Paul Byford

Programmer
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[Paul Byford @TheHetman]

With Twitter blocking 3rd party clients, I will be checking here less often. I really don’t like any of the official offerings. Find me on Mastodon.

[Paul Byford @TheHetman]

@johnblueriggs This thread about one of your NES cartridge videos might be of interest to you.

[Paul Byford @TheHetman]

@Paul_Mach1 @BIGsheep Well, here’s a piece of Rare history. When I saw the splash screen I went “whoow, what is this?” https://t.co/OO9V1Nypku

[Paul Byford @TheHetman]

@Paul_Mach1 @BIGsheep @Kev_Bayliss @David_Wise The character set for the legal page is single colour, so the copy to VRAM would be a different routine than for the 4 colour graphics in the main game. Different timings for those copies could mean that one works when the other doesn’t.

[Paul Byford @TheHetman]

@Paul_Mach1 @BIGsheep Well, here’s a piece of Rare history. When I saw the splash screen I went “whoow, what is this?” https://t.co/OO9V1Nypku

[Paul Byford @TheHetman]

@Paul_Mach1 @BIGsheep @Kev_Bayliss @David_Wise Yes, Happy new year to one and all.

[Paul Byford @TheHetman]

@keriush are you on mastodon? I couldn’t find you when I looked.

[Paul Byford @TheHetman]

@sarahlane BC no friendly web links into https://t.co/qmD9jXjtdm? We’ve been burned once by a closed ecosystem, so why jump to another? Particularly one that doesn’t even allow web links to content. You have to sign up to see anything. Same goes for Hive.

[Paul Byford @TheHetman]

@clever_corvids Any chance of you coming over to Mastodon? I’ve been there since the start of the month and it seems a friendly place.

[Paul Byford @TheHetman]

@sarahlane They’re a British indie rock band with some catchy tunes. They blew up in the UK last year. Worth a listen.

[Sam Wronski @runewake2]

The team @Raspberry_Pi seems to be setting a good example of how to do corporate Mastodon. They sponsored the project and then spun up their own custom instance instead of relying on the community to carry their brand.

https://t.co/TYWmq7i4om

I'm a fan of this!

[Paul Byford @TheHetman]

@siracusa Rambus RAM was so slow and the CPU caches were tiny (4K code / 4K data). When I first read the hardware manual for the N64 about 6 months before anyone outside of SGI / Nintendo had dev kits I said that it would be horribly bus bound like the Amiga and so it turned out to be.

[Paul Byford @TheHetman]

@tiltfive Altered Beast. Ghosts and Goblins was pretty early too.

[MichaelWhite @michaelwhite]

Markets can be harsh sometimes…..

[Paul Byford @TheHetman]

@BIGsheep @Paul_Mach1 It was Mark Wilson that worked on Scanner. I’m glad that the name came to my failing memory 😏.

[Paul Byford @TheHetman]

@BIGsheep @Paul_Mach1 The guy that worked on it was named Mark, but I’m blanking on his second name, which is terrible as he came from the same village as me and we went to the same primary school.

[Paul Byford @TheHetman]

@jeriellsworth a very young looking Howard Phillips in his trademark bow tie at CES 1990 playing Solar Jetman with Tim, Chris and Joel from Rare looking on. Surely an interesting style of game to make for @tiltfive https://t.co/VUBNOKBKRj

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

When your team is about to do a simple tech migration

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

The Chicago Cubs put together a drone tour of Wrigley Field, and it’s guaranteed to be the most incredible thing you watch today 🤯