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By the way, portability was only a side effect of the Z-machine. The main purpose was code size. A text adventure compiled down to the Z-machine would take up less space than the same program compiled to machine code. They were written in the Zork Implementation Language (ZIL), which is similar to Lisp.

> I think it's important to remember that for instance Zelda: Link's Awakening was less than 512KiB in size and ran on a primitive 1MHz CPU.

The Game Boy CPU ran at 4.19 MHz.

(1994)

The Atari 2600 has no BIOS or any other built-in ROM. Maybe you're thinking of the 5200 or 7800?

> Both are digital, of course.

By the way, it annoys me that the word digital is used to mean “downloaded over a network”.

Yes. In fact, Dr. Nim uses the same mechanism as Digi-Comp II, which is also mentioned in the blog post.

Explained in the article:

> Cambridge-based Arm uses intellectual property originating from both the US and of non-US origin, a staff member told Yicai Global at the Arm Vision Day.

The Atari 7800 used the same idea of making everything a sprite and having no dedicated tilemap layer.

It was 66%. Most adults, but less than “almost every”.

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/

An Amiga outputs either NTSC or PAL, depending on the region it was made for. So with the right cable, you can just plug it in to a TV made before the mid-2000's. Later models also supported VGA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_video_connector

> if I recall correctly, while it had standard 3.5" diskettes, it couldn't read/write DOS disks.

The Amiga floppy drives took standard 3.5" media, and they could read MS-DOS disks, but the software for this wasn't included with the OS until 1992.

Section 9.7 in http://www.faqs.org/faqs/amiga/introduction/part4/ says you could do this with Workbench 2.1, which was released at the end of 1992 (http://www.gregdonner.org/workbench/wb_21.html).

I'm confused. What does this comment have to do with the article?

The title on HN uses the word slavery. The actual tweets do not.

There's a new formatting library in C++20. Unlike printf, it's type-safe, and it's extensible to new types.

The title should have “(2017)”.

> It's the same kind of thing as computers and calculators switching from decimal hardware to binary hardware 100 years ago.

Not quite. ENIAC, for example, did calculations in decimal, and it was finished in 1945. There may be more recent examples.

If you include binary-coded decimal, that still includes machines made in 1970 or later, like the IBM 1401.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1401

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25523904

Title should be “Uber will charge 25% more …”

The Apple Neural Engine is separate from the CPU; it's not additional registers and instructions for the CPU, like a vector unit. You go through the Core ML framework to use it, just like you go through Metal or OpenGL to use the GPU.

The title is misspelled. It's “AT&T”, not “ATT”.

Also, that's not the title of the article, though it is factually correct.

Even though their early work sounded like everyone else at the time, it was brilliant. It wasn't just hype.

You're comparing one of the best, most-influential games on the NES with a rush-produced cash grab on the Atari 2600. There were many better games on the 2600. Also, the NES came out six years later than the 2600, so it's way easier to make more detailed and more interesting games for it.

But expansion packs are usually sold inside the game. The term in-app purchase is imprecise.

This was the subject of the first episode of MythBusters.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0768480/?ref_=ttep_ep1

> Nintendo consoles have never had powerful hardware though.

Not quite. Their last three consoles (Wii, Wii U, and Switch) were about a generation behind their competition, but the first four (NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, and GameCube) were comparable to their rivals.

Of course, it's not just San Francisco, it's practically all cities in the Bay Area that strictly limit housing development but allow office construction.

I don't think that die faces are emojis. They range from U+2680 to U+2685.

Let's see if they work here:

Edit: No, they were filtered out.

Yes. Normally, motorcycles aren't that loud, compared to cars. The owners specifically modify them for that.

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24817594

Yeah! Whatever you do, never eat pretzels! They dip them in oven cleaner before baking, then they sprinkle them with those crystals they use for removing ice from roads!

By the way, the abbreviation of advertisement is ad, not add.