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@me@akk.stupidmintrabbit.gay @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Are you kidding? Emacs for Game Boy had the most popular pack-in of all time: M-x tetris
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Damian Yerrick
@PinoBatch@peoplemaking.games
mastodon 4.7.3+glitchRetro video game developer, specializing in NES and dabbling in other 8- and 16-bit platforms. he/him, searchable
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I made a test ROM for the Oeka Kids drawing tablet for Famicom based on the description at NESdev Wiki. I had someone with a tablet try it.
It didn't work.
The tablet's slow microcontroller requires a lot of waiting in the read routine. The MCU turned out to be so slow that reading a pen position took 67 scanlines, or one-fourth of an NTSC frame. Neither Mesen nor FCEUX modeled this slowness.
It took three revisions before I had a read routine I was happy with. All for a silly little Anpanman licensed game.
https://github.com/pinobatch/little-things-nes/tree/master/oekakids
#NESdev #GraphicsTablet #OekaKids #Anpanman #Famicom #Emulation #Mesen #FCEUX
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@celesteh@hachyderm.io In Soviet Kenya, ChatGPT writes like YOU! Or at least Marcus Olang claimed as much in this article.
https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt
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@andrewt I think one of the reasons that Electron caught on as opposed to Tauri's approach of using the system HTML renderer is that Apple WebKit was missing so much compared to Blink and Gecko. See "Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied" by Alex Russell.
https://infrequently.org/2021/04/progress-delayed/
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@notyourfanboy@kolektiva.social @cmconseils@mastodon.social Billboards can be taken down and their materials re-formed into a shelter.
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@RikerGoogling@mas.to Dance Dance Revolution is esports.
Sports aren't owned by someone. Anyone can start a baseball league without permission from any other entity. Esports, by contrast, operate at the pleasure of a game's publisher. Only the publisher is allowed to sell equipment to play a game, and the publisher has power to forbid broadcasting a competition. If Konami refuses to cooperate, then under current law in the United States, you are forbidden to start a DDR league until 2094.
#esports #copyright
Once I let the user map keyboard and joystick presses to emulated buttons, save settings, and save SRAM, I called Family Size VM feature-complete.
https://youtu.be/v9YBDkoBBlA
#FamilySizeVM #emudev #NESdev #timelapse #emulator #joystick #MVP
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@thatgalsilver @alice Maybe they thought XChat was discontinued in 2013 in favor of HexChat, which was itself discontinued in 2024, and that was enough to deem the name no longer in "use in commerce" for the purposes of trademark law.
#xchat #hexchat
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@zuthal@floofy.tech @Vordus@chitter.xyz xkcd #887 "Future Timeline" goes out to 2101
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/887:_Future_Timeline
All The Tropes (a fork of the last freely licensed version of TV Tropes) goes out to 2200 or so
https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Grand_Unified_Timeline/The_Next_Two_Centuries
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@andrewt JVM was owned by Oracle since 2010, and the ASF felt frustrated about inability to license the Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) for Harmony. Mono's reimplementation of .NET Windows Forms always felt janky and crash-prone in my experience as a user.
I've seen WebAssembly as a successor to the JVM, except less opinionated about a particular object-oriented paradigm and not under encumbrance of One Rich American Called Larry Ellison.
#java #dotnet #wasm
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@TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place @ve7fim@mastodon.social US courts proved reluctant to let #Sega assert its #trademark in this manner against an unlicensed game publisher that was otherwise doing nothing to confuse customers.
Sega Enterprises Ltd. v. Accolade, Inc., 977 F.2d 1510 (9th Cir. 1992).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade
If you want to be extra careful, ask your lawyer if it'd help to do like I did with #SegaGenesis and #GameBoy TMSS and show a notice while the game is loading.
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@andrewt What's less bad: an application built as a Chromium instance, or a native application that ends up unavailable to most users because Linux and Windows don't implement the Cocoa API of macOS?
Sumit Khanna reports that the cost per gigabyte of memory for desktop computers has had no net improvement since 2009. The present RAM shortage has erased a decade and a half of gains. How do we get application developers to use more efficient frameworks?
https://battlepenguin.com/tech/the-high-price-of-ram/
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social "Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping" certainly would fit the Game Boy architecture.
- Eight Megs: Same size as Densha de Go 2, the biggest licensed Game Boy game.
- Constantly Swapping: MBC5 bank switching. The Game Boy looks at ROM through a 16 KiB window at address range $4000-$7FFF.
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@AVincentInSpace@furry.engineer StepMania appears to be a sport since (I think) 2023 now that DDR essential patents have expired. (The StepManiaX team would know better than I.)
It remains to be seen whether Konami will behave like The Tetris Company by claiming copyright in those game elements not covered by any patent.
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@AVincentInSpace@furry.engineer Under this definition, a video game distributed as free software would indeed be as legitimate and sustainable as any ball sport. The hard part is getting such a game to be popular enough to bring in viewers, especially given how big the advertising budgets are for proprietary games and how allergic the major consoles are to free software.
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@nyquildotorg@gts.nyquil.org @papageier@digitalcourage.social @tante@tldr.nettime.org In United States v. Google LLC (2024), the DC district court found Google guilty of illegally monopolizing web search and advertisement in web search. After a remedies trial in 2025, Google is limited in how much it can pay Mozilla and other web browser publishers to make Google Search the default.
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@mogul@hachyderm.io @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social There's a Meta key, but I understand you won't be able to bring your legs in ⛄️
#emacs #HorizonWorlds #biid #Metaverse
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@nikku4211@peoplemaking.games @NovaSquirrel@chitter.xyz And why am I suddenly thinking of both the Pictionary opening theme and the Pokémon cartoon whenever I hear Danny's name?