budz2355 Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 Using SAMS has some challenges for a programmer. The availability issue may become smaller with initiatives like this, but there is still a huge difference between having a large contiguous memory space and having paged memory like SAMS. The most obvious use is as a 'RAM disk' (edit: by which I mean a buffer for files loaded from disk), which is what it has mostly been used for in the past. It's great that RXB has support for paged SAMS, but what would be really great is if it could use SAMS for stack space. High level languages have the possibility of adding an abstraction layer in front of the paged memory so it appears to be contiguous. This is more difficult from assembly without suffering a relatively large performance loss. I would like to write an RPG that would use SAMS for storing a huge world, but because of the challenges this have never left the idea stage. A rasmus RPG?? +1 million! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted May 4, 2016 Author Share Posted May 4, 2016 A rasmus RPG?? +1 million! Hmmm, just day dreaming... UberCart + SAMS + F18A = ... let's let the man finish Formula 18A before we pile the sum of all our expectations on his wide shoulders. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 (edited) OH MY GOD, you're showing a Swastika! I'm starting to feel a gentle pull towards the East, wait, I'm going to fetch some tanks ... This tiny symbol was the reason they banned the whole game from the German market. When recently a report on TV was shown about the history of "killer video games" they said that they still must not show pictures like these. So I'm seeing this the first time. Edited May 4, 2016 by mizapf 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted May 4, 2016 Author Share Posted May 4, 2016 Banning a symbol, without considering the context in which it's used seems rather foolish to me. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out the Nazi's in the game are the bad guys. I bet the censors would defecate bricks if they saw this movie trailer... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnrRy6kSFF0 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Schmitzi Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 one of best movies ever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwantgames:) Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 A rasmus RPG?? +1 million! +1 million and 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 (edited) Banning a symbol, without considering the context in which it's used seems rather foolish to me. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out the Nazi's in the game are the bad guys. I bet the censors would defecate bricks if they saw this movie trailer... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnrRy6kSFF0 We had Inglourious Basterds in the movie theaters, and you see Nazi symbols there. The problem is: In general, Nazi symbols are banned in Germany, and showing them or making otherwise use is forbidden by law.* Except: You show the symbols in the context of a historical documentation The context is visual arts Since movies are considered art, they may show Nazi symbols. There is an ongoing discussion whether computer games are art or not. Up to now they were not considered art, so the exemption was not applicable. While many people strongly argue that it is ridiculous worst movies are called art, but the current sophisticated computer games are not, there is also a good deal of people, in particular those in the government, that deny this role to games. (Eventually this would mean that computer games are eligible to art funding, including those vicious first-person shooters. OMG!) I don't need to say that this is utter nonsense, as many people from my generation believe, but I guess every generation and every country has its own weirdness. * Edit: Just another hilarious thing here ... an anti-fascist campaign in Germany used a graphic illustration where a stylized person (like the ones you see on traffic signs) dumps a Swastika into a trashcan, as if it were rubbish. Even though the message was clear, the law does not differentiate the semantics how this symbol is used, so IIRC this went to court, but I don't remember the result. Edited May 5, 2016 by mizapf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out the Nazi's in the game are the bad guys. A somewhat confusing statement perhaps, as didn't some of the rocket scientists working on the Nazi "V" weapons end up in America working on their space programme? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckoba Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 A somewhat confusing statement perhaps, as didn't some of the rocket scientists working on the Nazi "V" weapons end up in America working on their space programme? I was going to make a snarky comment about how stunts like Operation Paperclip staffed both the US technical and intelligence apparatus with "de-Nazified" Nazis, but that would be un-American and possibly mark me for special observation 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc.hull Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 Perhaps the US should have left well enough alone. WWI, II, Cold war ? One big Germany or Soviet Union. Food for thought while we are jesting ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckoba Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 (edited) Well, Patton wanted to absorb what was left of the Wehrmacht and keep driving east until he hit Moscow. We wargamed that a couple of times back in the day -- the consensus was that it could be done with massive loss of life, but the Cold War wouldn't have happened and Europe would have all been NATO. Could just as well speculate what would have happened if MacArthur had given the KMT anything resembling military support, or if he'd defied Eisenhower and strip-nuked the Chinese coast. I guarantee that neither Tursi nor I would have any experience with Chinese manufacturing, that's for certain. (not a US citizen now, but used to be. Place