Category Archives: Software development

Trackers vs MIDI, part deux

Posted on May 29, 2017 by

The previous post got rather long(winded) already. But shortly after I posted it, I realized that I had not yet said all that I wanted to say. Namely, I mentioned the Yamaha FM synthesizer chips at the start, and I … Continue reading →

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Trackers vs MIDI

Posted on March 29, 2017 by

With all the recent tinkering with audio devices and sound routines, I stumbled across various resources, old and new. One such resource was this article on OS/2 Museum, about the Gravis UltraSound. (And small world, this site is by Michal … Continue reading →

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A picture says more than a thousand words

Posted on March 5, 2017 by

When I work out ideas, I sometimes draw things out on paper, or I use some test-images made in Paint.NET or whatnot. So I was thinking… my blog is mostly text-oriented, aside from some example images and videos. Perhaps I … Continue reading →

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Programming: What separates the men from the boys?

Posted on January 24, 2017 by

I have come up with the following list of topics: Pointer arithmetic Unicode vs ASCII strings Memory management Calling conventions Basic mathematics, such as linear algebra (eg 2d rotations, translations and scaling, things you’ll regularly find in basic GUI stuff). … Continue reading →

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Any real-keeping lately?

Posted on December 11, 2016 by

The 5-year anniversary of my inaugural ‘Just keeping it real’-article came and went. Has it been that long already? It’s also been quite some time since I’ve last written about some oldskool coding, or even anything at all. Things have … Continue reading →

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DirectX 12 and Vulkan: what it is, and what it isn’t

Posted on August 10, 2016 by

I often read comments in the vein of: “… but vendor A’s hardware is designed more for DX12/Vulkan than vendor B’s”. It’s a bit more complicated than that, because it is somewhat of a chicken-and-egg problem. So I thought I’d … Continue reading →

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FutureMark’s Time Spy: some people still don’t get it

Posted on August 4, 2016 by

Today I read a review of AMD’s new Radeon RX470 on Tweakers.net, by Jelle Stuip. He used Time Spy as a benchmark, and added the following description: About 3DMark Time Spy has recently been some controversy, because it is found … Continue reading →

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