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  1. This gaming room is perfect: http://tinyurl.com/pu6scyv

    1. Random Terrain

      Random Terrain

      I see one window with no curtains. I guess she isn't afraid of criminals seeing what she has or knowing where she is in the house.

  2. Capacitors are the retro-gamer's enemy.

    1. 7800fan

      7800fan

      Tiny SMD are worse. Takes so much effort to remove old ones from Game Gear and solder in non-SMD version.

    2. DZ-Jay

      DZ-Jay

      I thought sore thumbs were the retro-gamer's enemy. I should have read the manual.

    3. Atarian7

      Atarian7

      Except for the flux capacitor which allows you to go back in time and snag all the rare games or just hang out at the local arcade.

  3. I got my Acer Ferrari 3400 back! It still boots. Should I put some memory, ssd, and windows 10 in/on it?

  4. I saw a restaurant where I could order a 'Grilled hole chicken'.

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    2. Rick Dangerous
    3. 7800fan

      7800fan

      Must be a russian restaurant, they can't do w's

    4. roland p

      roland p

      I think it was a Turkish restaurant (in the Netherlands).

  5. Doc Brown:"Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one. "

  6. Development rule #1: make it work, no matter how crappy your code is, it's always better than non-working code.

  7. having the inter-rotofoil-ball collision after auto-rotation bug

    1. Nathan Strum

      Nathan Strum

      I hate having that. Probably just something you ate.

  8. An FPGA is a digital version of the Star Trek Replicator.

  9. Writer's block :(

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    2. BydoEmpire

      BydoEmpire

      Read "The War of Art"

    3. roland p

      roland p

      The biggest problem is getting rid of all the 'bugs' I create :D

    4. jaybird3rd

      jaybird3rd

      Someone should instruct you to write bug-free copy. Simple as that!

  10. Good thing the RPC-Games (Centron 3D) atari age losers list is gone.

  11. The shell is the hard part.

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    2. roland p

      roland p

      Hiding a prototype behind a translucent shell was their way of being transparent.

    3. CPUWIZ

      CPUWIZ

      It would be difficult to call something soft, a shell. :P

    4. Random Terrain

      Random Terrain

      I thought we were talking about turtles.

  12. Reading the Retro VGS thread and wondering how deep the rabbit hole goes.

  13. Plain ticket to Portland is €1000...

    1. Random Terrain

      Random Terrain

      I tried to buy a plain plane ticket, but they would only sell me a fancy one.

    2. CyranoJ

      CyranoJ

      Make mine unflavoured, Neddy!

       

    3. Bryan

      Bryan

      Do they have anything fancier?

  14. Actually giving information is becoming a side effect of websites.

  15. Now trying to implement auto rotation.

  16. Pixels! (Now sue me for copyright infringement)

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    2. Keatah

      Keatah

      They purchased rights from him.

       

    3. Keatah

      Keatah

      Either way, when this is the type of press you hear, instead of how good it is, you know it sucks and isn't worth your time.

    4. TheObscureGamer

      TheObscureGamer

      Pixels is the best movie this year

  17. I think computers are 100x more performant than what we actually need/use.

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    2. roland p

      roland p

      My main tool is SQL. Everything else (html, javascript) is just fluff.

    3. omegadot

      omegadot

      I get a pretty big efficiency boost with the ability to run VM labs on a single workstation. When I did various types of forensics, especially response, it was pretty invaluable. If I didn't benefit from that so much, I'd agree, though.

    4. Atarian7

      Atarian7

      I think you're right. My computer has a ton of features I don't use.

  18. Only a ball, auto rotation, some ball grabbing logic, shooting, scoring, ai, music, and my game is done!

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    2. Spacey Invader

      Spacey Invader

      Sounds like an equal chance that it's innocent as hell or will ship in a brown paper bag. Suspense ...

    3. Nathan Strum

      Nathan Strum

      An afternoon's work. ;)

    4. roland p

      roland p

      Indeed :) Bouncing took me 4 weeks lol.

  19. Optimized code != readable code

    1. Bryan

      Bryan

      Especially on simpler systems where bending the task to fit the architecture can yield significant increases.

    2. 5-11under

      5-11under

      I prefer readable, although I'm sure many times I get neither.

  20. if (inter rotofoil bounce) then {cancel update and swap speed properties} else {check rotofoil-border collisions}

    1. Keatah

      Keatah

      That would work.

    2. Video_Invader
    3. roland p

      roland p

      great, now I got inter rotofoil collision detection, but the view is screwed up so when a rotofoil collides with another, it's already not drawn anymore because it's too close...

  21. Shifting (as in divide by 2) negative numbers makes my head explode.

    1. roland p

      roland p

      They never reach 0 like the positive numbers do.

  22. Programmer: an organism that turns caffeine and pizza into software.

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    2. Jinroh

      Jinroh

      You've been spying on me.

    3. Jinroh

      Jinroh

      :P I can also turn bites into bits.
    4. Random Terrain

      Random Terrain

      So that's why I'm not a programmer. I keep drinking water.

  23. de-obfuscating ballblazer code :D

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