Iran says the port fire sparked by an explosion that left at least 65 people dead has finally been extinguished. Read more from @AssociatedPress
https://flip.it/wMK8am
#Iran #Port #Explosion #MiddleEast #Fire
Tomb Raider for the Amiga.
[BSzili] has released a proof of concept Tomb Raider for the Amiga called OpenLara. Although don't get too excited for a finished product any time soon. "This took me a few days. No sound, no full game, no warranty. I put it out there as a call to action: if anyone would be interested in helping out with the rasterizer let me know."
![[BSzili] is certainly no stranger to the Amiga scene, as not only did he release the Amiga port of Blake Stone Aliens of Gold, but there was also ports done of Exhumed / Powerslave, Wolfenstein 3D, BLOOD and even my personal favourite Shadow Warrior.](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/114/410/016/038/032/174/original/de2cc25c56a083b7.jpeg "[BSzili] is certainly no stranger to the Amiga scene, as not only did he release the Amiga port of Blake Stone Aliens of Gold, but there was also ports done of Exhumed / Powerslave, Wolfenstein 3D, BLOOD and even my personal favourite Shadow Warrior.")
![[ImageSource: BSzili]
<https://youtu.be/i_rXLZvkaX8>
While there isn't much else to say about this proof of concept and what system requirements it has. Here's a little bit about Tomb Raider you may find interesting.
"Lara Croft is a titular character of Core Design’s most memorable franchise Tomb Raider. Developed by experienced game developers from Derby, England, Tomb Raider was released in 1996. Tomb Raider was a huge success, selling over 7 million copies.”
“During the first three months of 1997, Tomb Raider was the ninth-best-selling console game in the United States, with around 143,000 copies sold. This made it the highest-selling Playstation title for the period, in the United States. The game also received a “Platinum” sales award for PC and a “Gold” award for the Playstation".](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/114/410/017/025/527/325/original/4c74bf55225f2de0.jpeg "[ImageSource: BSzili]
<https://youtu.be/i_rXLZvkaX8>
While there isn't much else to say about this proof of concept and what system requirements it has. Here's a little bit about Tomb Raider you may find interesting.
\"Lara Croft is a titular character of Core Design’s most memorable franchise Tomb Raider. Developed by experienced game developers from Derby, England, Tomb Raider was released in 1996. Tomb Raider was a huge success, selling over 7 million copies.”
“During the first three months of 1997, Tomb Raider was the ninth-best-selling console game in the United States, with around 143,000 copies sold. This made it the highest-selling Playstation title for the period, in the United States. The game also received a “Platinum” sales award for PC and a “Gold” award for the Playstation\".")
Population Vulnerability Of Residents, Employees, And Cruise-Ship Passengers To Tsunami Hazards Of Islands In Complex Seismic Regions - A Case Study Of The U.S. Virgin Islands
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105289 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #Tsunami #Evacuation #Mitigation #Risk #Hazard #Modeling #Island #publicsafety #USVI #VirginIslands #damage #loss #infrastructure #cost #economics #humanimpacts #publicsafety #lossoflife #death #earthquake #fault #mitigation #monitoring #warning #response #tourists #locals #employees #cruiseships #population #community #vulnerability #USVirginIslands #ships #vessels #docks #inundation #flood #flooding #waves #maritime #port #scenario #riskassessment #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal
the “heart”of Portugal (when you know, you know) 
Ville de Montréal
La Société du Vieux-Port (gouvernement fédéral du Canada) ralentit la transformation piétonnière de la rue de la Commune
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/grand-montreal/2025-04-23/vieux-montreal/le-royaume-des-pietons-a-du-plomb-dans-l-aile.php
#piétons #sécurité #Montréal #Québec #Canada #transport #communication #stationnement #urbanisme #tourisme #VieuxMontréal #port #VieuxPort
https://www.europesays.com/2009198/ U.S. Strike on Yemen Oil Port Kills 58, Houthis Say #AirStrikes #Casualties #conflict #CrudeOil #CrudeOilPrice #fuel #Houthis #MiddleEast #military #OilPrice #petroleum #port #US #Yemen
https://www.europesays.com/1998192/ EBRD Seeks New Investor for Moldova’s Strategic Giurgiulesti International Free Port #EBRD #EuropeanBankForReconstructionAndDevelopment #GIFP #GiurgiulestiInternationalFreePort #GlobalTender #Moldova #Moldova’sPrimaryMaritimeGateway #port #TradeInfrastructure
In looking at the "off vintage" comments, I'm reminded of the nasty article I once wrote on the failure of producers to declare the 2015 vintage. If any of you happen to be members of the RP site I once worked for, this might interest you. It is behind a paywall, however. I can't do anything about that. But in short, there can be fine drinking in off vintages.
