It's not a Mega Drive-"Style" shoot-em-up, it is a Mega Drive shoot-em-up. 100% Mega Drive code, with a physical cartridge release planned for later this year. It runs on other platforms via emulation.
It sounds like a problem related to memory interleaving. He doesn't say whether the memory modules are identical, my bet is that they differ. Could also be a poor performing motherboard.
> Game Arts subsequently ported Grandia to the PlayStation, dropping it in Japan in the summer of 1999.
When I grew up, "dropping" something meant "excluding" it; you might drop a player from a team or a feature from a product to exclude it. It turns out that Grandia did actually release in Japan for the PlayStation in 1999.
Am I the only one who struggles with this new, fangled definition of the word "drop"?
- Intel quietly introduced their implementation of amd64 under the name "EM64T". It was only later that they used the name "Intel64".
- Early Itanium processors included hardware features, microcode and software that implemented an IA‑32 Execution Layer (dynamic binary translation plus microcode assists) to run 32‑bit x86 code; while the EL often ran faster than direct software emulation, it typically lagged native x86 performance and could be worse than highly‑optimised emulators for some workloads or early processor steppings.
I seem to remember that "runderwo" was working on porting Linux to the N64 back in the "Dextrose" days, when the N64 scene was still active. I can't find much information on his port, but I did find a reference to it here: http://n64.icequake.net/#projects
I haven't done much with HTML for years so I had no idea that modern browsers use "_blank" to open a page in a new tab instead of a new window. This genuinely surprised me, seems like unexpected behaviour or a regression/bug. :)
Nice idea and something I would have otherwise liked to have tried out (I actually have two pairs of DK bongos) but its Windows only and it seems to be closed source. I searched high and low but I couldn't find a link to the source code or even the software licence. :(
This sentence does not give me confidence. A general purpose sandbox should be implemented in the kernel. The kernel syscall interface will always remain available regardless of any sandbox that has been implemented in user space.
EDIT (to answer a few of the replies here):
The description lacks details so it's not entirely clear how Syd is intended to be used or who its target audience is. If this is intended for a security conscious user to wrap their own executables, similar to Firejail, I guess this serves a purpose but I would certainly hesitate to suggest that it is the "most sophisticated sandbox for Linux". We already have kernel-based SELinux, AppArmor, other LSMs and grsecurity which can ensure that every single executable will run in a sandbox regardless of the experience of the end-user, something a user space wrapper cannot achieve. It's not about whether or not it uses kernel facilities but about ensuring that absolutely everything will be sandboxed.
You are right, however it's likely that OpenRW was also impacted by Take-Two's actions towards Re3 given that its development also ceased around the same time.
It's understated the impact that Encarta had on Microsoft dominance in the home computer market. Encarta came about at a time when internet access was not yet commonplace and "multimedia" PCs were next big thing. Amiga, Atari and Apple had CD-ROM drives but only the PC had Encarta. It was revolutionary for 90s teens with homework assignments. These days some might use the term "killer app" to describe it. Obviously there were many other factors that led to Wintel dominance, but Encarta certainly played a part.
It's not a failure in terms of the number of people that use it, but when the seats are full and the standing passengers are jam-packed like sardines, it's definitely nothing to brag about, and you certainly won't find the rich using it.
Peñalosa also introduced Pico y Placa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_y_placa), a system that does not negatively impact those who can afford to own two cars, and forces the remainder of car owners to use the atrocious public transport system every other day.