TheRetroDev

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@pikuma Nice Haiku :)

I've added some updates to our 3D Graphics course, including: • Pineda-style algorithm • Fill rules (top-left) • Optimizations (just a few adds per pixel) • Fixed-point rasterization • Subpixel rendering • Mouse camera control • Discussion on EGA & VGA modes • OBJ quads

@IroncladDev Not something most will go for honestly. But I run my own IRC/XMPP servers. Slowly building out and moving the community over there.

Looking for a discord alternative to migrate communities from my open source projects to What are we looking at?

I enjoyed Linux greatly in the 00s.. Sure it had problems we don't have today but overall things were far more consistent and the community was very big on modification. Now we have the lovely X11 vs Wayland debacle, all of Gnome dictating how applications look. I use FVWM3 and GTK applications are the absolute worst to get looking decent. The most egregious issue by far is the double titlebars because of how some GTK4 applications are. Thankfully Gajim for example does allow you to turn off the titlebar allow X11's native to function properly. I would love to go back to that time again and live there forever. Mass Effect 2 also hadn't of come out yet and introduced the idea of DLC already on disc that you had to pay for yet either. Food for thought on that.

I agree, I was happier with xubuntu 6.06 than any other time with a Linux desktop. It was nice to look at, very fast and very stable. And I had WiFi and sound! (Granted, WiFi needed ndiswrapper but it worked exceptionally well)

#pixelart #commodoreamiga #deluxepaint

#pixelart #commodoreamiga #deluxepaint

Spyro The Dragon came out in 1998 for the PS1. Selling nearly 5 million copies worldwide creating an impressive franchise for the Playstation. I remember renting this with my dad from Blockbuster! Anyone else remember this classic? #PS1 #PSX #Retro

@pikuma They really are! They should go make their own Databases in <X> language rather than trying to convert a project. I never liked converting projects starting from scratch I've found is always best.

@TheRetroDevs Yup. The HackerNews gang is vicious.

"Since its inception, SQLite has been implemented in generic C. C was and continues to be the best language for implementing a software library like SQLite. There are no plans to recode SQLite in any other programming language at this time." 🔗sqlite.org/whyc.html

Amiga Desktops Worth Seeing: Screenshots from another era. 🔗datagubbe.se/wbshots/

@pikuma I sometimes make my own or even grab old texture cd's to use as tiled wallpapers. Even has that really old low quality jpeg compression artifacts. I also sometimes use my own raytracer to make wallpapers as included in this message.

Tiled wallpapers. ❤️

@xbitbbs Very cool!

6 new retro BBS doors now on Github: reddit.com/r/bbs/comments…

The average age of my studests is really (really!) high. 💀🤣 I love it!

@pikuma I'm not old your old!

@pikuma Why you have to read one of the OG's in compilers

I try not to say anything anymore because most people that don't know me well enough just assume I'm "being biased" or that "it's in my best interest to criticize the book", but I have to agree. I had really expectations for this book and I felt let down.

@pikuma I am going to watch this tomorrow while eating breakfast. Can always do with some more TurboPascal.

"Everything you might possibly want to know about programming in Turbo Pascal." Originally released on VHS, © Borland International. youtu.be/UOtonwG3DXM?si…

Someone linked this to me and I found your posts about software rendering to be rather interesting. I'm a huge fan of software rendering due to how timeless it can be. Typically games that are software rendered still work to this very day. I have been working on my own software renderer that uses AVX2 optimizations I've written by hand and the performance is pretty decent. Currently working on AVX-512 now that I finally have a CPU that can do AVX-512. Found this when it was posted nearly 2 years ago. This is all "high end" effects like PBR, ray marching etc.. All very expensive things that I have no interest in. My end goal for my software renderer is to be capable of doing mid 00s style visuals. Which are dramatically cheaper than PBR methods. youtube.com/watch?v=jF3BAP… I did experiment with creating a software renderer using GPU compute shaders but honestly went back to CPU as I found it more fun. GPU compute shaders are fun in their own right but I enjoy compiling for platforms like HaikuOS and seeing it work the same as it does on Linux.

bring back software-rendered executables/games programmed to be small and fast.

@pikuma I have a fun inverse problem. I put a bunch of ram in my DOS machine to help with renders using 3D Studio.. Now certain games/installers complain I don't have memory and instead have negative memory. DOS really is the best OS frankly.

The most difficult thing was reading "Not enough memory" and having to spend the next 2 hours fiddling around with MEMMAKER.EXE. 😅

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@RetroTechDreams Thank you!

@TheRetroDevs That looks slick!

Almost time to pull out Holiday Lights v2 (1995)

@KeeganCoolum @RetroTechDreams Lol

@TheRetroDevs @RetroTechDreams Hi, I would totally like to buy some kilobytes of retro. I am not a Fed 🤪