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tl;dr: Infinite Mac can now run early Mac OS X , with 10.1 and 10.3 being the best supported versions. It’s not particularly snappy, but as someone who lived through that period, I can tell you that it wasn’t much better on real hardware. Infinite HD has also been rebuilt to have some notable indie software from that…
Cataphracts commanders: there is no actionable intelligence in this post. Read on. About two months ago, I reread several series on military
Nintendo's Switch 2, launched with Mario Kart World, suffers from inadequate HDR implementation despite industry standards. The game qualifies "fake HDR," using SDR-first methods that limit color and dynamic range. Developers must prioritize HDR from the outset to truly leverage its potential and enhance visual…
Hey friends! (Or just curious readers peeking under the hood of good old retro games).
Rubén Osorio’s blog
Discovering Atari Games in Randomly Generated Data
This post is intended for educational purposes only. Denuvo is arguably the most successful digital rights management solution to have ever existed, and is therefore an interest to many. This blog contains a large amount of my personal notes and correspondence with other reverse engineers (see kudos ) which contains…
In a previous life, I worked for a location-based entertainment company, part of a huge team of people developing a location for Las Vegas, Nevada. It was COVID, a rough time for location-based anything, and things were delayed more than usual. Coworkers paid a lot of attention to another upcoming Las Vegas…
A ridiculously deep dive into Oblivion’s controversial AI system and its legacy
Notes about creative coding on the Web.
You've most likely heard about gradient noise through the name Perlin noise , which refers to one particular implementation with various CPU optimizations. Because it's an incredible tool for creative work, it's used virtually everywhere: visual effects, video games, procedural mathematical art, etc. While getting it…
Cute Framework is a simple, yet powerful C/C++ framework for building 2D games using the modern GPU pipeline. While C or C++ is fine, Swift is a modern language that many developers prefer for its safety and expressiveness. In this post, we will explore how to set up a project using Cute Framework with CMake, enabling…
In-depth written review with pictures of Sid Meier's Pirates! on the Amiga.
They're Mario Bros. for the NES, apparently.
Explore Bill Benter’s iconic horse betting strategy, enhanced with modern code and contrasted against three decades of evolving data.
A Minecraft clone made with pure HTML & CSS – no JavaScript.
This is part 1 of a multi-part series on grass rendering. We’ll start by figuring out how realistic grass should look like, and how herbage can be modeled with the tools we have at our disposal in real-time 3D graphics. Then, we’ll look at how to implement different methods of grass rendering in Godot. However, most…
If you don't care about the explanation and want a direct link to the simulation, here you go .
It’s well known that video games today are disposable pieces of slop. Modern multiplayer games tend to fall into one of two categories: they’re abandoned after a while and the servers a…
Olle's Web Ventures
Thoughts, tools, and libraries I use to make games
an interactive guide to the game theory of why & how we trust each other
It has baked lighting with normal mapping and real-time specular shading, ahem, well sort of. More on that later. The beautiful song was made by noby with guitar performed by Moloko ( https://soundcloud.com/sou_andrade ).
One of my favorite joys is exploring a city late at night on rollerblades. I’ve been doing it fairly regularly for about 10 years now, first in Boston and then in NYC. Every time day turns to night and back again a city takes a breath. At night people flow out or huddle up in buildings, leaving the streets clear for…
One year ago, I started programming a puzzle game from scratch in Zig. While it’s too early to announce the game (more on this later in the year), I want to share some of the insights I’ve gained about gamedev in Zig so far.
An analysis using Process Monitor and WinDbg, dealing with JavaScript, WASM, and Windows shellcode.
In Which I Try to Maintain Human Supremacy for a Bit Longer
