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who needs gran turismo when you have Nights Into Dreams on your sega saturn, retard
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all this mips chat is making me want to get a little mips dev board
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eschaton posted:on the other hand I've heard playing N64 games on the SGI workstations used for development was an awesome experience, 1280×1024@60fps—possibly in stereo 3D!—and some devs added network code just for their own amusement the only sgi / n64 combinations i've ever seen or heard of were indy-based, so there wasn't gonna be anything 3d @ 1280x1024, too drat slow the n64 graphics hardware would have been considerably more capable than the 'newport' graphics in an indy. practically no hardware accleration for 3d operations
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IIRC the GPU in the N64 was a much lesser version of SGI's RealityEngine and the early N64 devkits required Onyx workstations. Also, LOL that when SGI introduced graphics hardware for the Indy that could do 3D acceleration, said 3D hardware was rendered obsolete by the R5000 CPU (which could do 3D faster in software than the XZ graphics board). So people might've gotten really good performance when using Onyx as a devkit, but yeah, they weren't getting it on an Indy. edit: IIRC none of the graphics hardware available for the Indy could do hardware-accelerated texture mapping. Doc Block fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Feb 2, 2016 |
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more true n64 facts: the graphics processor (well, the frontend part, the RSP) was programmable, but Nintendo didn't share tools for it until late in the development cycle. this was great for high-level emulation because all you had to do was re-implement Nintendo's well-known graphics routines rather than interpret RSP microcode iirc Sony tried to do the same thing up front by asking developers to stick to a bunch of C routines in case they wanted to change the hardware, but then Naughty Dog went and did low-level stuff anyway: "Hitting the hardware directly was against the rules. But by the time Sony saw the results they needed a Mario killer. It was too late for them to complain."
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oval office AND PASTE posted:i love pocket computers here's my collection the poquet pc is the sickest poo poo and what if u put a cool modern soc and screen inside it. omg
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so i bought a mint sharp equiv when it popped up cheap on ebay. i also have a PC-2 but previous owner left batteries installed and they corroded all over the place and it's out in the garage waiting to be repaired one day
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invlwhen posted:more true n64 facts: the graphics processor (well, the frontend part, the RSP) was programmable, but Nintendo didn't share tools for it until late in the development cycle. this was great for high-level emulation because all you had to do was re-implement Nintendo's well-known graphics routines rather than interpret RSP microcode oh yeah that dev diary is great
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Silver Alicorn posted:oh yeah that dev diary is great crash bandicoot: mario killer. LOL
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:the only sgi / n64 combinations i've ever seen or heard of were indy-based, so there wasn't gonna be anything 3d @ 1280x1024, too drat slow ah, the Indy, the Indigo without the "go" quote:the n64 graphics hardware would have been considerably more capable than the 'newport' graphics in an indy. practically no hardware accleration for 3d operations I've heard of people doing dev with other hardware besides devkit hardware, eg they had a couple Indy-based dev kits or something but most devs had Indigos or whatever and built natively for much of their work not cheap but quite efficient e: that was it, the original devkit was Onyx-based and the tale I heard did involve using full RealityEngine hardware eschaton fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Feb 2, 2016 |
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the crash bandicoot dev diary is one of the best programming reads around
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iirc there's a prince of persia one out there somewhere too
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Smythe posted:crash bandicoot: mario killer. LOL its a bad game
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Trash Bandicoot. Haha
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like, the blog is cool and its obvious they poured themselves into the game which makes me feel bad that i found it so boring
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~Coxy posted:the Ambrosia game "Barrack" (jezz-ball clone) had blasphemous sound effects in it so we removed them with ResEdit so we could be allowed to play it maelstrom had an army of darkness soundpack that made it twice as awesome
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Sweevo posted:iirc there's a prince of persia one out there somewhere too I think Jordan Mechner took it down so he could sell it as an ebook a good read
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Silver Alicorn posted:has everyone read racing the beam yes and i need to reread, it rules
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ev override and ev nova were the best games
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Silver Alicorn posted:has everyone read racing the beam not yet I really need to my old computers I have are a V-Tech Pre-Computer 1000 and 2000 which are toys but are little z80 boxes that can be programmed in Basic that I've had since I was a wee tot I also have a TI-99/4a in storage I should go get; I have a huge pile of cartridges for it and one of those recently-built serial/floppy emulator/ram addition things that I really haven't yet played with. o should eBay the terminal emulator cartridge and post via Lynx or something
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atomicthumbs posted:ev override and ev nova were the best games i like override more than nova. the emalgha with their little wooden spaceships were adorable 
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minivanmegafun posted:not yet I really need to i have a vtech 486 (sx 25), came with 4mb ram, now maxed out on 8 still works fine incl original monitor/keyboard. mouse is a replacement tho
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I wish I could post more in here.
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Elder Postsman posted:i like override more than nova. the emalgha with their little wooden spaceships were adorable now im looking thru ev:o sites and i don't think i ever did the voinian dreadnought mission
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There are 3 PDP-11 systems sitting in racks at my work's reapplication warehouse... Two 11/44's and what I think is an 11/73. Also a couple RX02s, a VT240 sans monitor, and I think a disk drive. Wanting to go fetch them.
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Pham Nuwen posted:There are 3 PDP-11 systems sitting in racks at my work's reapplication warehouse... Two 11/44's and what I think is an 11/73. Also a couple RX02s, a VT240 sans monitor, and I think a disk drive. do it! i think an 11/44 will run rsx-11m if it won't do 2.11bsd. fun either way
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:do it! problem is it'll forever be property of my employer, even though they're most likely going to be sold for pennies a pound to some chinese company. there's no corporate-approved process for transferring discarded company property to the ownership of an employee
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Pham Nuwen posted:problem is it'll forever be property of my employer, even though they're most likely going to be sold for pennies a pound to some chinese company. its called an ikea bag and the trunk of your car
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the scrap value is near $0 and odds are no one will care it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission etc
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Smythe posted:its called an ikea bag and the trunk of your car in this case the ikea bag might need to be a 6 person tent but yeah, this
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Smythe posted:its called an ikea bag and the trunk of your car Love those big blue bags. Only fifty cents and I've carried window ACs in them.
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Citizen Tayne posted:Love those big blue bags. Only fifty cents and I've carried window ACs in them. theyre so good.
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i move my whole bar with 2 heavy rear end ikea bags. booze, snacks, etc. serves 100
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Went to IKEA and forgot your bags? Buy more. They're cheap and you can always use them.
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does anyone remember that guy that got sent to prison for stealing a some teletype consoles and other ancient equipment that he was obsessed with? iirc he blamed it on his room mate. his website was great i wish i could remember enough about it to search for it
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Doc Block posted:IIRC the GPU in the N64 was a much lesser version of SGI's RealityEngine and the early N64 devkits required Onyx workstations. my moms workplace (a video production house) had an sgi onyx the size of two refridgerators. I used to ride my bike over to abuse the free hot cocoa vending machine and just stare at it, marveling the geniuses who were privileged and wise enough to actually use it. they used to smoke pipes inside, work on stuff and it was the most magical place in the world. they played multiplayer doom on it.
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