Sam Littlewood
@samlittlewood.bsky.social
Graphics, games, embedded & systems. Unix, C, C++, Rust, python, FPGA and microcontrollers. Always happy to answer questions/advise/mentor, if only as a warning to others.
That brings back memories! - I dimly recall on x86 we had a 1024 entry table of this and next outcodes to action (outcodes included crossing z=0)
September 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
That brings back memories! - I dimly recall on x86 we had a 1024 entry table of this and next outcodes to action (outcodes included crossing z=0)
I’ll use that next time I am discovered performing percussive maintenance!
April 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I’ll use that next time I am discovered performing percussive maintenance!
Loved the food court there!
March 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Loved the food court there!
Oops - apologies - hmm now where has my copy of SoftICE got to….
March 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Oops - apologies - hmm now where has my copy of SoftICE got to….
Hard lesson in bandwidth and caching!
March 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Hard lesson in bandwidth and caching!
BTW: FXF was the impetus for brender switching to z buffer vs. the edge tracking system it started with. I hacked it in to let it move on whilst I ‘improved’ the original code, only to get way better performance that I was ever going to get the old way - esp. with trend towards small triangles.
March 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
BTW: FXF was the impetus for brender switching to z buffer vs. the edge tracking system it started with. I hacked it in to let it move on whilst I ‘improved’ the original code, only to get way better performance that I was ever going to get the old way - esp. with trend towards small triangles.
Ha! Cool - I should probably look out for one for the shelf.
March 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Ha! Cool - I should probably look out for one for the shelf.
Bugger! - don’t thing it was me 😬 - get better!
December 31, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Bugger! - don’t thing it was me 😬 - get better!
Sikorsky CH-53 A Sea Stallion Helicopter
YouTube video by I_can_ Boogie
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November 17, 2024 at 7:24 AM
Hiya - very relieved to see some good people here. Frustrated that many non tech people fell by the wayside.
October 21, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Hiya - very relieved to see some good people here. Frustrated that many non tech people fell by the wayside.