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by Hikaru
Sat Mar 10, 2018 11:16 am
Forum: Website
Topic: Moderator Action
Replies: 95
Views: 20195

Re: Moderator Action

Some have defended the content of the deleted posts, when they haven't even seen those posts. Remember kids, make sure to always read a deleted post before you attempt to defend it. No decision had been reached on the length of the ban at that time. That makes it a ban of indefinite length. Before ...
by Hikaru
Wed Mar 07, 2018 4:19 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Demoscene programs
Replies: 20
Views: 5274

Re: Demoscene programs

(actually if I understand correctly it's something called "vapourwave", a new trendy word for 21 centrury guys mimicking 80s style ;) ) Yeah, it's a number of closely related audio/visual styles. My impression of it is that, rather than simply mimicking, it's more about remembering and re...
by Hikaru
Wed Mar 07, 2018 1:53 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Demoscene programs
Replies: 20
Views: 5274

Re: Demoscene programs

Can you see the problem yet? Things that make a demo for me: - it was created as a part of demoscene movement ;) - it's more or less calculated real time I agree, the second point is problematic. Many demos have precalculated parts and there are always fierce discussions when there is too much prec...
by Hikaru
Wed Mar 07, 2018 1:08 pm
Forum: Website
Topic: Moderator Action
Replies: 95
Views: 20195

Re: Moderator Action

R-Tape wrote: Wed Mar 07, 2018 12:59 pm
Hikaru wrote: Wed Mar 07, 2018 12:51 pm Just to be completely clear, I'm not hikoki
Embrace it :-p I get called R-Type all the time. I wish I could take credit for that.
Ahah, okay, you got me. We're actually the same person. :c
(I only think it's important in the sense of who-did-what this time, other than that Idm of course)
by Hikaru
Wed Mar 07, 2018 12:51 pm
Forum: Website
Topic: Moderator Action
Replies: 95
Views: 20195

Re: Moderator Action

Eh, it's getting there from what I can see. Plenty of subtle (and not so) pointing at the door even ITT already. Got one in a PM yesterday too despite hardly even posting these days lul OT, is it because most of those people moved to /sc/ perhaps? Idk who did they ban this time, but surely it shoul...
by Hikaru
Wed Mar 07, 2018 12:46 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Demoscene programs
Replies: 20
Views: 5274

Re: Demoscene programs

[mention]Ralf[/mention] From my perspective, you're saying something to the effect of, 'People might want to try putting on their pants from the head (and not the usual way) for the following reasons: ...' Art discussions is an initially doomed topic on the whole that I think is probably best avoide...
by Hikaru
Wed Mar 07, 2018 11:54 am
Forum: Website
Topic: Moderator Action
Replies: 95
Views: 20195

Re: Moderator Action

Much more than this controversial discussion, I am bothered by double standards and some attempts to put equality between wos and SC moderation. One wos chitchater is banned and the whole revolution is rising, but I didnt notice those voices of the righteous, when recently another long-time wos mem...
by Hikaru
Wed Mar 07, 2018 11:13 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: Demoscene programs
Replies: 20
Views: 5274

Re: Demoscene programs

Overall I find it hard to take seriously as a standalone genre. It's an awkward artifical construct that can be best summed up as 'music videos of questionable artistic value produced with a$$-backwards methodology'. Its only potential unquestionable redeeming quality, that of showing the full capab...
by Hikaru
Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:15 pm
Forum: Website
Topic: Moderator Action
Replies: 95
Views: 20195

Re: Moderator Action

[mention]PeterJ[/mention] For better or worse, certain arrangements of things correspond to certain states of affair. Although in a sense you are right I guess, the final nail in that particular coffin was amazingly the 'userbase not trusting itself' factor, something I haven't quite seen before on ...
by Hikaru
Tue Mar 06, 2018 2:13 pm
Forum: Website
Topic: Moderator Action
Replies: 95
Views: 20195

Re: Moderator Action

dfzx wrote: Tue Mar 06, 2018 9:35 am Personally, I hope no one piles in to confirm anything about what C.Born might have said or done. Just trust the SC moderators.
That's a good one considering they don't trust their userbase in the first place

OT: bans over nothing, /sc/ edition
by Hikaru
Fri Mar 02, 2018 8:40 am
Forum: Preservation
Topic: Where are the actual scans of the machine manuals?
Replies: 14
Views: 3431

>planetwide cancer

How was this allowed to happen? didn't someone at the time think "now hang on, html and text are great but perhaps one day someone might actually want to check all this non-reviewed, non-supervised stuff against the originals?" There's some unexplored potential in this part. With a bit of...
by Hikaru
Sun Jan 14, 2018 12:04 pm
Forum: Music
Topic: Spectrum musicians - how do you do it?
Replies: 42
Views: 14342

Re: Spectrum musicians - how do you do it?

Sound itself conveys a mood. If you pay attention to it, you will see (hear) that, before there is even a melody or a sense of progression, even the simplest case of having a continuously playing 'sound' of 2~3 notes put together might sound happy, or sad, or scary/awkward/menacing. Or something el...
by Hikaru
Sun Jan 14, 2018 8:17 am
Forum: Music
Topic: Spectrum musicians - how do you do it?
Replies: 42
Views: 14342

Re: Spectrum musicians - how do you do it?

