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New comment by malkia in "PlayStation Architecture"

malkia — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:17:00 +0000

Holy Shit! _ How did they got so far - this is amazing...

Look here - https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AFoxdieTeam%2Fmgs_reversin...

New comment by malkia in "PlayStation Architecture"

malkia — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:57:57 +0000

ha! I wish I knew this back then, but now I do remember - I think what we did was simply clearing the bit before access, and it was in just dozen or so places. Slap a macro and you are done!

New comment by malkia in "PlayStation Architecture"

malkia — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:54:15 +0000

There are memory regions that are mapped to the same physical memory - https://psx-spx.consoledev.net/memorymap/

I worked on the Metal Gear Solid port from PSX to PC, and Konami programmers chose a wild trick to store how the "C4" bomb was planted - either on the wall, or on the ground.

Essentially the pointer pointed to the same physical memory address, but if it was planted on the wall (or on the ground, I forgot) - then it was OR-ing it with 80000000h or was A0000000h - or maybe something else - lol was long time ago.

It was fun porting this on PC, and right now I don't even remember what I did exactly - hahaha

New comment by malkia in "Valve removes free game from Steam after players discover it contains malware"

malkia — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:22:10 +0000

Sandboxing is quite easy (user-wise), once you install the sandbox system. By default it allows only a single sandbox, and with small `.wsb` file you can drive what's visible from the host, whether the GPU should be active, etc. - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/applicati...

It's great for testing, and Sandbox is just the tip of the iceberg of what Windows Containers support

- e.g. maybe someone can come up with "launcher" that goes through it (somehow).

New comment by malkia in "Valve removes free game from Steam after players discover it contains malware"

malkia — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:19:48 +0000

There is a game - Beyond The Darkness - released few weeks before the name change

"Beyond the Darkness" was released on Nov 14 2024 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1728610/Beyond_The_Darkne...

"Beyond the Dark" (the malware) was released (ahem, renamed) on Dec 28 2024

New comment by malkia in "A History of IDEs at Google"

malkia — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:41:24 +0000

oh wow! that sounds awesome! (I guess I left around the time you were starting)! I was based in LAX (so no G-Buses for us, but I had to visit MTV often - like once twice a month, and enjoyed getting on one of them)). Kudos!

New comment by malkia in "A History of IDEs at Google"

malkia — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:09:19 +0000

yup - when I started in 2014, coming from long gamedev experience it was nice that "g4" was just "p4" rewritten for piper. (alzo "blaze menu" was cool, but did not show (AFAIR) places in LAX)....

New comment by malkia in "A History of IDEs at Google"

malkia — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:01:47 +0000

Xoogler here (2014-2017). My team (part of Ads) used primarily Java, and we used the Eclipse, then we started switching the IntelliJ.

Cider was used also a lot, but I've heard even back then some folks were free to use whatever they like - vi, emacs, you name it.

New comment by malkia in "Modern SQLite: Features You Didn't Know It Had"

malkia — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:11:20 +0000

One more "hidden" fact - Windows uses sqlite a lot, for a lot of tables. There is even

    "C:\Windows\System32\winsqlite3.dll"

and

    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.27975.0\um\winsqlite\winsqlite3.h"
    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.27975.0\um\winsqlite\winsqlite3ext.h"

Well it's compiled in it's own way, which may not be to your liking, but it's there to use :)

New comment by malkia in "Modern SQLite: Features You Didn't Know It Had"

malkia — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:49:05 +0000

In the past I've used the backup API - https://sqlite.org/backup.html - in order to load in memory a copy of sqlite db, and have another live one. I would do this after certain user action, and then by doing a diff, I would know what changed... I guess poor way of implementing PostgreSQL events... but it worked!

Granted it was small DB (few megabytes), I also wanted to avoid collecting changes one by one, I simply wanted a diff over last time.

New comment by malkia in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

malkia — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:40:51 +0000

Are we now at the bottom of the the Uncanny Valley of AI?

New comment by malkia in "Facebook Appears to Be Down"

malkia — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:41:36 +0000

I pre-blame... an artifical intellect!

New comment by malkia in "AVX2 is slower than SSE2-4.x under Windows ARM emulation"

malkia — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:07:42 +0000

You can ... to a degree - Google for "XtaCache"

New comment by malkia in "Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format"

malkia — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:58:17 +0000

Anyone else - GWAAAR! - G.W.A.R! - I guess the only metal nerd here

New comment by malkia in "I fixed Windows native development"

malkia — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:01:35 +0000

You can provide custom options to winget, and in there where to install it too (and additional components you need).

New comment by malkia in "I fixed Windows native development"

malkia — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:00:56 +0000

it's not ideal, but much much much better!

New comment by malkia in "I fixed Windows native development"

malkia — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:55:15 +0000

Or... you can

"winget install Microsoft.VisualStudio.BuildTools"

"winget install Microsoft.WindowsSDK.10.0.26100"

New comment by malkia in "Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS"

malkia — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:42:34 +0000

There are containers, and one of their users is the Windows Sandbox - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/applicati...

New comment by malkia in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

malkia — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:53:17 +0000

Thank you for sharing the article! Now I'm puzzled this about myself - what I am...

New comment by malkia in "Eat Real Food"

malkia — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:24:11 +0000

Make Jerkey Without Sugar Again!