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dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Oct 2, 2008
On optimizing Linux boots: “The X Window System runs the C preprocessor and compiler on startup, in order to build its keyboard mappings.” And that [gulp … hrullphh] is all you need to know about X [grwawwwlphh!] …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Oct 2, 2008
Apologies for lack of posting. I’m buried at work, and must also keep the yard from turning yet again into jungle. Additionally, having little to grip about besides politics (which I am miserable at), I’d rather just …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Sep 19, 2008
David Foster Wallace [argh] on tennis and everything else. Link. McSweeney’s has a thread of rememberances. Link. I’m about 1/2 way through _IJ_ again. Finish when I finish _Anathem_. No time. The young’un awakes….
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Sep 9, 2008
I’ve never seen a FIFO that worked. Period. Every piece of hardware I’ve had to write a driver for has had a buggy FIFO. A FIFO, for those of you fortunate enough not to know, is a hardware gizmo that buffers up bytes …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Sep 4, 2008
A little (very little) more history. I spent more time at Atari waiting for assemblies to finish than you’d probably believe. I mean, assembly language; how hard can it be? Yet the Assembler/Editor cartridge was …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Sep 3, 2008
Punchcards suck. I used to use Emacs at 300 baud. That’s how desperate I was to use a decent editor. The courses I was taking at school were on punchcards, and to avoid those horrible things, I: - Wrote a terminal …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Sep 2, 2008
Digging through some old disks I found the source to an old version of MadMac, a fast assembler I wrote just before I left Atari. It needed some TLC ( some of the tables were missing, and I had to recreate them). It …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Sep 1, 2008
I’ve linked to the middle, the meat, of How Atari BASIC Works. I really like the way that they crammed a pretty decent BASIC interpreter into 8K or 10K (depending on how you count) of ROM. In comparison, the first …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Aug 31, 2008
Curt Vendel (who’s been groveling through a bunch of old Atari backup tapes for a number of years) has found and posted the source code to the Atari 800 version of Donkey Kong. Here’s a pointer to the forum thread …
dadhacker.com » DadHacker - Aug 22, 2008
Your job: Merge the sea of undifferentiated objects that Joe’s been working on for a week into the sea of undifferentiated objects that you’ve been working on for a week. Repeat until you unbreak the build or run out …