Sound itself conveys a mood. If you pay attention to it, you will see (hear) that, before there is even a melody or a sense of progression, even the simplest case of having a continuously playing 'sound' of 2~3 notes put together might sound happy, or sad, or scary/awkward/menacing. Or something els...
by Hikaru
Thu Jan 11, 2018 8:15 pm
Forum: Website
Topic: Cannot edit older posts.
Replies: 44
Views: 9520

Re: Cannot edit older posts.

I mean something that would explain doing this out of the blue 3 months in, of course. There's typically some kind of a precedent/context wherever a serious change like that is imposed. What happened here? What did we miss? I set this parameter back in November, nothing has changed. Oh. I see. Some...
by Hikaru
Thu Jan 11, 2018 7:57 pm
Forum: Website
Topic: Cannot edit older posts.
Replies: 44
Views: 9520

Re: Cannot edit older posts.

I think of forum threads as conversations that take place in time, so I don't understand why it's 'giving up' anything. In the end, forums are just another form of information exchange online, with its share of conventions that IIRC have remained more or less the same since the late 90's, with all ...
by Hikaru
Thu Jan 11, 2018 1:10 pm
Forum: Website
Topic: Cannot edit older posts.
Replies: 44
Views: 9520

Re: Cannot edit older posts.

Frankly, that is an impressive number of people in one place just willing to voluntarily give up on whatever they write. Anyway, it doesn't look like this thread is worth further time, so I'll keep this brief. - It would probably help to hear a real explanation about why this became needed in the fi...
by Hikaru
Thu Jan 11, 2018 8:00 am
Forum: Graphics
Topic: Feedback wanted! Best choice for bullet clarity and appearance
Replies: 7
Views: 2567

Re: Feedback wanted! Best choice for bullet clarity and appearance

Voted the first option. 2 and 3 are more or less instances of the same thing. Unmasked printing looks easier on the eyes, but frankly I don't think you want more of that going on. Not sure how feasible this is, but you might want to try keeping the default bullet size but making the black outlines w...
by Hikaru
Thu Jan 11, 2018 7:46 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: Sound libraries, any examples.
Replies: 13
Views: 6024

Re: Sound libraries, any examples.

AYFX and BeepFX are tools made by Shiru. I think the AYFX player had some issues, see on my post a link to the routine fixed by a zuno forum member. I made something called mFX last year, specifically with Cgonzalez's Gandalf game in mind. It's a system for combining AY effects+music in the best wa...
by Hikaru
Wed Jan 10, 2018 8:43 am
Forum: Website
Topic: Cannot edit older posts.
Replies: 44
Views: 9520

Re: Cannot edit older posts.

One of the reasons for this thread is precisely the fact that, as far as I can remember, there weren't any sort of limits of this sort on the old WoS whatsoever. On the contrary, it wasn't until the forum imitation of the new 'WoS' that this practice really took root and became a noticeable annoyan...
by Hikaru
Tue Jan 09, 2018 10:06 pm
Forum: Brand new software!
Topic: In nihilum reverteris - new Polish text game from Yerzmyey
Replies: 14
Views: 5860

Re: In nihilum reverteris - new Polish text game from Yerzmyey

Gamebooks were very popular in the 80s, but I don't remember any Spectrum game designed as one of them. Anyway, it's a very interesting idea. I remember this one too, completed it with some effort BITD alongside a huge English dictionary we had at home (a lifeline too many times) just cuz I liked t...
by Hikaru
Tue Jan 09, 2018 9:48 pm
Forum: Website
Topic: Cannot edit older posts.
Replies: 44
Views: 9520

Re: Cannot edit older posts.

Maybe I’m missing something though, why would you want to be able to edit anytime? Personally I'm missing the transition from 'people should be able to edit their own posts anytime' to 'people should not be able to edit their own posts anytime' for the most part, I suppose. As well, a major website...
by Hikaru
Tue Jan 09, 2018 5:49 pm
Forum: Website
Topic: Cannot edit older posts.
Replies: 44
Views: 9520

Cannot edit older posts.

It seems like there's no way to edit older posts. For instance, I see no edit button on this one, which was posted today a few hours ago. While I'm sure this is probably unintentional and caused by some sort of default board settings, I think it's important to not let this become a thing. As well, a...
by Hikaru
Tue Jan 09, 2018 10:47 am
Forum: Programming
Topic: Randomize and rotate left.
Replies: 28
Views: 6282

Re: Randomize and rotate left.

Code: Select all

	ld a,h
	and 3
	cp 3
	adc #57
	ld h,a
But that makes it 'less random' because 2 -> #5A and 3 -> #5A.
by Hikaru
Tue Jan 09, 2018 10:37 am
Forum: Games/Software
Topic: The best classic Speccy game beginning with B: vote
Replies: 29
Views: 6129

Re: The best classic Speccy game beginning with B: vote

Batty is technically OK, but is otherwise largely on the plain side, and is annoying af to play for many, many reasons. I have no idea why it's pinned fairly often as some sort of ultimate Breakout game on the Speccy, which is of course Krakout, by miles, albeit under one very important condition of...
by Hikaru
Fri Jan 05, 2018 6:07 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Inverted Y origin
Replies: 9
Views: 2706

Re: Inverted Y origin

I'm sure there's more than one way to skin a cat, mind you. I might revisit that part sometime, but in the end I can only afford that much attention to marginally useful functionality, so it's not a priority at the moment.