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On rendering and solved problems

Here’s just a quick brainfart I had after watching a video on 90s rendering technology, part of which concentrated on how John Carmack moved from Commander Keen to Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM and Qu…

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Uncool? Pffft. Impossible when it had components called Paula, Agnus, and Denise.

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/apr/26/my-undying-love-for-the-painfully-uncool-amiga

My undying love for the painfully uncool Amiga

It may have looked like something you’d see a bank teller use, but it withstood heavy battering. And it ran the coolest games

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Thanks to the orange site, I learned about XDC video player that runs on XT machines. Time to watch Frieren on CGA~
Cartridges for the IBM PC

Cartridges? For the IBM PC? There’s no such thing! Well, there kinda is… The IBM PCjr has two cartridge slots. Now, one may argue about whether the PCjr is actually an IBM PC compatible…

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GitHub - Scalibq/DOS_SDK: An SDK for developing DOS software for x86 machines, including IBM PC compatibles and NEC PC-98

An SDK for developing DOS software for x86 machines, including IBM PC compatibles and NEC PC-98 - GitHub - Scalibq/DOS_SDK: An SDK for developing DOS software for x86 machines, including IBM PC com...

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A great upgrade for the PCjr: the jr-IDE

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When is a PC not a PC? The PC-98

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Het gaat nu echt heel fout op Twitter.
I am 100% not shitting you when I say scientists named mastodons after their teeth which they thought looked like nipples. “Mastos” as in breast. “odont” as in tooth.
We’re on a website that, in Greek, literally means “Booby Tooth.”