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oh yeah the Jaguar also supported console linking with a special cable you connected two consoles together, which let their DSPs communicate and linked their UARTs together. I think only like 3 games supported it, one of which was Doom, so you could do co-op or deathmatch with two consoles
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Bloody posted:thats the sort of stupid rear end font you make when you first hear ligatures are a thing and you want to just smash characters together for literally no reason tironian notes?
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Oct 9, 2017 21:05
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oh yeah that ibm mainframe thing is on again if you enjoy text mode interfaces
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Oct 9, 2017 22:37
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just lol if you don't write programs for the Motorola 68000
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Oct 9, 2017 23:45
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oh no blimp issue posted:run it on arm and use the endianness changing instruction Oh the Jaguar can do this too. It supports big and little endian processors!
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Oct 9, 2017 23:51
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the only thing the chipset was ever licensed for is to... Atari Games (a separate company, don't ask) for use in Area 51 et al, where they doubled the RAM, added an IDE hard drive to store prerendered animations, and replaced the CPU with a 68020.
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Oct 10, 2017 00:08
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ulmont posted:This is almost always a tax fiddle where the company holding the IP lives in a tax haven and then receives income in that jurisdiction from licensing to its affiliates. nope, goes back to the 80s Atari went tech buble for a number of factors and posted the largest corporate loss in history in 1983 ($583 million) causing its parent company's stock price to fall 2/3 from $60 to $20. eventually the computer and game console division ended up owned by Jack Tramiel after he got kicked out of Commodore in 1984. the arcade division got renamed to Atari Games and sold to Namco in 1985, bought out by employees in 1986, and got bought by Time Warner again in 1993. (the agreement was they couldn't use the Atari name for home releases which is how you ended up with the Tengen name.) so Atari, the independent video game company who made the Jaguar, licensed it to the arcade game company Atari Games, who was owned by Time Warner.
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Oct 10, 2017 00:23
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oh no blimp issue posted:think about void pointers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-PipkCEOiY
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Oct 10, 2017 00:42
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okay cool so the Amiga reference manual includes 68k assembly macro versions of Insert/Remove/AddHead/AddTail and other various linked list functions that I stole for my Jaguar game so basically I have a doubly linked list implementation that can contain any struct as long as it physically begins with a struct Node and all I had to do was convert them from macros to functions and write my own C headers for them 
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Oct 10, 2017 05:35
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I can't write regex without one of those regex test websites
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Oct 10, 2017 18:01
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[quote="“MrMoo”" post="“477244893”"] That’s probably a good idea compared to mashing random punctuation into an editor. [/quote] well how the hell else do I write perl
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Oct 10, 2017 19:28
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the only computer vision anyone needs is the headache you get from using the Atari MindLink
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Oct 10, 2017 21:45
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terrible programmer status: i spent an hour figuring out why my bullets list didn't work and crashed the GPU before realizing i didn't initialize it and was adding bullets to a null pointer because debugging the jaguar is hell on earth
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Oct 11, 2017 02:57
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aaaaaaa i got it working i can write a pointer to an amiga-style linked list to the jaguar GPU and it will process each node and blit a sprite, so far it can do 60 8bpp sprites at 60fps no problem 
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Oct 12, 2017 03:32
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I think I found the problem with my program: the CPU and GPU are both trying to use the blitter at the same time, loving up the registers and crashing the system time for a crash course in semaphores i guess?
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Oct 13, 2017 05:37
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today we’re going to learn how to make plutonium from common household materials
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Oct 13, 2017 15:47
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AggressivelyStupid posted:Luigi livestream the Jaguar coding it’s a lot of typing “make upload” and looking at the TV to see if the blitter is doing anything
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Oct 13, 2017 18:47
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oh cool the 600XL I bought off atariage arrived too today it’s upgraded to 64K RAM, the RF modulator replaced with RCA composite out jacks, and an SIO2PC installed in the case to let my computer pretend to be a hard drive I’ve got a 1MB RAM mod I need to install in it and an SD card cartridge too
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Soricidus posted:paging luigi thirty i haven't used pascal actually all my dos poo poo is in C++
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Oct 14, 2017 18:19
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okay i figured out why my jaguar thingy works in the emulator but not a real console the LOAD instruction in the GPU requires long-aligned data. the emulator doesn't take this into account. the compiler, a 68k compiler, is word-aligning my sprite metadata. on the real device it bugs out because of this and reads bad data from RAM. there's no alignment attribute in my compiler... and I can't switch to GCC without the proper 68k jaguar libc headers for GCC. welp. shot an email off to the guy who writes VBCC, see if he can do anything about that. he fixed the last few bugs I found when doing Jag stuff. all mallocs are long-aligned so I could work around it by copying the sprite data from ROM to RAM but I’d rather not. Luigi Thirty fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Oct 14, 2017 |
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Oct 14, 2017 21:38
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rjmccall posted:can you just put a pointer before your sprite metadata or something? It does not. the metadata structs are 24 bytes long so another solution would be to just put them in their own long-aligned section in the linker.
