RIP Black Box Games
(I’m a NFS fan but also a fan of Black Box)
RIP Black Box Games
(I’m a NFS fan but also a fan of Black Box)
The way I did it is by trying to solve more and more advanced problems with simpler tools/features, then looking at more advanced features and seeing where they could be applied to make the problem solving simpler. Rinse and repeat.
An easy example that I can remember is making arrays that dynamically expand. I started with the barebones malloc and worked out how to use std::vector (and other list types) in its place.
Understanding that concept is, what I believe, to be the foundation of learning programming.
I’m no pro whatsoever, but using this method really helps me pick up and learn new languages.
Yeah I meant don’t use joycons lol
Pro Controller at the very least. CTR is a game that should be played with a dpad for steering. You can use the analog inputs but some more advanced tricks (such as tight steering) will require a solid dpad.
And that’t the crux of the issue. Stenzek doesn’t actually understand the reality of licensing.
The reality is this - you can’t do anything without a lawyer. Laweyrs cost money (pro bono isn’t a thing in the copyright world AFAIK, but IANAL).
If he wanted to avoid this, then maybe he should’ve kept it closed source from the beginning. Chinese sellers on AliExpress couldn’t care less about licensing anyway, so that way he’d have at least some protection.
IMO his course of action so far has been wrong.
What he should’ve done is this:
He could even go after Arcade1up legally if he raised funds, but that’s not even worth the time if you ask me.
I’d recommend getting a proper controller for it. CTR is a dpad and shoulder button masher.
Any Black Box made Need for Speed.
(Currently busy fixing Pro Street, so many bugs…)
This is the real issue. This is one area that Windows, despite its historical hardships, handles much better.
(Mac OS too but they killed kexts for the public anyway)
I’d love to see a more dynamic approach (that doesn’t rely on DKMS) someday.
C++ is at least backwards compatible (for 99% of code anyway, yes I know about some features being removed, but that’s an exception and not the rule).
Yes but, in practice some of these things don’t matter much at all. At that point you’re looking at the performance stack a bit too deeply.
Look at the bigger picture. For example - an RTX 4090 can perform about as well on PCIe 3.0 as it does on 4.0 in most tasks that you’d likely use it for.
You don’t have to care about some of these things as much as you used to before. Sometimes you can get too deep into hunting the best version of your system before you realize that it really doesn’t make that much of a difference.
Unrelated but this is totally possible on a PS4…
…after jailbreaking it and booting into Linux.
Which makes me even more mad at Sony removing OtherOS, but oh well.
To top it off, what matters at the end of the day js this - people generally don’t care about graphics anymore!
Even if you end up with graphics that are worse than a console, you still have:
PS5 Pro makes absolutely no sense to me.
It’s just their ego showing through.
It basically now comes down to the current devs depending on new Rust devs for anything that interacts with Rust code.
They could just work together with Rust devs to solve any issues (API for example).
But their ego doesn’t allow for it. They want to do everything by themselves because that’s how it always was (up until now).
Sure, you could say it’s more efficient to work on things alone for some people, and I’d agree here, but realistically that’s not going to matter because the most interactivity that exists (at the moment) between Rust and C in Linux is… the API. Something that they touch up on once in a while. Once it’s solid enough, they don’t have to touch it anymore at all.
This is a completely new challenge that the Linux devs are facing now after a new language has been introduced. It was tried before, but now it’s been approved. The only person they should be mad at is Linus, not the Rust devs.
Yeah enabling remote debugging because the dev thought it made it easier is a pretty big oof.
But this is just strike one. It’s a one man show, after all, so cutting them some slack is warranted when it comes to this specific topic.
Nevertheless, your concerns aren’t unfounded. This project needs more contributors to be able to keep up. (Thorium is basically in the same boat)
Unfortunately not really.
The problem is that the artstyle is usually thrown out the window with these kinds of mods. They all end up looking very similar because of the amount of work you have to put in to make it look acceptable.
Not to mention, the hacky nature of RTX Remix is very limiting and the implementation is not very good to begin with (and very hard to use as a result).
I hadn’t caught up with NVIDIA’s RTX Remix SDK stuff but I plan on taking a look at this myself and do a more in-depth render integration with something (be it the Remix DXVK fork itself or something like UE5). I mod BlackBox NFS games extensively and I plan on cooking something up that is technically better than anything before.
You’re mostly correct. People here don’t take Windows praise lightly.
NT is probably the best part about Windows. If you’re gonna complain about Windows, the kernel is the last thing to complain about.
As you’ve said, there are things that are still better about NT to this day;
Most of NT stigma comes from NTFS (which has its own share of problems) and the bugcheck screens that people kept seeing (which weren’t even mostly MS’ fault to begin with, that was on the driver vendors).
Mark Russinovich has some of his old talks up on his YT channel and one of them compares Linux (2.6 at the time) to NT and goes into great detail. Most of the points made there still applies to this day.
Not to mention - this isn’t necessarily the correct place for Windows anyway. That is exactly why they standardized stuff around Vista.
Plus - what about apps that store an ungodly amount data in there? Personally, I only keep the OS and basic app data (such as configs and cache) on the partition and nothing else.
Then something like Minecraft comes along and it’s like “humpty dumpty I’m crapping a lumpty” and stores all its data in “.minecraft” right there in your user directory.
Then you gotta symlink stuff around and it becomes a mess…
No, it cannot be!
Someone is using Unreal Engine 5 to play Unreal?
I really wish I could find time to work on the PSP port of RSDKv4 lol
It runs at like 2 FPS currently thanks to everything being run in software mode.
I was actually amazed at how otherwise simple it was to get running. Technically all it needed was SDL which was already on PSP.
In before someone tries to guilt trip you for that because “developers aren’t getting money from stolen keys” and the developer isn’t an indie developer but a studio owned by Microsoft or EA…
There go my hopes and dreams of IRL Solid Vision system and duel disks…
One day, it will happen with MR.