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New comment by Narishma in "Amiga Graphics"

Narishma — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:23:56 +0000

> Of course in 1987 a Macintosh II with a fully expanded "Toby" framebuffer could not only do 256 colours, it could do it in 640x480 mode where as a PS/2's VGA could only do 16 colours at that resolution.

If cost is no issue, the PS/2 also had the 8514/A card that could do 256 colours at 1024x768. And there was also the PGC from 1984 that could do 256 colours at 640x480.

New comment by Narishma in "Ada, Its Design, and the Language That Built the Languages"

Narishma — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:01:15 +0000

GNAT was too late to the party.

New comment by Narishma in "Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages"

Narishma — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:59:20 +0000

That's a decade too late.

New comment by Narishma in "30 Years of HPC: many hardware advances, little adoption of new languages"

Narishma — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:37:03 +0000

I don't think there's much difference between C and C++ (and Rust, etc...) when it comes to this.

New comment by Narishma in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

Narishma — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:27:36 +0000

> The visuals feel a little ugly and dated: it’s blocky, the font isn’t great, and the colors are dull.

I don't get this at all. I find the screenshot clear and beautiful if anything.

New comment by Narishma in "How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU"

Narishma — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:59:47 +0000

Demo parties usually have a category for games.

New comment by Narishma in "Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]"

Narishma — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:21:39 +0000

Even on 8-bit systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SdGkkp1aq8

New comment by Narishma in "Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]"

Narishma — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:09:06 +0000

VGA was pretty common on 286, I even had an SVGA card on my own back in the day. And it also had protected mode but was still 16-bit.

New comment by Narishma in "Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP"

Narishma — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:41:14 +0000

Would such old hardware even be able to run a modern browser needed for this?

New comment by Narishma in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

Narishma — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:40:02 +0000

Haven't those patents expired by now?

New comment by Narishma in "Big-Endian Testing with QEMU"

Narishma — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:21:48 +0000

To give an example, you could read 1234 as either 'one thousand and two hundred and four and thirty' or 'four and thirty and two hundred and one thousand'.

Now that I think about it though, I've only seen the latter way used for the year in a date.

New comment by Narishma in "Big-Endian Testing with QEMU"

Narishma — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:58:38 +0000

There are actually two ways to read numbers in Arabic.

The most common is to start from the most significant digit and read left-to-right until the last two digits, which you then read right-to-left.

A less common alternative is to read right-to-left starting from the least significant digit.

New comment by Narishma in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

Narishma — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:16:08 +0000

You're lucky then, if it's only double.

New comment by Narishma in "4D Doom"

Narishma — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:44:14 +0000

Why does it require WebGPU when it looks like something that would run fine in software on a 386?

New comment by Narishma in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"

Narishma — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:22:37 +0000

Could we even catch up to them at all with the current propulsion technology? Not only did they have decades of head start but they took advantage of a unique planetary alignment that I don't think will come back around anytime soon.

New comment by Narishma in "OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1"

Narishma — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:51:48 +0000

Civ 3 already started to shake things up.

New comment by Narishma in "I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]"

Narishma — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:45:03 +0000

That means they are not accurate cores since it works fine on real hardware.

New comment by Narishma in "I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]"

Narishma — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:43:52 +0000

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars used an earlier version of it but only for the terrain. I think Rage was the first to use it for everything.

New comment by Narishma in "My DIY FPGA board can run Quake II"

Narishma — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:21:31 +0000

The PS1 doesn't an FPU but got a version of Quake 2, so it's possible. That said, it was somewhat different from the PC version, so it could be argued that it's not the same game.

New comment by Narishma in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

Narishma — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:27:16 +0000

Didn't they make the game free? Or was that just UT99?