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New comment by mdtrooper in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

mdtrooper — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:19:12 +0000

0 A.D. https://play0ad.com/ is more similar to Age of Empires.

New comment by mdtrooper in "Show HN: A game where you build a GPU"

mdtrooper — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:00:41 +0000

It sounds great, it remembers to me:

- https://www.nand2tetris.org/

- https://nandgame.com/

New comment by mdtrooper in "TypeScript 6.0 RC"

mdtrooper — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:18:36 +0000

What has always bothered me about TypeScript are union types. If you have a function that receives a parameter such as ‘Dog | Cat’, you cannot separate it. For example:

type Dog = { bark: () => void }

type Cat = { meow: () => void }

function speak(animal: Dog | Cat) {

    if (‘bark’ in animal) {

        animal.bark();

    } else {
        animal.meow();
    }

}

Okay, okay, I know you can filter using ‘in’ to see if it has methods, but in real life, in a company where you have a colleague (who is a golden boy) who writes over-engineered code with hundreds of interfaces of interfaces, you don’t want to spend time searching through the files to find every element that is in the union type.

Whereas in Rust it does:

struct Dog { name: String, }

struct Cat { name: String, }

enum Animal {

    Dog(Dog),

    Cat(Cat),

}

fn process_animal(animal: Animal) {

    match animal {

        Animal::Dog(dog) => {

            println!(‘It is a dog named {}’, dog.name);

        }

        Animal::Cat(cat) => {

            println!(‘It is a cat named {}’, cat.name);

        }
    }

}

I think TypeScript should add a couple of lines of code to the generated JavaScript to do something like:

type Dog = { bark: () => void }

type Cat = { meow: () => void }

function speak(animal: Dog | Cat) {

    if (animal is Dog) {

        animal.bark();

    } else {

        animal.meow();

    }
}

New comment by mdtrooper in "Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator"

mdtrooper — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:52:02 +0000

There is a game in steam about disk defrag:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4181930/Idle_Defragmenter...

New comment by mdtrooper in "iPhone 17e"

mdtrooper — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:44:43 +0000

Some years ago a chinese company released a phone with 2 screens, one typical mobile screen and other side a e-paper screen. But I don't remember what happened, but unfortunately this idea didn't succeed.

New comment by mdtrooper in "Museum of Plugs and Sockets"

mdtrooper — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:46:55 +0000

There is not a old socket from the toilets in the old trains (maybe trains are 60 years old...more or less 1970) in Spain. This sockets are near the mirror and I think that this sockets were for old electic shavers.

New comment by mdtrooper in "Conway's Arcade"

mdtrooper — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:19:00 +0000

is there a download or play online?

New comment by mdtrooper in "Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved"

mdtrooper — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:30:56 +0000

I remember that years ago when the android phones started there was a app for flash games....I don't remember the name the app (and maybe this app does not run in current android phones)

Now thanks to https://f-droid.org/es/packages/rs.ruffle/ (it has high % compatibility but it is ok) another we have again a handful flash games in the phone.

New comment by mdtrooper in "Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter"

mdtrooper — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:50:04 +0000

It's sad, but in the battle for a free ecosystem in video games, we must all join forces towards a single goal. IMHO, it's Godot.

New comment by mdtrooper in "Animated Knots"

mdtrooper — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 06:03:19 +0000

I know similar web about paper airplanes (maybe I found in HN too some years ago):

https://www.foldnfly.com

LibGodot Lands in Godot 4.6, Enabling Engine Embedding

mdtrooper — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:03:03 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/110863

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867107

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mdtrooper in "Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games"

mdtrooper — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:51:08 +0000

There is another adventure framework as plugin for Godot. It is Escoria: https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset?user=escoria

https://docs.escoria-framework.org/en/devel/

New comment by mdtrooper in "PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible"

mdtrooper — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:23:36 +0000

I think these kind of things will bring problems.

Because Nint€ndo or $ony (and others game companies) have a big problem, their old games are awesome and if the people can play these games, then the people will be happy and will not need new games or new sagas.

Because the problem is not the people playing old games, the real problem is the people will not pay for new games

And we know that these companies have army of lawyers (and "envelopes" to distribute among politicians) to change the laws and make illegal something that is not illegal.

New comment by mdtrooper in "Show HN: Open-source Figma design to code"

mdtrooper — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:49:33 +0000

There is https://penpot.app too. Although IMHO as I wrote some years ago in my blog (sorry only in spanish) https://tomatesasesinos.com/2023/01/09/proyectos-que-son-una... TL;DR: Penpot team chose a bad dev language.

New comment by mdtrooper in "The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves"

mdtrooper — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:39:35 +0000

There are other ways to exit of W40K such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrikWars .

New comment by mdtrooper in "A compact camera built using an optical mouse"

mdtrooper — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 10:39:02 +0000

These kind of news are for me the real news for this website instead of a new fancy tech product of Apple or similar corporation.

Sincerely a lot of thanks.

New comment by mdtrooper in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

mdtrooper — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:48:13 +0000

It is remembers to me to Arduino buy for Qualcomm. And it was not good news.

New comment by mdtrooper in "Penpot: The Open-Source Figma"

mdtrooper — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:16:21 +0000

For YaCy python. And Penpot typescript.

New comment by mdtrooper in "Penpot: The Open-Source Figma"

mdtrooper — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 22:42:39 +0000

Sorry (maybe fall some negative karma points to me) but I tell that Penpot remembers to me to YaCy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy . When a project is awesome but the language made it is the worse (YaCy is made of in java, and PenPot Clojure).

New comment by mdtrooper in "I Am Mark Zuckerberg"

mdtrooper — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 10:42:55 +0000

In Spain we have 2 last names:

- first last name from last name first of the father.

- second last name from the last name first of the mother.

And with this method we have collisions.

In Portugal the last name come from the mothers.