The PS3 has 2 OS types: GameOS (the XMB menu and what you use to play games) and OtherOS (anything else you'd wanna load, usually Linux.) There's a problem with this: There's a build of GDB meant for OtherOS. That's great, but I need some background debugger for GameOS. Why, oh fucking WHY, has no one made a debugger like this? We have the ability to reserve compute units (SPUs) and/or areas of RAM for code to continue running when something else is loaded, why the FUCK isn't there a game debugger???

Oh cool, telnet peek/poke on PS3... oh, it only works with the debug toolbox open so it doesn't work for anything else. Disappoint.

My Model M's dead. Accidentally flooded the inside when cleaning it. After letting it dry upside-down a few days, it just holds a random key when plugged in and nothing else works. Can't open it all the way up as it's a plastic-rivet one.

yo so can i suggest a feature all apps should have? i was tapping my phone to my leg in time with music and this happened

it's not a ++ bomb it's a stimulus package

I got yet another interesting question today:
"Why do people make demos with such old machines? No one's using an Amiga or C64 anymore."

I can't really answer this one.

i've been banned from SO again because too many people hit downvote on my shit without telling me why, so i'll ask in short here:

How the fuck are u64* and u64 different, why can't I cast between them or between them and a double and why the fuck is C gay?

Now, again but longer:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

there were no less than 30 flyovers today (technically yesterday) from pilots-in-training at the local air force base. Is there some massive influx of air force pilots recently?

imagine having kernel memory leaks in 2020

AT&T or Huawei, whichever, pushed an update for my already-struggling-to-exist phone that made the kernel memory leak go from 480KB/hr avg to 22.5MB/hr avg. When my free RAM is never under 50% of 2GB after the kernel starts loading other shit and i'm able to express free RAM, at any time in use, in megs, with 8 bits... this means my phone crashes, with no apps running aside from a trimmed list of stock apps, every 3-4 hours due to running out of RAM. The only usable (read: not R/O because unrooted) swapfile is located on a tmpfs, so it's completely fucking useless (and eats another 100MB of RAM that I could be using for LITERALLY anything else, that's like another 3 hours of full idle between crashes) and I can't unlock the bootloader to fix any of this as Huawei no longer hands out keys and it'd take 7 years or so to brute (32-bit @ 10/sec)

tl;dr: fuck

looking at more DOS malware. 12 samples in this set of 80 (out of 16 looked at) read the time then overwrite the registers 5 or 6 lines later. The other 4 don't even bother.

woke up to "Hey here make me a working mouse from these." and then 2 mice hit me in the chest.

How's your day going?

Approaching the limit of what TI-BASIC can do without busting out the modern calcs. Doing a simple operation on the whole 95x63 1bpp graph mode screen, say, turning all pixels on or off, takes over a minute. Add any sort of calculation to that...
I'm already using BASIC-callable machine code snippets to scroll the screen one pixel (which are nigh instantly finished,) and i'm so fucking tired of scrolling effects...

God, adding sound is gonna be a nightmare...

EDIT: for reference, dev machine is a TI-84+ Silver Edition. Not one of the ones with the eZ80 and backlit color screens, the greenish Z80 1bpp screened one. The one that's an 8MHz Zilog that TI decided to make multitask. The one where oscillating the screen at an integer division of full framerate fries it in seconds?

I grabbed 30 random DOS malware samples from my collection, rolled via urand over Python list, and tried to figure out how they work.

Results:

1x zipped EICAR
4x working but effectively useless ("yeah you wiped the first 100 sectors of the drive... but you wrote their prior contents. Literally nothing's changed...")
10x CPU hang
10x crashdump back to DOS
5x crashdump back to DOS but ERRORLEVEL=0 so normal termination despite real errors being given?

also make sure SOURCER is disassembling using 486 or Pentium opcodes or it misses some 286/386 opcodes and will count half the program as data.

