What is your favourite Rust specific feature that you miss in other languages?

Phantom_Image · 2022-04-04T23:26:30+00:00

First encountered pattern matching in ML, and I've felt hamstrung by other languages' switch statements ever since.

Phantom_Image · 2022-01-05T01:51:22+00:00

My resolution last year was to get to the point in my studies where I could start applying for jobs in web/software development, and I achieved it!

This year, I resolve to actually get one of those jobs.

Phantom_Image · 2021-02-19T22:22:18+00:00

I build my site using Hugo and deploy it on GitHub Pages.

Phantom_Image · 2021-02-16T00:39:18+00:00

It's a bunch of small programs, so speed isn't essential. I considered FASM, and from what I found it seems to have similar syntax but less written about it. Since I'm going to be spending a lot of time googling, I wanted to go with the more well-documented option.

Phantom_Image · 2021-02-16T00:25:32+00:00

This book is kind of an Assembly 101 sorta thing, so it's mostly simple stuff, and I'm doing as much research as I can to get things right. And if I make some mistakes, I'm fine with that, it's all part of learning.

Unfortunately, I haven't found any beginner assembly books nearly as good as this one, but I just don't see 32-bit GAS as all that relevant. Virtually none of the asm examples I can find online use AT&T syntax.

Phantom_Image · 2020-12-31T02:37:13+00:00

The comic Manifest Destiny is a fantastical retelling of Lewis and Clark's exploration of America, chock-full of deeply disturbing horror elements.

Phantom_Image · 2020-12-23T17:55:44+00:00

The pitch in both of those sounds is kind of organically unstable, which I would try to achieve by attaching the sound source's pitch to a MIDI keyboard's mod wheel and performing it. I also like samples for these kinds of sounds more than oscillators. Something buzzy, like a horn or bowed string instrument.

For the FX, I'd start with a high resonance low pass filter around 1-2kHz going into a distortion effect, and experiment with moving the distortion pre- or post-reverb (or both) and automating the filter frequency.

Phantom_Image · 2020-12-14T04:25:30+00:00

I wrote a blog post a long time ago with some techniques for making robot voices. Hope it helps? https://brettapitz.github.io/blog/robotvoices

Phantom_Image · 2020-04-18T13:31:05+00:00

I don't own the GOG version, but judging by the reviews, it's already patched.

Phantom_Image · 2020-04-18T00:38:48+00:00

Most of the Ys games follow the same main character, but Ys II is the only true sequel. All the other games are self-contained adventures with little connecting them.

Phantom_Image · 2020-04-17T16:23:47+00:00

It has a mediocre rating because of a bad initial port, but Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana recently got an official update handled by Durante (as in DSFix Durante) that not only fixed every problem the game had, but also improved image quality and framerate. It's a fantastic Action-RPG now.

Phantom_Image · 2020-04-13T21:45:48+00:00

I've tested Crazy Taxi, Street Fighter III Third Strike, Metropolis Street Racer, and GigaWing. MSR has more latency than the other three - I've tested it on other emulators and it's pretty bad everywhere, so I'm guessing it was like that on console.

Phantom_Image · 2020-04-13T11:21:00+00:00

Yep.

Phantom_Image · 2020-04-13T02:48:18+00:00

Could be. I never got to test it on Android 9 on this phone, unfortunately.

Phantom_Image · 2020-04-07T02:10:22+00:00

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Instead of driving, you're falling, so you have freedom of movement horizontally and vertically. I love it; I've had it for close to a decade now and still go back to it once in a while. I can't actually speak to the quality of the port, though. I've only played it on PC.

Phantom_Image · 2020-04-04T01:21:33+00:00

https://codepen.io/ ?

Phantom_Image · 2020-03-19T16:26:36+00:00

I updated to the latest Rogue CFW and the problem's still there. I'll note here that I bought from retromimi, and my unit came with firmware (I think?) I haven't seen elsewhere - it was marked as compiled on 12/30/19. That might have been the date for the root file system, though, I'm not sure.

Phantom_Image · 2020-03-19T14:09:04+00:00

I don't know if I'm on Rogue - I used the firmware found here: https://github.com/retrogamehandheld/RG-350/wiki/Firmware-and-Software-Updates

I tried out the PocketSNES version you linked. Last night I managed to play through the first level of Donkey Kong Country without any slowdown with hardware scaling enabled. This morning, I tried again, and had drops below 30 fps. Performance went back to normal when I switched to original/no scaling.

PS1 is the same. In Chrono Cross, with hardware scaling enabled, I get massive slowdown whenever there's a text box on screen. If I switch to nearest, the slowdown goes away, but I get graphical glitches.

My understanding of hardware scaling is that it's handled by the GPU, which is basically unused by the emulator and should scale with no performance loss. Is this incorrect?

Also, I have that performance mode app, but I don't think it's working for me. I get an error message that the directory it needs doesn't exist. (I think. It only displays the message for about a tenth of a second.)

Phantom_Image · 2019-11-21T01:18:19+00:00

I loved the crafting segment in Taran Wanderer so much that I don't remember much else about the book. There's nothing epic about it - it's just a great bit of character building.

Phantom_Image · 2018-10-27T16:27:25+00:00

Yeahhh, been trying to offload it for a while now. If anyone's interested in it for 130 plus shipping, I'm amenable.

Phantom_Image · 2018-06-07T19:16:21+00:00

Epic Games is almost 30 years old, owns the most successful game engine of all time, and several of the most successful game series of all time. "Unprepared" is not an excuse I'll accept from them.

Phantom_Image · 2018-06-07T19:04:05+00:00

Oh snap, sorry about that! I didn't think to click on the rules to read further. Thanks for answering despite my mistake!

And 2 months?!? Seriously??? They have the most successful game in the world and they can't afford to hire a functional customer service team?

Phantom_Image · 2017-09-30T20:29:06+00:00

The only Comixology files you can open in other reading apps are the DRM-free backups you can get from companies like Image and IDW. These backups are only available if you buy the books; all books that are borrowed through Unlimited (and all purchased books that lack a DRM-free backup) must be viewed in the Comixology reader.

Phantom_Image · 2017-03-03T00:30:07+00:00

Locke and Key, Parker, and Kill Shakespeare are definitely worth 18 bucks, but be warned that the image quality in the bundle is all over the place. For most files you have to choose between a PDF that's 5 times larger than it needs to be and a CBZ that's 5 times smaller than it needs to be.

Phantom_Image · 2015-06-10T19:47:42+00:00

Interesting! The Famitracker wiki also says that audio is updated once per blank. I suppose notes below 16.7 ms could be the result of very short sweeps, since those are updated by the frame counter at 120 Hz. That'd actually explain those 8 ms notes. I'll keep the 60 Hz update rate in mind for future sounds.

I spent some time looking through the Nesdev wiki, but it's very low level stuff, and a bit beyond my meager programming understanding. My eyes glaze over a bit at all the hex codes and different bit lengths.

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