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| tomman |
Posted on 21-01-02, 00:11 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
 Post: #861 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 11 hours |
The purpose on life for Hidden Palace has been finally fulfilled: a Sonic 1 prototype has been found, dumped, released, and dissected after a long wait of at least 15 years, depending on who you ask! https://hiddenpalace.org/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_%28Prototype%29 https://tcrf.net/Proto:Sonic_the_Hedgehog_%28Genesis%29 https://sonicretro.org/2021/01/01/finally-a-prototype-for-the-original-sonic-the-hedgehog-has-been-found/ It's... glorious. 2021 has been saved! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-01-03, 00:32 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #862 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 11 hours |
Because some people will never learn from their mistakes... Because this soap opera just needed a new season... Because I still need more reasons to lose faith in mankind... Because Moz://a is run by Behold, another pointless UI redesign: Proton! https://www.msftnext.com/how-to-enable-the-2021-proton-design-in-firefox/ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1678742 Do the changes in the Proton program increase the number of users who enjoy using Firefox? Conduct an in-product, at-scale survey before and after the changes to document user response in the areas of visual resigned and cohesion. Why bother? The echo chamber has been full throttle since Asstralis, they will ignore the results anyway and proceed with their "vision", losing whatever remnants of a so-called "user base" they could still have. Way to kill themselves and concede victory to the Browser Dictatorship For Life, Google Fuckin' Chrome! We need to sack Baker, sack the SJWs, and bring back sanity to Mozilla ASAP. Make Firefox Great Again! Or... even better: Make Suite Great Again. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-01-03, 19:46 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #863 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 11 hours |
Posted by Mei Koyoki This is big, but the holy grail would be the 1990 Tokyo Toy Show techdemo. A man can dream, can't I? Even Naka himself wanted to ship that one on one of the many Sonic ROM collections for consoles, but apparently Sega lost this ROM :/ Quick, hack the Sega mainframes! We need a Sega Teraleak! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-01-03, 20:14 in Upcoming game announcements/news (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #864 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 11 hours |
Posted by Mei Koyoki This is something Microsoft did right, yet Sony and Nintendo fail to get: the whole "every retail console can be turned into a devkit". Best of all, it's available to mere mortals like us, no need to have a "secured business office" or a "established publishing deal". Pay ~$20 only once, done, your Xbone/SeX can now run emulators, media players, and random homebrews downloaded from somewhere, LEGALLY. No need to mess with the cat-and-mouse game of version-specific exploits, or risk bricking your console. Just pay and go. The only thing I don't like is that (aside of DRM and having to pay) you need to be online to let the mothership to check your privileges, but other than that, this is a nice way to keep everybody happy. Well, everybody but pirates. Microsoft seems to have done their homework: while Steam-like sales craze are still not commonplace on consoles, Xbox has cheap games, and the whole Xbox Game Pass where you can literally rent hundreds of games for a flat rate. If you still want to pirate Xbox games, either you're a PokéRAWMz kiddo (in that case, knock it out!), one of those "stick it to the man!" twits (what are you doing playing DRM'd stuff?!), or live in a shithole like Soviet Venezuela or Best Korea (and if that's you, chances are you can't afford even a used original Xbox from 2001, much less a Xbone/SeX anyway). As much as I dislike Microsoft, this is one of the many good things the new (Satya Nutella's) MS has done. Contrast with Sony or Nintendo, where they're too busy deploying the Sony Police Department to silence hackers. Or even worse: the Nintendo Ninjas are real, and in many ways, they're even more dangerous than the Sony cops! (seriously: hiring a freakin' P.I. to stalk 3DS hackers in Europe!? This shit should be extremely illegal, but alas, we don't live in a ideal world) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-01-03, 20:22 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #865 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 11 hours |
Moz://a UXtarded art school dropouts priority Numero Uno: figuring out how to prevent users from changing colors and fonts, ensuring their OS defaults are NOT honored at all, because modern software design seems to be a branch from Henry Ford's Design School: "You can have any theme, as long as it is Adwaita with our pixel perfect icons". Seriously, this seems to be the priority for Proton from what little I could grep from the publicly available Bugzilla reports: they're already working on using their special snowflake font... and they're concerned of any possible performance impact that such a change could bring! Well, at least they are aware that their special snowflake font might not cover non-English languages... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-01-03, 21:45 in I've been called a SNES-hating Genesis fanboy.
