or the top 1% of value holders means your connection to other holders is vastly smaller than the other 99%. also highly likely to get cancer no matter who you are. i think the odds are better than people think, was just a matter of time

regardless of that observation: i am glad it's good people working with good people on these problems!

So this is a smudge of like 4 projects? Huh. Definitely interested, but I wonder about the longevity of the system. That's one thing about the code cad systems I like: it's pretty easy to port code from one to another.

If you use Google in any capacity, you already have.

and this is why i, personally, use searxng these days instead of google or duckduckgo

Sibil attack in 3...2...1....

I don't think there's anything recent here, they are just pre-computing a normal map which doubles as already "baking" a 3D-looking image in.

Was there anything of that sort made during the gbc era on this hardware ? I thought nobody ever attempted it before

Not exactly this, but many "3D games" were pre-computed scenes. The normal map is the novel bit of this demo.

Ok, and at the time, was anybody even thinking about computing normal maps this way on such hardware ? that was my original though, "maybe" this is the result of applying more recent ideas for this group to hardware that wasn't made to support it. But maybe i'm wrong and people did try.

These are starting to become daily horoscopes

The RP2XXX microcontrollers are so incredible in terms of what it's opened to hobbyists. I hope microcontroller-based computers become a thing.

It's more a matter of exposing hobbyists of one vertical to what exists in another. Low-power RISC microcontrollers and microprocessors were superseded in popularity by the ease of a Raspberry Pi SBCs running Linux, that could act as a host to its own development.

Now that Raspberry Pi has entered the market, hobbyists that were only familiar with SBCs are now being introduced to the flexibility of Low-power RISC microcontrollers and microprocessors.

There's also some new products on the market that are the best of both worlds, with the system-in-package form factors and easy bare-metal development of the RP2XXX line, that still have the ability to run full Linux, like the Bouffalo Labs BL808 and the Sophgo SG2000. Check out the Ox64 from Pine64 (https://pine64.com/product/128mb-ox64-sbc-available-on-decem...) or the Duo series from MilkV (https://milkv.io/duo) for breakout boards and development boards.

Agreed. The price point and PIOs really open a lot of possibilities, especially with the amazing tooling that is available.

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I want to say, that your comment has been the most real, aligned thing I've read in this post's comments. The articulation of what I've also seen and felt is perfect. Whoever else passes by, THIS, is the truth. What dnw has written is the honest-to-god state of things and that it does not rob you of the passion of creating.