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Comment Too bad it doesn't come with digital invaders (Score 4, Informative) 78

Some of the Casio watches back then had a game on it called digital invaders where numbers would "invade" from the right, and you had to match the numbers streaming in to destroy them. There is a standalone version on Google Play: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fstore%2F...

I've also seen other versions on the web... There may be an iOS version as well.

Anyways, those watches were highly prized as they could provide much needed always available boredom relief back before cell phone games. I'm surprised that casino's current models (or this one) do not host the game. It would be a trivial cost and effort to add it on with today's technology.

Comment Re: Class act (Score 3, Informative) 18

His design for both the Apple I and Apple II were amazing, maximizing the available hardware available at the time. He wasn't just a wiz with hardware, he wrote some amazing software, too (in assembly without an assembler, so basically direct machine code as he hand assembled the software), and used it to further optimize his hardware designs. He truly is a genius and deserves way more credit than Steve Jobs who only managed to merely supply am external case.

Comment Web Pages Use Same Imaging Model (Score 1) 227

Web pages use SVG to render vector graphics. It uses the exact same imaging model as PDF and is implemented in all modern browsers. The web in general has taken a lot of lessons from Adobe because Warnock and Geshke, in the PostScript Red Book, got so much right about how to build an image model that many GUI developers are still learning today. If you start with a PDF, it should be possible to machine-translate it to SVG and present it as a web page.

PDF exists because it is trivial to generate it from the document renderer meant for printing. Although I have once in a while run into an improperly scaled PDF meant to be printed 8-up, I'm just not

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