Alright, so i'm making an MS-DOS 6.22 box on a modern laptop: 80GB HDD (SATA 2), 2GB RAM (rip 9x, smallest stick I got,) AMD x64 CPU (they stuck a single-core 1GHz CPU in a laptop meant for Win8.0, with age it's slowed to around 600MHz effective, so it's more suited to being an XP box but I have no XP drivers...)

I'm not strapped for space at all (I could make 4 2GB partitions with no issue) but should I use DRVSPACE? I've never used DOS-era disc compression (and won't fucking touch DoubleSpace, for those that remember that and its issues) and i'm wanting to fuck with it some.

EDIT: fuck CSM, gotta use GRUB to load DOS...

About that PS3 N64 port:

Fuck C.

3/17 is my last day of running-out-of-bandwidth this month. What should I do with the extra like 80GB?

ginger ale is a mana potion and you cannot convince me otherwise

Now, instead of having to schedule a single rest day during my college's spring break (I normally have to schedule one day instead of getting the entire week due to being online... hooray), I get an entire 2 weeks off where the school is on lockdown and literally no one but like 150 cops will be there. Why? Not due to COVID-19, but due to threats against the school. A hooligan found out that if a school's main campus burns down or is otherwise destroyed entirely, everyone instantly gets their Bachelor degree (why this is a thing, I dunno...)

Uninstall Avast immediately, it's been found to allow anything access to SYSTEM-level privs because it includes a JavaScript interpreter in its watchdog https://twitter.com/fasterthanlime/...

A situation i just dealt with on my tech help Discord server:

Beginning:
"my gpu isn't working and i need it to update my bios"

Ending:
"i have to have a cpu and ram to update my bios?"

this kid thought he only needed a mobo, GPU and PSU

he's 19

why

my body is suddenly really heavy and this persisted after 9 hours of sleep. what happened

"well why don't you walk around outside more often if you're so fat" bitch i got college to do and during what few hours I can spare it's usually raining or way too fucking windy. I get 5 hours a week off on average, excluding sleep time.

I managed to stump a real dev with my libretro issues.

yo so wtf opengl doing over there

all I can find on "APIENTRYP" is that it's "macro magic that makes everything work" but it's breaking fucking everything. I remove it and it works again (well, kinda, i still gotta fix some typing horseshit)

why is opengl in shambles i just wanna compile gdi

Turns out the reason the selection of RA cores on the PS3 sucks so much dick is that it has a half-complete OpenGL implementation.

Fuck it, we're doing it live. I've got CFW, i'll dynarec if I damn well please. If it won't compile i'll fucking make it compile, I don't give a fuck about "sanity restraints" and "needing OpenGL 2" and "LV1 required" I can fucking replace all of LV1 and LV2 if I fucking want FUCK YOU

The Cell processor is pretty beefy, I could prolly do it all-CPU if I wanted.

*thuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathuddathudda*

"why do you like computers more than women" was a question my dad asked me today. that was a fucking curveball lemme tell ya

turns out my dad thinks i'm sexually attracted to computers as i don't flirt with women nor do I date.

I don't have a car, I don't have money, I like an hour from town, I have no charisma and I look like an unevenly-melted candle someone dropped into a bag of shaved 5 o'clock stubble. Of course I don't talk to people IRL.

yo imagine if the most common and best toolchain for, say, Intel PCs was "mid-source": You can have the buildscripts, and a few extra seldom-useful bits, but nothing else.

Welcome to devkitPro: it's too hard to maintain a toolchain package for all the systems you develop on, so we'll maintain a modded copy of pacman you HAVE to use to get the only toolchain for Nintendo consoles for all systems. Oh, and it's not normal pacman, no, it's hardcoded to only be used for their shit.

Even on Windows.

why do they do this to us again?

yo yall posting shit "rabbit holes" now? b64 isn't a rabbit hole, it's a wrapper.

yo canada WHAT THE FUCK
that kid who asked me for help
the ministry or w/e got back to me
"we cannot help this child as their abusers were deemed untouchable"

FUCK DO YOU MEAN UNTOUCHABLE