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When Japan Tried to Create Artificial Intelligence in the 1980s
Re:The entire city of San Francisco as a video game
on Monday August 24, 2026 @01:50PM (#49423454)
GTA Baghdad by the Bay
Was x86 segmented address aliasing a pitfall or an advantage actual code used?
Why does DOS include "get interrupt vector" and "set interrupt vector" syscalls?
Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No Agenda has ...
on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @04:40PM (#49013107)
In my youth, his InfoWorld columns were appointment reading. A one-of-a-kind in the industry.
AttoChess, a complete, playable chess program for 16-bit x86 DOS in 278 bytes
The Relaunch of the Old West and Why I Chose Vanilla PHP
IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields
San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names
Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technical matter?
Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory
How were large Unix installations managed in the 80s/90s?
A surprise with how ' ' handles its program argument in practice
The old church where one trillion webpages are being saved
There's No Rust on This Ironclad Kernel: An OS Written in Ada
Who was "Paul's Method" named after (a.k.a. the MOS 6502 RTS trick)?
Why Unix requires mount points
Re:Action was the best 8-bit programming language
on Thursday September 04, 2025 @07:16PM (#45133316)
One limitation not mentioned is that Action! didn't support recursion. This had to do with how local variables were stored.
Whether it was the best language for 8-bit programming, it certainly was a great fit for the 6502, as the language targeted the peculiarities of that chip. Accessing hardware-specific features of the 8-bit Atari's was a snap, which was necessary in order to do anything more interesting than sieves or print loops.
Action! probably could've been ported to the Apple line, but 8-bits were winding down by the time it was released. Porting to 16-bit machines like the IBM PC or Mac (or even the Atari ST) would have been a tougher sell, since Pascal and C were better established by that point, and worked well on those machines.
Two bad things about Action!: Charging a license fee to distribute the runtime, and that dumb bang in the name.
Univ. of Minnesota seeks photos to archive national parks signs before removal
Neuromancer is in production
I tried to hire a North Korean scammer [video]
Re:Play "The Plot of the Phantom" the text adventure that took 40 year...
on Monday June 30, 2025 @01:29PM (#44425845)
There have been attempts, the results were not promising:
https://intfiction.org/t/first-full-game-available-on-new-ll...
Play "The Plot of the Phantom" the text adventure that took 40 years to finish
Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux
What UI first distinguished radio and check buttons with circles and squares?
The initial version of the /etc./magic file used by the file(1) command
Re:Our Narrative Prison
on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @02:39PM (#43987835)
Sure. Another comes from Jim Thompson, who said there was only one kind of story: "Things are not as they seem."
Re:A graphical listing of all icons shipped in Win 3.1 PROGMAN.EXE and...
on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @01:26PM (#43918409)