xanathar

Nice, but doesn't accept Waking Violet as a valid Nintendo Switch game

And they run Linux

1) Do not free memory allocated in one language (even more: in one library unless explicitly documented so) into another. Rust can use a custom allocator, and what it uses by default is an implementation detail that can change at a blink.

2) Do not use Vec<T> to pass arrays to C. Use boxed slices. Do not even try to allocate a Vec and free a Box... how can it even work?!

3) free(ptr) can be called even in ptr is NULL

4) ... I frankly stopped reading. I will never know if Rust actually needs Go's defer or not.

But you would not be able to define functions.

To run win32 applications inside Windows operating systems that are too modern (e.g. for 16bit apps), in a browser or on macOS (recent versions of macOS do not have 32bit support and IIRC runnin 32bit wine was not easy).

Of course these are my guesses, I don't think the "purpose" of boxedwine is ever explicitly stated.

... There are plenty of those kind of games being sold and developed, though.

I only play single player stuff and have a backlog that just keeps increasing, I can't keep with the pace. They aren't the most publicized AAA titles though (BG3 probably bring an exception given its popularity, and the Zeldas thanks to Nintendo).

It's just like music, where there's plenty of good one being made, but can't be found anywhere close to the top 10 hits or on radio (at least, for the kind of music I like).

So yeah... One can dream, but the dream is, for once, alive (mostly thanks to GoG, Steam and Humble).

Pentium 60MHz was P5 though, not P54C ... if I'm not mistaken. IIRC the slowest P54C was the 75MHz one as they all had 1.5x multiplier or greater? Again, I wouldn't rule out my memory being wrong.

I didn't remember that case, thank you!

Curious: who was/is the tech executive with an Italian arrest warrant?

Especially given that 'notebook' is also a synonym of 'laptop' and I was like, wtf, I don't have a mainframe to be less lazy.

Everything from DOS 5.x onwards (including Windows 9x and NT) came with QBasic, previous versions of DOS had GW-BASIC.

Not the greatest tools out of the box, but still better than nothing.

Compiling? Staying cool and not turning on the fan? Avoiding unnecessary waste?

Really anything rather than a thing that has only drawbacks.

As far as readability goes... can't see a difference with monospace text, maybe even worse as fonts tend to be thinner and need adjustments. Maybe a little better with proportional text on websites and documents.