markchristian

What a tremendous loss for our industry. Stewart's genuine curiosity was infectious.

Super cool! I’ve always wanted to make my own lil language and I’ve always been too intimidated to try.

Oh man, let's be friends! Hit me up if you wanna nerd out about LaserDiscs — m@rkchristian.ca. I have a pretty decent collection (https://markchristian.org/files/laserdiscs.txt — around 200 or so, no specific theme other than "movies I would like to have a copy of").

Have you got a setup going for digitizing these things? I've got a pitch reel on LaserDisc for a 1991 interactive TV startup that I'd love to preserve before it bitrots.

I love your stuff! As a FastMail user I have to read it in my alternative browser lest I destroy my autocomplete, though. :D

Anyhow; thanks for everything you make! I hope your face is feeling better these days.

Hilariously, I had no idea that this was his site. TIL!

To the communication angle, I've worked at two different BigCo's in my career, and both times there was a fallback system of last resort to use when our primary systems were unavailable.

“The wish is granted. Long live Jambi.”

OMG

I really wish the opposite of this (QEMU on iOS) existed. The closest I have been able to find is a build of Bochs that doesn't actually work on my iPad. Someday!

I really wish Foone had a blog.

Thanks for the heads up!

I’ve always wanted to write about it, but it’s never really fit into one of my monthly themes. Many of the games on the service are available online as ordinary ROMs, often with “BS” in the title (for Broadcast Satellite). I’m sure the experience of using the system and playing along to synchronized audio was pretty wonderful, but the games themselves just played like ordinary cartridges once they’d be downloaded. Unlike the Sega Channel, Satellaview games could be downloaded into special cartridges and kept around indefinitely.

Amazingly enough, http://www.retro.live has a working implementation of XBAND. You can see a demo of it in the excellent Wrestling With Gaming documentary on XBAND: https://youtu.be/k_5M-z_RUKA?t=3448

Dang, I had never pondered this question. Where can I learn more?

The Mother of All Demos is amazing, but I’ll be talking about some cheesy corporate junk. :)

I actually meant to use <nav> — just a silly mistake. I've corrected the article since.

Aw, thanks Ernie! <3

Yep, Jekyll is what I use, and I quite like it. I'm not hosted on GitHub pages though.

A+ name ideas.

Life is tough when your first name is just a word. :P

Oh, I wasn't looking them up--the candidate told me that they looked me up.

I was actually saying the opposite: the candidate was telling me that they'd looked up the folks on their interview panel, including me.

Wow, TIL. Thank you!

Yeah! That's on deck (no pun intended) for my April blog post. (I'm trying to do one of these each month for 2019.)

Definitely. Cartridges really were amazing; I think that's ultimately going to end up being the organic thesis of my web site.

Something I discovered while researching this post: Sega had their own Super FX-y thing with the Sega Virtua Processor. It was only used in one game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtua_Racing), but the thing I find most fascinating about it is that Sega contemplated releasing just the Virtua Processor itself—you guessed it, as a lock-on cartridge.

(Unfortunately, this fact didn't really fit in anywhere, so I'm just dropping it here.)

This is awesome. Thank you for sharing it with us. :)

Someone who works for Apple — someone who is probably a lot like you and me — is having a really shitty night. So, I am sending good luck vibes towards Cupertino right now.

Godspeed, Apple friends! ️

Gah, I'm an idiot -- it's actually made about half that amount ($3,500) because I forgot to subtract the earnings of my other Mac app, Timebar. I really wish I could edit/delete this post. #embarrassed

Apple's App Review team has been merciless lately. They won't accept any further updates to my app, Timebar (http://whimsicalifornia.com), unless I get rid of its only feature (drawing a progress bar on your menu bar). Frustrating.

I think Apple could go a long way to locking down developer trust by just vowing to never reject updates for non-technical reasons, ever. If they have to make the initial review much more brutal, it would still be worth it.

It's a little embarrassing that the Soundcloud screenshot is of Chrome.