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I was lucky enough to be able to mail £5 notes to Llamasoft in Mount Pleasant, and receive freshly reproduced tapes from Jeff Minter, or more likely his mum or dad.. The sheer joy of getting home from school and there being a Jiffy bag with Yaks latest game was like nothing else.. From GridRunner, LaserZone, HellGate, MetaGalactic Llama Battle At The Edge Of Time..

Commodore fanboy at heart, but maximum love to the weird uncle of home computing.. I was so jealous of Parsec on that, speech and all, in 1982, when our local nerd group used to go and stare at computers after school..

C64 Blood Money 9 months ago

PDS required a PC with PDS ISA card (not much more than an 8255 iirc), was never available on the ST..

Roundabout when NVIDIA breached 3T USD and ousted Apple from #1 spot: “That is a long way from Curtis Priem's kitchen table, a $2.5M A-round from Sutter Hill and Sequoia, and the NV1.”

Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem for the first time was an astonishing thing with that soundtrack.. Back then wasn’t really into DP, but that sold me entirely..

I’ve always been fascinated on more details about the VIC-1 in the Vixen/VIC-20.. Apparently designed for an arcade machine use, but then put into use for the VIC.. Wish there was more about that part of the story as I’ve no idea how it really came about and would dearly love to know more.. Aside from that, the gang did an amazing job, Jack, Chuck, Bob, Tony and Co. I raise my glass to you all :)

I’m puzzled by that too.. iPhone 15 Pro and FPS is 60.1ms permanently, but clearly moving at 60fps+.. Very nice though, very nice indeed..

Windows has been driving me crackers the last few days trying to benchmark hard to measure optimisations, and tend to end up on long runs, looking for the minimum time.. Usually closing chrome results in an immediate ~10% performance boost even minimised.. I’d love to see an option for a Developer to lock off some cores totally, nothing runs on them unless its in an approved list.. At least then I can profile on those cores and get a reasonable result..

Yes.. And no, you can inspect and measure the SDRAM component, at runtime, to best determine how object sizes will be allocated.. Is kind of what I was getting at, and have spent the last month implementing ;)