Steve Russell—the man who made the first video game—is still alive.
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Steve Russell—the man who made the first video game—is still alive. Not a myth. Not a footnote. Walking around, same as the rest of us.
In 1962, Russell coded Spacewar! on the DEC PDP-1 at MIT. It spread fast. So fast that it directly led to the formation of Atari. Their first arcade release, Computer Space was essentially Spacewar! shoved into a coin-op cabinet.
Russell didn’t stop there. He wrote the first two implementations of Lisp. He later taught Bill Gates and Paul Allen how to use a computer.
Video games. Programming languages. Microsoft.
Same guy. Still alive.
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Steve Russell—the man who made the first video game—is still alive. Not a myth. Not a footnote. Walking around, same as the rest of us.
In 1962, Russell coded Spacewar! on the DEC PDP-1 at MIT. It spread fast. So fast that it directly led to the formation of Atari. Their first arcade release, Computer Space was essentially Spacewar! shoved into a coin-op cabinet.
Russell didn’t stop there. He wrote the first two implementations of Lisp. He later taught Bill Gates and Paul Allen how to use a computer.
Video games. Programming languages. Microsoft.
Same guy. Still alive.
@atomicpoet I had the pleasure of playing Spacewar! and singing Christmas carols with the PDP-1 at the Computer History Museum last month. And Peter Sampson, who wrote the Harmony Compiler demonstrated his pioneering computer music work. Very fun!
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@Yaku Ma chi è questə geniə
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true -- not for you and me, but there are an awful lot of people who do trust them.
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@eniko it's between "not ready at all" and "presentable in a couple of hours", depending on how the chaotic phases of my partner are going
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@catsalad
Tell your slop jockey coworkers you don't need to review their code, go ahead and push to prod.
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@kertinker @landelare I'm not familiar with GtkGlArea, but I spotted this in the docs https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/method.GLArea.set_required_version.html
You have to call gtk_gl_area_set_required_version before the widget's rendering context is created, but I imagine if you set it to 4.6 (based on your earlier visualinfo paste) then you should be able to see the extensions you are missing. Ideally you'll want to set it to the lowest required version you need, but 4.6 is fine for debugging.
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place depends on whether the visitor is staying in my room or wants to go upstairs too
