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  1. ElPoco

    All them tiny Handheld who shall not deserve its own Thread

    Yes there's zero chance anyone will check your handheld, unless the police is actively looking to pin something on you (for example if you've insulted them or they suspect you of committing a crime but can't prove it). Since you're white, you should be fine. In any case the regular police can't...
  2. ElPoco

    The Communication Cube

    It's not like the US AI companies are innovating in any way. They kept asking for more money and resources that any project ever had and delivered little to no improvements and a small Chinese company with a fraction of their resources was able to come up with something much more efficient at a...
  3. ElPoco

    Release Pcsx-Rearmed

    I haven't played Chrono Cross but the few PSX games I've played on the Pandora, both 2D and 3D, worked fine. I'd suggest: - Trying another 3D driver (I don't remember the one I use) - Making sure you have the latest version or, if you have, trying to downgrade to an earlier version
  4. ElPoco

    What are you playing this weekend/these days?

    Recently won a game of Midwinter (with bombers and mortars disabled) and I confirm my appreciation. It's really well designed. For example I've realised that the "ice-age" world isn't just a pretext to have untextured white floor everywhere and a more oppressive atmosphere. It makes travelling...
  5. ElPoco

    Box86 - Linux Userspace x86 Emulator

    Wow, better than Rosetta on a M1? Doesn't Rosetta benefit from some help from the hardware? Does box64 benefit from them as well are you just that much better than Apple's software team? And box32 is a great idea. :)
  6. ElPoco

    What are you playing this weekend/these days?

    In Japan, a special hardware called the "Rez Trance Vibrator" was sold for that game. It was a small rectangular USB device that vibrated in sync with the music.
  7. ElPoco

    What are you playing this weekend/these days?

    I've recently re-discovered Midwinter (the DOS version). An early first-person open-world game that I guess could be seen like a proto Far Cry (2+). Set in a post-apocalyptic world covered in snow you play some kind of militia member who discovers that a general is attacking the local federation...
  8. ElPoco

    A few questions about the Pandora.

    In the box86 thread, Ingoreis posted a video of it running with box86+wine. It wasn't that smooth but apparently he was running the Windows D3D version and performances could be better with Linux version + OpenGL
  9. ElPoco

    A few questions about the Pandora.

    1. There were a few attempts at running Android app, but they're old. Plus the Pandora has a 32bit arch and most Android apps are meant for 64bits. But there's a port of Moonlight 2. It doesn't have a port of wine, but you can run wine with box86. It requires some manual setup and some fiddling...
  10. ElPoco

    The Communication Cube

    That's what bosses would like, but it's not really efficient. Code reviewing is harder (and less interesting) than coding, and if the AI codes very quickly, this means you'd have to review a lot of code, which makes it even harder to stay focused. Imagine a "self-driving" car that requires you...
  11. ElPoco

    What are you playing this weekend/these days?

    The original Deus Ex is great, but it's more of an "immersive sim" than a FPS. It's first person and there's shooting but it's not centered on the shooting. Human Revolution isn't a bad game but it doesn't have the depth of the original and it doesn't bring many new things to the table (at least...
  12. ElPoco

    The Communication Cube

    The LLMs that are called "AI" aren't really intelligent. They don't understand, they don't reason, they don't learn. They just predict what word is most likely to come next. This is enough to mimic intelligence, similar to the counting horse. (And just like for the counting horse, it is still an...
  13. ElPoco

    What are you playing this weekend/these days?

    I'm not a fan of survival horror games but I enjoyed Half-Life 2 (even though I found it to be overrated, just like the first one). To be fair, it has a few sections that really feel like survival horror but I wouldn't consider the whole game to be a survival horror game.
  14. ElPoco

    Box86 - Linux Userspace x86 Emulator

    I've been playing with it (or at least one of its forks) and it's pretty impressive. I've been able to run Interstate76 with it, so you had something like: - CPU : Windows 32 -> Windows 64 -> Linux x86_64 -> Linux ARM64 -> Android - GPU : Glide -> D3D -> OpenGL -> OpenGL ES (I eventually found a...
  15. ElPoco

    The Communication Cube

    A friend had North Korean exchange student at his university. Their rooms in the student residence were arranged so that they could each see each other from their windows. Apparently, this is how they control people (both inside and outside of the country): have everyone spy on everyone. So...
  16. ElPoco

    The Communication Cube

    Some mobile games with in-app purchases target "whales": players who'll spend fortunes in the game (hundred to thousands of dollars aren't uncommon). Mobile games are also big in some countries (especially asian countries) where a lot of people won't have a computer/console but will have a...
  17. ElPoco

    Absurdism corner

    There was enslavement, but it was mostly by the private sector. IG Farben had a factory that rented workers (including children) from concentration camps. Working conditions were so horrible that even some SS officers complained about them to their hierarchy. At the end of the war, executives...
  18. ElPoco

    What are you playing this weekend/these days?

    I've finished Kentucky Road Zero this morning. It's an unusual game. It's a kind of point&click except that there are no puzzles, you're just following the story. You have choices, in conversations or outside but they're more about how does this character feel, or what do they think about or...
  19. ElPoco

    The Communication Cube

    I wonder how much they're paying ptitSeb :p
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