also hello i guess i'll post things here again

Starting in about an hour or so:
1. Galapagos - Lua bindings for mgl32
2. Later Alligator
3. Story time https://www.twitch.tv/triplefox

@Tom that is what i mobile order for

and because they actually give me the desired number of sugar pumps

Galapagos, September 2019
https://triplefox.itch.io/galapagos/devlog/98427/galapagos-september-2019

Poster for a screening of Hours Played in Oakland next Friday

@LogicalDash@cybre.space rosario x vampire

The Atari 8-bit computers have two powerful display chips, GTIA and ANTIC. Like the 2600 it is possible to reprogram the display on each scanline to produce colorful display with higher resolutions, and this functionality can be coded in a hardware display list so no beam racing is required. In addition, a variety of character and bitmap modes are available as well as sprites(termed "player/missile" or PM)

ANTIC mode 4, a popular one for games, is a character mode that can display 5 colors per line. "5 is not a power of 2", I hear you say. The trick is that it reads the highest bit of each character to toggle one of the colors, so you have limited control of the palette within a scanline too.

Here you can see ANTIC 4 used in a colorful homebrew port of Bomb Jack: https://youtu.be/eVBenUTZDeg

Even though it is a character mode, the gameplay sprites are software rendered by modifying the character set per scanline, allowing the graphics to be free of hardware sprite limits. This burns a lot of memory, which means cartridge storage is needed to run it on an unmodified 64kb Atari.

Here's Paul Baran's RAND-published September 1962 justification for distributed communications networks summed up in a single chart. It's also the same paper where the famous "centralized vs decentralized vs distributed" triptych of graphs comes from. You still see this exact diagram, uncited, in modern presentations on the decentralized/distributed web.

Full paper: https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2005/P2626.pdf

@kai if you want to be in my mentions more, I am way more active with @Triplefox@vulpine.club

a game in which your character has a rise and fall instead of a rise and rise #gameing

@gatewave i'm mostly amazed that anything about fa has visibly changed

a nice illustration of California's SB-50 housing bill. https://sf.curbed.com/platform/amp/2019/5/10/18563360/senate-bill-50-chart-sb50-explainer-housing-transit?__twitter_impression=true

@theoutrider we remember as being a dress but in fact it was a powerup

tho i have to say one of my fav "people is people" moments of reaching out through history

is

these little clay dogs found in nineveh

buried as charms under a palace

each of them carved so lovingly, by a person that knows dogs, and looking like dogs that you can probably go find today looking the exact same

each of them inscribed with the quality of a good guard dog that people still prize today in good guard dogs

Loud is his bark!
Biter of his foe!
https://www.ancient.eu/image/4930/model-clay-dogs-from-nineveh/

@sara did you develop a craving for swedish delicacies