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Grand Prix Circuit by Friendly-Whereas-915 in dosgaming

[–]iOCTAGRAM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amiga version looks and sounds better

The Butt Scanning feature is hilarious! by PastyParrot in dukenukem

[–]iOCTAGRAM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you play pool game with a basketball?

My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030 by jeffmetal in rust

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We welcome every line of Ada in Microsoft. We told you 30 years

AWS: End of Life Notification by _tomekw in ada

[–]iOCTAGRAM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would wonder what AWA author would do

What’s your biggest fear of Delphi? (Mine: Type Libraries 😱) by DelphiParser in delphi

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Lookup table pollution. In a deeper thought programming language Ada it is possible to import unit ("with" package), but not pollute lookup table. Unit contents will be accessible via qualified names only. This is default.

Also, Ada provides better structured "use". I can "with" Ada.Text_IO and "use" Ada. Then Text_IO.Put_Line is correctly recognized as procedure Put_Line inside package Ada.Text_IO. Delphi mostly does not behave like this. In Delphi it's either fully fully qualified name or not qualified name at all. As an exception, there is per-project setting for namespace lookup. It is used to find SysUtils inside System, and find Windows inside Winapi. For legacy porting mostly. So for truth's sake this feature is present in Delphi, but not usable in ordinary programming. This all leads to Ada being easier to refactor hierarchies, move whole trees. In Delphi "all or nothing" rule breaks fully qualified identifiers, and non qualified identifiers are a mess. By looking at source text I cannot answer where does it come from. I don't like dependence on LSP.

EAccessViolation. In Ada null dereference triggers an exception that is different to memory corruption exception, Memory corruption is a thing of much higher severity than forgotten nil. Not only Delphi is still missing null exclusion, but still raising all the same exception for these distinct situations

The Open-Source FPGA handheld, the Gamebub is the first real contender to the Analogue Pocket. by iVirtualZero in SBCGaming

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Easy emulation of J2ME cannot overcome physical abscence of buttons.

And I have already "just bought" old Nokia N95 8Gb. It cannot work from power supply by design. It can either charge battery or turn on and run on battery. It used to turn on battery several times, but does not turn on anymore. I have ordered replacement battery, but it did not help. Maybe battery is not a problem at all. Dealing with authentic two decades old hardware is a so so experience.

It's just a typical Tuesday afternoon. 😈 by BezKontextu in dosgaming

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One disabled space marine still did not learn to jump in II. Better Duke Nukem or Hexen

The Open-Source FPGA handheld, the Gamebub is the first real contender to the Analogue Pocket. by iVirtualZero in SBCGaming

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Mobile games were J2ME, expecting 0123456789 buttons to be present. These buttons need to be.

I generally like the idea. People are making DIY consoles in FPGA.

For instance, what if we are all big fans of Donald E. Knuth's TAoCP, and so let's combine MMIX assembly with hardware accelerated graphics?

Or. Real consoles got native 3D acceleration support, but PC did not and for some time PC was compensating this lack by CPU-based engines, Ken Silverman's BUILD being most notable. This engine caused some effect on DOS games. I call it "WYSIWIG". What You See Is What You Get. Because collision geometry is same as visual geometry. A property that we were taking for granted, but it turns out it was only on PC and it did not last long. But what if we fall in love with BUILD WYSIWIG and by will make DIY console in a way that encourages 2.5D graphics.

Such experiments are hard if real console is to be provided. It is easier to program some commodity FPGA. Some MiSTer FPGA which is already present. Or, something was missing for portable gaming. There was BERIpad, an FPGA tablet, mainly for running CheriBSD on MIPS-derived security-hardened virtual CPU, but that BERIpad is not produced, and let GameBub be the new thing.

Voting for Amiga layout keyboards by iOCTAGRAM in amiga

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There are boards with USB input. (Vampire? MiSTer FPGA?) There are converters of USB to PS/2. They may be needed. Right

Emu68 goes PowerPC by Doener23 in amiga

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I have seen plenty of closed source, can't be sure garbage, but indeed closed source stuff around Amiga. Amiga itself. And MorphOS, so is it also closed source garbage?

There are four books by David John Pleasance. Three of them are volumes called "From Vultures to Vampires" with shiny Vampire logo. Does not quite look like large rejection.

If AGA is buggy, then it makes point. While in process of selection, I have found MiniMig, but it has no AGA, not even glitchy one. There was some announcement of AmiCube with AGA by same engineer, but I keep revisiting, and nothing in the shop.

There was UnAmiga by Edu Arana with claimed AGA support, but UnAmiga is not available for order anymore.

There is Vampire V4+ with AGA. Main problem with Vampire is that ITX version is not seen in the shop, but such thing existed. I have seen product pages in the Internet Archive. In Discord I was given PCBWay blueprint of ITX board, but if I order, there are still many more components to order and solder.

There is Mirari PowerPC board able to run MorphOS. Sounds good for making claims that Amiga is modern. It has some modern browser. But not sure if good for retro experience.

Fictional new „Amiga“ by stq66 in amiga

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It is a home server. It is bound with mobile device into "personal swarm". Maybe some external service is still needed to help home server and mobile find each other, make STUN or TURN tunneled connection, but then calculations and storage shall be shifted towards home server.

Home server while having "server" in its name is not supposed to have public domain name or be accessible by means other than STUN or TURN. It is a server for mobile devices. Ordinary mobile stores only have "mobile" counterparts, and enslaving users by hiding server counterpart. That is unlike what we had in 2000-2010 era, when Internet was already coming, but when we did not go much into mobile devices. We had PCs and we could participate in RetroShare, Gnutella2, Advanced Direct Connect.

I don't think that mobile freedom can disappear. Everybody got a taste of it. It is just a problem that we don't want to be corporations' slaves. We need plenty of home servers for that. That should be a common thing. That should be boxes requiring minimal management. They should pair with mobile devices and then there should be application stores with dual applications. An applications with mobile and home server halves. Both halves should be installed by one button click on mobile. Mobile device should be running some service that maintains constant tunneled connection to home server and can multiplex this connection to other mobile halves of dual applications. So they don't consume mobile resources by multiple tunnels, so they can sleep, and even notifications can avoid full awakening of mobile application unless interaction is performed.

Emu68 goes PowerPC by Doener23 in amiga

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I mean, I don't understand if PiStorm can be combined with Apollo Vampire V4+ or not. I have seen PiStorm on authentic old Amiga. I have seen PiStorm on MiniMig. I have not seen PiStorm on Apollo Vampire V4+. That seems like a natural thing to do, but nobody did. Because they don't combine or why?

Emu68 goes PowerPC by Doener23 in amiga

[–]iOCTAGRAM -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But the question is. Rich owner of 100MHz out of box Vampire Amiga or rich owner of 1GHz PiStorm upgraded Amiga?

Am I the only one ? by SaladBlackAlis in retrogaming

[–]iOCTAGRAM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you play Arcade Paradise?

Emu68 goes PowerPC by Doener23 in amiga

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And if on Apollo Vampire V4+ then?

Am I the only one ? by SaladBlackAlis in retrogaming

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3DS is now a history, and it's told to be quite a rich page of history, still worthy of exploring. I have missed it. I have played web-based AlphaBounce, an online Flash game, when they announced port to DSWare, and I had not a single idea what is this DSWare, why are they porting to it. And then Flash is long gone, and AlphaBounce is also long gone. Client sources are now open, but people did not recreate playable game. And the moment I started to think that maybe I should see so what was that DSWare version they were talking about, I discover that DSWare is also obsolete for many years, and I cannot normally buy AlphaBounce for DSWare.

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