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Ada Lovelace
Augusta Ada Byron, contessa di Lovelace, meglio nota come Ada Lovelace[1] (Londra, 10 dicembre 1815 – Londra, 27 novembre 1852), è stata una nobildonna e matematica britannica, nota soprattutto per il suo contributo alla macchina analitica ideata da Charles Babbage...
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace?wprov=sfla1
🔁 condivisione gradita
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Il razzo SLS della missione Artemis 2 proiettato sul Washington Monument. Il 2026 sarà l'anno della Luna. Si avvicina il primo lancio di astronauti verso il nostro satellite dal 1972. La sorvoleranno testando i sistemi per preparare l'allunaggio con la missione seguente. Foto NASA/Bill Ingals
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/55016654116/in/album-72177720331210302
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Chi #manmaggia a capodanno…
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A joyful close-up of an evergreen would be a Happy Yew Near.
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Buon anno regà! Vojo inizzià questo 2026 faciendovi tante belle promesse che sò le stesse de gli anni scorsi e che verano piaciute tanto!
Questo sarà l'anno che costruiremo er Ponte, supereremo la Fornero, abboliremo le accise, e tante belle cose così
Bevetevele tutte con un buon prosecco! Auguri! 🥂 ❤️
https://www.ilpost.it/2025/12/31/meloni-promesse-mancate-accise-ponte-tasse-pensioni/
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The Many-Sprites Interpretation of Amiga Mechanics
The invention of sprites triggered a major shift in video game design, enabling games with independent moving objects and richer graphics despite the limitations of early video gaming hardware. As a result, hardware design was specifically built to manipulate sprites, and generally as new generations of hardware were produced the number of sprites a system could produce went up. But [Coding Secrets], who published games for the Commodore Amiga, used an interesting method to get this system to produce far more sprites at a single time than the hardware claimed to support.
This hack is demonstrated with [Coding Secrets]’s first published game on the Amiga, Leander. Normally the Amiga can only display up to eight sprites at once, but there is a coprocessor in the computer that allows for re-drawing sprites in different areas of the screen. It can wait for certain vertical and horizontal line positions and then execute certain instructions. This doesn’t allow unlimited sprites to be displayed, but as long as only eight are displayed on any given line the effect is similar. [Coding Secrets] used this trick to display the information bar with sprites, as well as many backgrounds, all simultaneously with the characters and enemies we’d normally recognize as sprites.
Of course, using built-in hardware to do something the computer was designed to do isn’t necessarily a hack, but it does demonstrate how intimate knowledge of the system could result in a much more in-depth and immersive experience even on hardware that was otherwise limited. It also wasn’t free to use this coprocessor; it stole processing time away from other tasks the game might otherwise have to perform, so it did take finesse as well. We’ve seen similar programming feats in other gaming projects like this one which gets Tetris running with only 1000 lines of code.
youtube.com/embed/YdeUebxTt5M?…
Thanks to [Keith] for the tip!
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Odd lang syne, Mastodon.
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Happy New Year!!!
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Always learn something new and useful!
How to CLOSE a paint can (specially those opened by morons with unappropriate tools deforming the lid):
