For the 40th Anniversary of "Elite", Ian Bell has released the source codes for the Apple, Atari, C64, and NES versions of the game for free.
He also released the source for the unfinished SNES and BBC ports. A very cool gift for such a pioneering space sim.
http://www.elitehomepage.org/fourty/index.htm
http://www.elitehomepage.org/archive/index.htm
ooh that's good anti aliasing
@chirpbirb It's very useful for generating an inexhaustible list of server and workstation hostnames in whatever naming scheme you use.
I saw a 2024 Tesla Cybertruck for the first time with my own eyes while on foot today. It was almost new, yet it looked older, rattier, and rustier than my well-worn 1991 Mazda B2200.
If I didn't know better, I would've thought it was a redneck engineering job made from scrapyard parts, not something people with too much money paid thousands of dollars and dozens of months in waiting to buy into.
thank you to my half-asleep brain last night for giving me such a brilliant flash of inspiration
[interior: Unicode consortium]
> Hey, should we have a glyph for a pointing finger?
Absolutely
> What about filled and outlined triangle?
Sure, but make them all different sizes.
> What about arrows?
Yeah, make tons but never a full set pointing in all directions. I'm talking seven 3D arrows but they all face right.
> Dominos?
Fuckin' all of them, man. Horizontal and vertical. Let's take that part seriously.
When I _am_ in a terminal window, I use Mutt, & for almost precisely the same reasons as Sylpheed.
http://www.mutt.org/
The biggest differences are that Mutt's founding inspiration is ELM, not Outlook Express, & it doesn't even pretend to render HTML mail at all, instead presenting them as file attachments to plain text messages. Mutt is also more extensible, more customizable, & fully keyboard driven.
What do I use for email? When I'm not in a terminal window, I use Sylpheed:
https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/
It's light, it's fast, it has keyboard shortcuts for common tasks, it resists do-everything feature creep, & its UI hardly ever changes between versions.
But it doesn't render received HTML mail except as very simplified text, & it won't let you send HTML mail except as a file attachment to plain text mail. This is not a bug, todo, or fixme. This is an incredibly useful & welcome feature.
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