<p>this is not the game to do it with, but I really wanna try swapping out the drawing routines for one of these games once. go into a VESA mode where I can run at 1024x768 or something, and just make the drawing write to that buffer instead. Could I make BIGSCREEN DOS GAMES?</p>

<p>everything is going WONDERFULLY</p>

<p>that may be only the IMAGE compression algorithms, and they use a separate different compression algorithm for text.</p>

<p>back on hacking Enhanced, DOS, 1990.</p><p>My best guess is that this game has between 4-6 compression algorithms, depending on how you count them. Possibly more are hidden in the bowels of this program.</p>

<p>Oh, and it did mess up time zones. Of course it did. Timezones will remain the last bastion of human engineers.</p>

<p>Ah, the splendors and miseries of LLMs… Asked llama3 to generate an .ics file from a set of 6 appointments, vaguely formatted and copy-pasted from an email.</p><p>It worked! But:</p><p>- It forgot the end marker of the format, which I had to debug myself, using my brain.<br />- When asked to make all 6 appointments one hour long it did it for one, the second one was 45 minutes, the rest 5 minutes. Fixed manually in a text editor :-)</p><p>But yeah, it&#39;d probably take me longer to do it manually.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Some_Emo_Chick" class="u-url mention">@<span>Some_Emo_Chick</span></a></span> they should include Ukrainian naval drones into these. For greater educational effect.</p>

<p>Iran, China and Russia launch annual joint naval drills </p><p><a href="https://www.dw.com/en/iran-china-and-russia-launch-annual-joint-naval-drills/a-71877839?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dw.com/en/iran-china-and-russi</span><span class="invisible">a-launch-annual-joint-naval-drills/a-71877839?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/international" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>international</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>china</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>iran</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/drills" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>drills</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>security</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> The generic device from Windows 95 Device Manager is real.</p>