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It’s a Spectrum. You’re going to do a HALT to sync with the start of the frame and then cycle count to prevent tearing. You can disable interrupts if you know how long you have to render your frame before the beam catches you (or let it pass then start rendering).

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5 maanden geledendiscuss

And there’s still mercury contamination from the gold rush in San Jose.

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11 maanden geledendiscuss

If I remember from poking around at the 16 bit version in that timeframe (1.52?) there was still an option to generate P-code and (this is now nearly thirty years ago) that was used by Excel to minimize code size for the segmented 16 bit systems.

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11 maanden geledendiscuss

Did you ever work on the cross edition that would compile Windows apps for the Mac? I think that was a version 4 fork that never got another version.

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11 maanden geledendiscuss

After Visual C++ 6. They broke a lot of the C++ IDE features and they weren’t as good as the prior versions (dialog editor etc) so for a long time we preferred staying on 6. I think if we could have the newer compilers but the snappiness of that UI many developers would be happy.

It’s also a product of the segmentation of the developer tools in Microsoft. The Windows team was responsible for the compiler rather than the Developer Tools team.

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12 maanden geledendiscuss

And then there’s the apex sex in The Player Of Games.

I think at least Excession has one of the protagonists transition at the end of the novel.

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12 maanden geledendiscuss

He wrote Programming Windows 3.1 which was the classic reference for Windows programming in the 90s and just known as ‘Petzold’. All Win16 and C. The managed languages are much later.

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ClearCase?

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You can print from iOS to printers that support AirPrint. No drivers needed, but the printer needs to support the AirPrint protocol.

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

I seem to remember on one of the special features on the DVDs that they needed to change to a lighter more comic style with Moore because of the reaction to the Vietnam War.

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

Garmin has incident detection and will send a message within fifteen seconds unless you cancel.

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

It’s not only that but it’s also that drivers could ship custom property pages in an accompanying DLL. All using property page / dialog box classic Win32 technology.

So unless you have a locked down device like a phone, you can’t magically port everything over to a new settings app without providing a path for your ISV / IHV ecosystem to migrate to on timelines that are sensible for the business. And ‘drivers’ consists of way more than hardware devices: database access drivers etc etc.

Part of me wonders if an AI model couldn’t just sandbox the old UI and inspect it, and then auto map to a new settings style AI.

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

Google TV for two completely different products. The initial one was an OS on Sony / Logitech devices that came out in 2010.

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

There is SourceLink where you can get the mapping into the pdb files:

https://github.com/dotnet/sourcelink

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

Good luck getting that through a regulated company’s Quality Management System or their legal department. Way too much business risk and the last thing you want is a yellow or red flag to an inspector who can stop ship on your product until all the recall and remediation is done.

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

But Apple doesn’t have the industrial and commercial uses that Linux and Windows have. Where you can’t suddenly switch out to a new architecture without massive amounts of validation costs.

At my previous job they used to use Macs to control scientific instrumentation that needed a data acquisition card. Eventually most of the newer product lines moved over to Windows but one that was used in a validated FDA regulated environment stayed on the Mac. Over time supporting that got harder and harder: they managed through the PowerPC to Intel transition but eventually the Macs with PCIe slots went away. I think they looked at putting the PCIe card in a Thunderbolt enclosure. But the bigger problem is guaranteeing supply of a specific computer for a reasonable amount of time. Very difficult to do these days with Macs.

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

Look at what Cellares is doing. Building a manufacturing cell called the shuttle.

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

Along with the reasons others have mentioned, it would also bypass any filter driver in the file system stack (Windows has the concept of a stack of filter drivers that can sit in front of the file system or hardware) and would also ignore any permissions (ACLs) on who can see those files. There’s no way they can credibly use this technique outside of say something from SysInternals: it violates the security and layering of the operating system and its APIs.

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

There was some game (and I think a program in a book) where the border color would be changed at a specific scan line to get a horizon that would span the entire screen.

I pretty much knew all the clock cycle counts for the instructions as a teenager, and you would code assembler with them always in mind.

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

Cycle counting was key on the Spectrum - for obvious things like the tape load routines but also for advanced techniques like the ‘Rainbow processor’ - updating the attribute bytes (those responsible for the infamous color clash) as each scan line progressed you could get different colors on each scan line.

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