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New comment by viler in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"

viler — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:20:50 +0000

Yep. They "pinky-promised" and continued enriching Uranium to 60%, which is completely unnecessary for any civilian use of nuclear power. Not only has the IAEA openly called it out, but actual officials of the occupying Islamic regime in Iran have now pretty much admitted that they have always been going for nukes. [1] [2]

The only thing JCPOA did was funnel billions into their hands so they could continue oppressing their own population within their own borders, and destabilizing the entire region outside of them.

[1] https://www.thetimes.com/world/asia/article/ex-nuclear-chief... [2] https://www.iranintl.com/en/202204245312

New comment by viler in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"

viler — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:53:20 +0000

Mostly yes. Just a small correction - Iran does not need to collapse; its occupying Islamic regime does. It's what has already driven Iran into pretty much a state of collapse already; when it's gone Iran can be rebuilt.

New comment by viler in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"

viler — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:44:58 +0000

The whole tale of the 1953 supposed US "coup" has been started and amplified by Soviet propaganda, then taken up by the Islamists and their wilful servants, as we can see here. The coup was Mosaddegh's; the Shah prevented it. Read some real history.

As for "freeing" themselves in 1979... please talk to some actual Iranians and ask them how much of their country's resources are actually benefitting them, instead of going to regional terror proxies and into enriching corrupt Mullahs so that their sons and daughters could go live in luxury in the West they so despise. Ask them, too, how "free" they really feel.

New comment by viler in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"

viler — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:33:49 +0000

What are Israel's "regional proxies", and how have they been acting against peace in the region in any way that's more destabilizing than Hamas, Hezbollah, Hashd ash-Shaabi, the Houthis, the Fatimioun, the Zainabioun, and all those other tentacles of the occupying Islamic regime in Iran?

New comment by viler in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"

viler — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:29:10 +0000

Because Israel isn't the one who, I don't know, has been in open declared war on the US for 47 years ago and has turned "death to America" into its official stated policy. The Islamic Republic is.

Your only defense of the astounding level of evil represented by the occupying regime in Iran is to keep frothing at the mouth about Israel? That shows quite a lot. Try again.

New comment by viler in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"

viler — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:22:36 +0000

Israel has shot a grand total of zero missiles at Dubai. Which is not a country; the country is UAE, at which Iran has launched some 2,500 missiles.

What's stopping Israel from attacking "random" countries? Perhaps the fact that they're hardly "random", rather they all host proxy groups of the occupying regime in Iran, who have very openly been subverting those countries into bases from which to attack Israel.

Try again.

New comment by viler in "A Lost IBM PC/at Model? Analyzing a Newfound Old Bios"

viler — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 07:37:11 +0000

Strange... if it does, that's not my doing - it seems to work fine with the VPN I use, but I'll look into it. Thanks for the heads up.

New comment by viler in "A Lost IBM PC/at Model? Analyzing a Newfound Old Bios"

viler — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:06:03 +0000

That was one option I thought of at first (mentioned in the first section), but the info I found indicated that the /370 models used the same firmware as the "plain" 5170s - if there were any BIOS extensions, they were probably somewhere on the add-on cards. The AT/370 also had 512K of on board RAM, while this BIOS seems to indicate 640K.

New comment by viler in "A Lost IBM PC/at Model? Analyzing a Newfound Old Bios"

viler — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 22:30:18 +0000

Appreciated, thanks!

New comment by viler in "Emulator Debugging: Area 5150's Lake Effect"

viler — Mon, 19 May 2025 16:58:56 +0000

Video footage of it running on real hardware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdM5j96tEpE

Back when the demo was released, there were no emulators capable of running it all the way through. People are free to believe what they want, but as we presented it at a demoparty (Evoke 2022), I can tell you that the organizers wouldn't have allowed it in the compo lineup if they didn't see it running on the hardware in person. :)

I am in awe of GloriousCow's crazy achievement in debugging it on MartyPC and making it work to perfect accuracy... that's true next-level skill, and the rest of the group would undoubtedly echo my sentiment!

New comment by viler in "Emulator Debugging: Area 5150's Lake Effect"

viler — Sun, 18 May 2025 08:27:52 +0000

It's not every day that an emulator author has to resort to analyzing bus-sniffer traces to debug and fix a demo effect - and certainly writeups that go into this level of detail are few and far between!

Bytemap Fonts

viler — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:30:33 +0000

Article URL: http://bmf.php5.cz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40001407

Points: 1

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New comment by viler in "Game Font Forensics"

viler — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 10:28:20 +0000

Yeah, I should think that's exactly what happened. I was a big AA user too, but at that point in time I wasn't aware of the Atari ST connection (and hadn't ever seen an ST), so whenever I spotted that font in a game I just thought of it as "the Autodesk Animator font", and assumed that's what they used for the artwork. (Sometimes you could even spot tell-tale effects like that "countour gradient" thing, which would confirm it!)

New comment by viler in "Game Font Forensics"

viler — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 16:29:16 +0000

Oh, gotcha - FWIW the fonts I labeled 'Verite' do come from Rendition Verite video BIOS charsets, but those in turn seem to be descended from the 'Phoenix VGA BIOS' type of font, or rather they're in the same loose family of fonts which shared that visual style... can't check at the moment, but it wouldn't surprise me if Rendition used some Phoenix VBIOS derivative too.

I also believe the font used in the VMware VBIOS is derived from that, so those who run a lot of text-mode stuff in VMware may take a liking to it.

New comment by viler in "Game Font Forensics"

viler — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 12:53:09 +0000

It definitely is. Pretty amazing what you can still find out about this stuff after all these years, now that we can cross-reference and search data so easily (and that collectors, preservationists, and emulator authors are still coming up with previously unknown findings).

New comment by viler in "Game Font Forensics"

viler — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 12:46:48 +0000

Thanks for those comments, much appreciated. I'm still planning future updates to that font collection, and I'll probably include straight-up binary dumps of the characters, so you won't have to jump through hoops to convert them (although many of them are already available in this form at https://github.com/viler-int10h/vga-text-mode-fonts - all you need is a hex dump).

Do the Modern DOS fonts have a particular advantage for you, in terms of implementation? If they do, let me know and I'll consider those improvements as well!

New comment by viler in "Game Font Forensics"

viler — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 12:29:09 +0000

It draws you a 'Golden IBM PC' - and then the screen goes "well green, anyway"! At least if you're running it on a monochrome board (where it evidently expects that you're using the green-screen 5151 monitor) - haven't seen the ending in CGA. :)

New comment by viler in "Game Font Forensics"

viler — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 12:25:18 +0000

Yep, mentioned that in the intro to the article - recommended ++!

Electronic Nightmare: The New Communications and Freedom (1982)

viler — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 15:44:39 +0000

Article URL: https://archive.org/details/kilobaudmagazine-1982-01

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37890702

Points: 2

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New comment by viler in "Total Commander"

viler — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 10:18:28 +0000

Fro me, it's things like comparing directories, filename search-and-replace/multi-rename, copying/syncing (locally or over ftp) with editable queues, etc.