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vl_tone

@vl_tone@mastodon.social

Little green person on the internet, loving retro-tech and colorful neon pastel art. Sometimes I like to reverse engineer old video games.
You may also remember me from such software as:
Toad's Tool 64: The original Super Mario 64 level editor.
Metroid Cubed: An early 2000s attempt at voxelizing a classic 2D video game. Recently revived as Metroid Curved.
SFXEdit: A level editor for Star Fox.

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christianselig, to random
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The price difference to go from an 83 inch OLED to an 88 inch is just bonkers

vl_tone,
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@christianselig Just saying: if you sit 1.5 feet closer to the TV, a 83" screen will look just as big as a 88".

vl_tone,
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@christianselig VR headsets do change your focal distance using lens (it would be impossible to focus on those tiny screens otherwise) but yeah they usually have a fixed focal distance that are much closer than a movie screen.

I get what you're saying about not being as immersive but sitting closer still makes a difference by filling more of your field of view, and in the context of this price difference it would be "good enough" for me! :)

atpfm, to random
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589: The Correct Amount of Rocks
https://atp.fm/589

Rumored AI features for WWDC, the state of LLMs, and a ridiculous desktop speaker setup.

vl_tone,
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@atpfm Not sure about my 15 pro, but the iPhone X did use PWM when the brightness went below 50%. While it was generally unnoticeable, rapid eye movements, or moving the phone itself rapidly (i.e. when picking it up) would reveal some strobing that didn't exist at >50%.

It didn't cause me headaches but I found it annoying.

Reducing the white point using accessibility settings could make the display dimmer without PWM, but it would show uneveness in dark gray areas (similar to a cheap LCD).

scummvm, to random
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What's more useful than a debugger? A truly advanced debugger with tons and tons of features!

This time: DIRECOR. Down to the byte-code and to everything related to Lingo (the scripting language that drives the... well... scripts).

vl_tone,
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@scummvm Is "DIRECOR" the name of that debugger or is it a typo of "DIRECTOR"?

vl_tone,
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@scummvm Which versions of the Director engine does it support?

vl_tone,
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@scummvm I'd be curious to try it on my old Director projects. Is the debugger included in the public release of ScummVM?

harrymccracken, to random
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I wrote about why Google search telling us all to eat rocks isn’t as serious an issue as it claiming there’s a non-existent Dr. Seuss book. https://www.fastcompany.com/91132217/google-ai-overview-errors

vl_tone,
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@harrymccracken I know it's not your fault, but I had trouble reading through the article with that uncloseable and un pauseable auto-playing video that remains at the bottom of the screen. It can be made smaller but it continues to play which to me is very distracting.

vga256, to retrocomputing
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as promised, i'm archiving this 42 year old D&D campaign building software on cassette

warning: loud/annoying modulation sounds 😆

A cassette titled "Fantasy Gamer" by Prickly-Pear Software is inserted into a Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer Cassette Recorder. The owner hits play, and it begins playing back modulation sounds recorded on the tape.

vl_tone,
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@feedmd @vga256 I was about to post the exact same thing! :D

vl_tone, to random
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In 2006 I dug into the iPod nano firmware and found strings referencing a phone and other unreleased features.

One of the string was "t_feature_app_STACKER_APP" which I speculated was a Tetris clone. Apparently I was right!
https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/112496683834623177

vl_tone,
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At the time, my discoveries made the rounds in tech news, possibly boosting Apple stock (which I didn't own and still don't), as it was the first confirmation that Apple was working on a phone. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2006/07/4703/

vl_tone, to random
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Good news, I can finally get out of the house by myself and walk without too much pain to a nearby park! (using a cane)

(For those who didn't know, I broke my leg in a bike accident last March, and have been recovering since.)

macrumors, to random
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5 Reasons to Use OpenAI's ChatGPT App for Mac https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/23/5-reasons-to-use-openais-chatgpt-app-for-mac/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

vl_tone,
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@macrumors Lol was this written by ChatGPT?

vl_tone, to random
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There he is! My 2008 Luigi mod is finally running on an iPhone!

Screen recording of an iPhone running Delta, a multi-platform emulator for iOS. The game being played is Super Mario 64. A weird lanky Luigi is seen running and entering a green pipe. He ends up falling from the sky onto the star in the castle courtyard. The camera pans around him.

vl_tone,
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Thanks again to @vinnyboiler for pointing me in the right direction to fix my old extended ROM. Decompressed MI0O banks needed to be realigned to even bytes, something that old emulators didn't care about, but is required for accurate emulation. I used a tool called SM64Compress to realign the banks automagically.

vl_tone, to random
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Tried playing my old Super Mario 64 hacks on the iOS versions of Delta and Rotroarch and in all cases the game softlocks after fading to white when pressing start on the title screen.

Both emulators use the Mupen64Plus core. I know my initial extended ROM specification caused problems on real hardware, but some people eventually managed to make it work by tweaking the format.

I couldn't find much info about the fix though, does anyone have at least a guess of what would cause the softlock?

vl_tone,
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@GamingWolf No problem, thanks for taking the time to reply! :)

I haven't confirmed yet, but I'm pretty sure the issue is misaligned decompressed MI0O segments, which only affects very old ROM hacks like mine, when running on modern more accurate N64 emulators.

mcc, to random
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So I spent a big chunk of my life living next door to Louisiana (Houston) and now I live next door to Quebec (Toronto) and it just this moment occurred to me to check if Quebec has beignets. Like, I'd simply assumed if I ever went liking for beignets I'd find them. So I asked a Quebecoise friend, and

Okay, so they do have them, but—

Quebec beignets have holes???

My world is (topologically speaking) rocked

vl_tone,
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@mcc In Quebec, the word "beigne" is used to describe donuts with holes, but also those that are stuffed with cream or fruit jam, as well as munchkins/timbits. "Beignets" may refer to small donuts, but is also used interchangeably with "beigne" regardless of the size.

In reality beignets is rarely used casually in Qc as it's seen as an overly fancy way of saying beigne. You'd only see the word beignets on packaging.

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