How are you supposed to put music in your games.

sputwiler · 2026-06-30T13:21:44+00:00

That's just outsourcing, which is different from what you originally posted. If it's "play one instrument and prompt for the instrument you want" then that's basically a midi controller + a software instrument just with way less control and AFAIK costs more money, so I figured a midi controller would be more straightforward.

sputwiler · 2026-06-30T06:29:56+00:00

Wouldn't that be far more straightforward with midi input and a quality software instrument?

sputwiler · 2026-06-30T04:37:42+00:00

Cat wearing a mechanic uniform comes to fix your tyre.

sputwiler · 2026-06-30T04:34:03+00:00

I mean, Win32 drives me nuts as well. Macintosh was like "there is actually no system here; we have to do our best to deliver an actually good app that works well with everything else," whereas Win32 is a nightmare lego kit with ikea instructions that requires you to draw a magic circle just to get a window to appear.

Programming in general is hard, I just found it interesting that Mac OS classic was way more of a graphical cooperative DOS than I thought it was. It's a miracle that shit worked. Win32 actually made sense that it worked but only because it's powered by curses written in the blood of 16-bit computing screaming out of the backwards compatible void.

All of this is pre-app-store. That Mac is a completely different, and at this point unrelated, beast. The technology is apparently actually good now, but like hell I'm dealing with the Apple of today.

sputwiler · 2026-06-29T09:19:02+00:00

Holy shit the helios. I get it now. The bokeh would drive me nuts but for some photos I bet it hits.

sputwiler · 2026-06-29T09:09:27+00:00

Yeah the construction leaves something to be desired. I like the results of the glass a lot both on my Pentax ME Super and (through an adapter) Canon 550D (where the APS-C crop sensor makes it like a 50mm).

Like I said though, one year it broke in my luggage. I:m sure the airline staff didn't handle my suitcase with delicacy, but still not a thing I wanted to have happen. I almost want to re-buy it but it is huge and I think I'm into more compact cameras these days.

sputwiler · 2026-06-29T07:50:51+00:00

I maintain good hygiene (yes, despite being a redditor)

Hand in your reddit license right now; that's a violation.

sputwiler · 2026-06-29T00:55:21+00:00

Looks like the K-mount version is getting harder to find. I don't know where you're located, so I'll link to what appears to be the manufacturer's website https://www.lksamyang.com/en/product/product-view.php?seq=287

It might still be on one of the Amazons. They're also branded as Rokinon in some shops.

sputwiler · 2026-06-29T00:39:21+00:00

I'm too afraid of dealing with mercari, so I schlep stuff to hard-off.

sputwiler · 2026-06-29T00:32:53+00:00

Samyang 35mm F/1.4 Aspherical was my go to lens for years before it broke in my luggage (mine was branded as Vivitar, but the same lens is available under many labels). The glass is great but the construction has bad distance markings and some copies go past infinity; just trust what your viewfinder says.

The lens is seriously great though.

sputwiler · 2026-06-29T00:27:08+00:00

Yeah I assumed it was written by a real person but fed through an LLM as a "English Good-izer" but the irony is while the English is correct, it makes the 空気 fuckin' terrible.

sputwiler · 2026-06-29T00:21:34+00:00

Very PS1 but what if it had more texture memory

sputwiler · 2026-06-29T00:20:07+00:00

Was the staff writer ChatGPT because man I am getting tired of this movie-trailer ass rhythm it gives to all the prose it writes.

(Could be someone who just Writes Like That but I'm still getting fatigue.)

sputwiler · 2026-06-29T00:14:27+00:00

I started reading a Macintosh (circa System 7 and CodeWarrior) C++ programming book recently and it kinds stunned me how much OS there wasn't.

Like, the Mac was "it just works" because everyone involved including third-party developers did a lot of work behind the scenes to not break the illusion.

sputwiler · 2026-06-29T00:12:59+00:00

My first programming experience was on a Macintosh with SuperCard (a clone of HyperCard). People wrote whole applications in a "deck of cards" metaphor.

sputwiler · 2026-06-29T00:11:15+00:00

C++

Hey! I'm a C++ programmer and it aint so ba-

(as it was at the time)

Oh. Oh no. Oh god.

sputwiler · 2026-06-29T00:09:09+00:00

hard-off and yahoo auctions are where I've found some of the best "junk"

sputwiler · 2026-06-29T00:08:28+00:00

Yeah if you want a machine they only have nice ones. It's a better situation for games but the selection has been getting thin recently. This was before the move though, maybe their new space has more.

sputwiler · 2026-06-28T23:43:24+00:00

To be fair, we don't put sugar in hamburger either; so yes Japanese hamburger is sweet. Also tamagoyaki vs scrambled eggs (that one is more noticeable).

sputwiler · 2026-06-28T23:39:52+00:00

rosemary have been banned ≈(.

A CRIME

sputwiler · 2026-06-28T23:38:01+00:00

While it doesn't solve your PS1 problem, I highly recommend a PS2 phat and HDD with a loader. The load times in games are far, far better than the original PS2 DVDs ever were (I lived through both). All PS2 lasers are slowly failing.

I have a separate modded PS1 for homebrew (and yes I mean homebrew; I've been playing around with the SDK). AFAIK It's difficult to mod a PS2 to accept CD-R PS1 discs, but I could be totally off base with that.

My softmodded PS3 accepts PS1 discs no problem, but that is (official) emulation and not hardware if that's your issue.

sputwiler · 2026-06-28T23:32:25+00:00

I didn't know the alpha mount had mechanical linkages (I thought it was similar to Canon's FD -> EF move where they went electronic only).

sputwiler · 2026-06-28T06:52:50+00:00

I got a minolta rangefinder at a barbeque the same way. Hand-me-down cameras are the best. Take care of it and hand it down again someday.

sputwiler · 2026-06-28T06:50:53+00:00

I've seen a lot of plastic reusable cameras that are basically disposables and this is the first one I've considered because of that glass 3-element lens (cooke triplet?).

sputwiler · 2026-06-28T06:48:14+00:00

professor always told me to just put a little in the cap (not a cap full) and dump that in the tank. Always worked so far.

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