Tue 26 November 2024

Background

In the halcyon days of 16-bit microcomputers, there was a computer graphics technique used by many demos and some games known as Palette Rotation, Palette Shifting, Palette Animation, or Color Cycling.

Computers weren't fast enough to change the entire contents of screen memory in graphics mode (even relatively low …

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Mon 25 November 2024

Unlike most young people, and not unlike many of my GenX peers, I haven't played much Minecraft.

I got into it a little bit with my cousin's kids when they were young around 2010, and I even played it a little bit on my own at the time, but the …

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Fri 01 November 2024

This article is written based on a prompt I shared with a friend a couple weeks ago. You can my article from that "round-robin" prompt exercise here.

Since neither of my fedifriends have written their prompts yet, I'm actually borrowing the idea I gave Amin to write:

I'm going to …

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Thu 14 December 2023

I was speaking with a couple Fedifriends about Star Wars, and (naturally), we started having a mini-debate on which Star Wars movies actually "count."

The following is my personal thoughts on the issue, in a handy-dandy list format:

DISCLAIMER: I am, at the end of the day, a fairly casual …

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