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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2839 |
Holy Grails
I've been wondering about them, with some having been finally discovered, others not yet, and some probably going to remain in the realm of the impossible forever.
I'm speaking of things like:
- 320x200x16 graphics without restrictions
- Crash-free all-direction hardware scrolling
- Digi replay of 8-bit samples at one register write per sample and without requiring cycle accuracy
on standard vanilla hardware, of course.
Some examples of discovered grails are:
- Cube rotating at 50 fps about 3 axes
- The 9th sprite (with some restrictions)
- On-the-fly standard GCR block read+decode+checksumming
As for definition, they all satisfy some measure of being perfect or optimal or being possible after all, with no further improvements required, possible or necessary. But i'm not so sure if that definition holds water with regard to some of the examples i listed. :D
The question is, what other Holy Grails are there, already discovered or still elusive?
What are your pet grails you've been chasing after for decades or have found eventually? :) |
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JackAsser
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 1989 |
Quote: S:T Lars Meeting III - Invite
Source included. Not a generic compiler, though, but still...
Thanks for mentioning. This one interleaves two streams of assembly; one with timimg constraints. It track register usage on both streams and interleaves them while keeping the timing constraints. I.e. a speedcode/rastercode source multiplexer. |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5017 |
Jacky, thats crazy, didnt know about that one. I often dreamed about this too, and its done since a decade ? :) |
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JackAsser
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 1989 |
Quote: Jacky, thats crazy, didnt know about that one. I often dreamed about this too, and its done since a decade ? :)
Sorry.. ;) |
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Mixer
Registered: Apr 2008
Posts: 422 |
Quote: Thanks for mentioning. This one interleaves two streams of assembly; one with timimg constraints. It track register usage on both streams and interleaves them while keeping the timing constraints. I.e. a speedcode/rastercode source multiplexer.
Excellent. 16khz synthesized sounds incoming..... |
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Bubis
Account closed
Registered: Oct 2012
Posts: 10 |
I would add "free-rotating tunnel" to the list. :) |
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JackAsser
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 1989 |
Quote: I would add "free-rotating tunnel" to the list. :)
Yeah! FD-tunnel. I think Oswalds 8x8 attempt is the closest so far |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5017 |
Quote: Yeah! FD-tunnel. I think Oswalds 8x8 attempt is the closest so far
that's by Bubis, and in 4x4 :) |
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Krill
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2839 |
Quoting Oswaldthat's by Bubis, and in 4x4 :) Not calculated to 8x8 and then interpolated to 4x4? =) |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 5017 |
Quote: Quoting Oswaldthat's by Bubis, and in 4x4 :) Not calculated to 8x8 and then interpolated to 4x4? =)
exactly. |
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JackAsser
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 1989 |
Quote: that's by Bubis, and in 4x4 :)
Oh, sorry Bubis! :D |
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