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Après plusieurs gentilles demandes, revoilà la liste de noël 2024 pour ceux qui la connaissent, maintenant et for ever sur mastodon.🎄 ❄️
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It's that time of year again when I share the links I've saved for gift ideas.
Nothing is sponsored, just a way to share gift ideas.🎄
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💛 #6 - Thames & Hudson - A to Z of The Designers Republic
Finally a book available about the work of the English designer Ian Anderson of The Designers Republic.
Wrap Records, Aphex Twin, Wipeout, contribution to IDEA, Emigre... 1400 illustrations on 500 pages to showcase the work of one of the father of what we call now Y2K aesthetic.
#Perl was always as “#Y2K compliant” as #C, but very naïve developers would sometimes use '19' . (localtime)[5] for the current year, thus the jokey name for the final #conference of the previous century.
It's like #GameBoy#Workboy except it actually shipped. It has same GB compatible cpu (sm83) and with slightly altered registers as the Megaduck Handheld.
Anyhow, turns out the System ROM has a Y2K12 bug. The, max year supported is 2011.😄
Thinking about when I built this place ... The internet was great ... Big companies didn't password all their technical information ... And you didn't have to "prove" who you were ... Them were the days ... 2000 ... all went to pot after that ... Maybe Y2K did get us ... Maybe
On September 1, 2000, a true legend was born - the Nokia 3310.
The Nokia 3310 wasn't just a phone; it was an icon of resilience. Its sturdy design made it nearly indestructible. You could drop it, toss it, and it would still function flawlessly.
While smartphones have evolved into powerful mini-computers, the Nokia 3310 remains a symbol of simpler times.
I bet every Nokia 3310 still has a 100% battery life
It helped me to find a stupid bug in my framebuffer code that slowed down clearing images.
Coding and compiling was done with #VSCode and #WATCOM,
and execution in DOSBox showed immediately what failed.
We don't see such bugs on Windows or Linux with our GHz CPUs anymore.
But with good old #DOS on an emulated 386 33 MHz host it made a jump from 2 to 18 FPS after fixing.
That's true optimization nobody cares about today. #gamedev before #Y2K must have been real fun.