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a1ba, 19 hours ago

@lanodan true though.

I'm sure if EGS taken different route, it could've been a real competitor. But right now it's just a place where everybody go for free games and never buy them there, despite lower cuts for developers.

Some people do enjoy Microsoft's Xbox Whatever Thing because of the subscription. Don't really know what to say about it, I just don't trust Microsoft that much, and it seems for a reason lol, considering that they randomly closed newly acquired studios.

a1ba, 18 hours ago

@sun @lanodan it's even worse after they moved everything to web shit

a1ba, 18 hours ago

@sun @lanodan well, it's just Chrome wrapper has been moved from Store/Community pages to Friends list and then to Library, and then the whole app became web.

Sure, there is still some wrapper at it's core called steamwebhelper (I guess?) but it's a piece of crap, like everything web.

a1ba, 4 days ago

@lanodan this MCU might be on par with my ZN5 I ran Xash on (it's clocked at 532 MHz but it's slow ARM11 core, compared to more modern Cortex-M7 here).

I'm not even sure how they managed all the memory issues. I believe it might be some sort of SPI external flash because 1MB is just unreal.

Still an interesting port. It seems main changes are in software renderer (it's sad they didn't published which revision this based on).

a1ba, 4 days ago

@lanodan to me personal winner of lowest end hardware Xash ran on (by modern standards of course) is definitely a PSP. Madman rewrote the math library in assembly with PSP-specific CPU extensions AND the whole renderer in it's native APIs.

a1ba, 4 days ago

@lanodan we need a proper big endian port for new engine branch and we will be able to run on SPARC and PowerPC machines :3

a1ba, 4 days ago

@lanodan you could try it with an old engine which has big endian support but it only has GL1.x renderer.

a1ba, 4 days ago

@lanodan well the branch is at https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d

sorry for the messy code and cmake lists, it's literally a branch I made before I started learning C :D

you just need somehow pass -DXASH_BIG_ENDIAN to the compiler, that should be enough

hlsdk-portable should compile though it might error out because of unknown platform, it's mostly an artificial check, I made it so binaries names don't collide between different systems

a1ba, 4 days ago

@lanodan btw never tested if it compiles with Sun compilers (because I don't have them) but most gcc versions should be fine.

Oh I dunno about SDL2 though. We only have basic SDL1.2 support in new branch...

a1ba, 4 days ago

@lanodan it's a good news. I had some luck compiling the engine with gcc 3.4, though it's very unstable. The compiler, I mean, it just ICE's on the most simple code lol

a1ba, 5 days ago

@icedquinn cryptocurrencies aren't always the solution.

a1ba, 5 days ago

@vbabka @icedquinn I used them but only on rare occasions because they are just too inconvenient.

Most wallets software is so shady, so the other option is download the whole blockchain and run a local node.

The transaction fee is customizable but you can't set it too low because it will take weeks to be put in the next block.

Exchange rates... I said about them already. Nobody really buys or sells stuff in cryptocurrency, it's usually get converted from fiat money. You can easily can lose 5% on random conversions alone.

Not to mention that despite all the freedom cryptocurrencies provide, the exchanges themselves aren't really free from laws. Search about exchanges shut down by feds or forced to ban clients, there is a lot of stories like that.

I'm not defending Visa/MasterCard here. They are the assholes here but the alternatives aren't really better.

a1ba, 8 days ago

@dielan I don't get why internet goes crazy every May 4th.

Not a fan of Star Gate.

a1ba, 8 days ago

@niconiconi poor little thing