=(X\4)*4:LINE(A,Y)-(A+3,Y+1),0,B:GOTO2ELSEIFP=1THENR=2:GOTO2ELSEIFY>180THENL=L+1:Y=80:K=1:GOTO1ELSEB=-B:GOTO2
[1] http://www.hebdogiciel.free.fr/
[2] http://www.hebdogiciel.free.fr/2lignes_15.htm
[3] https://archive.org/details/hebdogiciel-french-104/page/n11/...
[4] http://www.hebdogiciel.free.fr/hd-roms/2lignes/2lignes_MSX_n...
Didn't Microsoft published a Word document from a "pirated" Word release in the past?
Microsoft Pascal was a two-pass compiler. It was slower to compile than Turbo Pascal and that pissed off Bill Gates when he realized than Turbo was the most successful.