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@rl_dane @peteorrall I'm glad my little kqueue learning project turned out to be useful!

Shovel Knight, a retro-themed game, was initially released for Wii U and 3DS, which arguably makes it a retro game itself.

#RetroGaming

Here's a polyglot double-quine!

It's a valid ISO disc image as well as its own source code.

When read as an ISO, on it are two identical copies of itself named "quine.iso" and "quine.asm". When assembled with NASM, the output is also itself.

https://sjmulder.nl/2026/quine.iso

#Programming

This new Commodore flip-phone:

The demo/promo shots emphasize WhatsApp. That's another privacy-intrusion app from Mark Zuckerberg's company town.

And their app store is curated to keep out things Commodore disapproves of, includingβ€”ironicallyβ€”social media apps.

Hard pass. *HARD* pass.

Preparing a patch NetBSD userland tools to accept long options if, and only if, preceded by an emdash. If we're going to do it, we do it properly.

#NetBSD

Now with two more targets! πŸŽ‰β€‹β€‹

...to facilitate which I rewrote the rendering (across all targets) to use maps and tiles, since the Game Boy and Game Boy Color do not support bitmaps!

They all use the same tiles, map and palette - the latter is organized in 4 columns roughly in luminance order such that the indices also work as grayscale values.

#RetroProgramming #GBDev #GBADev #DOS

It has been

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days since a forgotten 'S' suffix on an ARM instruction cost me a debugging session

#Assembly #ARM

@astraleureka @sean_earle it does work with mGBA! (without the logo)

mGBA always runs it in GBA mode though, I don't know how to force it to load the ROM as GB(C). It doesn't look at the file extension.

I will never tire of this soundtrack in all its forms

#MMMMMM #PPPPPP #VVVVVV #Chiptune

There should have been an op-ed here but you filed AI slop

https://www.cityam.com/there-should-have-been-an-op-ed-here-but-you-filed-ai-slop/

There should have been an op-ed here but you filed AI slop

City AM's inbox is drowning in AI pitches. Anna Moloney, who spends her days copy and pasting them into detection software, has had enough.

City AM