This 2012 single-quinta Port from a famous duo (J. Portugal Ramos and Jose Maria Soares Franco, former winemaker for Barca Velha) is mostly Touriga Nacional and Touriga Franca, on the sweeter side and rather accessible. But it has structure, firmness on the finish, even if it seems elegant and sexy. Plum-laced and delicious, it adds mid-palate finesse too.
Nice value from an off-vintage. Can hold for more decades if you must. $50-ish.
[G-ZERO] — F-Zero inspired SNES Game looks impressive on the Genesis/Sega Mega Drive.
YouTuber and developer [Gasega68k] has released an early work in progress version of 'G-ZERO' for the Sega Mega Drive. A game that is inspired by the iconic Super Nintendo Entertainment System title of 'F-Zero'.
![[ImageSource: Gasega68k]
And here's the latest. "This is a tech demo of G-Zero for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, inspired by F-Zero on the Super Nintendo with a mode 7 style rotation background. There are 5 opponents and a rival. The race takes place in a loop, never ending, but the best time gets updated after each lap. This is a WIP, and the author is still working on it."](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/114/285/463/310/848/925/original/a72cdba8056f350c.jpeg "[ImageSource: Gasega68k]
And here's the latest. \"This is a tech demo of G-Zero for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, inspired by F-Zero on the Super Nintendo with a mode 7 style rotation background. There are 5 opponents and a rival. The race takes place in a loop, never ending, but the best time gets updated after each lap. This is a WIP, and the author is still working on it.\"")
"All hands," bellowed the first mate. "Repel hijackers!"
Sounds of swordplay rang out along with shouts and grunts as men fought.
Melfor and the Baron drew their swords and charged aft.
Lord Cassel looked to the #port side and cried out, "There's another airship approaching!"
"All hands prepare to repel boarders!" bellowed the Captain.
#wss366 from Lady Cecelia's Trial
Le prolongement de l’avenue Souligny abandonné
https://estmediamontreal.com/prolongement-avenue-souligny-abandonne/
#Montréal #MHM #port #urbanisme #environnement #pollution #santé #Québec #Canada #politique #société #média #transport
Russia Unleashes Drone Assault on Ukrainian Port Key to Black Sea Access #World #access #assault #black #drone #key #port #Russia #Sea #Ukrainian #Unleashes
https://tinyurl.com/284eebrh
How tariffs could impact Maryland’s economy https://www.byteseu.com/856607/ #11TVHill #baltimore #business #Cars #China #ConstructionMachinery #economy #FarmEquipment #ForestProduct #HowDoTariffsAffectEconomy #HowDoTariffsAffectMarylandEconomy #HowDoTariffsAffectUSEconomy #JasonCherubini #KeyBridge #KeyBridgeCollapse #LoyolaUniversityMaryland #Maryland #MarylandEconomy #Mexico #port #PortOfBaltimore #SellingerSchool #tariff #tariffs #truck #UsEconomy #WhatAreTariffs
Quake ported to Arduino Nano Matter. [Using only 276kb RAM]
Nicola Wrachien with Silicon Labs created this fun handheld, porting Quake using the Arduino Nano Matter. For easy playing a custom controller shaped board was designed with joysticks and a screen.
