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A broken doll. All inquiries (including questions, comments, and requests for more detailed contact info) may be directed to my name at outlook dot com.
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Comment · 1 month ago
And it would probably be 0.4xx-something if they had their current release numbering policy from day 1 instead of all the piddling around with u releases in the 90s and 2000s and even up a little bit to the early 2010s.
Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Is this Chromium Ubiquity port publicized anywhere? I would love to try working with something like it again.
Comment · 1 year ago
Was this an independent hobbyist reimplementation? Gobe did something similar in order to port their productivity suite (sorely missed) from BeOS over to Windows and Linux.
Comment · 2 years ago
I believe the implication of OP's comment is that Doom and Wolfenstein 3D were originally released under non-commercial source available licenses before being relicensed to a FOSS license (GPLv2) a few years later, and the same could very well end up happening for Rogue Legacy as well.
Comment · 2 years ago
The classic book references for programming shmup bullet patterns (in Japanese) are シューティングゲームアルゴリズムマニアックス and シューティングゲーム プログラミング, but in general, a lot of this stuff is folk knowledge and isn't communicated well outside of trial and error until you get something passable. I would suggest looking up web tutorials and game source code and learning from that (also will mention the Development sub forum on shmups.system11.org being quite useful).
Comment · 2 years ago
If I had to wager a guess, probably something like labwc would end up in that role for a distro of DSL's scope and philosophy. However, I think we're still a while away from that, and for the targeted machines, X is still completely fine and will remain so for a long while.
Comment · 3 years ago
I wonder if there will be any substantial increase in pedojacketing among cultural elites towards those they see as undesirables now that the bill is passed, or whether the second order effects of the bill will lead to a backlash against the existing proliferation of it from the young, globally connected, and tech savvy populations still remaining in Britain after the depredations of the last decade.
Comment · 3 years ago
For ARM32, RISC OS is probably the closest to the value proposition offered by Menuet, albeit with a decent amount of high level code and a lot more support from developers for applications, languages, and games.
Comment · 3 years ago
Xanadu comes close to this "ferengi Internet" mindset with some of the tactics it chooses for monetization of content, albeit from an entirely different angle (enabling remix culture more or less indiscriminately while preserving the sanctity of the existing copyright system and enabling royalties to flow to authors proportional to how their works are used and reused).
Comment · 3 years ago
It's not mentioned in the article, but the author uses AppImages for GUI applications wherever and whenever he can. He's very well aware of this aspect of the classic Mac OS and seeks to emulate it as closely as possible.
Comment · 3 years ago
I believe most of the things OP mentioned have to do with the shell and not the terminal. At the very least, most of the things thus mentioned can be configured in zsh (I don't know how, as I haven't looked into it really)

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