Hacker News: shoozza

New comment by shoozza in "Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference"

shoozza — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:08:51 +0000

Slightly off topic: Is D a good language for creating tiny windows or Linux executables? There is an upcoming game jam (4mb jam 2025) which gives extra points for game submissions <= 8KB. With c you can fit a window with graphics update in an executable of less than 900 bytes[0]. Granted it's using crinkler for linking which does some compression.

0: https://gist.github.com/ske2004/336d8cce8cd9db59d61ceb13c1ed...

New comment by shoozza in "The April Fools joke that might have got me fired"

shoozza — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:21:36 +0000

Though no further work is being done on the original and the FLOSS forks aren't ready yet (soldank++ and opensoldat) the game is still playable on modern PCs and even free on steam ;) (Disclaimer: former maintainer)

New comment by shoozza in "Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts"

shoozza — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:48:28 +0000

I wonder how much work it is to check if Windows was installed with an account and terminate the program in that case.

New comment by shoozza in "Castle Engine – Free open-source cross-platform 3D/2D game engine using Pascal"

shoozza — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 21:31:34 +0000

In the meantime the repository moved to: https://github.com/opensoldat/opensoldat After MM sold the game to someone else I felt like it would be better to make sure the name is different as the new owner had different plans and did not want to continue releasing the source code.

Later someone unknown hijacked the original url and copied an outdated version of the repository (you can see the mention of OpenSoldat.)

New comment by shoozza in "Castle Engine – Free open-source cross-platform 3D/2D game engine using Pascal"

shoozza — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 21:25:15 +0000

FYI Soldat used/uses PascalScript and had no classes in the beginning (they where added later to the ScriptCore.)

It's still around. The FLOSS version is called OpenSoldat now (I plan to get it back on track eventually as it became unstable with Version 1.8).

Really enjoyed the quick compile times :)

New comment by shoozza in "The Neat Programming Language"

shoozza — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 08:10:21 +0000

I think lobster does this.

"Compile time reference counting / lifetime analysis / borrow checker."[1]

"Reference Counting with cycle detection at exit, 95% of reference count ops removed at compile time thanks to lifetime analysis."[1]

[1] https://strlen.com/lobster/

New comment by shoozza in "The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge"

shoozza — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 00:24:54 +0000

A more up to date site about browser privacy is https://privacytests.org/

New comment by shoozza in "RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects"

shoozza — Sat, 07 May 2022 11:35:51 +0000

Adding all the words to the top of each file[0] and saving every file resolved it for me. Just need to pay attention to not change the casing when modifing/adding code.

[0] https://github.com/Soldat/polyworks/blob/37aaf471646fe4773e6...

New comment by shoozza in "Miniclip to Discontinue Desktop Site and Transition Exclusively to Mobile Games"

shoozza — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 08:48:13 +0000

Depends on what you need. For simple stuff Wrick Editor[0] might be good enough.

[0] https://www.wickeditor.com/

New comment by shoozza in "LLVM relicensing update and call for help"

shoozza — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 09:14:26 +0000

You can also link to proprietary apps statically if you provide the object files: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3127...

New comment by shoozza in "PICO-8 – Fantasy Console"

shoozza — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 05:13:59 +0000

If you are interested, there are a few (incomplete) FLOSS clones: tac08, PX8 and picolove.

I'm maintaining picolove but it's currently more of a pico-8 runtime than a virtual console.

New comment by shoozza in "Ada for the C++ and Java Developer [pdf]"

shoozza — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 14:33:01 +0000

While a bit old this might explain why it wasn't popular back then.

Why Ada isn't Popular (1998): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7824570

New comment by shoozza in "Soldat: a 2D (side-view) multiplayer action game"

shoozza — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 17:43:14 +0000

You can see the server list here: https://soldat.pl/en/lobby Just sort by player count.

New comment by shoozza in "Soldat: a 2D (side-view) multiplayer action game"

shoozza — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 17:36:55 +0000

The map editor (called Soldat PolyWorks) is also FLOSS. It is written in Visual Basic 6 and uses DirectX 8 though.

Might need to rewrite it or use one of the other community made map editors in the future, especially when people on other Platforms want to start mapping.

New comment by shoozza in "Soldat: a 2D (side-view) multiplayer action game"

shoozza — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 17:31:56 +0000

Yeah good point, probably better to include the screenshot than an icon.

Will do.

New comment by shoozza in "Soldat: a 2D (side-view) multiplayer action game"

shoozza — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 17:30:09 +0000

Yes, the original developer gets the money from the steam sale.

He's hosting the lobby server, website and forum for the game.

Afaik the contributors didn't get any money and worked on the game in their spare time because they love Soldat.

One of the goals was to release it as FLOSS.

New comment by shoozza in "Soldat: a 2D (side-view) multiplayer action game"

shoozza — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 07:42:05 +0000

What a surprise to see Soldat on hackernews :)

I maintained Soldat back from version 1.5+ to 1.7 before someone else took over for a few years.

The current version on Steam is Soldat 1.7 while the open source version is an unfinished Soldat 1.8 and needs some love before it can be released (gui is missing, new netcode, switch to lazarus/fpc, macOS and GNU/Linux support, new config file format to name a few.)

So don't expect everything to work out of the box if you compile it.

Any help is welcome btw ;)

New comment by shoozza in "Niklaus Wirth was right and that is a problem"

shoozza — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 00:37:44 +0000

There is also handemade.network. Maybe that's something for you.

https://handmade.network/manifesto