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PortableCode — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:31:03 +0000

Article URL: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116319158100665914

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580528

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

Learning Low-Level Computing and C++ by Making a Game Boy Emulator

PortableCode — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:31:54 +0000

Article URL: https://byteofmelon.com/blog/2026/making-of-gamebyte

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842021

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by PortableCode in "JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back"

PortableCode — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:38:50 +0000

smali code is funny to read, basically an object-oriented assembly language (feels so wrong)

New comment by PortableCode in "Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986)"

PortableCode — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:24:43 +0000

also available in mobi and epub formats (for Kindle and other ebook readers):

https://www.rudyrucker.com/mirrorshades/mirrorshades.epub https://www.rudyrucker.com/mirrorshades/mirrorshades.mobi

Duckstation PS1 emulator forbids ArchLinux packages

PortableCode — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 20:01:07 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/stenzek/duckstation/commit/30df16cc767297c544e1311a3de4d10da30fe00c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44738867

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

The Next-Gen Mainboard Designed with AmigaOS4 and MorphOS in Mind

PortableCode — Sun, 25 May 2025 01:13:41 +0000

Article URL: https://mirari.vitasys.nl/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44084818

Points: 29

# Comments: 8

A project to bring back AOL, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, and even Q-Link

PortableCode — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:35:33 +0000

Article URL: https://nina.chat/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43838293

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by PortableCode in "Modern 6502"

PortableCode — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 20:55:38 +0000

> I ended up mounting one of them on the side of the door at the entrance to my house for spiritual protection.

Author changes popular VSCode Material Theme license, threatens to sue

PortableCode — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 23:32:43 +0000

Article URL: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=t3dotgg.vsc-material-theme-but-i-wont-sue-you

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43178885

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

New comment by PortableCode in "GNU Screen 5.0 Released"

PortableCode — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 16:53:13 +0000

looks like this command was removed in 2015, so, almost 9 years ago, and now they cleaned up the documentation

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/commit/?id=9109...

New comment by PortableCode in "Pinnacle – a modern tribute to the 1986 classic, The Sentinel"

PortableCode — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 02:27:38 +0000

I am getting the same error, but was able to download the game from: https://viperfish.com.au/downloads.html

New comment by PortableCode in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

PortableCode — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 22:45:27 +0000

https://codeexplainer.wordpress.com/

My attempt of explaining confusing and/or obfuscated code snippets in various languages.

Example: heart-shaped proposal in obfu Perl https://codeexplainer.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/anatomy-of-th... (she said yes)

New comment by PortableCode in "Two brothers invented an alphabet for their native language, Fulfulde"

PortableCode — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 16:47:25 +0000

The alphabet itself and a sample text on Omniglot: https://omniglot.com/writing/adlam.htm

New comment by PortableCode in "HTML Application"

PortableCode — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 04:58:17 +0000

"On the other hand, an HTA runs as a fully trusted application and therefore has more privileges than a normal HTML file; for example, an HTA can create, edit and remove files and registry entries."

Dots and Dashes

PortableCode — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 07:03:19 +0000

Article URL: https://codeexplainer.wordpress.com/2018/08/15/dots-and-dashes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17798176

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by PortableCode in "User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers"

PortableCode — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:21:00 +0000

Apparently, posting this link gets you banned: https://github.com/diefarbe

New comment by PortableCode in "Ask HN: What's the strangest place you wrote code?"

PortableCode — Thu, 10 May 2018 13:44:58 +0000

You might find this interesting, a story about the development of a popular ZX Spectrum emulator Warajevo:

"The grenades fell everywhere, there was little electrical power (at one time even the hospitals didn't have power for two months!). When we had electricity it was only for 2-3 hours during the night."

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/warajevo/Story.html

Underscore Pi (2017)

PortableCode — Tue, 01 May 2018 05:19:01 +0000

Article URL: https://codeexplainer.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/underscore-pi/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16964744

Points: 85

# Comments: 9

Anatomy of the heart – A marriage proposal in Perl

PortableCode — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 06:59:42 +0000

Article URL: https://codeexplainer.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/anatomy-of-the-heart/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16616575

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by PortableCode in "81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby [video]"

PortableCode — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 11:07:48 +0000

Looks like she extended her Amiga with Microbotics Starboard 2 (2MB RAM and RTC, visible in 2:36): http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=...