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Writing an Open-World Engine for the Nintendo 64

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Writing An Open-World Engine For The Nintendo 64

Anyone who has ever played Nintendo 64 games is probably familiar with the ways that large worlds in these games got split up, with many loading zones. Another noticeable aspect is that of the limi…

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qUAntUm RaDio!

1h ago

nOw PLaYiNG oN qUAntUm RaDio!: I Hate Police bY Panik! tUnE iN NoW: https://radio.erb.pw #retrocomputing #demoscene #chiptunes #trackermusic #sceneradio

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Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 👽1h ago

Via TIME, I learned of a Kemeny & Kurtz book, Back to BASIC: History, Corruption, And Future Of The Language (1985), which I've recovered:
https://archive.org/details/kemeny-john-g-kurtz-thomas-e-back-to-basic-history-corruption-and-future-of-the-language-1985

Wherein they complain at length about microcomputer & Tiny BASICs, how YOU FOOLS should've implemented MAT commands, functions, & a compiler in a 4K machine. They did it in a mere 32K & ~30 grad-student-years!

There are some useful bits among the diatribes, tho, I'm reading with an eye on my TinyBasicWeb spec.
#basic #retrocomputing

Kemeny, John G & Kurtz, Thomas E Back To BASIC History, Corruption, And Future Of The Language 1985 : John G. Kemeny & Thomas E. Kurtz : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Back to BASIC : the history, corruption, and future of the language John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. KurtzAddison-Wesley Publishing Company,Inc, 1985,...

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2h ago

nOw PLaYiNG oN qUAntUm RaDio!: remix bY Overlander-16 jack! tUnE iN NoW: https://radio.erb.pw #retrocomputing #demoscene #chiptunes #trackermusic #sceneradio

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13 3h ago

Writing an Open-World Engine for the Nintendo 64 https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/writing-an-open-world-engine-for-the-nintendo-64/
#Games #Retrocomputing #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareHacks #Nintendo64 #Videogames

Writing An Open-World Engine For The Nintendo 64

Anyone who has ever played Nintendo 64 games is probably familiar with the ways that large worlds in these games got split up, with many loading zones. Another noticeable aspect is that of the limi…

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Training a Transformer with 1970s-era Technology

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Training A Transformer With 1970s-era Technology

Although generative language models have found little widespread, profitable adoption outside of putting artists out of work and giving tech companies an easy scapegoat for cutting staff, their the…

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gloriouscow 4h ago

BAM look who has a light pen section now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter#Light_pen_support

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Color Graphics Adapter - Wikipedia

13 5h ago

Training a Transformer with 1970s-era Technology https://hackaday.com/2026/03/29/training-a-transformer-with-1970s-era-technology/
#MachineLearning #Educational #Hardware #Ibm #Machinelearning #Model #Pdp11 #Retrocomputing #Transformer

Training A Transformer With 1970s-era Technology

Although generative language models have found little widespread, profitable adoption outside of putting artists out of work and giving tech companies an easy scapegoat for cutting staff, their the…

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