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From my limited testing, oc2.0 doesn't support sock5 proxy in HTTPS_PROXY, while v1 supports.

I have opposite result: MS1.2 wrote C code without following original source code writing style, and no descriptive info why writing such code, DS4F or even Mimo seems better to me.

roytam87on Ox Alpha

and opencode giving out unlimited usage for free, and I can happily vibe my stb_avif decoder fork. https://github.com/roytam1/stb_avif/tree/chatgpt

roytam87on Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users

OpenAI should be more transparent to (free) users about Data Analysis quota and Chat with attachment quota.

roytam87on Build a Game That Fits on a Single Floppy Disk: 1.44MB Game Development Contest

Off-topic: regarding Windows NT emulation challenge, now IA64 and AXP32/64 target are also somehow filled.

roytam87on Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

win32 programs in win32s shares same address space.

roytam87on Stb_AVIF: A pure C89, Libc-only AVIF decoder in stb-style single-header form

Most of code are generated by Copilot. But unfortunately it doesn't output good-looking results. I wonder what are missing/wrong?

roytam87on An ode to bzip

I wonder why people think there is only 1 bzip (which seems to be bzip2), when the original bzip exists: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/125803 and also bzip3: https://github.com/iczelia/bzip3

roytam87on Emulated Windows 3.11 in the Browser

But Microsoft Entertainment Pack 2 came first with FreeCell.

roytam87on Go-legacy-winxp: Compile Golang 1.24 code for Windows XP

My browsers[1] still target XP and developing in Win7.

[1] https://msfn.org/board/topic/185966-my-browser-builds-part-5...

roytam87on NCSA Mosaic 2.7, one of the first graphical web browsers

W3C has a page about multicast mosaic: https://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/9610_Workshop/paper05/paper05....

roytam87on NCSA Mosaic 2.7, one of the first graphical web browsers

I put some Mosaic derivations to my github[1][2][3]

[1] multicast mosaic ("mMosaic") https://github.com/roytam1/multicast-mosaic

[2] VMS Mosaic https://github.com/roytam1/vms-mosaic

[3] mosaic-CK https://github.com/roytam1/mosaic-ck

roytam87on Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux

NTDLL APIs are very stable[0] and you can even compile and run x86 programs targeting NT 3.1 Build 340[1] which will still work on win11.

[0] as long as you don't use APIs they decided to add and remove in a very short period (longer read: https://virtuallyfun.com/2009/09/28/microsoft-fortran-powers...)

[1] https://github.com/roytam1/ntldd/releases/tag/v250831

roytam87on Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently

> just 10 years ago you could dream about getting a house there

yeah, when comparing with other cities[1] it is way more affordable.

[1] https://www.timeout.com/hong-kong/news/hong-kong-has-once-ag...

roytam87on UTF-8 history (2003)

win32s brings codepage to/from widechar APIs and codepage table files (P_*.NLS), and a setting "AnsiCP=" in [NLS] section in win32s.ini.

16bit IE brings its own MSNLS.DLL for handling different codepages to ACP(Active Codepage) in Win3.1x.

and win9x also works mainly in ANSI codepage with some kernel side unicode support.

roytam87on UTF-8 is a brilliant design

"what about using VLQ as a Unicode transformation format?"

a rough implementation is not hard. (for writing, my implementation will write BOM in beginning and only do 28bits)

https://github.com/roytam1/rtoss/commit/b09bd53d7f4166f34c8b...

roytam87on I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)

It looks quite good, but I missed 3.5mm audio jack.

roytam87on I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)

but I missed MicroSD slot. I think my requirement is simple: not too wide (<=70mm), has 3.5mm audio pack, and has MicroSD slot.

and end-up only Sony products comes out. and I sacrificed performance for a shorter phone so I bought Xperia Ace III.

but I don't know when will my ISP shutdown GSM-1800. If this happens I have to buy Xperia 10 series then.

roytam87on Dolphin Emulator Progress Report: Release 2506

They refused Rairii bugfix for making little-ending working like in real hardware.

roytam87on BS 1363 British Plugs and Sockets

2A plugs and sockets are just cute.

roytam87on Windows NT for GameCube/Wii

yeah, but 64bit versions are called "Windows 2000" in the moment. see https://msfn.org/board/topic/183599-windows-2000-x64/ for screenshots.

roytam87on Bzip3: A spiritual successor to BZip2

and we all know that bzip2(1997) is incompatible with bzip(1996).

roytam87on One Dog vs. the Windows 3.1 Graphics Stack

don't know if article's author is watching this, but I told patch's author about this article. https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=22124#...

roytam87on Building a replacement 386/486 CMOS battery

AA or AAA batteries will leak.

roytam87on DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support

It relies on HX-DOS' Win32 support. But since DOSBox-X emulates hardware, which is still useful when the host doesn't have such hardware.

roytam87on Windows NT for Power Macintosh

but at least there is VC4 RISC Edition available for PowerPC, you can compile something on it.

roytam87on Open Sourcing DOS 4

But only OpenDOS 7.01, not older(DR DOS 3.30-7.00) or newer(7.02-8.0/8.1) versions.

roytam87on How DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086

Helix Netroom[1] is missed in the article. Hope it will be in next part of series.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_Netroom

roytam87on Why ACPI?

(sorry for being off-topic) regarding https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16308439, I wonder how is this project going?