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Amiga 500 memory

Back in the day, when I had one of my first jobs, I decided to buy an Amiga. I think it was around 1988 or 1989. I had seen a demo of F/A-18 Interceptor (go read), and it blew EVERYTHING … Continue reading

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NeXT – it’s still clean

When I was surfing around Wikipedia today and I happened on this old screenshot, I came away thinking… “Hey, that is still pretty damn clean”. Either i have really fond memories, or I’m onto something. Yeah the colors, icons, and … Continue reading

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Back to consulting…

Last month, I gave Plaxo three weeks notice with my last day on June 2nd. I decided to leave for one major reason: I was near my four year mark and I was ready for a change. On the last … Continue reading

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Friday is Serenity Day

This last weekend, Father’s day, Jack and I finally got the families together. We went swimming and had a great time, but that is a topic for another blog post. We had a conversation about Sci-Fi which lead to talking … Continue reading

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Simon Tatham, Tom Duff – You Rock

Simon Tatham – author of this piece on Coroutines in C (more a fun thing to see that you can do in C), also one of the authors of Nasm, is the author of the most awesome console program ever… … Continue reading

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Good things come in at under 100k

.kkrieger – a sub 100k game demo with incredible textures, lighting, and shadows by .theprodukkt AND tcc – Tiny C Compiler – small and fast … which can also compile linux on boot in 15 seconds with tccboot so good!

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Microsoft GDI+ circa 1999

Here is a link to a paper written by Microsoft on their next generation graphics system GDI+. I also talks a bit about 3D user interfaces. . I tried the email address at the bottom of the paper, but it … Continue reading

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