Keith Ahern ᯅ

@realBobbyHealy @cursor_ai @AnthropicAI @billynewport Now, how optimised are your chunky to planar functions? That Agnus chip did a lot of heavy lifting!

@keithahern @cursor_ai @AnthropicAI @billynewport In this case I still have the source code so I just got it to compile the C and assemble the assembler and then link it all together and run it inside a DOS box. Next step I am going to Port the whole thing that JavaScript and run it natively inside the browser. CC @billynewport

A game, initially written by Brian Kelly, which I ported form 68000 assembler + C for the Amiga to PC to run on EGA/CGA/VGA/TGA in 1988 ;) Unearthed, and resurrected, to live forever thanks to @cursor_ai and @AnthropicAI HT @billynewport for the prompt to recover the wonderful memories. bhealy.github.io/treasuretrap/

@rich_coupe @x86matthew @ShinyQuagsire I seem to remember, possibly incorrectly, that for the TriMedia VLIW chips at least binaries were tied to chip Mhz, ie executables need to be recompiled for different chip speeds. This didn’t help it gain traction. But I don’t know if that was toolchain immaturity or by design.

@keithahern @x86matthew @ShinyQuagsire On hand tuned assembly dual issue in order can really fly. It reminds me of x86 game engine assembly tuned for the Pentium in the 90s which had the instructions carefully pared so they alternated the U and V pipes. #10" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cse.chalmers.se/~abela/lehre/W…

WoWMIPS - A MIPS R4000 emulator which allows legacy Windows NT MIPS binaries to run on modern x86/64 Windows. A short series of articles describes the development of this emulator: x86matthew.com/view_post?id=m…

@rich_coupe @x86matthew @ShinyQuagsire That’s interesting. VLIW was the hot new chip architecture around then, over at Philips they had the TriMedia chips but as you said they never delivered on their promise.

@keithahern @x86matthew @ShinyQuagsire Actually the original platform was going to be Intel 860, codenamed N10. It's not clear how far the 860 NT project got before they switched to MIPS but it turned out that 860 had a serious performance problem when context switching. #Performance" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i86…

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@ShinyQuagsire Congrats!

yippee, job search is over 🎉 today's my first day as a firmware security engineer at NVIDIA, super excited to do OSR again

We are delighted to have won Gold at the @digitalmedia_ie for Best use of VR and AR at this year’s awards.

@Heaney555 @mkoivuka I think the RAM delta of 2GB between Quest 2 and Quest 3 and the large established Quest 2 user base gave Meta a 12-24 month window to “use” the 2GB for this before Quest 3 only heavy games may have squeezed this out. Ie perfect timing of hardware and software.

@mkoivuka RAM and the performance architecture of Quest's OS (used to be terribly optimized, but is slowly getting better).

Being able to watch YouTube videos while in a VR app/game truly is a game changer for Quest 3.

@joshwhiton I noticed this a few days ago when I bought a pair of earbuds in a reputable Irish supermarket. I gasped too as they identified themselves as ‘Beats’ headphones in the accessory dialog that popped up, however the Bluetooth device is called ‘baets’, yep, ‘baets’!

…to move the app management popup into the palm area so that these common functions are tactile.

Meta Quests new wrist based app and system menu buttons are a definite improvement on air tapping. I think they could have gone a little further using something like Cathy Fangs self haptic work at the Future Interfaces group at MIT Media Lab … youtu.be/M2H-Mb3v4EM

Bobby Fingers. That is all.

@realBobbyHealy That’s a great guerrilla recruiting technique Bobby!

@rectus_sa @SadlyItsBradley Install Netscape Live3D and load some VRML!

rate my spatial computing setup #xr

@BradPorter_ @generalcatalyst @htaneja @teresacarlson Awesome news Brad, can’t wait to see the product.

Excited to share we've closed $100M Series B funding led by @generalcatalyst. The support @htaneja and team have shown is amazing. Excited to have Paul Kwan join our Board and @teresacarlson on board as an Advisor. co.bot/news/robots-co… #fundraising #robotics

Anyone building in AR/VR and who thinks @speedrun may be good for them (it almost certainly will be), ping me & I can provide a referral. Just don’t build anything generic, push the limits on deep-tech or use-cases!

@mattmiesnieks Best of luck Matt. No doubt taking a break from path finding will free up the mind for new opportunities. Predicting the technology to commercial viability runway is harder in MR than smart phones, and that was hard!

I've got some news to share We've decided to shut down LivingCities the company. After 2 years and a couple of pivots we have come to the point that we can't find a viable path forward for the vision we set out to pursue 😦 1/

Interesting output from a the ModelScope text to video model....