December 2014

44 bookmarks saved in December 2014

Classic NES Series Anti-Emulation Measures - mGBA

https://endrift.com/mgba/2014/12/28/classic-nes/
From a GBA emulation perspective, the games were especially interesting. The average Game Boy Advance game is extremely buggy, and the platform itself contains a number of safeguards to prevent games from crashing. As a result, emulators tend to need to be bug-compatible with the original hardware to ensure that the games actually work. However, the Classic NES Series goes above and beyond the average game in an attempt to ensure they don’t work in emulators.

Classic NES Series Anti-Emulation Measures - mGBA

https://endrift.com/mgba/2014/12/28/classic-nes
From a GBA emulation perspective, the games were especially interesting. The average Game Boy Advance game is extremely buggy, and the platform itself contains a number of safeguards to prevent games from crashing. As a result, emulators tend to need to be bug-compatible with the original hardware to ensure that the games actually work. However, the Classic NES Series goes above and beyond the average game in an attempt to ensure they don’t work in emulators.

Bruce Sterling on Why It Stopped Making Sense to Talk About 'The Internet' in 2012 - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/bruce-sterling-on-why-it-stopped-making-sense-to-talk-about-the-internet-in-2012/266674/
Five simple reasons: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft. Many people use, as a kind of shorthand, The Internet to mean a wide variety of things related to this series of tubes. The Internet could mean the culture made and distributed on the Internet, the LOLCATZ, memes, etc. via Pocket

Bruce Sterling on Why It Stopped Making Sense to Talk About 'The Internet' in 2012 - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/bruce-sterling-on-why-it-stopped-making-sense-to-talk-about-the-internet-in-2012/266674
Five simple reasons: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft. Many people use, as a kind of shorthand, The Internet to mean a wide variety of things related to this series of tubes. The Internet could mean the culture made and distributed on the Internet, the LOLCATZ, memes, etc. via Pocket

Why David Byrne is wrong about Spotify | Dave Allen | Comment is free | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/16/why-david-byrne-wrong-spotify-thom-yorke
It feels strange to sit down and begin writing a rebuttal to the declamation of a musician who I really admire. David Byrne wrote an article last week for the Guardian in which he states: "I've pulled as much of my catalogue from Spotify I can. via Pocket

CBM FileBrowser

http://www.vic20.it/cbmfilebrowser/
CBM-FileBrowser is a program launcher for Commodore machines. Even if it was originally intended for devices with sd2iec firmware, it works also with any CBM drive (without sd2iec functions of course).

CBM FileBrowser

http://www.vic20.it/cbmfilebrowser
CBM-FileBrowser is a program launcher for Commodore machines. Even if it was originally intended for devices with sd2iec firmware, it works also with any CBM drive (without sd2iec functions of course).