tanepiper
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Comment · 6 days ago
I've been working on a few of my own engines (which I'm also developing https://tanepiper.github.io/game-frame/ around - an agentic framework for game preservation)
Would be interesting to see how more accurate it could get with it, as this is along the lines of what I'm doing for POD: Planet of Death, Hardwar and Frontier: Elite II
Comment · 9 days ago
Yes pretty much Opus 5.5. I only have x5 Max and it's bene quite efficient. On ChatGPT I'm only on Plus and keep running out of context too quickly.
I'd be interested trying it locally on my machine with something like Qwen - but not got around to that yet
Comment · 10 days ago
After doing some experiments with decompiling and rebuilding games, I took together the experience and put together a framework of tools and skills around decompiling games and emulating or rebuilding them.
Comment · 14 days ago
I've never done this before - but a couple of days ago with Opus 5.5 on x5 Max account I started to decompile and port Banished to rust using ghidra and REA. It's not an abandoned game, but the last release was in 2014 and it's only available on Windows.
It's about 90% complete today, just working through smaller functions but the majority of the work is done and playable both natively and within the browser.
I'm now looking at a list of older or abandoned games I enjoyed and looking to see if it would be worth creating a modern executable for it.
Comment · 15 days ago
We are truly in the dumbest timeline
Comment · 22 days ago
"I'll take International Politics for $200 Alex"
"The answer is YES!"
Is it "Are we the baddies?"
ding ding ding ding
Comment · 24 days ago
So far from your behavior - a 1 day old account with its only issue to accuse the original developer - seems to stick. Maybe that's a clue to how you've handled this?
Comment · 27 days ago
<dialog> still has issues to this day that haven't been resolved - https://tane.dev/2021/02/revisiting-dark-patterns-with-the-h... - of course these can be implemented in any framework but this makes is much easier - at the platform level - to make a browser unusable, and as it's platform it's of course never been fixed.
You can have fun with web components (https://tanepiper.github.io/webc-humour/) but from my experience trying to build UIs with them - they end up becoming an additional abstraction that instead of just using a framework to build the entire experience, it creates annoying boundaries of having to deal with DOM attributes instead of just working with properties.
Comment · 28 days ago
Yep and I hate it. I'm in several teams in my org and to find certain repos - the never show up in the sidebar quick search and 1 click - instead it's now Settings -> Teams -> (find team) -> Click on Repos -> (find the repo)
Comment · 1 month ago
Glad to see I wasn't the only one who thought exactly the same...
Comment · 1 month ago
The web is becoming very hostile to ad blockers. I use a VPN and I've noticed more and more sites just being obnoxious with their popups and even just crashing the site completely in a loop (looking at you EuroNews)
Comment · 1 month ago
It literally says on the mod page "Voiced by Matt Berry"
Comment · 2 months ago
Sorry why are you mentioning Nazis? I didn't - I think the lady sockpuppet doth protest too much...