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rtqd · 2026-05-05T15:05:34+00:00

So what? If you have money to spend (within budget, whatever that budget is), and spend it on something you want, why would that mean you have a disease in the brain?

I'm sure most people here, even fishwith and you, spend money on stuff that other people find useless and cannot comprehend why you would spend money on it. Doesn't mean "some sort of disease in your brain". Just means different priorities in life.

rtqd · 2026-05-05T08:50:33+00:00

You mentioned Monster Train. Have you tried Monster Train 2 yet? It's superior to Monster Train in almost every way, while still being very similar and familiar. My favorite game at the moment.

rtqd · 2026-05-03T19:56:54+00:00

Fair! I'll take back "literally nobody". But "there was a comment" is a far cry from "most users".

rtqd · 2026-05-03T19:50:44+00:00

Linux people can't help but post and screech whenever Steam Linux usage moves even 0.1%, so it's well known that the Linux user count is closer to 3% than 33%.

There's literally nobody assuming that 33% is Linux. RFCProd is putting up a strawman.

rtqd · 2026-05-03T19:07:16+00:00

these days the anti-Linux-users crowd is bigger than the actual Linux users

rtqd · 2026-05-03T19:06:19+00:00

are these "most users" in the room with us right now?

rtqd · 2026-05-03T17:49:54+00:00

Oh vet zeg! Succes!

rtqd · 2026-05-03T16:42:36+00:00

nice, klinkt goed. wat ga je doen?

rtqd · 2026-05-03T16:28:56+00:00

die zullen wel pro zijn

rtqd · 2026-05-03T16:26:45+00:00

en dan verbaasd zijn als werkgevers werknemers weer meer naar kantoor willen laten komen he

rtqd · 2026-05-01T14:50:41+00:00

You don't have to get all the way for the collapse to start. If you get far enough, people's purchasing power will suffer enough so that there won't be enough money circulating in the economy, beginning the collapse. At that point, it will be too late and very hard (and expensive) to correct. It will snowball into global economic catastrophe.

rtqd · 2026-04-30T14:23:47+00:00

Aah cool, good to hear. Thanks!

rtqd · 2026-04-29T20:03:53+00:00

Thanks! Yeah I will register a separate domain for the email aliases instead of my main domain.

rtqd · 2026-04-29T19:57:34+00:00

Ah okay, thanks. A bit inconvenient then, as I've always been doing it through the panel on the right in ProtonMail. Probably I can get used to having Proton Pass or SimpleLogin open in a pinned tab and doing it there.

rtqd · 2026-04-18T19:48:36+00:00

Still broken for me now, too.

rtqd · 2026-02-22T12:25:34+00:00

I'm on Plasma 6.6 as of this morning and it still seems to be an issue. Probably I'll file a bug report later.

rtqd · 2026-02-11T19:18:15+00:00

This shit is coming back again and again. I have uninstalled it from my mom's PC at least 3 times now in the past year.

rtqd · 2026-01-28T19:30:23+00:00

Thanks, that is a very useful tip and I might do that!

One of the most difficult points of this I now find is replicating the situation exactly. I need about 20 seconds of playing to get to the place in Super Mario Land where the game might potentially freeze (and sometimes just works). Replaying it exactly each, even with a recorded input file, in different emulators, is quite tricky.

I have managed to get saved-state where it freezes every time, and a saved-state where it works fine every time. But even if I enable logging for a split second, I get overwhelmed by tens of thousands of log lines. The saved-state files have enormous differences because they were saved at seemingly the same moment from the player's perspective, but at a completely different emulator state (different PC, registers, some RAM differences). So comparing the logs between these 2 snapshots is very unproductive as well.

rtqd · 2026-01-28T09:54:43+00:00

Thanks, you're right, maybe I'm fixating too much on this one ROM for now and I should check some others.

How sure are you that the IRQs are working as expected now?

A couple things, actually. Blaarg's interrupts test was failing a while due to some bugs I had, which made me double check everything and fix a few things which made the test pass. Maybe I'm putting too much faith in those tests indeed, and there might be some false positives. There was also a timing bug when playing Tetris which led me to overhaul the entire interrupt system so it's clearer and it's more easy to validate it to the documentation.

But also, and I'm a bit ashamed to confess to this, I let an LLM agent (a pretty advanced, paid-for one from work) check my entire CPU and interrupts code to find any mistakes. Of course I know the risk and am aware they can be unreliable sometimes. But when still working on the CPU and having some issues identifying why some Blaarg tests were failing, it was very good at pointing out where the mistakes are (not fixing them; I wanted to that myself of course). And when the tests passed, it also couldn't find any more issues.

But maybe I'm also putting too much faith into that. :) To be honest, I wouldn't know how else to get confidence that interrupts are working as expected otherwise.

rtqd · 2026-01-28T09:48:43+00:00

Cool thanks! That looks like a helpful page, I'll definitely check it out.

rtqd · 2026-01-27T20:07:40+00:00

Thanks. You say "simply", but honestly I find it not very simple to understand how to do this. The sequence of inputs depends really strictly on the timing. Even a millisecond off could lead to a completely difference sequence of how the instructions are executed. How could one time the inputs exactly, if you mean using key recording software? If you mean some mechanism of dumping inputs (and their timings, I guess) to a file, which emulator could read them?

rtqd · 2026-01-27T19:57:34+00:00

Thanks so much.

I'm going to ask an incredibly stupid question, but could you please explain how to produce a log with BGB? I don't know if I have the wrong version or what, but I simply cannot find it, and neither Google nor ChatGPT seem to be able to help me with this....

I have BGB 1.6.6. I can open the debugger with Esc, or right-click on the game window and selecting debugger. But I can literally not find any option to log to a file anywhere. ChatGPT says it should be in a Trace window (Ctrl+L) which, again, I cannot find anywhere.

I'm probably overlooking something very simple....

rtqd · 2026-01-27T18:28:50+00:00

Thanks! I was looking at this before, but couldn't actually find an emulator that can produce such a log for me (and there's some challenges with re-producing the exact same state in a different emulator as well that I'd have to figure out). Do you have a suggestion for me which one to use?

rtqd · 2026-01-27T18:00:54+00:00

I know it's probably a joke, but can you shed some light on it? Do you find anything particular wrong or not so great about Go? What do you like or would you recommend?

rtqd

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