Hacker News: roytam87

New comment by roytam87 in "OpenCode 2.0"

roytam87 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:01:08 +0000

From my limited testing, oc2.0 doesn't support sock5 proxy in HTTPS_PROXY, while v1 supports.

New comment by roytam87 in "Muse Spark 1.3"

roytam87 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 06:04:14 +0000

I have opposite result: MS1.2 wrote C code without following original source code writing style, and no descriptive info why writing such code, DS4F or even Mimo seems better to me.

New comment by roytam87 in "Ox Alpha"

roytam87 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 04:29:14 +0000

and opencode giving out unlimited usage for free, and I can happily vibe my stb_avif decoder fork. https://github.com/roytam1/stb_avif/tree/chatgpt

New comment by roytam87 in "Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users"

roytam87 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:00:57 +0000

OpenAI should be more transparent to (free) users about Data Analysis quota and Chat with attachment quota.

New comment by roytam87 in "Build a Game That Fits on a Single Floppy Disk: 1.44MB Game Development Contest"

roytam87 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:39:50 +0000

Off-topic: regarding Windows NT emulation challenge, now IA64 and AXP32/64 target are also somehow filled.

New comment by roytam87 in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

roytam87 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:33:53 +0000

win32 programs in win32s shares same address space.

New comment by roytam87 in "Stb_AVIF: A pure C89, Libc-only AVIF decoder in stb-style single-header form"

roytam87 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:32:14 +0000

Most of code are generated by Copilot. But unfortunately it doesn't output good-looking results. I wonder what are missing/wrong?

Stb_AVIF: A pure C89, Libc-only AVIF decoder in stb-style single-header form

roytam87 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:32:14 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/lenchan139/stb_avif

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844187

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by roytam87 in "An ode to bzip"

roytam87 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:38:36 +0000

I wonder why people think there is only 1 bzip (which seems to be bzip2), when the original bzip exists: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/125803 and also bzip3: https://github.com/iczelia/bzip3

New comment by roytam87 in "Emulated Windows 3.11 in the Browser"

roytam87 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:13:55 +0000

But Microsoft Entertainment Pack 2 came first with FreeCell.

New comment by roytam87 in "Go-legacy-winxp: Compile Golang 1.24 code for Windows XP"

roytam87 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 05:56:19 +0000

My browsers[1] still target XP and developing in Win7.

[1] https://msfn.org/board/topic/185966-my-browser-builds-part-5...

New comment by roytam87 in "NCSA Mosaic 2.7, one of the first graphical web browsers"

roytam87 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 01:29:34 +0000

W3C has a page about multicast mosaic: https://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/9610_Workshop/paper05/paper05....

New comment by roytam87 in "NCSA Mosaic 2.7, one of the first graphical web browsers"

roytam87 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:30:59 +0000

I put some Mosaic derivations to my github[1][2][3]

[1] multicast mosaic ("mMosaic") https://github.com/roytam1/multicast-mosaic

[2] VMS Mosaic https://github.com/roytam1/vms-mosaic

[3] mosaic-CK https://github.com/roytam1/mosaic-ck

New comment by roytam87 in "Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux"

roytam87 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 07:25:43 +0000

NTDLL APIs are very stable[0] and you can even compile and run x86 programs targeting NT 3.1 Build 340[1] which will still work on win11.

[0] as long as you don't use APIs they decided to add and remove in a very short period (longer read: https://virtuallyfun.com/2009/09/28/microsoft-fortran-powers...)

[1] https://github.com/roytam1/ntldd/releases/tag/v250831

New comment by roytam87 in "Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently"

roytam87 — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:04:40 +0000

> just 10 years ago you could dream about getting a house there

yeah, when comparing with other cities[1] it is way more affordable.

[1] https://www.timeout.com/hong-kong/news/hong-kong-has-once-ag...

New comment by roytam87 in "UTF-8 history (2003)"

roytam87 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 05:03:21 +0000

win32s brings codepage to/from widechar APIs and codepage table files (P_*.NLS), and a setting "AnsiCP=" in [NLS] section in win32s.ini.

16bit IE brings its own MSNLS.DLL for handling different codepages to ACP(Active Codepage) in Win3.1x.

and win9x also works mainly in ANSI codepage with some kernel side unicode support.

New comment by roytam87 in "UTF-8 is a brilliant design"

roytam87 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 04:41:16 +0000

"what about using VLQ as a Unicode transformation format?"

a rough implementation is not hard. (for writing, my implementation will write BOM in beginning and only do 28bits)

https://github.com/roytam1/rtoss/commit/b09bd53d7f4166f34c8b...

New comment by roytam87 in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

roytam87 — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 07:15:31 +0000

It looks quite good, but I missed 3.5mm audio jack.

New comment by roytam87 in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

roytam87 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 02:10:19 +0000

but I missed MicroSD slot. I think my requirement is simple: not too wide (<=70mm), has 3.5mm audio pack, and has MicroSD slot.

and end-up only Sony products comes out. and I sacrificed performance for a shorter phone so I bought Xperia Ace III.

but I don't know when will my ISP shutdown GSM-1800. If this happens I have to buy Xperia 10 series then.

New comment by roytam87 in "Dolphin Emulator Progress Report: Release 2506"

roytam87 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 06:40:49 +0000

They refused Rairii bugfix for making little-ending working like in real hardware.