Bharatspot plz open forums Fucking dalit

Calm down Mr Zolezi

I have an idea. Ban everyone virtue signaling on the forums about hiding posts of other users. These people don't even play the game.

I'll admit I also habitually bump consoles up or down a generation purely on specs when discussing history, regardless of their market competitors at the time, especially with some diehard consoles like the SNES & PS2 getting new games so absurdly long. Nintendo since the GCN shamelessly recycling HW, while the OG Xbox was easily one gen ahead, stand out especially.

I mostly agree with the practical significance of your spec delineations, though I'd add a few things:
4th-gen: STEREO SOUND! With pretty sophisticated ASIC filters! Graphics ASIC-wise, you put only multiplane at the headline level, but I think dynamic color (most prominently palette rotation) and affine skew/scale transforms are also universal headline features of this gen.

5th-gen: True realtime 3D spatialized sound similar to what DS3D or A3D were doing on PC. In what's often termed the 16-bit/32-bit divide or "3.5th-gen," early 4th-gen systems instead of "smooth" Gouraud only do flatshaded 3D, like the SFX, SVP, 3DO, & Jag. Also, N64 devs (what you allude to goes for many other consoles with some or all of their "fixed" rendering actually implemented in software) did know how to reprogram the RCP, the issue was Nintendo prohibited them from doing so, and even when the rules were loosened Nintendo refused to provide their internal docs to licensed devs.

6th-gen: I wouldn't describe any of their publicly exposed features as shader-like in flexibility nor particularly prominent in period games, merely distinct enough from the contemporary evolutionary path D3D7 took to annoy emudevs. Aside from raw power, this gen's graphics advancements (in descending order of importance) can best be summed as HW TCL, high multipass texture/shading limits, and asset decompression (e.g.: S3TC.) Also for that reason (the only one of these features missing was HW TCL, easily offset by its tile-based culling that would take another decade for nVidia/AMD to do) I think the Dreamcast is firmly 6th-gen.

7th-gen/end of history: You mention compute shaders as a possible nitpick, but I think a better dividing line for GPGPU is the shift from weird bespoke kludge APIs to Vulkan/D3D12. I'm not up on the current state of homebrew, but I think that hasn't been backported beyond 8th-gen.

8th-gen: Geometry & tesselation shader HW. Plus maybe the aforementioned Vulkan/D3D12.

9th-gen: NN & RTRT HW. I agree (hopefully local!) NN/AI may become a big thing in future partially or completely replacing everything we know about game internals (the Oasis Minecraft experiment is the viscerally mindblowing example I'd point to,) but I think RTRT deserves greater consideration as well. Though no games so far do this, full-scene RTRT (distinct from hybrid RTRT/rasterization) would allow the total abandonment of prebaked lighting, geometry, even polygons and sprites, bringing back alternative geometries such as voxels, fractals, and NURBS that were being experimented with just before fixed-function ASICs froze PC game graphics in the '90s.

Finally, while the first comment cautioned against mentioning PCs as inviting too much ambiguity, I think that directly equating 5th-gen onward with D3D/OpenGL versions would make the dividing lines a lot clearer. Similarly, even prior to the WinTel monoculture, direct comparison between consoles and more home micros like the IIGS, Amiga, ST, Towns, & X68k would be illuminating, especially since many directly influenced console/arcade HW. Also worth noting how large groups of consoles/PCs in early gens were identical, like the various Z80/TMS9918 platforms (Sega, Coleco, MSX, TI-99, etc.).

finally I can comment, what the hell even happened each time I tried commenting it would go to a blank page

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baste king tony owning libtards

ive been feeling like ted turner wouldve die this year and he did
RIP

no new hardware and no new games, what's even the point anymore...

Thanks for making my childhood fun, Badspot.

[email protected] hasn't responded to emails in almost a month...

anonymous. i think ur retard3d

yo, badspot.
is there... any updates related to getting your github account back for the source code of the game? might be useful (to others) since, i never had a chance to try out the maps or like, other stuff when this game was at its peak by 2014.
apologies if this ends up being a little unrelated to this article.

