Troy Davis

[Troy Davis @GPFTroy]

@GiurisGiu It was just a developer test build of my SDL2 library port to the dreamcast. Note: I can't bundle the game assets, so no ready-to-play build. If you have the original files + dev environment, you can build it yourself. Otherwise, it is just a cool proof-of-concept video!

[Troy Davis @GPFTroy]

Finally got dethrace running on the dreamcast with my SDL2 library port(well at least in an emulator so far)

[Troy Davis @GPFTroy]

Space Ace on the dreamcast - https://t.co/NHHWFqaU31
laser disc game player based off of Hypseus Singe api.
just reencode your videos with my dreamcast-fmv encoder and use with DCSinge.

[Troy Davis @GPFTroy]

@Anthony_817 Hi, I hadn't really worked on it until the last couple of days. @memorix101 was trying to get his build going again, so I recompiled my version to see if it still works with my SDL2/SDL2_mixer ports. I was just using dethrace/Carmageddon to test my Dreamcast SDL2 library.

[Troy Davis @GPFTroy]

I wanted to see if my Dreamcast FMV player would display on a spinning cube.

[Troy Davis @GPFTroy]

@plentyoffists @josh_uglyasf Who’s pushing this penny-doubling BS? Do they give 1¢ on D1, then D2 take it back & give 2¢? Or stack normally & let u keep the 3¢? Need answers b4 starting rice-grain scheme on D30 & becoming Bezos.

[Falco Girgis @falco_girgis]

It is with great pride that I can finally announce that my fast math, vector, and linear algebra library for the Sega Dreamcast, SH4ZAM, has now officially been added to the KallistiOS SDK within kos-ports, ready for use within any KOS-based project looking to make perf gainz! 💪

Featuring dual modern C23 and C++23-based APIs, backed by a metric shitton of inline and out-of-line SH4 assembly, SH4ZAM is meant to provide game developers with an ergonomic, high-level way to harness the full potential of the SH4's floating-point and memory performance, without requiring anyone to sell their souls or print the SH4 hardware docs out on their bedsheets (as I've already done that part for you). 🤣

What began as a series of math optimizations I was making to Rockstar's engine and Renderware's middleware layer in our Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City ports to improve FPS, wound up sending me on an epic quest to bring back the gainz and democratize them for the Sega Dreamcast community and homebrew scene at-large.

Since then, SH4ZAM has grown exponentially more capable and has been leveraged to successfully bring the gainz to high-profile ports such as jnmartin's Mario Kart 64 and Star Fox 64 as well as many homebrew games and engines by several collaborating developers who were willing to work with me during SH4ZAM's early stages, providing invaluable feedback and previewing the gainz.

I'd like to personally thank everyone who contributed to the SH4ZAM GitHub repository, for everything ranging from epic inline SH4 assembly routines to contributing bug reports, examples, and documentation improvements. We dun good work, everyone! 🔥

You can add SH4ZAM to your existing KallistiOS development environment by simply pulling down the master branch from the kos-ports GitHub repository and running the "make install" command within the "sh4zam" port directory.

Further details and documentation can be found on the README for the GitHub repo:
https://t.co/QWLqwVrymp

[Troy Davis @GPFTroy]

@TheGoldenDays Windows 3.0 with 286 and a cga monitor. then upgraded to windows 3.1 and had to use the cga driver from windows 3.0 till I finally updated to ega and a 386.

[Troy Davis @GPFTroy]

@RinoTheBouncer My favorite dreamcast game are playing my own homebrew games I write for fun.

[Troy Davis @GPFTroy]

@landofthe80s Mega Vault (VIC-20) - 1984

[Troy Davis @GPFTroy]

@RafaLagoon I'm not sure. I can only test from GD-Emu, so unfortunately I don't know how CD access speed is. I am hoping someone will report their results.

[Troy Davis @GPFTroy]

Well, I missed Halloween by 1 day, fell asleep, and couldn't record my Dreamcast simulation of the Hypseus Singe API and my Dreamcast-FMV encoder/player code to convert to my custom .dcmv format.

[Troy Davis @GPFTroy]

@NewAgeCoder @falco_girgis @psxdev https://t.co/0bTa7QPvhe for SDL3

https://t.co/2x764EiK1H for SDL2

[Troy Davis @GPFTroy]

@FFT1776 I worked at a car dealership and moved vehicles with 3 on a tree, but got to drive them about 20 feet from the parking to the customer pick bay. every car I owned was on the floor.

[Troy Davis @GPFTroy]

@miles_commodore I used my vic-20 and 300 baud modem for compuserve online encyclopedia back in elementary school around 1982. My Dad was not happy for the addition $20 charge to the phone bill :) but I got 3 months of access.

[Troy Davis @GPFTroy]

@CodeByNZ looks like the computer section shelf of books at Half Price Books.

[Troy Davis @GPFTroy]

@RetroMoviesDB I had to make my own castle greyskull out of cardboard box but still had fun pretending I had the real castle :)

[Troy Davis @GPFTroy]

@hr_sasja This is Sega's Hologram Time Traveler, it will only run on ODE like a gd-emu, to big for cdr.
📦 Header v6: YUV422 640x480 (content: 640x480) @ 29.97fps, 44100Hz, 2ch, unique=59422, total=59422
Frame size: 78848, Max compressed: 41462, Audio offset: 0x4F7C4000, Compression: LZ4

[Troy Davis @GPFTroy]

@yungbzz @_trish_xD yeah I did the same, and then the only thing I ended up doing was compiling an opensource application k6 for performance testing websites, so really all I needed to know was how to compile a go program, then I wrote javascript scripts to run a load test.

[Troy Davis @GPFTroy]

@_trish_xD fortran

[Troy Davis @GPFTroy]

I'm progressing on my #Dreamcast #Singe2 port, added some of the hypseus-singe lua api, for more fmv game fun.
Happy Halloween!!