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Oct 14, 2017 23:25
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it turns out i'm a dumbass and the sprite data itself is aligned properly. the pointer to the sprite data wasn't long aligned... in the node struct I wrote. i added 2 bytes of padding and now i have 50 sprites bouncing around on my TV again. took 2 days to figure that out 
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Oct 15, 2017 01:49
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oh hell yeah I got the Atari 600 set up so I can run MADS on my PC and have it dump .xex files into a folder mounted on the Atari so I can run my assembled programs I’ve also got a game library mounted as G: 
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Oct 15, 2017 22:45
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I’m hacking some features into this open sores SIO peripheral emulator and I have to use... Qt Creator 
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Oct 17, 2017 20:43
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is there a way to access WMI using mingw?
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Oct 18, 2017 00:10
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yeah I’ll pass the SIO emulator is written in C++ and I’ve figured out how to write my own peripherals for it, so I’d rather not start from scratch. maybe I’ll add a kRPC client to it and use it to send vessel status data to the Atari, I do like KSP projects right now I have commands that send back my Spotify window title and free memory to the Atari
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I am currently in some kind of hell trying to add libprotobuf to the mingw build environment qt creator includes I pointed MSYS2 at the mingw environment (mounting it at /mingw) and put it first in my path to use its GCC. I compiled libprotobuf from source, installed it to /mingw/lib, and added -lprotobuf to the qmake makefile, but trying to use protobuf functions ends in the linker spewing undefined reference errors. pkg-config shows the library is installed in my mingw environment. is there a way to tell if a library is 32 or 64-bit? maybe I compiled for the wrong environment? no clue what’s going on
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the open sores project I’m modifying is a Qt Creator project and it comes with a preconfigured mingw. I’ll just do it in my Linux vm instead Luigi Thirty fucked around with this message at 14:09 on Oct 18, 2017 |
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Oct 18, 2017 14:02
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I enabled hyper-v to get docker to work and now VMware doesn’t work  time to install a Linux in hyper-v?
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Oct 18, 2017 16:43
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mystes posted:Can't you use WSL? Or do you need to talk to a USB device or something? yes, I need to talk to a USB to RS-232 adapter. I just turned off hyper-v and am using VMware. I got the open sores to compile in VMware and to talk to the USB device so good enough.
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hmm, any kerbal rpc function I call crashes the open sores program. I wrote a hello world program where it works reliably. i guess qt doesn't like kerbals i definitely need the program running so I can use my virtual atari disks. does linux give exclusive ownership of a serial port to one process like windows? since I'm basically using my PC as an SIO peripheral I could just sniff the serial traffic on ttyUSB0 in a separate program and ignore packets not directed at the program.
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Oct 19, 2017 01:09
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okay nevermind i got a bright idea and downloaded a 14-day trial of ELTIMA SERIAL PORT SPLITTER and rewrote the SIO junk from RespeQt in C#. now I can use the disk emulator AND KSP APIs at the same time mission control baby kRPC has a basic autopilot you can remote control that handles attitude integration for you, you just need to give it an orientation and it will try its best to keep it. I'm gonna get the Atari 800 to fly me to orbit
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Oct 19, 2017 05:01
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what is the Linux equivalent of visual studio code for when I need to futz with a C++ file and don’t want to do it in emacs
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Oct 19, 2017 20:14
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cinci zoo sniper posted:visual studio code i think, but knowing your computer interests im not going to bet what linux distro you're running and how recent things can work on it a modern, mainstream Linux from 2017. this is for my Linux VM.
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Oct 19, 2017 22:26
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:i invested $30,000 in mongodb but it turns out that someone was running a backup at the time and my investment didnt count
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Lutha Mahtin posted:vs code exists for linux tho?? if that's what you really want yeah i think i shall use vs code
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Oct 20, 2017 03:43
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I use Eclipse for 6502 assembly what am I
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Oct 20, 2017 04:48
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rjmccall posted:i used to use ed as my EDITOR for commits but eventually decided the occasional line transposition and/or checked-in 1,3d was a little too embarrassing  works4me
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“shaggar was right,” I say as I shrink and run into a thurrott
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my favorite thing is still Microsoft spending millions on user testing in the 90s and going from three start buttons to one start button during the windows 95 betas And then going back to three start buttons in windows 8
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