God works in mysterious ways, it is all part of His plan

Badspot please, there's players begging for help on the forums, begging for help on blockland.us, begging for help in the subreddit... only you can help them. It's probably like 2 people who are just... whining loudly... But only you can make things right.

Appreciate it man, thanks for the shout out.

ur speedkart server is down btw

are you going to release a update today

master server is being slow right now

Badspot and LEGO talked about the

Perennial.ninja doesn't link to the steam page unless im blind

the dreamcast was actually quite a capable system, mainly held back by it's lack of a better rom drive. Take a look at Resident Evil Code Veronica on both ps2 and dreamcast, the dreamcast version looks and runs better (although not the better game overall as the ps2/X version has more content)

but yeah I think it deserves to be in gen 6 considering it was running at 480p 60fps & the dreamcast is to the saturn what the ps2 is to the ps1

when?

Daddy Badspot please come back to Blockland

I also hate trannies

I hate pedophiles

i love bussysauce

so whatever happened to the rest of the story with lego and you?

hello badspot how are you

PLEASE delete/ban the foot fetish servers. this is a really bad look.

wen clint eastwood update

chuck norris update when

ah shit I posted in the wrong article

also we need to see the failbin subforum

^ do that badspot, also what were you testing yesterday with speedkart?

Now is a great time to clear the Speedkart ban list!

bring back speedkart 2

now badspot your going to add a callback for setBlackout so it works properly with no client mods

He posts the update history for AoT then the server immediately goes down. How does it mean?

also are you able to update the openAL drivers

mr badspot can you add a callback for setBlackout so it works properly with no client mods

we able to get version 31 or no?

^ banning blids is not a thing

Now would be a really good time to ban all these BLIDs for spamming the server list (it's happening right now)
19
Server Hoster
celau has no dick
Quake Master

Thanks for the response! Super cool info

I've been exploring the history of Age of Time again and was very curious if there was a more detailed list of version update changes. the ageoftime.com website is missing plenty of updates, the in game news section is lacking in detail and doesn't have any dates listed.

Ideally I'd love to see a fully version history with the dates the updates went live. Mostly I'm curious what day the final update (before the random rogue update in 2024 (thank you for that by the way)) was released before the game was abandoned.

You should IP ban "19", "Server Hoster" and "celau has no dick" for server spamming (same IP)

hey badspot why is your speedkart server missing from the server list?

saar

blow up india

badspot what blid does kompressor have now

why theres so much privacy invasive botnet in brickadia
palantir and spur.us update when

BRICKADIA IS CANCELLED! ALL BRICKADIAND SHALL HANG

Fuck you Badspot I will take all of your players even though the brickadia community is filled with pedophiles fat piece of shit go write an actual good article or release the source code fucking ngger

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Hartham city rp is full of nggers

tony is baste so no

hey badspot tony is being a retarded ngger can you ban him already?

me when badspot doesn't fix forum registration for steam users

Really a cool article. In this new generation of gaming where most can't afford the latest console, us gamers are tending to go back towards LoFi kits instead of dumping money on the newest Playstation or Xbox. Financially gaming as a business has turned into a business that operates like motorsport for rich kids to show off their spending power. Livestreaming and progaming adds even more to operating costs. I never understood how the coding worked in the original blockland, all we as a community knew was that when the code was improved, it could render more bricks in the game at the same time on an equally equipped system. I really like how the old school Playstation 2 runs with an HDMI converter, because it standardizes gaming so that it can run on most available HDMI displays. The DVD era of gaming already had pretty much every available game genre you could want. The next generation of AI gaming will probably be reverse engineered DVD rom hacks so that you can play multiplayer Blockland on an XBox or Playstation based kit on local multiplayer. Or something of that nature.

>discord integration
Do these cucks really?

