So, the NES audio chip doesn’t use a sample bank. It has a few analogue tone generators, which are the core of the “same-sounding instruments” you hear in NES games. You then have a few very basic ways to play with the shape of the sound wave further before it gets kicked out to the TV.

He really is, and on NES too. It’s so saddening that he doesn’t get better recognition. I guess he wasn’t working on exactly the highest-profile games but his music is absolutely up with the best of the best of NES/GB soundtracks, and I’m surprised more people haven’t caught on to that yet.

If it was PS5s it’d be the same shit. I remember plenty of articles about muggings after the 360/PS3 launch.

Having dealt with the PS5 side, and the GPU side, my take is the opposite, actually. There are plenty of articles about both here, either way.

I hate to break it to you, but literally every system gets “gamed by scalpers”.

1/ Meaningless how?

Where did I say that I did that? I just said it was possible.

Have a read about Proof of Stake. Etherium, the second-biggest cryptocurrency by market cap, is moving to it, along with many others, apparently. Proof of Stake requires no significant power and does not use a GPU or ASIC.

You download and securely archive every single game in your Steam library? Really? If you do that for all your digital purchases then colour me impressed. No sarcasm here.

But it’s somewhat ironic that you bring up buying music from digital stores, since there have been several high-profile examples of them going out…

I think it’s safe to assume that developers are watching the results of the Steam Hardware and Software Survey, just like they were before all this.

I went against the advice of all my techy friends (and arguably common sense) and bought a second-hand 1080ti back in August ‘20, back when prices were merely silly rather than the current insanity. Their argument was that the new cards were imminently arriving, and prices on older second-hand cards would drop like a…

Everyone once in a while I work on a PC without an SSD. It’s like pulling teeth.

The problem with lotteries and other pre-sale stock allocation approaches is that they get gamed by the scalpers. E.g. the retailer might say “one GPU sale per credit card”, but many banks are quite happy to let you open as many credit cards as you want. Obviously email addresses are even easier. Physical addresses…

Couldn’t agree more. If you’re in the business of selling graphics cards (or PS5s, etc) on the high street right now, you know you need significant extra security to ensure that your customers are safe. But extra security costs money. They also know they’re going to sell all their stock no matter what, so they just…

You’re buying a digital receipt that claims you bought something that you don’t actually own or possess.

Laughing way too hard at this assumption, Stealy.

Videos like this are a great reminder of just how far we’ve come over the last few decades. Most kids in the 90s probably knew someone who had a VHS camcorder, but properly editing video required hardware that was out of reach for the vast majority of people. Fan-created video content existed, but was limited and…

So in theory, this guy will now spend the rest of his life paying off this debt, and still be in debt when he dies.

“I do not recognise the authority of this court!”

Are they legally responsible for the servers that host the copyright content?