GabeMoralesVR / is on Nostr

Professional electromancer at your service. I dream in anaglyph stereo. Crafting my GFX programming skills for 25+ years. Pixel friendly. He/Him.

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2024-09-12 00:08:18

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Also, just so people don't forget: The mandate was to either get vaccinated, OR submit to daily testing and stay at home when you're sick. You literally never, ever had to get a vaccine by federal mandate, the option to submit to daily testing literally always existed.
It was EMPLOYERS, you know, the big business deregulated bullshit republicans love so much, who forced people to get vaccines if they wanted to work.

2024-06-15 12:21:49

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The Z80 isn't going nowhere. The very first FOSS fabrication of an open source Z80 occurred days ago: https://github.com/rejunity/z80-open-silicon
People can now freely produce their own Z80 clones through companies like tiny tapeout. Z80 lives.
More info: https://tinytapeout.com/runs/tt07/
fabrication plans were finalized June 1st, and the first fabrication run was successful. They are gearing up for a full production run, the new z80s will be available for purchase by October.

2024-06-10 00:02:24

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What always gets me is when you see mac-enthusiasts suddenly pining for the death of x86, simply because apple went to ARM. And they you ask them their use case, and it's like "browsing the internet" and "watching netflix." Things that don't need arm processors -- and the death of 99% of backwards compatibility - to exist. The people calling for the move to ARM, tend to be the people who use their computers the least.

2024-06-09 23:58:00

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Which of course means they're not actually abandoning x86. Because you can't abandon x86. Because the vast, vast, vast majority of software for the past 50 years runs on x86. It's impossible to actually, fully leave x86, and users flat out won't allow it.

2024-06-09 23:57:11

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People point to rosetta in the M2 macs as an example of how "emulation" can work. Except M2 macs aren't pure emulation, rosetta wouldn't be fast enough to do that. So instead, the M2 macs partially implement a significant portion of x86 opcodes into their metal. Meaning M2 macs aren't entire arm, they're these weird chips that are ARM with huge parts of x86 bolted on so that, when they need to run x86 software, it can run it through native x86 cores.

2024-06-09 23:55:45

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People talk about x86-to-arm emulators being the panacea for compatibility. Except, unlike Proton translation layer, x86 to arm emulation incurs a significant performance penalty. You can't even get people to try running windows software in linux with a translation layer that doesn't incur performance penalty, but people seriously think they'll be ok with their entire back library of software suddenly running at only 30%-50% the original speed? It'll never happen.

2024-06-09 23:51:10

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remember when the original power pc was invented specifically to address the problems with the 68000 so that, this time for real, RISC processors would kill x86? And then nothing but macs used it and thus it remained this unsupported niche, and even Mac users hated it because all their classic mac software stopped working?
That's how I see the move from x86 to arm going. It's gonna be just like 68000 to Power PC. It's not efficiency that matters, it's compatibility.

2024-05-29 19:49:01

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I have an nvidia card, all my features work.

2024-05-29 19:48:32

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very few games in windows allow for shader precompilation. Literally every game in linux allows for it.

2024-05-29 18:59:17

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Games outright run better in linux than windows. In windows, you get shader compilation stutter. In linux, because everything uses vulkan, you can use shader precompilation/downloading and it eliminates the problem. Gaming in linux today is better than gaming in windows.

2024-05-29 09:05:20

7 months after i set out to build my #tinyhome, i finally have my #commodore #amiga 1000 up and running inside.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/112/523/577/994/188/595/original/ba270e3923af0701.jpg

2024-05-26 23:24:01

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if we do this with one set of speakers, then leave the polarity unchanged on a second set of speakers, then put them facing each other, would it result in silence?

2024-05-26 23:17:42

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This reminds me of when someone asked if we are technically listening to music upside down if you turn your speakers around in my college DSP class and it blew my mind

2024-05-26 20:49:14

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TIL that radio wave transmissions move at the speed of light

2024-05-21 19:21:42

The good news: The #Atari STE don't just have #blitter library functions, it has separate blitter hardware!
The bad news: using the blitter blocks the #68000 until blitting is done, making the hardware act as though it was a software routine in the end.
*facepalm*