Using perl for stuff is a total chad move

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 11:57 AM

i actually made a PAR executable for windows and it would just eval load all the dependencies until it managed to launch, and that was my "framework" for the cross platform launcher

bad design but i wanted something cross platform i could just slap onto a usb and port the game around with

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 11:58 AM

and i had learned a lot of perl from my boss back when i was a trainee so i figured why not

TTrigg I've been out of the scene a long time, but recognised your name. Most of my tim...

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 11:59 AM

i still jump into the forums once in a while whenever someone pokes me to go update or change something in the new thread

Aakdev Using perl for stuff is a total chad move

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:00 PM

i mean at least i made it look nice-ish

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Trigg•9/25/23, 12:00 PM

Better than I managed for sure!

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:01 PM

running the game on linux was a hot mess, same on macos

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:01 PM

had to do a lot of random java arguments to fix lots of weird stuff and i wanted to be as verbose in the output as possible so other people could learn from it

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:02 PM

most of the people that contributed to my project now manage the flatpak funny enough, so i like to think it has helped in some way for them to start working on that

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:02 PM

i know a lot of my friends on macos actually used my client over the official one because mine would just perform way better

Trigg•9/25/23, 12:03 PM

That's some impressive work there. I've unfortunately had to use Mac for work and I swear it is designed to be as unhelpful for power users as possible

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:05 PM

i know my client checked which java version you had (sun/oracle/openjdk) and applied fixes for getting opengl working depending on which version
sun java6 no fixes needed, oracle java6 no fixes needed, java7 and newer you had to spoonfeed java the location of its own opengl library

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:06 PM

it would also check if it was 32bit or 64bit java you used and apply appropriate parameters for memory management and garbage collection and then also activate the experimental parallel garbage collection which would speed up loading dramatically

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:06 PM

also it would stop a lot of the freezes when you loaded new map chunks or dungeoneering rooms

Trigg•9/25/23, 12:06 PM

Probably the best part about the NXT client - no java garbage collection.

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:06 PM

true

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:07 PM

i still talk every now and then with the tech support team, they actually went so far to just recommend my client whenever someone had a linux issue

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:08 PM

and i know mod dibs got the game running on a raspberry pi using my client while i got it running on a nintendo wii (would crash once you logged in but hey IT LAUNCHED!)

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:08 PM

oh and i also ran it directly on an android device before they announced RS mobile

Trigg•9/25/23, 12:08 PM

That counts

I didn't know either had been managed, that's very cool

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:08 PM

fun times

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:09 PM

did you know that my client also was featured on the homepage for a while before the NXT redesign of the website?

Trigg•9/25/23, 12:09 PM

I didn't! must've been one of my long quits

Trigg•9/25/23, 12:10 PM

I get about 2 weeks of runescape in every 5 years or so

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:10 PM

let me see if wayback machine is to the rescue

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:11 PM

https://web.archive.org/web/20140125112253/http://www.runescape.com/downloads

RuneScape

Downloads - RuneScape MMO Medieval Adventure Game

Sign up to RuneScape today and access more than 150 incredible story arcs, new skills, play 20 awesome minigames, construct your own amazing home, and more.

Trigg•9/25/23, 12:12 PM

That's amazing!

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:13 PM

i did resign as fmod (and had to fight to get my pmod removed) when i quit and didnt agree with the direction jagex was taking

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:13 PM

now i login maybe once every 2 years

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:14 PM

it was fun reading people getting the game launching on weird random systems with my client

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:14 PM

i remember someone messaging me ingame once saying they got it running on a solaris machine in a datacenter just out of curiosity and sent me a picture of it on skype

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:15 PM

and only because i made the code as agnostic as possible

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:16 PM

would have developed the client way more if i was not moving every darn year in that period

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:16 PM

literally been like that until this year actually

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:17 PM

so i am happy i will be able to get some more time to work on passion projects

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:18 PM

currently these are my projects
https://github.com/HikariKnight/ls-iommu
https://github.com/HikariKnight/quickpassthrough

or well in terms of the last one this tree is more accurate
https://github.com/HikariKnight/quickpassthrough/tree/dev

GitHub

GitHub - HikariKnight/ls-iommu: A tool to list devices in iommu gro...

A tool to list devices in iommu groups, useful for setting up VFIO - GitHub - HikariKnight/ls-iommu: A tool to list devices in iommu groups, useful for setting up VFIO

GitHub

GitHub - HikariKnight/quickpassthrough: A project to remove the com...

A project to remove the complexity of setting up GPU passthrough for qemu - GitHub - HikariKnight/quickpassthrough: A project to remove the complexity of setting up GPU passthrough for qemu

GitHub

GitHub - HikariKnight/quickpassthrough at dev

A project to remove the complexity of setting up GPU passthrough for qemu - GitHub - HikariKnight/quickpassthrough at dev

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:20 PM

my current goal when work calms down is to try make gpu passthrough way easier/faster to set up (as long as it is not single gpu)

HHikariKnight would have developed the client way more if i was not moving every darn year in ...

Trigg•9/25/23, 12:20 PM

That sounds very unenjoyable

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:21 PM

trust me it was very stressful hence why all my projects have had development spikes then a giant falloff into maintenance mode

Trigg•9/25/23, 12:23 PM

Yeah I think most of my projects get put to back burner when things are getting rough too.

That project looks like a huge job!

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:24 PM

it is

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:24 PM

i am very proud of how ls-iommu is though

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:24 PM

i use it a lot when setting up gpu passthrough and my dev VMs

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:24 PM

and test VMs

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:24 PM

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:25 PM

very nice for just getting the info and the project spawned from a very simple ADHD annoyance with the usual bash script people use for ls-iommu

#!/bin/bash
for d in /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/*/devices/*; do
  n=${d#*/iommu_groups/*}; n=${n%%/*}
  printf 'IOMMU Group %s ' "$n"
  lspci -nns "${d##*/}"
done

#!/bin/bash
for d in /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/*/devices/*; do
  n=${d#*/iommu_groups/*}; n=${n%%/*}
  printf 'IOMMU Group %s ' "$n"
  lspci -nns "${d##*/}"
done

you cant properly sort the output

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:26 PM

and you have to do lots of grepping to get the info you want

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:27 PM

hence the ls-iommu project which then is the backbone for quickpassthrough

Trigg•9/25/23, 12:28 PM

I've not yet had a use for passthrough, probably because I'm too set in my ways...

HikariKnight•9/25/23, 12:28 PM

heh

Trigg•9/25/23, 12:28 PM

I'm only just coming to terms with python environments instead of coding bare metal...

Using perl for stuff is a total chad move

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