scares me now.) Edit: Eisenhower was president during MacArthur's "I'm going to nuke China anyway" tantrum, not Truman. Truman probably would have approved the plan. Edited May 6, 2016 by ckoba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyDean Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 I was going to make a snarky comment about how stunts like Operation Paperclip staffed both the US technical and intelligence apparatus with "de-Nazified" Nazis, but that would be un-American and possibly mark me for special observation We're watching you 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckoba Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 (edited) We're watching you I know. (explanation redacted) Edited May 6, 2016 by ckoba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc.hull Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 (not a US citizen now, but used to be. Place scares me now.) Well I hear N Korea is always looking for new people. Give that a shot ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckoba Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 Well I hear N Korea is always looking for new people. Give that a shot ? I'm doing fine where I am, thank you very much. Or was your point something pointedly unpleasant implied with relinquishing US citizenship in favor of citizenship where one lives? If so, sir, let us end this thread now before it takes us into unpleasant waters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc.hull Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 Not at all. Just responding to your declaration that the US is a scary place to live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckoba Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 Ah. Then I apologize. Compared to the US that I left when I EAOS'ed twenty years ago, the US has (from the perspective of someone who watches from the outside) become an unpleasant place to live. I'll not say further, because it's difficult to recognize the water's boiling when you're the frog in the pot, but I personally would never consider returning (and, in fact, cannot return without about two years' worth of visa paperwork). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 Compared to the US that I left when I EAOS'ed twenty years ago, the US has (from the perspective of someone who watches from the outside) become an unpleasant place to live. I'll not say further, because it's difficult to recognize the water's boiling when you're the frog in the pot, but I personally would never consider returning (and, in fact, cannot return without about two years' worth of visa paperwork). As one of the frogs in the pot, I can't for the life of me see how this discussion has anything to do with hardware projects. The boiling water must be affecting my brain 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 I guarantee that neither Tursi nor I would have any experience with Chinese manufacturing, that's for certain. I think I missed something... how'd I get involved here? I worked with Chinese manufacturers during my time at Neato Robotics - I updated the hardware test scripts, wrote the documentation (or did I? I can't remember), and diagnosed boards that came back failed. Didn't end up going to the factories, though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckoba Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 I think I missed something... how'd I get involved here? I worked with Chinese manufacturers during my time at Neato Robotics - I updated the hardware test scripts, wrote the documentation (or did I? I can't remember), and diagnosed boards that came back failed. Didn't end up going to the factories, though... Sorry, saw "PVG" and translated it as airport shorthand for "Pudong". Lots of factories out there ... and be glad you never went to any of them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Sorry, saw "PVG" and translated it as airport shorthand for "Pudong". Lots of factories out there ... and be glad you never went to any of them Yeah, you translated correctly... more factories down in Shenzhen, as I understand it, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckoba Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Yeah, you translated correctly... more factories down in Shenzhen, as I understand it, though. From what I've seen, that's correct (although, counting Changshu and Suzhou, I spent more time at more factories in the greater Shanghai travel radius)... but the bigger players (Foxconn) have been building CMs out in the middle of nowhere (Taiyuan first, but also Zhengzhou and Chengdu) because even Shenzhen wages are getting too expensive. They'll do EVT/DVT/PVT with their A players in Shenzhen, and when the product hits sustaining mode it gets shuffled off to someplace in the sticks. Last I heard, they were going to expand into India because *Chinese* wages are getting too expensive. That'll end well. Anyway, sorry about equating you with factory ops. I see "PVG" as a location, and I think "poor engineer semi-permanently stationed at a CM". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mister35mm Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 really? So why has nobody done this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted July 28, 2016 Author Share Posted July 28, 2016 ATTENTION - If you are reading this thread with the intent of performing the "Two-Chip 32k in the TI-99/4A Console" modification, do NOT use the instructions posted in Message #40. Use the updated PDF file attached to this post. It corrects one teeny tiny little typo that may leave you pulling your hair out asking, "Why isn't this working?" TI 32k Mod Update 7-27-16.pdf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted July 28, 2016 Author Share Posted July 28, 2016 So, does anyone have any ideas or suggestions for the NEXT project? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Like us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter
AtariAge on Instagram
Watch us on YouTube
Chat on Discord
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.