>Giles Goddard (born 30 March 1971) is an English video game programmer. He was one of the first Western employees at Nintendo
>[Argonaut Games, Giles's first job] produced a 3D graphics demo for the Nintendo Entertainment System and collaborated with Nintendo [0]
To my uninformed self, this sounds extremely impressive to get a 3D graphics demo on the NES. Oh I would love to see how that looked. All I could find is that it was based on Argonaut's Starglider title from the Amiga [1]
Based on that, I believe Giles is mistaken in the Eurogamer interview cited by Wikipedia. The demo was on Gameboy, not NES. The also-linked NintendoLife article also mentions the demo was on the Gameboy. But I guess maybe that's actually more impressive!
There was a NES and later SNES prototype (By Pete Warnes and Carl Graham) that was IIRC the focus of the 3D chip discussions. X was cool, and a good selling point (and predated the NES work), but there was (again IIRC) no interest on going further with 3D on GB.
Seeing custom hardware on carts (Pilot wings, Mario Kart?) and having dealt with the custom hardware on the Konix, gave Jez a good avenue to explore with Nintendo.
Hadn't heard about that before. Argonaut and Nintendo also co-developed a 3D game called "X" on the Game Boy, that might give us an idea of how it could've looked.
The 6502 can do wireframe and pseudo-3D. 3D has a lot of different types and levels, but prior to this there already wireframe and pseudo-3D products out there.
NESGlider was a wireframe demo. Of course very impressive technically but just a tech demo. The 6502 chip spent almost 100% of its processing power just calculating the 3D lines, leaving very little room for smooth gameplay or filled-in polygons.
I wonder if there is a "reaction" from Opus or whatever model mister Torvalds is using when it finds out who it is helping. During thinking process I catch models going "wait actually" or "No way, it is" so I wonder if it notices git email config or anything like that and makes similar exclamations.
Although the boring answer is that there's probably a master prompt of sorts that includes the info about user being Linus Torvalds
I am attempting this with a 100 MB GameMaker (HoloCure) game to make mobile and console ports for fun. Because it uses YYC[0] instead of running in a VM which is how GameMaker games usually work (to my crude understanding of the issue) I have to reverse engineer it instead of just extracting assets and putting them into a project template.
I am using Qwen 3.8 27B-8bit in oMLX and Pi agent with GhidraMCP on my MacBook M3 Max. So far it ran for like 10 hours total and I haven't checked in on it much but it seems to have extracted the audio assets successfully and wrote a whole bunch of helper scripts for Ghidra to extract YYC functions which took several hours to run. I put the project on hold cause I didn't want to keep running it at 100% fans for hours every day. It blew through ~200k context of the model 3 times by now. I am not confident in this project, especially because I have very little experience doing grown up reverse engineering that isn't decompiling a C# or Android apps so I can't really guide it.
Without context I instantly recognized the crude drawing in the current blog post as MW2 2009 cause the caricature of the sniper rifle looks like the Intervention sniper rifle from the game. It really has become an iconic weapon, a BFG or Quake rocket launcher for Gen Z and Millennials.
I'm not a fan of Rust, the overly flexible macros are actually one reason for it, but if you can indeed get LSP support in a custom syntax like this, that's really awesome. Thank you for the example.
do you think that when compiler internals 'settle down' it will (gradually) be exposed through some interfaces (like compiler plugins in jai) so that we can more easily develop LSP for quasi-zig formats like this ?
That would be great, I really like openness and ~plugin interfaces of jai compiler internals ...
I've been using Macs for close to a decade and I still constantly forget this little fact. I am reading this very comment I am replying to on a Mac and I still had to do a double take to confirm for myself that it's indeed called 'delete'
Putting morality of such a thing aside, I wonder what kind of livestreaming platform would be used for this. Part of me easily can imagine Elon Musk stepping in and offering to put up a stream of it on his social media website, they do have the tech for such a thing even. I don't think other high bandwidth streaming services like Twitch or Netflix would want to participate in this. On the other hand if this was planned in advance for a long time, they might have come up with a bespoke website for this (has anyone checked whois records for liveleak.gov? )
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