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Dinosaur
Post: #866 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 11 hours |
64KB was a metric truckload when you compare with Genesis' 8KB of audio (actually Z80 work) RAM. But then, instead of a dedicated DSP, Sega devs got the choice between performing gymnastics with the Z80, or doing everything on the 68K (like the original Sonic Team did, with plenty of CPU time to spare!) - it greatly helps Sega actually built a beefy CPU among a pile of severely starved hardware which conforms our beloved G/MD. Wonder how the SNES would have been if Nintendo actually had decided to splurge on a 68K instead of going with that anemic 6502 mutation... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-01-03, 22:07 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #867 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 11 hours |
Posted by Mei Koyoki Even worse: the GNOMEs breeded with the "iPhone is the only phone ever" kids. These are the results. Not pretty, in fact, totally out of place for user interfaces that are supposed to run on PERSONAL COMPUTERS. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-01-03, 23:26 in I've been called a SNES-hating Genesis fanboy.
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Dinosaur
Post: #869 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 11 hours |
Also, why bother arguing about "which system had the better sound" when you're going to plug both of them to the same shitty TV whose built-in speakers are earrape? I think there is a Mandatory XKCD for that... *searches*  Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-01-04, 00:04 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #868 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 11 hours |
Not that it would help, as Sega not only lost any and all prototypes (too bad for Naka - in later interviews he actually would like to recheck those ancient protos if only for nostalgia, but nobody believes into archiving history... except for Nintendo); they also lost the entire Sonic 1 sourcecode sometime after the J2ME port! How do you even!? At least the Hidden Palace folks managed to put a smile on Yuji Naka's face in the very first day of the year, judging from he liking the HP release tweet instead of calling the Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-01-04, 15:51 in I've been called a SNES-hating Genesis fanboy. (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #870 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 11 hours |
I can't event tell between lossless FLAC and 128Kbps MP3... so these are the ones I still feed to my phones (I prefer to download lossless, but that's because I trust noone else lossy transcodes, mistagged files, etc.). But then I wasn't blessed with a golden ear. Or even a brass ear :D Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-01-05, 13:38 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #871 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 11 hours |
The day Mozilla dies, I hope I'm gone too. Otherwise, I guess I'll take advantage of the fact that my country is becoming a big fat obsolete intranet, and give up all communications. I'd drink sewage rather than defecting to Blink/Webkit. I already barely communicate with people due to my refusal (on moral and technical grounds) to use whatever the "kool kids" do these days (which are diseases like WhatsFuckingApp or UGH Discord), so if Chrome becomes the new IE, it will be easy for me to simply give up and disconnect. I already have enough with the forced WebComponents shenanigans, where web devs can't take their eyes apart from "OOOH SHINY" junk without even considering the consequences. Our last hope is SeaMonkey. I do not know if to laugh or cry, but I'm pretty sure I'm not going back to Firefox or giving a chance to AssholeMoon. And certainly I'm not trading up my personal computer for a crippled cellphone. PS: stop using Discord, you idiots! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-01-06, 03:26 in I still HATE smartdevices
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Dinosaur
Post: #872 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 11 hours |
You won, Valve. You forced me to install your fucking crapp because I'm a moron who can't remember his fucking So yeah, that, and there will never be a GUI authenticator for non-Windows targets (WinAuth chokes to death on Mono). Not that I care as I can't even buy videogames anymore anywhere, much less play them. But I guess that my 3-cent trading cards are worth muuuuuuuch more than the real money on my five bank accounts (which considering the current exchange rates, I could almost buy food with my inventory!). Congratulations Valve, you've become a fucking bank. Yes, I'm royally pissed. I want to vomit. At least, on the flip side (if there is one), I was able to navigate the security theatre EASY MODO since I actually was logged inside their bloated Chrome-in-a-can abomination of client. Sharp bits of LCD crystals would be flying everywhere otherwise... Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-01-06, 16:15 in Mozilla, *sigh*
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Dinosaur
Post: #873 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 11 hours |
That escalated quickly~ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-01-06, 21:48 in Board feature requests/suggestions (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #874 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 11 hours |
Moooooom, the sekrets are leaking again!!!! TIL this place has a Recycle Bin. How frequently is it emptied? UPDATE: I can read said posts from places I'm not supposed to have access through member "Show posts" pages. Is this intentional? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-01-06, 22:20 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Dinosaur
