Narishma

One way to tell is when the video has text in the thumbnail. If it's in a different language than the title it has likely been auto translated.

KDE 4 was the bad one, not 3.

The 'why' was answered in the first article of this series. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250505-00/?p=11... …

> Games always suck for battery because they’re constantly rendering. Only the badly designed ones.

I think you replied to the wrong comment.

> Windows didn't standardize on C. It was mostly assembly and some Pascal in the beginning with C and C++ later. No, it was never Pascal. It was always C from the beginning. You may have been …

Use reader mode.

> It's intriguing to think how different my experience could have been if educational material at the time had focused as much on full explanations of the compiler+linker process, including ex…

It's more likely to waste your time by pointing you in the wrong direction.

Now do it with the fixed function pipeline so I can run it on my 3dfx Voodoo card.

How can you be a fanboy of something you haven't played?

XFCE in other words.

That one's not on Youtube. It's a bug caused by ad blockers.

They've recently started infecting old reddit with some of the new crap like notifications for every little thing. You can still disable them for now, tediously one by one.

Unity games are C#, the engine itself is C++.

> I was seriously hampered by the fact that this compiler couldn't produce text mode executables (any call to printf opened its own new window that definitely wasn't cmd.exe) and it could…

Are there any microcontrollers that aren't in-order?

Youtube search is similar. It shows a couple of results related to your query, then a whole bunch of irrelevant videos.

> Quickbasic 4.5 (which has a compiler among other niceties over the original Microsoft QBASIC) QuickBasic was the original, with QBASIC being a cut down version of it bundled with DOS.

How does it even work on an 80186? I thought Doom required a 386.

Are any of the games any good?

Given the lack of textured walls, it's more like a Hovertank 3D-like.

I think EDLIN is closer to CP/M's ED.

It's not open source, it's source available.

> Even AAA games these days happily run on GC languages. You can recognize them by their poor performance.

They still end up doing that, regardless of the intention. It would be better if they only animated once, or just when you hover over them instead of constantly.

> There are numerous animations that never stop. This is highly distracting and makes it very difficult to read the text. And pegs the CPU and drains the battery.

> Every game Sony releases eventually winds up with a PC port, and many of them are even released on Xbox. It's the other way around, Microsoft games on PC and more recently PS5. Sony sometime…

3.0 was ok but a bit rough around the edges and it crashed a lot. 3.1 was a substantial improvement in that regard. It also brought major features like TTF fonts, the registry, a usable file manager, …

I recommend emulators like 86box or PCem instead, they're much better for such old systems than VMs.