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Indiana Jones and the Percolator of Doom
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Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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Advanced Problems in Mathematics (ebook)
@libri - Ottima la struttura, ma molti problemi sono troppo tecnici per divertircisi
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I'm afraid everyone is going to find out I don't actually have Impostor Syndrome.
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This is the image I started from. Not exactly 1:1, but I think it works pretty well for an afternoon/evening and given the limitations of the C64. I'll try to tackle animating overlay sprites at some point, so I can also import that fine black line as a second high res sprite. That's a lot more complicated, though, as it needs to accommodate different resolutions and such.
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It's gone too far, somebody needs to stop me.
Importing a PNG character sheet. I start with a little dinosaur buddy from Itch.io, and load it straight into Spritely with no processing other than picking the row of little guys I wanted in the animation and cropping it to that size.
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@ro come ho già accennato in altri thread, il mio codice genetico mi dice di prendere una grossa clava e di ridurre in polpette il ministro ed i suoi pari, ma purtroppo (e per fortuna per lui) sono un essere civilizzato e non sempre faccio ciò che mi dice il mio codice genetico.
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@nina_kali_nina The menu bar. It's... it's at the bottom 🤯 🙃 I'm not sure if that's legal.
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How to Use That Slide Rule
You have that slide rule in the back of the closet. Maybe it was from your college days. Maybe it was your Dad’s. Honestly. Do you know how to use it? Really? All the scales? That’s what we thought. [Amen Zwa, Esq.] not only tells you how slide rules came about, but also how to use many of the common scales. You can also see his collection and notes on being a casual slide rule collector and even a few maintenance tips.
The idea behind these computing devices is devilishly simple. It is well known that you can reduce a multiplication operation to addition if you have a table of logarithms. You simply take the log of both operands and add them. Then you do a reverse lookup in the table to get the answer.
For a simple example, you know the (base 10) log of 10 is 1 and the log of 1000 is 3. Adding those gives you 4, and, what do you know, 104 is 10,000, the correct answer. That’s easy when you are working with numbers like 10 and 1000 with base 10 logarithms, but it works with any base and with any wacky numbers you want to multiply.
The slide rule is essentially a log table on a stick. That’s how the most common scales work, at least. Many rules have other scales, so you can quickly, say, square or cube numbers (or find roots). Some specialized rules have scales for things like computing power.
We collect slide rules, too. Even oddball ones. We’ve often said that the barrier of learning to use a slide rule weeded out many bad engineers early.
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Friday evening before the code freeze: time to land the most breaking changes
