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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Reason enough to stick with the oldies.

David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was thinking that your cats would want to jump in the box, but wondered what the reaction would be when it's already occupied...

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Uh... was the thing you ordered also in there, or was that a "product substitution" ?

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes, humans can write bad code too. But scrutiny should be done by those who truly know. A cautionary tale of insufficient scrutiny on human-written code: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

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Therac-25 - Wikipedia

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not you... Jimmygumble. Well, really anybody who thinks that a gigantic blob of code vomited from an AI without intense scrutiny is "good enough". Just imagine what will happen to elevators, airplanes, automobiles... I'm just saying code needs scrutiny, and scrutiny requires knowledgeable people.

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's a good thing I've reached a decent age before all this started. I prefer not to die in an <insert machine name> controlled by AI in one of the many untested scenarios. This young person will surely get the world he deserves, and may eventually come to rue it (if he survives the carnage).

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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Storage unit guys buy a unit that apparently belonged to a game developer and find design docs, source disks, etc. No idea what the circumstances around this unit were, but just a reminder: if you think stuff "belongs in a museum" definitely try to do that sooner. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSa6...

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Todd Gill - Retro Frog @retrofrog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

PicoPak for #MasterSystem gets REWIND! World's first real hardware Rewind in a flashcart. No one else does it anywhere for any console. Give this a like and repost if you want to see this same thing brought to the PCEngine and TurboGrafx16.

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Basement Brothers @basementbrothers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The fan favorite of the Brandish series was released on the PC-98 in 1994, and that's where it has stayed since. It may be getting an English patch in the future, but as of now this game has always been one of the best kept Falcom secrets on the PC-98. youtu.be/bA7K046_QUc

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Brandish 3 - How the Best Brandish Game Got Left Behind on Japanese PCs (PC-98 Paradise)

YouTube video by Basement Brothers

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hate to ask, but what country ?

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I haven't seen one of these in a while. Some good laughs near the end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAn3...

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Gboard くるくるバージョン

YouTube video by Google Japan

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Harper @harpermeows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Casa Brutus #308 Special Issue - Super Mario Bros.

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Filler @playongofantrans.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I've discovered additional roulette sequences in Debutante Detective Corps on the PC-FX, so I'm working on getting those into English. It feels like we're getting close now. I'm more confident this will be a released project, and very high quality, minus a concession or two.

The start of Nina's roulette sequence. "Welcome to Nina's counseling room... Without further ado, it's Nina's prescription roulette!"

The roulette landed on "treat." "Oh my, the roulette prescribed drastic treatment after all. Hee-hee... I can't wait."

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I echo Tholin's message: "Just DO stuff" (as a means of how to learn about it). There is no substitute.

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I feel like it's gotten to the point where I need to add the following label to all my repositories: "Designed and built using only the finest hand-made, artisanal code"

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You mean like, "Dynablaster" perhaps ? That one is particularly egregious.

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another quite reasonable theory is that they are petrified about the possibility that local models may exist at some point - depriving them of income streams - so they would like to prevent that from happening. Pretty plausible.

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Many of the claims which have been made, I simply don’t see being satisfied by the language models currently in place; a different form (generation, actually) of AI would be needed. I think they're slowly realizing this and trying to extend the funding window.

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

During the dot-com crash, some of the first signs were investor calls asking why the companies still had so much cash, and why wasn't it being invested *NOW* - they wanted the payback soon. CEOs couldn't explain properly, so the money was spent on infrastructure, as the market wasn't yet developed.

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What if this was actually a request to be regulated, to use as an excuse for why the tools aren't continuing to improve according to their promised timelines? Many of the "by next year..." promises should have happened by now. Investors must be getting impatient. Customers are.

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But simultaneously, there are voices calling for regulation, both from inside and outside of these companies. What’s up with that?

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

First thought was that this was a form of advertising. Maybe to individuals, to provide a concept of ongoing improvement. Maybe to the military-industrial complex, to foster confidence in AI for use in their activities. Everybody always wants more money after all.

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yes, willfully negligent. Any half-decent developer or tester is going to create an isolated test environment to run their tests and observe for side-effects, network traffic and so on. And have a clear endpoint. So, I question the "oh my gosh, really? ...this happened?" aspect.

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Seeing all the AI makers' press releases about their agents "escaping" and causing harm makes me wonder why. Why press releases? Why did everybody join with "me too"? Most of all, if these people are so smart, why would their "tests" be so willfully negligent in their setup?

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

(Of course, the key link between Dashiel Hammett and Raymond Chandler here is Humphrey Bogart Detective movies...)

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good book ! But while looking into this further, I learned that Raymond Chandler's whole catalog of books is now in the public domain (in Canada at least). Good news for fans of the genre (in Canada at least).

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've added a row (row 14) for Ares, I hope somebody can run the test ROM on it and supply a number so we can determine whether it's close enough or not. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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ADPCM Speed Test Results

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No, and I don’t see an entry on the spreadsheet for it either, which means it’s still untested

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Still untested: - TerraOnion SHDS3 - Polymega

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have heard no feedback from: - TerraOnion (SSDS3 was slow), - Analogue (test not working on Duo, as ADPCM hardware not active from HuCard images) - Ootake (test not working properly on ver 3.06 - possibly the ADPCM counter is not implemented as 17-bit )

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've heard a report that the TED release also fixes a "pop" at the end of some ADPCM samples in Emerald Dragon.

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A follow-up to the recent PC Engine ADPCM discussion: Mesen2 and Geargrafx have updated ADPCM speed to 32100 in their codebases, although you may need to wait for a formal release. TurboEverdrive Pro updated firmware this week: krikzz.com/pub/support/...

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh, you mist be talking about LinkedIn (or some other trash site).

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I keep wondering what Raspberry Pi will do for the next-generation RP series microcontroller, but then I realize it's still probably at least a year away.

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In preparation for this, I just watched the recent Mortal Kombat movie. Not quite on the same level, but still entertaining if you're in the same mindset.

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I like the "emulation on RP2040/2350 microcontroller" scene: early 1980s computers being replicated - keyboard to screen - on a single microcontroller. If I had time, I'd like to use multiple MCUs (per-subsystem) to get more power/modularity. They're cheap and easy to justify.

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My Life in Gaming @mylifeingaming.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Try has a deep dive on @zaxour.bsky.social 's new Palette Cleanser board for the PC-Engine. Get accurate composite colors with analog RGB! Check it out! youtu.be/SreeUQL0Fso

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PC Engine RGB is Fixed! - Getting better colors with Palette Cleanser! :: RGB334 / MY LIFE IN GAMING

YouTube video by My Life in Gaming

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zaxour 阿宅 @zaxour.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Palette Cleanser is live! t.co/sOCXG64vL4

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I guess my point was that they are perhaps the only people who seem to be able to get a quantifiable benefit (under certain conditions).

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Given that code is very precise language, and LLMs work with language (not truth, not understanding, nothing creative), it would make sense that programmers would be the first to benefit from the plagiarism machine.

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well, features driven by user request are the least of my complaints. I’d rather have a new feature that I ignore than to be required to re-learn how to access existing features.

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Since this is more of a big-company phenomenon, I prefer the explanation of marketing driving development while understanding nothing about the product - but being capricious about appearance - and the preference to do simple things with limited impact instead of difficult, meaningful things.

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don’t know about these specifically, but I had heard that some may run in emulation, with accesses to specific areas triggering the display of (English) overlays from the emulator instead of changing the original contents.

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