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New comment by BiscuitBadger in "Beating the compiler (2024)"

BiscuitBadger — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:08:24 +0000

I was playing a video using an old codec and VLC printed a warning “No hardware support on your Intel GPU”

But the software fallback was >5% CPU on a mobile Ice Lake in low power mode. ffmpeg is Good Stuff

New comment by BiscuitBadger in "Beating the Compiler"

BiscuitBadger — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:27:16 +0000

Any “Multimedia Extensions” or streaming or whatever beyond what’s available past a 486.

Rust has autovectorization, but a developer knows their algorithms best.

Also AES-NI vs software is no contest.

When people talk about out coding ‘to the metal’ you have to consider what ‘the metal’ provides

New comment by BiscuitBadger in "Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI"

BiscuitBadger — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:58:53 +0000

Look at Strange Scaffold for a game dev company built around being a sustainable business where there aren’t any single ambitious “Bet the business” releases.

New comment by BiscuitBadger in "The Visual 6502"

BiscuitBadger — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:26:51 +0000

https://github.com/iaddis/metalnes

Similar project, gate level emulation of NES CPU+PPU by the Nesticle author Icer Addis.

An entire world in a scanline

New comment by BiscuitBadger in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

BiscuitBadger — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:11:39 +0000

And this burnt the team out, made quake’s development a compromised scramble and led to Romero’s departure. That’s no way to run a company.

Anyway, listen to Xalavier Nelson of strange scaffold talks on sustainable indie game development. It makes no sense to compromise a company for the sake of shipping a single game.

New comment by BiscuitBadger in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

BiscuitBadger — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:49:43 +0000

After reading those IdSoft histories, Quake shipped a new client server networking layer, a new quake C scripting engine, the new fully polygonal engine …

This was far too ambitious and bottlenecked everything on Carmack’s graphics work. The rest of the team was left to create Doom II and Ultimate doom while Carmack worked, but even then it wasn’t enough to ease the bottleneck.

doom II could have been a quake C scriptable, client server game that shipped slightly later as a step between Doom engine and Quake engine instead of the four or so year technical delay between Doom and Quake

New comment by BiscuitBadger in "CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT"

BiscuitBadger — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:01:15 +0000

There have to be GovCloud only LLMs just for this case.

I swear this government is headed by appointed nephews of appointed nephews.

I keep thinking back about that Chernobyl miniseries; head of the science department used to run a shoe factory. No one needs to be competent at their job anymore

New comment by BiscuitBadger in "Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)"

BiscuitBadger — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:31:24 +0000

luckily, they're not doing too much on the title screen