Re: diff (-u) on Windows 10 i7 with 8GB RAM?

Posted on 2018-08-31, 04:21

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My above post is especially pointed now that Windows 10 defaults command prompt scroll buffer size to 9001 lines. The same issue applies to Vim for Windows as bundled with Git for Windows, set as its default editor.

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Re: Why is there hidden administrator in Windows nowadays?

Posted on 2018-08-30, 05:32

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You don’t. It would be like deleting the “root” account in Linux.

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Re: DOS Lemmings with Digital Sound Effects?

Posted on 2018-08-26, 05:26

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I remember the above mentioned Christmas Lemmings had both sfx and Jingle Bells playing on what sounded like an OPL2 chip.

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Re: diff (-u) on Windows 10 i7 with 8GB RAM?

Posted on 2018-08-26, 04:24

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I sort of know the issue with Windows Subsystem for Linux and the dreaded Out of Memory error. Or maybe it was with MingW built tools. Basically you have to turn your terminal window scroll back buffer size waaaaay down, to like 100 lines or so, or else you get the aforementioned out of memory …

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Re: DOS Lemmings with Digital Sound Effects?

Posted on 2018-08-26, 04:20

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I remember “let’s go” on Christmas Lemmings with a Tandy computer, presumably with a Tandy sound card.

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Re: windows 95 as a windows 10 app

Posted on 2018-08-26, 04:18

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I only have a 85% cpu issue with Discord, because it’s doing the vp8 encoding and decoding entirely in software.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-08-25, 04:43

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I’ve been trying to get PCem to build 32 bit on Linux 64 bit, because the 64 bit Voodoo recompiled is buggy and broken, producing miscolored 16 color VGA looking graphics. Sadly, my 32 bit release build crashes with a segfault in the video blitter the instant Windows 98 finishes booting. Debug build …

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Re: windows 95 as a windows 10 app

Posted on 2018-08-25, 04:34

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Standard Def Steve wrote: It just might make Windows 10 usable! Making fun of Windows 10, how original. Then again, people also make fun of my choice of Linux distribution, Kubuntu LTS.

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Re: Can any emulator emulate itself?

Posted on 2018-08-25, 04:27

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One of the MAME roms is a 2GB or so image of the flash drive from an ARM SoC device that contains an older MAME and a bunch of bundled roms. Unfortunately, MAME can’t yet boot the device in emulation.

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Re: What retro hardware you killed today or in the past :(. Stories from autopsy room.. RIP= rest in pieces..

Posted on 2018-08-25, 04:25

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I blew out a Pentium MMX motherboard, still in its case in my closet. I’ve also blown out a Cirrus Logic Laguna 3D card. (lol RDRAM)

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Re: Radeon 9800 fan failure

Posted on 2018-08-24, 03:58

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Try Zalman’s compatible cooler, if anyone still carries the old stock. It’s what I got for my Radeon 9800 years ago, back when I was still using that machine. The damn OEM cooler only lasted a year before vibration city.

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Re: Doom2 Dos vs. Win95 version

Posted on 2018-08-24, 03:54

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Another issue of the wrong or lack of pitch handling is that the Super Shotgun cocking and reloading sounds, which are sampled at 22050Hz, play at half speed in doom95.

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-08-20, 06:05

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I came to the stunning realization that my Asus ROG Strix RX480 O8G card didn’t like the few days of Etherium mining I threw at it, and it has glitched out spectacularly on things like Spotify: https://imgur.com/a/TlCCio2 But I persevered, at least until I decided to run an OpenCL memory test on a …

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Re: Spam, spam, spam

Posted on 2018-08-11, 05:20

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Answering the question about why the administration doesn’t moderate new accounts, to the best I can guess. Maybe they hadn’t thought of requiring that? ZSNES Board, as dead as it is, is under a nonstop spam barrage. The only thing that prevents it from being visible to most users is post moderation …

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Re: Dynamic recompiling with cycle-accurate emulators?

Posted on 2018-08-05, 03:58

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Well, I only mentioned keeping counts, because most N64 emulators around now use counters even in their recompiler mode, so they can keep accurate timers, since they need timers for interrupts and video frame timing. The only real thing in N64 emulation that's kind of wonky, and is better handled by …

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Re: MIDI background music and web standards

Posted on 2018-08-05, 03:55

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Maybe server side rendering to Opus/AAC? OP already said audio streaming is out, as they're targeting the dialup contingency. Maybe something like this, then? Well, yeah, low bitrate Opus could probably pass over dialup. But then you've still got to decode it. It requires considerably more …

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Re: SSL certificate expired. Anybody that has a annoying "HTTPS Strict" can't bypass.

Posted on 2018-08-05, 03:53

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It's a Let's Encrypt certificate, which means it should be renewing every 2 months or so. Strict Transport Security is also a little problematic with Let's Encrypt, or so I thought, with a certificate that will be expiring within 3 months, and with secondary signing authority that varies with which …

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Re: Dynamic recompiling with cycle-accurate emulators?

Posted on 2018-08-04, 01:59

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It should be possible. You just need to keep a note of the cycles elapsed by each compiled opcode. This need only be synchronized every branch or every hardware interaction. The cycle counting will be compiled into the dynamic code, just like the rest of the code.

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Re: MIDI background music and web standards

Posted on 2018-08-04, 01:38

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gdjacobs wrote: Maybe server side rendering to Opus/AAC? OP already said audio streaming is out, as they're targeting the dialup contingency.

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Re: MIDI background music and web standards

Posted on 2018-08-01, 04:58

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Maybe it already is if you don’t embed media in every page. Also, remember that dialup users are in the minority.

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