Hacker News: rocky1138

New comment by rocky1138 in "Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux"

rocky1138 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:59:04 +0000

Perhaps there is an opportunity for an open source reimplementation like OpenMW or OpenRA?

New comment by rocky1138 in "Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux"

rocky1138 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:49:22 +0000

You will be absolutely fine

New comment by rocky1138 in "Atari Means Business with the Mega ST"

rocky1138 — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 23:19:28 +0000

As a counter point, Doom was developed on a different platform than the target. Let's say that the lead dev was ahead of the curve.

New comment by rocky1138 in "Kindle is removing download and transfer option on Feb 26th"

rocky1138 — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:34:09 +0000

Someone above mentioned all models are jailbreak-able.

-=- Beige Box LAN Party ][

rocky1138 — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 06:09:19 +0000

Article URL: https://sdf.org/icf/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42242961

Points: 3

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Beige Box LAN Party Fall 2024

rocky1138 — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 15:52:26 +0000

Article URL: https://sdf.org/icf/events/bblp_fall_2024/photos/smj/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42052443

Points: 2

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New comment by rocky1138 in "Will plants grow on the moon?"

rocky1138 — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:36:31 +0000

This is what the test covered in the article is set to discover.

New comment by rocky1138 in "Will plants grow on the moon?"

rocky1138 — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:07:48 +0000

How much energy would be required to provide a localized magnetosphere to protect the garden from cosmic rays?

New innovations in credit cards, 1985 [video]

rocky1138 — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 21:09:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TBD8HTssRA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41411997

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rocky1138 in "Evidence for transient morning water frost on the Tharsis volcanoes of Mars"

rocky1138 — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 19:44:11 +0000

I'm reminded of this quote, often attributed to NASA: "Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor."

New comment by rocky1138 in "First Bioprocessor Powered by Human Brain Organoids"

rocky1138 — Thu, 30 May 2024 06:01:06 +0000

How does physics say it works?

New comment by rocky1138 in "ICQ will stop working from June 26"

rocky1138 — Fri, 24 May 2024 16:26:55 +0000

Goodbye from 7478741

New comment by rocky1138 in "ICQ will stop working from June 26"

rocky1138 — Fri, 24 May 2024 16:26:44 +0000

DOS Game Club on AfterNET is still really active, for those who have an interest in checking it out.

New comment by rocky1138 in "Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code"

rocky1138 — Fri, 17 May 2024 00:26:29 +0000

Someone mentioned macamp. I have no idea though

New comment by rocky1138 in "Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code"

rocky1138 — Fri, 17 May 2024 00:23:39 +0000

I've felt for a long time that hacker News was dead, then I read your post and it made me warm inside

New comment by rocky1138 in "Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code"

rocky1138 — Fri, 17 May 2024 00:21:51 +0000

They tried to shove that in at the end but it's easy to one click it away the first time you turn it on

New comment by rocky1138 in "Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO"

rocky1138 — Wed, 15 May 2024 17:12:48 +0000

I use an old 1st gen Pi Model B+ as a ppp server for my Tandy 1000 SX to connect to the Internet. I can telnet in and adjust stuff if needed. Very handy and fun to play Zork on sdf.org through it.

New comment by rocky1138 in "You almost never see a clock at the mall"

rocky1138 — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 22:46:01 +0000

From the article:

> No other industry builds a world designed to maintain a customer’s fantasy so that they continue to partake in an activity that, in the long run, advantages the house.

Videogames

New comment by rocky1138 in "My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2022)"

rocky1138 — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 19:51:48 +0000

I do this as well, except I tend to stick to markdown for formatting. This file is routinely committed to git.

New comment by rocky1138 in "Google's once happy offices feel the chill of layoffs"

rocky1138 — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:16:18 +0000

Your story reminds me a bit of what the working environment of Atari was like according to those who were there during it's heyday.