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Happy October!

DirectX in the 90s: Reducing your nice Pentium to the speed of a 386 without VESA Local Bus.

Good lord, Bust a Move 4, what did you do? Did you putpixel everything??

This is a weird one: The crew who did the awesome Battle Wheels then started writing an FPS game on the same engine. It is odd because it’s a mission based game that takes place in a wide open field. I never quite got into this one. This is a very late release by Songbird. #atarilynx

I actually like a little motion smoothing on a large HD screen. It has a lot of chop otherwise because it doesn’t fade nicely like a CRT. I find I can track things happening a lot more easily and the association with cheap video goes away after I’m immersed in the movie.

@argv_minus_one moslo is really good these days… unless it’s being caused by not speed but that it doesn’t like the Pentium CPU

…yes

Screamer, you say?

Are we SURE that the sweat and tears devs spend dealing with purposely opaque DRM systems actually saves money? Like.. there’s a serious development cost to futzing with this crap.

@leeuw close! It’s Street Rod

Been a long time since I listened to this in its entirety, but let me tell you folks, it’s fucking awesome.

Ow

I think the reason LLMs make so much sense for coders is that the industry has created layers upon layers of complete garbage with poor documentation that nobody wants to work with. I sure as fuck don’t. It wasn’t like this in the 00s

@rinmari yeah aside from everything else I also am unsure they can hit that high note again. Amusement Vision was firing on all cylinders. Also the arcade game is great and there can’t be anything like that again. And the arcade influence was also key to GX’s feel.

People say the new GameCube emulator for NSO is laggy. Good! Now you get the full experience of gaming on an early HDTV.

@jf_718 I used to have what looks like that model. It was a great monitor

The best thing about DOS coding is using registers and hardware features is seen as amazing hackery ;P

…I say this as I still brute force everything in mode 13h because I’m lazy like that

Free DC!

@Sobtanian I do with bananas

Going live with Turbografx-16 gaming in 45 minutes https://www.youtube.com/live/WZtyuZOMLT0?si=MHu2vZFkc7gS0v3G