![[ImageSource: Nicola Wrachien]
For a much tougher challenge, a group from Silicon Labs decided to port DOOM‘s successor, Quake, to the Arduino Nano Matter Board platform instead even though this platform has some pretty significant limitations for a game as advanced as Quake.
<https://community.silabs.com/s/share/a5UVm000000Vi1ZMAS/quake-ported-to-arduino-nano-matter-and-sparkfun-thing-plus-matter-boards?language=en_US>
To begin work on the memory problem, the group began with a port of Quake originally designed for Windows, allowing them to use a modern Windows machine to whittle down the memory usage before moving over to hardware. They do have a flash memory module available as well, but there’s a speed penalty with this type of memory. To improve speed they did what any true gamer would do with their system: overclock the processor. This got them to around 10 frames per second, which is playable, but not particularly enjoyable.
The further optimizations to improve the FPS required a much deeper dive which included generating lookup tables instead of relying on computation, optimizing some of the original C programming, coding some functions in assembly and only refreshing certain sections of the screen when needed.](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/114/206/081/241/901/037/original/72dec8d287dd1c33.png "[ImageSource: Nicola Wrachien]
For a much tougher challenge, a group from Silicon Labs decided to port DOOM‘s successor, Quake, to the Arduino Nano Matter Board platform instead even though this platform has some pretty significant limitations for a game as advanced as Quake.
<https://community.silabs.com/s/share/a5UVm000000Vi1ZMAS/quake-ported-to-arduino-nano-matter-and-sparkfun-thing-plus-matter-boards?language=en_US>
To begin work on the memory problem, the group began with a port of Quake originally designed for Windows, allowing them to use a modern Windows machine to whittle down the memory usage before moving over to hardware. They do have a flash memory module available as well, but there’s a speed penalty with this type of memory. To improve speed they did what any true gamer would do with their system: overclock the processor. This got them to around 10 frames per second, which is playable, but not particularly enjoyable.
The further optimizations to improve the FPS required a much deeper dive which included generating lookup tables instead of relying on computation, optimizing some of the original C programming, coding some functions in assembly and only refreshing certain sections of the screen when needed.")
#Vorratsdatenspeicherung von #IP-Adressen unzulässig
Die #Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer und der Verband der Internetwirtschaft erteilen neuen Ideen für eine #Vorratsdatenspeicherung eine deutliche Absage. In einer Stellungnahme erläutern die Anwälte, warum die geplante anlassunabhängige Massenspeicherung von #IP-Adressen und #Port-Nummern gegen die Vorgaben des #EuropäischenGerichtshofs verstößt.
Porting Doom to Typescript Types took 3.5 Trillion Lines, 90GB of RAM and a full Year of Work.
The feat was devised by Software Engineer Dmitri Mitropoulos, founder of Michigan Typescript and co-founder of Squiggleconf. He released a video showcasing the results of a year-long effort to get Doom running inside of Typescript's Types system.
![[ImageSource: Dmitri Mitropoulos]
Typescript is a language built on top of Javascript, that add static typing to catch many errant mistakes before your executes, think of it as guardrails which check that functions and other variables are being used correctly. While this is commonly used in all kinds of development, it's unheard of to run a game within Typescript's Type system.
The port itself runs inside three and a half trillion lines of types, totalling a gargantuan size of 177 TB. This is run through Typescript's Type tracker, which takes 12 days to compile the first frame of Doom (0.0000009645 fps). This meant that 20 million type instantiations were running every second in order to get the output.
Mitropoulos explained in the Michigan TypeScript Discord server that this could be improved to take "1 to 12 hours", as long as someone works on it, with the developer noting that he has notes for where potential performance optimizations could be made.
<https://discord.gg/pfKUSmSY>
This was done by running the project within a custom WASM runtime, which is then processed through Typescript within an editor to display a frame.
