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New comment by nizmow in "Dutch computer museums (2022)"

nizmow — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:41:54 +0000

Likely a very dangerous temptation :)

New comment by nizmow in "Dutch Computer Museums"

nizmow — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:17:06 +0000

I recently moved to Eindhoven and have been meaning to get to the museum in Helmond. This has prompted me to make the trip this weekend!

New comment by nizmow in "StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta"

nizmow — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:55:17 +0000

It’s very confusing to me too. I clicked an icon to see what it was, and it was opening times of a supermarket, which I had no idea about. But I couldn’t find a way to just get back to where I was before. My workflow now is to keep force killing the app frequently when I get stuck.

New comment by nizmow in "C Is Not a Low-Level Language (2018)"

nizmow — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:21:29 +0000

I think that’s the point.

New comment by nizmow in "Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?"

nizmow — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:19:39 +0000

The biggest thing for me was just being brave enough to go for it and give it a try, and then learning how to undo your mistakes. Re-do things you’re not happy with with braid, reflow things with flux, etc. I’ve torn vias out of old valuable boards doing restoration, and I learned trace repair and fixed it.

New comment by nizmow in "A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator"

nizmow — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:42:27 +0000

I love this, but feedback to the author: the combination of a quirky font and quirky colours make this incredibly hard to read.

New comment by nizmow in "z486: A 486-Class Pipelined FPGA CPU with Integrated Floating-Point"

nizmow — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:05:40 +0000

A lot more than I thought! I wonder if that’s _requires_ FPU or can use an FPU.

New comment by nizmow in "z486: A 486-Class Pipelined FPGA CPU with Integrated Floating-Point"

nizmow — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:53:06 +0000

How many DOS games used an FPU though? I can only think of one.

New comment by nizmow in "ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014)"

nizmow — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:32:24 +0000

Sadly, neither. VGA has two completely different pixel clocks and wiring that up in MiSTer is pretty difficult.

New comment by nizmow in "ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014)"

nizmow — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:01:37 +0000

It’s a neat core, but z386 is where the action is right now (https://github.com/nand2mario/z386_MiSTer). Interestingly this core doesn’t output a proper analogue signal. I always wondered why until I recently tried to implement a real EGA pixel clock on the PCXT EGA core. Basically, video cards with dual (or more) pixel clocks are not realistic on MiSTer. The PLLs are there, but once you get too many clock sources the routing becomes quickly impossible. MiSTer framework’s pipeline also forces pixel clocks tied directly to video output (for good reason) and switching that clock at runtime gets very tricky.

New comment by nizmow in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

nizmow — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:58:35 +0000

Quake was a DOS game.

New comment by nizmow in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

nizmow — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:57:01 +0000

This was actually just how CDDA music tracks worked in almost all CD games in the late 90s. :)

New comment by nizmow in "“Gravity is worth asking about”"

nizmow — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:30:09 +0000

The context for that is in Gruber’s original post, I believe.

New comment by nizmow in "Starlink from 1984"

nizmow — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:36:20 +0000

Kind of a pointless nitpick, but you’d have been very lucky to own a 386 in 87-88, the 486 wouldn’t be mainstream until 1992 or so.

New comment by nizmow in "IBM Intellistation 185 AIX workstation (2016)"

nizmow — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 10:11:51 +0000

A TNT was from the late 90s. In 2006 512MB consumer GPUs were common.

New comment by nizmow in "Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes"

nizmow — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 03:04:29 +0000

Who hurt you?

New comment by nizmow in "Amazon Tells Employees to Relocate or Resign"

nizmow — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 02:30:12 +0000

I suspect this will become increasingly common with companies that allow remote work. Atlassian is a large Australian tech employer that is full remote, and this is definitely the case there - performance reviews twice yearly and a very high attrition rate.

New comment by nizmow in "Protocol Wars"

nizmow — Thu, 11 May 2023 11:59:45 +0000

Doom didn’t even use the Windows networking stack. You just chose IPX from the multiplayer setup menu.

New comment by nizmow in "5G Rollout Disappointments"

nizmow — Sun, 07 May 2023 07:45:07 +0000

Anecdata: in Sydney, Australia, 5G on Telstra is incredibly fast (I get more than 1 gigabit at my apartment, but more typical / busier cells seem to be between 300-500Mb), and my experience using it mostly just for web browsing is it’s streets ahead of 4G.

New comment by nizmow in "The Case for C# and .NET"

nizmow — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 05:01:21 +0000

You're wrong. Everywhere I've worked the general pattern is to build using Windows/Linux and deploy entirely on Linux (or Docker).