Wattana

@Atirut@toot.community
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An idiot with a passion for gaming and coding. Thai/Eng bilingual. Yaps a lot online.
GitHubhttps://github.com/atirut-w
Bloghttps://atirut-w.github.io/
Wattana26m ago
Asahi Lina (朝ζ—₯γƒͺγƒŠ) // nullptr::live1d ago

Cyan: Gay or European~ 🎢
*Google Home trigger sound*

🀨🀨🀨

Wattana26m ago
Asahi Lina (朝ζ—₯γƒͺγƒŠ) // nullptr::live1d ago

Lying in bed next to Cyan

Cyan: Can you whip me?
*Google Home trigger sound*
Cyan: IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, GOOGLE!!!

Wattana26m ago
Asahi Lina (朝ζ—₯γƒͺγƒŠ) // nullptr::live2d ago

Cyan and I just lost two boxes of sushi. Like, lost.

We bought three, she ate half of one, I ate the other half, and the other two are just nowhere to be found.

I checked the fridge, the trash, the floor...

????????????

Wattana27m ago
Mary​Jul 11, 2024
………… (ft. @cyan and @lina)
#MastoArt #AsahiLinArt #CyanArt
Wattana28m ago
Amber 1d ago
look at this clanker

#shitpost
Wattana29m ago
sebJan 28
something happened to my wii
Wattana30m ago
INDERIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!38m ago
is ghostwire tokyo worth playing or nah
Wattana13h ago
there's a fox running in circles on the neoforge loading screen lol
Wattana14h ago
what did I just find bruh
Wattana20h ago
something squished (?) is brewing
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Penny4d ago
Show threadGiles Goat4d ago
@abstractslug Sounds like an interesting challenge 😎
Show threadcaranea4d ago
@abstractslug
Still remember unboxing my copy of "Elite:Frontier" many years ago and marveling at the single 3.5" disc vs the 20 or so that other games at the time required. Not just faster...
Show threadNickDrisc0ll4d ago
@abstractslug unironically a better dev experience than UE5
Show threadTom Forsyth4d ago
@abstractslug Am currently wrestling with the C# GC and yes I unironically miss the days of 68k and 386 assembly (8086 segments... not so much)
Show threadEniko Fox4d ago
@TomF @abstractslug on a scale of 1 to 10 how close are you to going "fuck it I'm using AllocHGlobal"
Show threadArby4d ago
@eniko @TomF @abstractslug
12
Show threadSnyperWolf4d ago
@abstractslug Chris Sawyer regretting his decisions all the way to the bank
Show threadChocolate-loving dog 4d ago
@abstractslug my favourite part of this is that the fps would probably just get worse
Show threadENIGMATICO  4d ago
@abstractslug Sounds like a portability nightmare that wont really offer much of an advantage unless you are an assembly demon, since the compiler optimizations might actually outperform your code if you're not careful enough. Nevermimd the calls to the OpenGL library... unless you'd prefer Vulkan ​​
Show threadIan Douglas Scott4d ago

@enigmatico @abstractslug It would be more within the spirit of assembly game development to make the game run on bare metal with your own graphics driver (in assembly). And shaders written in assembly for the GPU.

Of course the game only works one one particular model of graphics card.

Show threadIan Douglas Scott4d ago
@enigmatico @abstractslug (Slightly more reasonably would be to run on Linux with a standard kernel-mode driver, but implement the userspace parts yourself, with the ioctls provided by the driver. Vulkan and OpenGL implementations are just userspace libraries.)
Show threadmei | fully hingeless architecture now in production4d ago
@enigmatico @abstractslug do consider that the meme is on top of a background of a screenshot of a game from 1999. it was kind of a different time...
Show threadENIGMATICO  4d ago
@mei@donotsta.re @abstractslug Not by much though. Aside of 32-bit processors being the standard and no modern x86 extensions, it was pretty similar.
Show threaddizzy3d ago
@enigmatico
@abstractslug @mei
yup. as i understand it (as it was quite a bit before my time) the implied coda of "lol rollercoaster tycoon was written in assembly" is "... quite a bit after compilers had gotten smart enough and computers had gotten performant enough to make 'writing such a game in assembly' kind of a pointless endeavor."
early 90s? yeah, you defintely had to write non-portable, highly-hardware-specific code. by 1999? generally no longer necessary for the average case.
Show threadENIGMATICO  3d ago
@dizzy @abstractslug @mei@donotsta.re Not to mention that if you want to write assembly for Windows 9x, you still have to go through the Windows API you like it or not, so in the end its more of a hassle than an actual optimization since the code is going to be practically the same, but its going to take more effort for nothing.

