Hacker News: roytam87

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.

New comment by roytam87 in "BS 1363 British Plugs and Sockets"

roytam87 — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 02:33:41 +0000

2A plugs and sockets are just cute.

New comment by roytam87 in "Windows NT for GameCube/Wii"

roytam87 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 01:32:49 +0000

yeah, but 64bit versions are called "Windows 2000" in the moment. see https://msfn.org/board/topic/183599-windows-2000-x64/ for screenshots.

New comment by roytam87 in "Bzip3: A spiritual successor to BZip2"

roytam87 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 03:57:41 +0000

and we all know that bzip2(1997) is incompatible with bzip(1996).

New comment by roytam87 in "One Dog vs. the Windows 3.1 Graphics Stack"

roytam87 — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:21:24 +0000

don't know if article's author is watching this, but I told patch's author about this article. https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=22124#...

New comment by roytam87 in "Building a replacement 386/486 CMOS battery"

roytam87 — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:43:03 +0000

AA or AAA batteries will leak.

New comment by roytam87 in "DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support"

roytam87 — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 06:07:45 +0000

It relies on HX-DOS' Win32 support. But since DOSBox-X emulates hardware, which is still useful when the host doesn't have such hardware.

New comment by roytam87 in "Windows NT for Power Macintosh"

roytam87 — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 16:28:14 +0000

but at least there is VC4 RISC Edition available for PowerPC, you can compile something on it.

New comment by roytam87 in "Open Sourcing DOS 4"

roytam87 — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 01:58:47 +0000

But only OpenDOS 7.01, not older(DR DOS 3.30-7.00) or newer(7.02-8.0/8.1) versions.