That's... cool, I guess?
Somebody posted 'Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990)' recently so I think this post is some kind of smartass response to that.
Readit Newsglonq commented on Gimp Source Code gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gi... · Posted by u/roschdal
Incredible! In an astounding feat, it has only taken a mere two decades to enable the world's largest tech companies to provide the most basic levels of interopability.
At this breakneck speed of technological development, one can only imagine what wonderful boons await consumers in the next few decades.
DAE remember in 2010 when Steve Jobs said that Facetime would be an open industry standard?
Rise your hand if you remember how long you had to tinker around to get enough EMS to load the game plus sound card drivers loaded into memory when being in DOS!
:-D
I recall that it was possible to squeeze a disk cache in too, which made a nice difference for performance.
There's a YouTuber that's been going through and making in-depth retrospectives of each Ultima game that some here may find interesting. I've found them a pleasant watch and I don't usually go for this type of content. I never played the Ultima series until Ultima Online so I don't have the nostalgia goggles that I'd need to go back and play games this old (sorry, it's the truth) so these videos are as close as I'll probably get.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL16yfJJxAM6g-4YxKGI-1...
A YT'er named 'Spoony' also made a thorough, entertaining retrospective of the Ultimas, and even caps it off with an interview with Lord British!
I loved U7 and 7.5, but those were the last ones I played because the series somewhat went off the rails after that. Pity.
glonq commented on Family Computing Interviews Jack Tramiel After Atari Purchase (1985) computeradsfromthepast.su... · Posted by u/rbanffy
Smart businessman, but not the best reputation as a boss or for creating a pleasant work environment, even by the standards of the day.
For us, every .NET upgrade since .NET 5 has gone surprisingly smoothly and reduced CPU/RAM usage by 10–15%.
We were even able to downgrade our cloud servers to smaller instances, literally.
I wish .NET was more popular among startups, if only C# could get rid of the "enterpisey" stigma.
Yeah I've been using non-.Net languages this week, and lamenting how much they suck in regards to smooth version management
glonq commented on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change neowin.net/news/microsoft... · Posted by u/OptionOfT
glonq commented on FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is heise.de/en/news/Archive-... · Posted by u/Projectiboga
We're pardoning fraudsters left and right who bribe the president.
But archive.is ... that people use to read and be informed about the world around them, better get that guy.
Exactly. Now that the facade of being a country with integrity and equality is thoroughly shattered, good luck getting public support for shutting down a website that lets people read news for free. Shit's on fire yo; we got bigger problems than that.
glonq commented on I have released a 69.0MB version of Windows 7 x86 twitter.com/XenoPanther/s... · Posted by u/rvnx
If one replaces a few EXEs and DLLs at a time, at what point does it become Windows 11 ?
It becomes The Windows of Theseus.