The only performance gain, if anything, would be in some math computations, when optimized correctly. But then again, the compiler already optimizes a lot of these and if you mess up, its going to have a negative effect.
Show threadRichard Barrell3d ago

@enigmatico @abstractslug @mei I'd say today is very different from 1999 in that we have at least 2 different CPU ISAs in very wide use on consumer's devices, and every consumer device has some kind of programmable GPU. You can't safely assume x86 but you can fairly safely assume something like OpenGL ES 2.0.

(While there were more ISAs around in 1999, x86 was vastly more popular than mips, sparc, 68k, powerpc, etc. Nowadays neither ARM or x86 can be safely ignored.)

Show threadENIGMATICO  3d ago
@0x2ba22e11 @abstractslug @mei@donotsta.re If we are talking about assembly then you want to target one architecture. Thays what I meant. If you want more than one then forget about assembly. By portability I mean to other OSs. On Windows you are going to use the Windows API while on Linux you will use the kernel syscalls + something like libc or a similar library (And then the graphics API because unless you write your own driver, you wont do bare metal GPU programming).

In that regard, yes. There isnt much difference since you are most likely going to target x86, and I think at that time it had all the extensions up to MMX, maybe SSE as well. Nowadays you would make use of the 64-bit eztensions of course, as well as every other extension, but aside of that (that its already handled by either the compiler or some API/library), its the same spirit.
Show threadRichard Barrell3d ago

@enigmatico I'm arguing that targeting assembly is a much worse idea now than it was back then. Whichever ISA you target, you are going to need to be emulated in order to run on the other one.

That and you don't want to be doing the rendering on the CPU at all any more.

Show threadPoslovitch3d ago
@enigmatico It's Roller Coaster Tycoon tho! Nothing could have made this legend of a game more legendary than "developed by a single developer who probably spent too much time checking for op byte codes just to make guests break the benches when angry" πŸ₯Ή
@abstractslug
Show threadPseudonymous 4d ago

@abstractslug

The best part? Through use of an expansion port you could achieve complete #NintendoEntertainmentSystem compatibility. Port #RollerCoasterTycoon to #NES you cowards! 

Show threadZark Muckerburg4d ago
@abstractslug I’ve decided going forward I’m just going to communicate in binary
Show threadLux4d ago
@abstractslug 500000 seems like a very conservative estimate
Show threadGoing T. Maine4d ago
@abstractslug assmbl Y perfec t lang uge for put game in t\o! syntax very Soft and Comfort game run fast write gam in Assembly. Put Game In Assembly. no problems ever in assmbl y because no team for support or dependsdencies manage. Assembly Lang yes a lang for a game put game in assembly can trust assembly for running good game fast. friend assembly
Show threadRobin Monks 4d ago
@abstractslug I do wonder if the small size of the original codebase made the making of https://freerct.net easier.
FreeRCT | Home

Show threadWillow "Wolveric" Catkin4d ago
@abstractslug
angry PirateSoftware noises 
Show threadWillow "Wolveric" Catkin4d ago
@abstractslug
angry PirateSoftware noises 
Show threadvekkq3d ago
@abstractslug you can also write bad code in asm.
Show threadCredit card3d ago
@abstractslug the people who write apps that basically just tell you information with electron and javascript will not appreciate this
Show threadKnut πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ‡³πŸ‡΄πŸ§Έ3d ago
@abstractslug Oh gods. I wrote a "useless machine", one of those things that turns itself off, in assembler. You'd type an X, and it would disappear after a second. Over and over. That alone was an exercise in frustration. And to think, people used to write software that sent us to the moon in Assembler.
Show threadNikora   3d ago
@abstractslug and this is why I bought roller coaster tycoon because goddamn that programmer is insane
Show threadπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ haxadecimal2d ago
@abstractslug