Resident Evil 9's Grace

Face model: https://files.catbox.moe/odr5sy.jpg
Potato-looking character model in game: https://files.catbox.moe/14d1ft.jpg

also that jacob guy could be Kalphiter tbh with yall

seriously though what even caused the master server to die

where was I when badspot died?

just rolled and lit it up

apology for poor english

when were you when blockland dies?

i was sat at home watching tv when pjotr ring

'blockland is kill'

'no'

wtf was that downtime about I couldn't even get on blockland for like an hour?

What 30 year olds were even on the forum at it's prime?
it was 25 at most

Great remake! Soundtrack overhaul goes HARD.

"Everyone else moved on" yeah the people who moved on are tranny faggots who play brickadia and get exposed for being a pedophile. Shut the fuck up for me

salty BLFer who's still writing fanfiction about people he's never met because he got banned 10 years ago ROFL LMAO

Gotta love that in the years this game has been alive, Badspot is still trying to play "Therapist" with people. Still writing paragraphs telling people to "move on" whilst still being here.
You reap what you sew I suppose. You fostered a terrible community of 30-somethings that got off on bullying literal children on the forums which ended up killing the community because your "holier than thou" attitude festered and corrupted the rest of it.

Everyone else moved on, got lives, and formed real, lasting relationships. Meanwhile your still here with nothing but a dead game, sitting on a legacy that was long forgotten by everyone but those who returned to see what became of an empire. Good riddance

hey when are you going to send a dmca to kenko's blockland rebuilt project?

Did this retard really put Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, one of the absolute greatest P&C Adventure games of all time that low and calls it slow and boring? My god...some people are so retarded it surprises even me.

Is there a level select in this remake?

Is there a level select in this remake?

Is there a level select in this remake?

I found female Badspot on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg8HNePhuJ8

Blockland is good as is its the best game ever.

Holy shit. I cannot believe people feel so entitled to this game's perpetual development. I don't know about you guys, but I paid $20 one time back in 2007 or 2008 for my copy of the game (ID 6537) and it's been one of the most bangs for my buck on any video game I've ever purchased. That $20 gave me nearly a decade of entertainment. To expect, in 2026, for the continued development of a game that is only purchased once is asinine. Subscription based games have this expectation of perpetual support, single purchase games do not.

fuck you

just here to sign my name. I remember the blockland forums III thing back in 2018.

rest in peace hideki sato

"The PC never had hardware scrolling. Carmack got Commander Keen to work via code ninjitsu, and it was still a bit janky."

PCs did have hardware scrolling, in IBM EGA and VGA and forward. Carmack got Keen to work via hardware scrolling. (Keen 4-6 used full dblbuffered hardware scroll, Keen 1-3 used a rudimentary hardware scroll with a delta repaint method)

The reason hardware scrolling was rarely used on PC is that clone card manufacturers flooded the market with cards that botched the exact semantics of the hw scroll implementation - so implementing a compatible hw scroll required accommodating code very closely to multiple vendors' undocumented quirks (see Vogons forum on Keen scrolling where it is extensively researched)

Given that the comparison perspective is so constrained to be console focused, would be best to leave PCs out. (Voodoo and "OpenGL Extensions" sections are factually imprecise, and do poor justice to actual history)

https://github.com/badspot/blockland
what happened to the source release it

Ackshually Epstein invented not wanting to see ugly cunts in your bideo games

2026

^bruh epstein invented trans rights

How does it feel knowing that it was Epstein who created the culture wars and psyopped you into being the angry bald incel who rages at women in video games you are today?

badspot kicked my dog

i lowk lost my 70k id and idfk if im getting that shit back

NEW BLHACK20.DLL RELEASE IN 2 WEEKS. THIS WILL HAVE MORE FEATURES THAN A AIMBOT AND WALLHACK BE READY FOR THE RELEASE.

badspot don't revoke me for this

My father loves Intellivision. I find it interesting that Mattel makes off-brand lego car building kits and other stuff now.

shut the fuck up you ai piece of shit

(badspot read your support emails though)

blockland read your support email mf

stfu badspot can't fix shit nowadays, won't even remove a chatblock

fix it now badspot