Notices by Misty (misty@digipres.club), page 3

FFmpeg multithreading has landed in the dev branch! This is going to be a really big deal once it lands in a stable release; looks like it should mean substantial performance improvements. https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-CLI-MT-Merged

@jordan Ooh. How're you finding it?

@onelson Haha. What's the plan?

Man I really gotta find somewhere new to host my personal OSS stuff huh

Incredible, real code I just ran into. The code is 13 years old and the comment is 7 years old. No one ever explained it.

Attention Lucasarts fans: just noticed one of the devs on Sam & Max: Freelance Police uploaded high-quality renders of work she'd made for it. I've never seen this before!

https://karenspurdy.artstation.com

@NeoNacho It’s degraded even on fast ones. It’s too bad, I remember in 2016 GitHub prided itself on working without JS at all.

OK, figured out why DOSBox/DOSBox-X are still failing with a real early-model MT-32 sometimes. Got a PR up to fix this, and it's working perfectly in local testing.

https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/pull/4513

I haven't seen anyone else talk about this, so I figured I'd put this out there: I finally got to try a Roland MT-32 via wireless MIDI, and it works perfectly. My wife gave me a Yamaha MD-BT01 for my birthday, and it's working flawlessly. Gets all the power it needs from the MT-32's MIDI ports, and it's able to play to it seamlessly via macOS's builtin support with zero lag. If you, like me, are tired of wired cables and just want to be able to play without hooking anything up I can recommend it

Hackercat is *in*

(Jareneko, Media Imagica/Sumitomo Corp., Windows, 1998)

In a just world, bash for loops would be terminated with `rof` instead of `done`

@foone “Ootuka" is probably Haruhiko Otsuka, who went on to work at Ganbarion and is credited on the One Piece games. GDRI mentions that Ganbarion was founded by ex-Technosoft people. http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Technosoft

https://web.archive.org/web/19980625184701/http://www.tecnosoft.com/

So long

(The Anaphobian Planet, Interactive Media, Mac, 2000)

@yamako マコさんお誕生日おめでとう！

There are dozens of websites on the internet

This is a *fascinating* concept for games studies - "quotes" of a game that don't just show you a clip of gameplay, but actually let you take control and try it out. It trims the ROM down to only what's needed to run the quote, so this might even pass a fair dealing/fair use test in court if it came down to it - just like quoting a passage of text, or a clip of a movie.

https://tenmile.quote.games

Canada Post is developing advanced new techniques of moving packages from Ontario to BC

No idea how I should be interpreting this, except that the Great Loop continues forever.

@yamako キュウちゃん　「うちわ… おもしろい」