@aeva I like the bit where the plutonium all gets squished together.

You should play the game! I played it ages ago, and just did another play through. It's still an amazing aura. And it's just the right size - about 10-15 hours.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/457760/The_Signal_From_Tlva/

Just discovered this fantastic tech-art video about The Signal From Tolva, based on Ian McQue's art:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3L6Ml-BUUY

@Farbs That Mini in the middle is amazing. What are they - parking for two or something?

@dotstdy @floooh @lritter I choose to assume DX11, because otherwise there's no correct answer.

Juneteenth - day off work - so to celebrate the freedom of others, I wrote a thing I've been promising to do for a while and never got a Round Tuit. Works great! Time to plan a quick Friday presentation.

@lfa The QL was really interesting. 68000-based, so it was nominally like the ST+Amiga+Mac on paper. However, it only had an 8-bit-wide data base, and the display stole cycles, so in practice it was less than half the speed of those machines, and the graphics capabilities were nowhere near the ST+Amiga.

Still, I found it a useful step up from the Spectrum for about three years before I got the ST. But an odd duck for sure - not a surprise it didn't sell well.

@lfa I think the problem was the advances in capabilities weren't large enough for the extra money. They all added more memory (usually in an annoying bank-switched way) and a few hardware extras (Speccy got a decent sound chip), but none of them were big enough to let games commit to the new features, so very few "gotta have it" exclusives.

BTW the QL was this bizarre 8/16 hybrid. I found mine useful, but it was... weird. My next was an Atari ST and obviously that did great.

@aeva Also surprisingly useful to be able to have a free "negate" in the wire itself - like maybe colour/shape the wire differently? Saves a lot of noisy "neg" nodes, and means you don't need a "sub", "revsub", "subn", etc blocks - you just have "add" and also you don't need to be careful about which is which input to "sub" because it doesn't exist.

@aeva arg1 arg2 arg3 res?

@TheZeldaZone It's apparently one of these:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/21425/intel-lunar-lake-architecture-deep-dive-lion-cove-xe2-and-npu4/4

If you're not explicitly running "AI" workloads, e.g. image processing or voice recognition, it won't do much.

Results are in. God you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.

People are asking "where is the left-wing J*rdan P*terson?" Not sure it's a perfect match, but this chap is pretty decent. No surprises for wokes, but he says the message clearly, and says it with... hope, even? Maybe a sliver.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBAX4Wi1iNM
(the leopard avatar makes me laugh, too)

@yon @eniko Yes, they are heavily modeled on the Data General "Dasher" design, but with two obvious modifications - there's no Escape, and no Control.

Also, you can buy a real one:
https://www.atomickb.com/

@Moosader You could Minecraft it - start with placeholder blocks and let people replace it if they want. I am also reminded of Time Bandit's uh... distinctive visual style...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1481910/Time_Bandit__Part_1_Appendages_of_the_Machine/

Still the best version of any of these songs (sorry Gary):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6InqSDxOa7Q

@miblo Perfect. No notes.

I think about this tweet every now and then. I mean... yeah. Cats, man!

@SRAZKVT We can all dream.

@lritter ...or are you just pleased to see me?