Lonnie Watson

a 60 year old nerd, father of twin 10 year olds... so that also means I'm insane

Been into computers and electronics since the late 1970's.

[Lonnie Watson @harlock6502]

@JonBuildsHQ I have built my repo site with my 160+ arcade and 80's computer game creations targeting win,mac,Linux on arm or x86 as well as my other tools. All open source. Check it out at
https://t.co/2YEQxp5Z5Q

[Lonnie Watson @harlock6502]

@Taniyatweets_ More memory is always better if you can afford it

[Lonnie Watson @harlock6502]

@WeeyugaFounder Well i havnt been told that they dont like something about me so not sure. I am a tad pissed that I paid for something and was charged and dont have that something... but whatever... even Apple doesn't charge until the ship...

[Lonnie Watson @harlock6502]

@Bhavyaztwt OMARCHY

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@usamafolio https://t.co/2YEQxp5Z5Q

My page of arcade game recreations and tools developed over the years...

[Lonnie Watson @harlock6502]

@Giulio6686 It's similar at 60

[Lonnie Watson @harlock6502]

Over the past week I have added a lot of game recreations to https://t.co/1A3fJYtH7t. A 3d modler tool I created some time ago and finally packaged. An Entra/Mail blue test harness I use for work, and a preview of an original isometric RPG I'm working on

[Lonnie Watson @harlock6502]

@KI_Vater Additionally the audio stack has a significant set of controls to adjust performance of it. The defaults for things like buffer sizes for streams work well enough for most platforms but might benefit from adjustment to larger buffers in lesser performance scenarios like VM's

[Lonnie Watson @harlock6502]

@KI_Vater Yes thats what I did inadvertantly as it was just the beginning. Initially the performance in the VM was abysmal. That was due to the platform vm not indicating lack of GPU acceleration. Thats where the changes to env detection come in with alternate code depending on outcome.

[Lonnie Watson @harlock6502]

@JoshuaSWarren @omarchy @OmarchyMac Was going to sell my m4max w 4tb drive and might just hold on to it To run it in something other than a vm on my m5max or my space heater Intel machines

[Lonnie Watson @harlock6502]

@KI_Vater You asked how I was working with environmental differences between the various platforms with this tooling latency and whatnot. Well , i'm finally hitting some difficulties with a project i'm building an isometric rpg. Currently using environmental inspection then different code

[Lonnie Watson @harlock6502]

Just a ? for the Blue Checkmark folks... How long did it take for you to get that after PAYING to get it. It's been days for me and it still UNDER REVIEW...

[Lonnie Watson @harlock6502]

@Smitha_codes Feature creep is a real problem , especially when you have the power to implement said features yourself. The rush of adrenaline is very alluring

[Lonnie Watson @harlock6502]

@Giulio6686 Brace yourself

[Lonnie Watson @harlock6502]

@theamelia___ Absolutely. in fact I might have caught a beating if I stayed in all day...

[Lonnie Watson @harlock6502]

@Giulio6686 Which one of my "CURRENT" projects?

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@KI_Vater Then I could use MY own angelic voice the the creepy doctor. heh I like it....

[Lonnie Watson @harlock6502]

@KI_Vater One place where all that may come into play is what I am working on now. A re-creation of The Castles of Dr Creep. Where we had some voice synthesis. Making that work everywhere might prove challenging

[Lonnie Watson @harlock6502]

@KI_Vater Hi been working in software dev now for decades. building lots of game recreations from my misspent youth last centuary. Check out https://t.co/2YEQxp6wVo if your interested. All open sourced and multi-platform

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@KI_Vater Most of those Arcade re-creations are running at such a slow timing pace internally that any variability in environment have zero impact. They even play well on a Raspberry PI. So, I guess I'm not handling it...