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·10 ay önce·discuss
It's worth pointing out the Commodore Amiga had proper pre-emptive multitasking on a single M68000 all the way back in July '85
pechay
·geçen yıl·discuss
Thank you for your incredibly detailed correction :)
pechay
·geçen yıl·discuss
The ZX Spectrum ROM loader is 1500bps and some games loaded at over 3000. There wasn't any encoding, just straight-up 1s and 0s straight into RAM.
pechay
·2 yıl önce·discuss
The 68k has both signed and unsigned 32/16 bit divide instructions.
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·2 yıl önce·discuss
We did this same experiment in school, with a tiny pinprick of oil, estimating the volume of the drop as a sphere, and a small water tank, and then estimated the area of oil slick as a circle.
pechay
·2 yıl önce·discuss
University of New South Whales!
pechay
·3 yıl önce·discuss
If everyone starts using cheap off-peak power, will it continue to be cheap?
pechay
·3 yıl önce·discuss
The Amiga didn't have any hardware assistance for scaling sprites, so almost certainly the former.
pechay
·3 yıl önce·discuss
pizza isn't, and can't be, opaquely modified by the topping adder this way.
pechay
·3 yıl önce·discuss
I don't like the side effects of the second addToppings. I'd much prefer

pizza.Toppings = getToppings(kind string)