steven haggerty

Games programming since t' 80's. Turned pro' in t' 90's. Still can't do maths.

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@0xAX There used to be an internal game dev assembler that would label comments as “BS”. Eg.

Assembled 4000 lines in 0.3secs, 1000 lines of BS.

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@araseb_ “car” as I don’t seem to be able to type “cat” correctly.

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@pikuma Also try and jam something useful into the branch delay slot…

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@HostOfMeta We had a guy like this. He was very difficult to get a straight answer from, even though he knew exactly what you wanted to know. We eventually realised the best way was to ask his colleague to “interpret” the question and the answer.

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@wtravishubbard “I don’t care how long it takes as long as it fits in this little box in MSProject” - GameDev in the 90’s.

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@Valen_UMR @tetsuoai Got whiplash coming here to say the same thing.

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@_andrewthecoder Stacks blow up when people don’t know what recursion does. Heaps blow up when you don’t understand lifetimes.

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@DemetriSpanos I tried a few game physics papers, got lost in LCP solvers and Jacobians.

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@pikuma DDA is pure magic.

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@ThePrimeagen I used Visual SourceSafe over a VPN over a modem. It was as bad as it sounds.

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@rfleury Is this the software equivalent of pressing the “Turbo” button on a DX66 then turning it back off again?

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@SwarmMeGame Wrote basic first, then asm on C64. All web down hill from there!

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@simonbrown Go back to Microsoft Project and make the box a little bit smaller.

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@SebAaltonen What are you using for GUI (2D) textures? We’re still using uncompressed on mobile at the moment.

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@SebAaltonen Still on GLES. Only real headache for us is the poor dynamic VB performance, even with orphaning / buffering.

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@UridiumAuthor Wow, your printer was in the blast radius of a VS update…

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@DruePeters @lisyarus Because passing in registers is to be preferred for speed. Passing on the stack is a memory write which you want to avoid.

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@cmuratori @maxliani Yup, I worked for Microprose, owned by Hasbro, got bought by Infogrames. Just Microprose to me.

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@lisyarus I used to get to the LCP solver but bailed out when the maths got too much. Couldn’t get my head around it. I think LCP solvers have largely been binned now.

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@stevibe Is there a sweet spot gpu that does high tok/s but doesn’t cost the price of a car?