<https://github.com/MichiganTypeScript/typescript-types-only-wasm-runtime>](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/114/166/740/010/112/784/original/f54d5e08b8f270ce.png "[ImageSource: Dmitri Mitropoulos]
Typescript is a language built on top of Javascript, that add static typing to catch many errant mistakes before your executes, think of it as guardrails which check that functions and other variables are being used correctly. While this is commonly used in all kinds of development, it's unheard of to run a game within Typescript's Type system.
The port itself runs inside three and a half trillion lines of types, totalling a gargantuan size of 177 TB. This is run through Typescript's Type tracker, which takes 12 days to compile the first frame of Doom (0.0000009645 fps). This meant that 20 million type instantiations were running every second in order to get the output.
Mitropoulos explained in the Michigan TypeScript Discord server that this could be improved to take \"1 to 12 hours\", as long as someone works on it, with the developer noting that he has notes for where potential performance optimizations could be made.
<https://discord.gg/pfKUSmSY>
This was done by running the project within a custom WASM runtime, which is then processed through Typescript within an editor to display a frame.
<https://github.com/MichiganTypeScript/typescript-types-only-wasm-runtime>")
![Dmitri Mitropoulos further explained that each value within the Typescript Types system equates to a line of pixels [totalling 128,000 lines of pixels in total], resulting in a "resolution" of 320x200, displayed in ASCII.
To do this, the developer needed to remove limitations within the Typescript compiler itself, highlighting just how large the project got, with the Type tracker runtime consuming over 90 GB of RAM while it was running.
This huge overhead meant that common tools within Typescript could not be used, which meant that the herculean task of encoding every element of Doom in types. This required learning to develop elements like an L1 CPU cache, within Typescript Types itself. Due to Typescript requiring iteration on a single string from the left-hand side, binary algorithms had to be input in reverse.
"Oh, and AI can't help" Dmitri Mitropoulos added, describing that the work was so low level that AI couldn't possibly assist with any of the tasks. Too bad, Grok 3.
Mitropoulos said that he undertook the challenge after completing "every other" Types challenge, and wanted to understand why Doom wouldn't be able to run within Types. However, he managed to find "ridiculous" workarounds to make it all work, despite his own disbelief in the project.](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/114/166/742/069/675/680/original/110e43577d22fe1d.jpeg "Dmitri Mitropoulos further explained that each value within the Typescript Types system equates to a line of pixels [totalling 128,000 lines of pixels in total], resulting in a \"resolution\" of 320x200, displayed in ASCII.
To do this, the developer needed to remove limitations within the Typescript compiler itself, highlighting just how large the project got, with the Type tracker runtime consuming over 90 GB of RAM while it was running.
This huge overhead meant that common tools within Typescript could not be used, which meant that the herculean task of encoding every element of Doom in types. This required learning to develop elements like an L1 CPU cache, within Typescript Types itself. Due to Typescript requiring iteration on a single string from the left-hand side, binary algorithms had to be input in reverse.
\"Oh, and AI can't help\" Dmitri Mitropoulos added, describing that the work was so low level that AI couldn't possibly assist with any of the tasks. Too bad, Grok 3.
Mitropoulos said that he undertook the challenge after completing \"every other\" Types challenge, and wanted to understand why Doom wouldn't be able to run within Types. However, he managed to find \"ridiculous\" workarounds to make it all work, despite his own disbelief in the project.")
This 30-year Tawny is bright, fresh and spicy with the familiar caramel overlay and some grip. The persistent finish is long, and the balance just doesn't get better. It's utterly delicious and dribbles fresh flavors over the palate. From Mário Braga Herdeiros, Quinta do Mourão (though son Miguel now runs the winery). A bit pricey, worth it ($150), Bar-top cork (bottled 2017).
Note that you'll more easily find the brand name "São Leonardo."
Greg Cocks 
