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Archive for December 26th, 2024

The Prince of Persia as a hanging Lego ornament

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/26

Prince of Persia took a big gap out of my high school time back in the mid 1980’s (:

So I am really glad with the recent revival which besides new material from the original author [Wayback/Archive] Jordan Mechner (@jmechner) / X, also leads to interesting other posts including the LEGO ornament (given the size likely from big Duplo bricks) on the right from:

[WaybackSave/Archive] Mike Mika on X: “Pretty much the coolest Lego thing ever.”

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[WaybackSave/Archive] Tweet JSON

Merry X-mas!

 

NB: It’s not the original, but it’s hard to find as the original is at least 10 years old.

This is the oldest I could find was this 2014-10-30 one [Wayback/Archive] Imgur: Lego Prince of Persia via [Wayback/Archive] Lego Prince of Persia : r/gaming which has a lot of nice little details on the game its development.

Oh: the skin colour isn’t exactly what’s in the Apple ][ character either, see the first picture below, but it’s close enough.

--jeroen

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HInvoke and avoiding PInvoke | drakonia’s blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/26

On my research list [Wayback/Archive] HInvoke and avoiding PInvoke | drakonia’s blog.

A very minimalistic approach of calling .net runtime functions or accessing properties using only hashes as identifiers. It does not leave any strings or import references since we dynamically resolve the required member from the mscorlib assembly on runtime.

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