sweetlilmre

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I'm into retro computing, music and making things. 29 years commercial experience in developing and architecting software systems and now I'm in R&D and strategy (coding is once again my hobby, not my job 😊).
GitHubhttps://github.com/sweetlilmre/
Bloghttp://sweetlilmre.blogspot.com/
PhilsComputerLab has released a video highlighting the CD-ROM emulation feature of #PicoGUS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkzHC6B1bKY
PicoGUS now emulates CD-ROM with Redbook CD Audio

YouTube
Little #PicoGUS release that solves some majorly annoying bugs! v.3.2.1 fixes several regressions in pgusinit that prevent setting ports or returning to card defaults. It also includes a reset/power-on stability improvement.
https://github.com/polpo/picogus/releases/tag/v3.2.1
Release v3.2.1 Β· polpo/picogus

Fixes/improvements pgusinit Fixes several regressions in pgusinit: Fixes issue where port settings are parsed as decimal, not hex (fixes /mpuport, /gusport, /cdport, etc.) Fixes /sbport and /guspo...

GitHub

Linux admins when they have to use Windows: :/

Windows admins when they have to use Linux: :\

@mbbrutman ah of course. In my head I was in 32-bit land of 16:16 ES:DI etc. I should learn to read better πŸ˜‚ thank you for the explanation.
@mbbrutman newbie question, how is 0040:0002 the same physical address as 0000:0402?

OpenAI finally saying the quiet part out loud. LLMs are as reliable as they're gonna get.

"experts have found that the problem is getting worse as AI models get more capable."

How can models be getting "more capable" *and* less reliable? More capable of bullshitting?

https://futurism.com/openai-mistake-hallucinations

OpenAI Realizes It Made a Terrible Mistake

OpenAI claims to have figured out what's driving "hallucinations," or AI models' strong tendency to make up answers that are incorrect.

Futurism

All the particles finally appear to go the right places, only the palette transitions are missing.

(The original is on the left, my reimplementation is on the right.)

The code contain wonderful little bit-shuffling snippets like this to calculate particle positions, which'll never really be "Clean Code" :)

```asm
seg000:0B9A xchg dl, dh
seg000:0B9C rol dh, 1
seg000:0B9E and dx, 1FFh
seg000:0BA2 cmp dx, 320
```

#ReverseEngineering #Dune #CryoInteractive

In the previous part of my ongoing series to save "The Masters of the Elements", we finally fixed the game itself by removing the broken library and replacing it with a more modern alternative.

However, we are not done yet - there are still some minor issues left to fix. Let’s go!

https://fabulous.systems/posts/2025/08/saving-the-masters-of-the-elements-part-4/

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #digipres

Saving the Masters of the Elements From Getting Lost to Time: Part 4

I'm on a mission to save one of my childhood favorites from getting lost to time. After fixing the game itself, it is time to address the remaining issues.

fabulous.systems
@humanhorseshoes thank you for this, made my evening πŸ˜‚
@bennie Fox News: now broadcasting in 3K.