Recent content by bakemono

Temperatures on K10 CPUs always seem to read lower than what is realistic.

Passing parameters in registers usually leads to smaller, faster code. (There can be exceptions, depending on what CPU it is.) I would argue it's a moot point though, because the mere overhead of calling a routine should not become a drag on performance if an API is being used properly. For...

It's a Windows app with .CHM help, yet also from "back in the day before multitasking OSes"? There is a program called API Monitor which might help if this a win32 program (rather than 16-bit DOS).

Enter and execute this program in QBASIC: 10 PRINT STICK(0); " "; STICK(1) GOTO 10 Then move the joystick around and see what readings you get. Left and Up should yield low numbers; Right and Down high numbers. The amount of oscillation should be small compared to the overall range.

Let's be real here. The issue is valuation of human labor. Copyright is a red herring which will disappear as soon as somebody has the idea to train their AI by driving around with a video camera instead of scraping youtube. Their AI will see vehicles, creatures, and landscapes, and use these as...

100 microseconds in the bottom pic? Looks normal for keyboard data. It would be good to know what's coming out the data lines on the other side of the 8042, though it may be hard to determine using a 2-chan scope if there is other unrelated traffic on that bus.

Legacy humans have long been allowed to train on copyrighted material. You can read books, and then write your own book without a presumption of infringement. Only after AI this is being called into question.

Web developers as a whole generally never cared about eating up the user's bandwidth and CPU. Now they complain about their bandwidth and CPU getting eaten. (And their reflexive countermeasure is to eat up even more of the user's bandwidth and CPU.) I have zero sympathy.

I seem to remember running MS-DOS DEFRAG, with a switch to alphabetize directories, would obliterate long filenames across the whole partition.

not to mention what appears on the screen looks like text that is far to dense to be on a monitor of that spec

Do we count strings, data tables, or comments in LOC? Those take up most of the space in some of my projects. One game was over 40k lines of source when adding up everything, but looking at the actual code for a single platform it is closer to 10k lines of NOWUT. It was a 3-year project. Another...

The tech industry has a very troubled relationship with the idea of consumer choice. I'm sure they much prefer a system where the consumer just buys what they're told to buy, hands over whatever data is requested, and accepts whatever terms and conditions are imposed (hello, Human Cent-iPad)...

Making programs that have alternate codepaths depending on which instruction sets are supported by the CPU would require programmers to do work. Running with the assumption that everyone has SSE-whatever only requires a compiler flag.

Putting the MDA and CGA cards into the Bxxxx range effectively limited the (consecutive) memory to 704KB. I don't know what the first peripheral to use Axxxx was, which would have brought the cutoff then to 640KB. B.G. sounds like he is taking credit for this address map, but I've never heard...

That'll have to do until we can upgrade to fanfold paper.