CaesarA's comments

On: A Simple ELF

[CaesarA]

I still don't understand how people were able to write software in the days when assembly was the only option for speedy execution.

[throw-qqqqq → CaesarA]

You can define macros over the assembly to gain a high level language sort of similar to an untyped dialect of C.

For me it would be sort of like writing programs in C versus higher level languages: much more tedious, will take longer and require better planning/upfront design, but doable.

With practice you learn some tricks that can seem clever to anyone not writing a lot of asm. It’s “just” a very low level language IMO.

[6SixTy → CaesarA]

Keeping things pretty simple in project scope and hardware helps quite a lot

On: A Raycaster in Bash

[CaesarA]

I wonder if texture mapping this would look good.

[Arch-TK → CaesarA]

She has been brainstorming how to handle texture mapping within the performance constraints of doing it in bash for a week now (long before she actually got this working) and so far we've come up with some hypothetical ideas but she has not tried any of them yet. Maybe tomorrow...

On: Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#

[CaesarA]

This absolutely amazing.

On: Pong.bash

[CaesarA]

This is cool, it reminds of when I would get bored and make little games as batch files for the windows command prompt a long time ago.

On: Ace of Aces: Why you should do maths as a game designer

[CaesarA]

This ia really neat, I always wondered how those books were designed.

On: Nerdy internals of an Apple text editor

[CaesarA]

As someone who has attempted to write their own text editor completely from scratch before, this would've been a tremendous resource to have.

[papereditor → CaesarA]

Thank you!

On: Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64

[CaesarA]

I think this Apple II version of Portal is the best thing I have ever seen. Is this the same guy who did the Apple II version of Myst?

[djmips → CaesarA]

yes

On: Portal 64 – A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64

[CaesarA]

I was just watching a video about this, it's pretty cool and honestly impressive that it could be done on N64. They don't even have Half-Life 1 on N64, which makes me wonder if recreating Portal 1 decently in Goldsrc is possible.

[Thedarkb → CaesarA]

Sven Co-op got portals working on their branch of the GoldSrc engine but I think they abandoned development because of FBO issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbniay4bfJU

[idonotknowwhy → CaesarA]

The got tomb raider one demake running on a GBA recently. Anything is possible

[anthk → idonotknowwhy]

The GBA it's just a tiny step down from a PSX.

The N64 can barely run Quake for PC. And SCummVM.

[an-unknown → anthk]

> The GBA it's just a tiny step down from a PSX.

The GBA doesn't have any 3D graphics hardware, yet it renders that Tomb Raider game with 3D graphics in real time using a software rasterizer, on a CPU with half the clock rate of the CPU in the PS1 and with a fraction of the RAM of a PS1. So no, this is not "just a tiny step down from a PSX".

[anthk → an-unknown]

PS' GPU barely counts as a working one. So-so.

[araes → CaesarA]

Not having seen the info in the post. Is this a downport of the Half-Life engine, or using the Portal art in a different engine, such as the Goldeneye engine?

On: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows

[CaesarA]

Next to things like Notepad, the Calculator, and Command Prompt, Wordpad is and has been one of the most useful programs ever bundled with Windows in terms of functionality and user-friendliness, so the idea of getting rid of it (even if it gets replaced) just seems kind of asinine.

On: Animated Knots

[CaesarA]

To be honest, outside of Wikipedia, this is probably one of the most useful websites on the internet.