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• ↓ What's been going on in w64devkit the past year
• ↓ A custom virtual machine for the Stars! 4X game
• ↓ Concurrent, atomic MSI hash tables
• ↓ I have officially retired from Emacs
• ↓ My brave new code-signing world
• ↓ dcmake: a new CMake debugger UI
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"The past year has been exciting for w64devkit, which like any software distribution is never complete. Peter0x44 joined as co-maintainer, and has pushed the project in good, new directions, with ideas I would never have considered. Many of his improvements have gone back upstream, and so you may benefit even if you don’t use w64devkit. I’d like to touch on the various odds and ends from the past year."

"Stars! is a 1995 4X game (explore, expand, exploit, exterminate) for 16-bit Windows 3.1 that I first played ~28 years ago. While Windows is famously backwards compatible, it’s notoriously difficult to play Stars! today. Windows x64 cannot run 16-bit applications, and playing requires either retro hardware or emulation (otvdm, DOSBox), sometimes paired with Wine. My new, exciting solution, Stars!VM, or Stars! Virtual Machine, embeds a custom 80286 emulator and a Win16 to Win32 bridge. As native Win32, the game looks and feels exactly as it did originally, except sporting a modern file chooser and 4k scaling. It’s indistinguishable from a genuine 32-bit or 64-bit port of the game, especially with the original 16-bit game embedded inside the VM executable."

"Readers will be familiar with Mask-Step-Index (MSI) hash tables, a technique for building fast, open-addressed hash tables in a dozen lines of code. If multiple threads or processes access an MSI table with at least one still inserting elements, care must be taken to avoid data races. This article will show how to add atomic operations to MSI tables in order to support different concurrency constraints."

"This past Tuesday I typed C-x C-c in Emacs for the last time after 20 years of daily use. Though nearly half that time was gradually retiring it, switching to modal editing, then to Vim. Emacs is a platform, and I’d grown accustomed to its applications, especially those I built myself. There was no particular hurry, so replacements came slowly. With my newly-acquired superpowers I could knock out the last two pieces in a few days’ work, namely M-x calc with stackcalc and Elfeed with Elfeed2. I’m especially excited about the latter because it already exceeds the original. Both are multi-platform, native C++ GUI applications using native UI components."

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What's been going on in w64devkit the past year

A custom virtual machine for the Stars! 4X game

Concurrent, atomic MSI hash tables

I have officially retired from Emacs

My brave new code-signing world

dcmake: a new CMake debugger UI