Notices by Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io), page 63

@benoit 神社のほうがいい。

@benoit 梅の花でしょ！

I was able to compile it from sources, but the elite-harmless-fastlines.d64 binary is bugged:

@codemonkeymike Which task switcher are you using, though? The default one is Breeze, and looks like this:

Looks like the new Elite Harmless could be built entirely from VSCode 😄

They don't distribute binaries for copyright reasons, but if you happen to have a pre-built binary I'd be interested in... ehm... testing it.

https://github.com/Kroc/elite-harmless/blob/kroc/INSTALL.md
#c64 #elite #retrocomputing #retrogaming #programming

There's an active #C64 #Elite project which includes commented disassembly of the original code plus an impressive number of improvements 😮

https://github.com/Kroc/elite-harmless#improvements-implemented

There is even documentation on how various subroutines interact to build high-level functionality.

Here's a description of wire-frame ship rendering:
https://www.bbcelite.com/deep_dives/drawing_ships.html

#elite #c64 #6502 #assembly #3d #graphics

The reverse-engineered assembly seems very well written, and neatly documented.

Here's the code for the title screen with the rotating Cobra Mk III, with hyperlinks to the various subroutines that draw the ship, the text prompts and polls the keyboard:

https://www.bbcelite.com/elite-a/docked/subroutine/title.html

The #C64 version of this game was the first 3D game I ever played, running with less than 64KB of RAM on a 1MHz, 8-bit CPU with a very limited ALU (no hardware multiplication and not even a barrel-shifter).

It's unbelievable that someone was able to code a real-time wire-frame 3D engine on this system and then build a full space sim on top of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhTTpV5qFrs

#retrocomputing #c64 #3d #programming

Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34852219

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #6502 #asm #programming #bbcmicro #elite

@benoit "are you sure a sedan will be enough for 1 person, sir? Are you going on the mountains? It doesn't have 4WD, you know..."

I made the mistake of renting the car with a company called Payless, which redirected me to the AVIS front desk... and AVIS had a huge line because they try to upsell bigger cars and extra insurance to *evey* customer before letting them go 😭

If I booked a compact car, it means I didn't need an SUV, clear?

@espectalll I wanted to ski for this long weekend, and the hardest part was deciding the location, then which flight, then which hotel, then which car rental...

The US always gives you a lot of purchasing options, which is usually a good thing, but last night I had 20+ tabs open and didn't start booking anything until 2am 🥱

@WintaireJaes I'm using #KDE #Plasma 5.27 on the beta of #Fedora 38 and it's nice and smooth 😊

First time I hear about Nobara. Jusging from the website, it addresses various issues with media codecs and gaming which currently require post-install tweaks on Fedora:
https://nobaraproject.org/

If it pulls from regular Fedora repositories, you can probably just do:

dnf --releasever=38 upgrade

...and get Plasma 5.27 now!

@slyborg 😂... 😲... 🤔... 😰

@tagomago @benoit With HTTP/3 you'll get 0-RTT resume for GET requests and 1-RTT for POST, even when changing IP or losing state on a NAT gateway.

@tagomago @benoit With HTTP/3 you'll get 0-RTT resume for GET requests and 1-RTT for POST, even when changing IP or after losing state on a NAT gateway.

Some humans failed this test 😲
#chatgpt #ai #singularity

I'm staying near Copper Mountain, Breckenridge and Keystone. It's my first time on this area and I don't know the slopes, ski rentals and huts. Any tips?

#ski #colorado #rockymountains

I'm going to ⛷️ on the 🪨🏔️🏔️ 😁