Tag Archives: technology

Video playback on low-end MS-DOS machines

Posted on January 1, 2024 by Scali

Playing video on MS-DOS… it kinda was a thing with things such as the GRASP/GLPro and FLIC formats back in the day. But not on REALLY low-end machines, such as 8088s and CGA. Until the demo 8088 Corruption was released … Continue reading →

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Programming: What separates the men from the boys?

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Scali

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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The damage that AMD marketing does

Posted on June 4, 2016 by Scali

Some of you may have have seen the actions of a user that goes by the name of Redneckerz on a recent blogpost of mine. That guy posts one wall of text after the next, full of anti-nVidia rhetoric, shameless … Continue reading →

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Funny search terms

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Scali

I find it fun to look at the stats on my blog, and see the search terms that brought people here. Some of them are quite funny. So I’ve decided to collect them, and give you a selection: make windows … Continue reading →

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Linux, the Dunning-Kruger OS

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Scali

Over the years, I’ve seen a pattern emerge. I have documented this on various occasions. Such as the time when Jed Smith thought he knew about Windows security features such as ACLs. Or that time when Linus thought he had … Continue reading →

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Haswell Hasarrived

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Scali

Intel has launched its new generation of Core i5/i7 processors, codenamed Haswell. If you are familiar with Intel’s tick-tock strategy, this is a ‘tock’: a microarchitecture update on existing process technology. In this case the 22 nm process which is … Continue reading →

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Just keeping it Metro

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Scali

Yes, Metro, not Retro. Or actually I should say Windows Store App now. As in, the new interface for Windows 8, mainly aimed at tablets and smartphones. Namely, I got myself a Windows 8 Pro update early on, at a … Continue reading →

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Latency and stuttering with 3D acceleration

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Scali

The other day, I read this interesting article on Anandtech about the GPU stuttering issues that were recently discovered with AMD cards. I wanted to do a quick write-up about that, since it relates to what I am doing. As … Continue reading →

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Just keeping it real, part 10.1

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Scali

Last time, I covered the basics of doing multiply and divide with 8-bit numbers. So far, these routines only worked for unsigned numbers. This time I will show how to add support for signed numbers, some ways to extend these … Continue reading →

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Just keeping it real, part 10

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Scali

Let’s explore the Commodore 64 some more. The topic today is: mathematics. And again, we are going to keep it real, VERY real. I have to admit, originally the ‘keeping it real’ was mainly a play of words on the … Continue reading →

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