Post: #875 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 11 hours |
Can confirm fix. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-01-06, 22:56 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #876 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 11 hours |
Posted by picto Reactions... vary. Some get nostalgic, reminiscent of the good ol' times. ("Oh hey, you found that old broken beta build? Cool!") Some devs DO leak/release their own protos by themselves, which is real awesome. Some... don't take it easy, due to many reasons, but eventually get over it and start telling their stories. For a recent example (by none other but Sega themselves!), look at the Golden Axed incident. And some call for immediately shredding any and all files, then unleashing the hounds, as prototypes may reopen painful wounds from a distant past. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-01-07, 15:13 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #877 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 11 hours |
Remember when I discovered Mille Bornes during my brief adventures with Visual Basic decompilers? Then I went looking for computer implementations of the game (just to learn that the only good one so far only works on cellphones). Apparently I had missed somehow that all those years there have been a X11 version on the Debian repos: xmille. It has the charm of late '80s graphical applications (look at those cards!)... because it was originally developed for X10, then quickly ported to X11... and aside of the rare compiler fix, it hasn't received love at all. We now have 8K displays, proportional fonts, scalable vector graphics, and video display processors that can't actually do 2D anymore, plus it's supposed that X11 is sentenced to death because it's OOOOOOOOOOOOOLD (despite having no really usable replacements right now for the average consumer, aside of cellphones!). Well... xmille has received a new lease on life thanks to... the Nedflanderists at Debian Software License Compliance Department, who found the unholy capital sin of source files missing copyright headers, therefore making those Nedflanderists panic due to the impure code as this is their sole purpose in life. The current author of the X11 xmille unexpectedly reacted (he's one of the former X11 gurus, no less!) by bringing his 1980s X10/X11 code kicking and screaming to the year 2000, now with menubars, smooth proportional fonts, and a SVG card deck instead of barebones pixel art (he did chose to vectorize the original pixel art designs instead of using the SVGs from Wikipeda, however). The writeup is full of good history about reviving obsolete X11 code in the year 2020, it's absolutely a good read. Expect the new, improved version sometime this year on the next Debian Testing repos (it's too late for Bullseye considering that the freeze is near), hopefully! In the meanwhile I decided to test the current X11 version: - Its main window does not fit on screens under <900px! (Remember: early X11 boxes often had Very Expensive hi-rez CRTs instead of puny 768p LCD panels) - No difficulty levels other than "the computer is a cheating bastard" (I still managed to win a game at the end... barely!) - It does allow to save/restore games. - Checking your current mileage is confusing, until you learn that instead of decoding the progress bars, you can also take a look at the scores. - Haven't checked if it does allow for coup-fourre (counterattack), the signature move of Mille Bornes. - The game does tell you when a move is legal or not, for those learning the game. - Play with left-click, discard with right-click (manpage says that middle-click decides for you). Veredict: For Linux computers, you really have not many options - it's xmille or that bloated, broken Xojo application. If you throw cellphones in the mix, Road Rally 1000 is still the gold standard to beat. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-01-07, 15:16 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #878 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 11 hours |
For data recovery labs around the world, 2021 just started with a BANG! The moron that did that to that Toshitachi deserved to lose all his/her data. At least the DR guy got a nice Moto Racer CD case :D Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-01-07, 23:21 in Upcoming game announcements/news
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Dinosaur
Post: #879 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 11 hours |
The "IT WONT FIIIIIIT!!!" concerns from gamers regarding the next-gen consoles are so real that furniture shops are now taking action: The PS5 is absolutely the Humvee of consoles. But the This also explains one of the many reasons of why the Sony is not focusing on distributing many PS5s in their homeland of Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 21-01-12, 18:24 in Mozilla, *sigh* (revision 4)
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Dinosaur
Post: #880 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 24 days Last view: 11 hours |
Fake news? I'm now a lurker on the Seamonkey IRC channel, and I've yet to see anyone from the Pale Moon "team" there. They simply do not talk about each other, basically. Seamonkey DOES have a forum, it's at MozillaZine, although that place is doomed due to the impending close of the latter (it seems that MZ has been in autopilot lately, with downtimes becoming common). Incidentally, it seems the Pale Moon guys are also not that welcome at the 'Zine forums - the animosity seems to be mutual. UPDATE: Because I had to More reasons for me to stick to Team Seamonkey and pretend Pale Mooned does not exist. Their PR tactics went beyond the point of no return long time ago. My shitlist always have room to grow~ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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