At this point I'm convinced the term "Homelab" itself was conceived as guerrilla marketing to get people into buying extra mid-tier computing hardware.

先週東京インディーズで『Super MIDI Pak Collab』とスーパーファミコンのドット絵の作り方と実装やオプティマイズについてプレゼンテーションを行いました！ プレゼンを公開したので、どうぞよろしくお願いいたします I talked Super MIDI Pak Collab and making pixel art graphics work on the SNES at Tokyo Indies last week! If you missed it, here are the slides (日本語)! docs.google.com/presentation...

@okiokipanic.bsky.social Thanks for the detailed talk about this project it was so cool to see on a working Super Famicom! @tokyoindies.com

Another fabulous month of incredible work at @tokyoindies.com! The theme today was retro and it was possibly the most packed I've ever seen! @okiokipanic.bsky.social @cejetvole.bsky.social @hawkun.bsky.social @vivtako.com @owljey.bsky.social and more incredible developers showed their work! 🫶

レトロ特集のライナップが決定しました！ - Dimension Pizza @owljey.bsky.social - UNDER WAY / Teiz・nasu._.V - Bad Pixels @hawkun.bsky.social - ※This Game Is Not real. @vivtako.com - Super MIDI Pak Collab @okiokipanic.bsky.social @cejetvole.bsky.social

Playing a Super Nintendo with a Trumpet. He's does it well www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IV_...

I agree

I often hear "constraints are good for creativity" In my experience that's totally wrong. Constraints are super fun for which to engineer solutions but in terms of actually creating the thing you want to create, it's an irrelevant time sink and it actually limits ideas.

Choosing a discrete model that preserves state space properties of your continuous system results in an accurate simulation over drastically more time steps, even at low order. I've always wondered about how to analyze these discrete model choices. Neat www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCg3...

A 19 year old comment on a video of Iwata presenting the Wii for the first time in London. It gives me hope that lateral thinking can succeed in a world of people like this.

Excellent video biography of Gunpei Yokoi www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLzn...

私のフォロワーの中に、日本在住でスーパーファミコンの作曲家へのビデオインタビュー制作に協力してくださる方はいらっしゃいますか？もしこの企画にご興味があれば、より多くの方に知っていただくためにリツイートをお願いします。

Is anyone who follows me living in Japan and willing to collaborate on producing video interviews of SNES composers? Please retweet for more exposure if this is something you'd like to see.

Video games are essentially toys and toys are essentially for kids. Making video games for kids is easier than making them for adults but only because making toys for adults is absurd. Adults want to be productive with their time, like work, exercise, or rest. Not play with toys.

What happened to them?

Official interview between Iwata and some of original Game & Watch developers. Neat iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/c...

Miyamoto led the production of so many games in the 90s that had such powerful emotional appeal. Was it meaningful on its own or was it just a way to maximize shareholder value?

I'm not a huge fan of the Follin brothers but you can tell listening to this track that they were trying to do something timeless and eternal with this track. This is why they are among the greatest of all time.

4-bit programming is a good time‼️

As a DSP engineer it bugs me that upsampling images using a better approximation of the ideal LPF (rectangle in frequency domain) looks worse compared to a simple nearest neighbor (sinc in frequency domain). I guess human vision doesn't favor blurriness.

All of the C successors aside from Rust amount to nothing more than sugar to me. The persistent online fanfare and proselytization is puzzling. There are so many more interesting things to learn out there than some random person's idea of a nicer syntax for C.

What would be the best way to release/share a mixtape of my current favorite tracks?

Went through all my SoundCloud likes. All the music sounds new even though many of the tracks are like 12 years old. A lot of them deserve rereleases, or something. There's an impossible mountain of unlistened to good music.

Had fun playing this and the music is really good!

Is Chrono Trigger actually the most epic game of all time or am I just biased? Everything that has come along since seems nowhere as good.

I feel this

Kind of tempted to make a little game that mainly uses Mode 6. Never tried hi-res on SNES before.

After repairing laptops for my family, I will never buy another laptop again. Even expensive ones are shoddily made. They are made to be trashed.

From my track for Beginnings - Rising Star Vol. 1: "Mugung to Maple"! Thank you to The Rising Star Patronage Project (@risingstarpatronage.com) and @slide20xx.com for inviting me onto their debut album, available on Bandcamp for free download or via streaming. slide20xx.bandcamp.com/album/beginn...

My homelab reflow soldering process needs work

FPGA is cool but I suspect it's overused for low-level realtime applications because we lack a popular realtime software ecosystem. Especially for gaming. If Windows or Linux were proper RTOSes, FPGA retro consoles would be mostly pointless. That would be good for the environment

Microsoft has published no analysis on the potentially unusually large impact on ewaste volume that dropping support for Windows 10 next week would have. It seems they aren't actively taking responsibility there but it's obvious to me in this case that they should.

None of my TVs growing up had discernible scan lines. I'm confused why that's such a popular upscaling filter. If I wanted a nostalgic filter, I would go for something that looks like this. Do filters like this exist?

have YOU ever wanted to make SNES music? songs that could play on a real console?? well guess what - you can!! and you can even do it from the comfort of your favorite DAW. version 2.0 of my SNES Chiptune Guide is out now, updated and fully overhauled on its own website: samplemance.rs/snesguide/

The SNESdev Jam submissions are in, this year there are a lot of entries and quite interesting ones at that! Currently is the voting period, so be sure to leave a rating when you try ‘em! #snesdev itch.io/jam/snesdev-...

The delta-sigma ADCs have a reputation of being the most advanced but once you know basic signal processing and control theory, they're actually relatively simple devices. So simple that you can even implement one in Falstad.

You've never heard a square wave.

This is one of those little details on which much of Fourier analysis is based that is probably not understood by most people using it.

Have you guys played Xenogears? What do you think of it?

My new NES game Perfect Diamond will be available on Steam and itch.io on August 8th! Comes with a ROM file to play on a real NES via flash cart! Physical NES cartridge release will come a bit later.

Nice album soundcloud.com/va1ennyx/set...

An authentic Super Nintendo music album I contributed pixel art for released! You can grab the ROM on itch and buy the album on Bandcamp! 🎵 私のドット絵を描いたスーパーファミコンの新音楽コラボレーションアルバムがリリースしました！itchとBandcampで発売中です！ 是非聴いてください！🎵 Music here is by P.SUS, art by me! Links below!

This video needs so many more views www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJPK...

hey, I can tell y'all that I worked on music for this game! I'm in the credits! on a physical SNES cartridge! I helped @randallinden.bsky.social bring to life several more classic DOOM tunes on the SNES's sound chip, expanding its soundtrack while working with the game's original sound driver!

Baron... wherever you are. You're amazing

You can get the ROM at supermidipak.itch.io/super-midi-p...

This is starting now !

The Bandcamp album is now available for pre-order! supermidipak.bandcamp.com/album/super-...