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New comment by dole in "A tribute to one of the best games on the Atari 2600"

dole — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:41:58 +0000

The Atari cheated too; Pitfall II used a David Crane-designed DPC chip [0], Atari's SARA Superchip on a number of the later carts like Crystal Castles and Jr. Pac-Man, and the Starpath Supercharger's [1] games were undeniably bigger and better looking.

The VCS released in 1978, Pitfall II in 1984 which shows the idea of offloading processing and memory came a looong way in just 4 years between Pitfall II, Nintendo's MMC1 in stuff like Legend of Zelda (1986) and the MMC3 in SMB3 (1988). Crane's DPC wasn't officially patented until 1987, the video game gap between 1984-88 is still mind-boggling.

[0]: https://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/pitfall2/pitfall2....

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starpath_Supercharger

New comment by dole in "MUNI Heritage Weekend in San Francisco"

dole — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:45:21 +0000

Hell, I'd shop them around to transit authorities. Gorgeous photos, awesome hardware and processing techniques that went into them.

New comment by dole in "Playa Phone"

dole — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:13:27 +0000

Burning man livestream here, still early and setting up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BgytKvsORM

Page says it's on "Chomolungma" but it's "Ceiba" on the maps, just in case you can spot the phone on the stream.

New comment by dole in "Dad’s Custom Atari Peripherals"

dole — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:14:38 +0000

Relatable path here. Fairchild Channel F, the cat chased the pixels around the Bell and Howell console screen. Hid the 2600 box in the garage rafters from my mom to cover up the purchase. My dad made an 2600 controller using big industrial panel pushbuttons for the directions and a sturdy red clicky button, trying for a good Defender controller but panel buttons were just not meant for fast gameplay.

New comment by dole in "Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development"

dole — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:48:07 +0000

I read the Paranoia, Send in the Clones and numerous other supplements back-to-back as a kid and Warren Spector became a notable name for me. Writing and humor felt a lot like Douglas Adams lite, and made the prospects of living in a underground apocalyptic dystopia really hilarious. As someone mentioned, his CV is stellar; you could almost compare him to Kubrick or maybe Guillermo del Toro at the least.

New comment by dole in "Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full"

dole — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:11:03 +0000

People were still replacing their 14.4k modems with 28.8s in 1996. I remember seeing the Quake 15 x 1.44 zips on local BBSes, which would've taken at least 3.5 hours over a perfect 14.4 connection so definitely a daunting phone line tie-up for the average kid (I had the CD.)

New comment by dole in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

dole — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:57:47 +0000

Gary Coleman and Mary Carey both ran. There's always Vermin Supreme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin_Supreme

New comment by dole in "Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo"

dole — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:13:22 +0000

Some of the photosynthesis zoom-ins have overlays take a bit longer to load at higher resolution.

New comment by dole in "More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts"

dole — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:46:12 +0000

I remember when we gave a shit about "emoluments."

New comment by dole in "The Kids' Guide to Piracy"

dole — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:12:31 +0000

This. VPNs are an absolute necessity for torrenting pirate content from public trackers, otherwise you're sure to get a Cease & Desist letter mailed to the house and risk getting your parents' internet disconnected. I know it's a "kids guide," but more emphasis should be made on VPN basics, such as binding the VPN port to torrent client.

New comment by dole in "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"

dole — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:17:51 +0000

Rands is a programmer/PM IRL: https://randsinrepose.com/

Trump filing shows he took in $1.2B from crypto businesses last year

dole — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:04:50 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/trump-financial-disclosure-crypto-060c15062b8fedc6104159ea13775463

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753097

Points: 3

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New comment by dole in "BMW iX5 Blows Away the Competition with 460-KW Charging, 435-Mile Range"

dole — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:58:50 +0000

It's not like they're manji headlights

New comment by dole in "Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball"

dole — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:15:17 +0000

Suggestion to make the Upcoming Games tiles fade out as a group or rotate and show games past the initial five of the day. Also, team W-L records where pertinent and real estate might allow?

One thing that stuck with me is the font rendering of the flashing "Mid 5th" screen banner on the game field view, was displayed as Helvetica/Arial vs one of the in-game fonts.

New comment by dole in "TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)"

dole — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:41:37 +0000

Be interesting to see enemies take friendly fire, and possibly suppress fire if the shot on the player isn't clear?

New comment by dole in "CrankGPT"

dole — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:23:24 +0000

Addressed in the video, but now looks like we've got three problems.

New comment by dole in "Life saving / first aid posters"

dole — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:22:48 +0000

i try not to recommend reddit often, but r/coolguides has lots of handy one-page references.

New comment by dole in "Which sparkling water is the best?"

dole — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:15:25 +0000

You can leave a bottle of Topo open room temperature for two days and by some magic it'll still be surprisingly carbonated.

New comment by dole in "Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does"

dole — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:58:09 +0000

Portland Anarchist Road Care took it to an effective extreme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Anarchist_Road_Care

New comment by dole in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

dole — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:47:03 +0000

https://archive.org/details/gorillaz_final_drive