Q&A - 2000 subscriber special! [With English Captions]

It is a special video time! Today my subscriber counter exceeded 2000, with michal3141 being the 2000th. Thank you everyone!
IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND FINNISH, PLEASE TURN ON THE ENGLISH CAPTIONS!
Two thousand! People like milestones, so I made a special video.
It also gave me a good opportunity to answer some semi-important and semi-urgent questions. More semi-important and more semi-urgent answers may be coming later, when you ask those questions. I cannot promise a schedule though.

Sorry about the scratching noise you hear every time the headset cable hits the microphone. I only noticed it after recording.

The background music is from Dual Orb 2, but converted into a MIDI by a program I made and then played with a MIDI player I made... Through emulated OPL3 synthesis. The song name is Peaceful Village.

The video camera is a Sony DCR-SR37 that is not actually mine. I used a single camera, a tripod mount, and two additional light sources.

The color correction, subtitling and editing was performed in kdenlive, using a SSH-tunnelled X11 session. The audio was first mixed in Audacity.

[wicqedeyebot]

Bisqwit I love your channel and very thank you for making such amazing videos. Keep up the good work....

[Bisqwit]

I see the question more as about release model. I always advocate open source / free software, because it always annoys me when I cannot make changes to the programs I have. For the development model, as long as you've got a functional team, it doesn't matter whether it's open source or not. A team is a team. But the opportunity of peer review and receiving patches from people who aren't under such productivity constraints as you or under time=money constraints can certainly be a large benefit.

[Bisqwit]

I do not know the name of the song. I think it is a town theme from Dual Orb. I just quickly picked one of the existing MIDI conversions I have done, and didn't want to reuse one of the songs I have already used in some of my earlier videos (such as the One Must Fall! 2097 theme that was used in the 1000sub special).

[Bisqwit]

here you go. Played through this program:

[arenics]

nice to see you saying that you'll upload new programming videos, and also see your progress in arduino, I will be here expecting for the next uploads...

[Bisqwit]

They are, in fact. They are copies of the same book, which are in my possession for a project I was planning at a time. (Which turned out not to work out.) I rarely read books in physical form, reading them more on the Internet.

[nandkudasai]

dunno why but most finnish guys i met are really smart and charismatic.
I hope i could visit that country some day.
Keep it up!

[Denpateuch]

Is that a stack of Bible or Bible related books in the background, on the closet? Most Bible books I've ever seen, if not all, were in black covering and golden font. What made you so interested in the books and the stories to begin with?

[cawaboonga]

By the way what's the name of the song at the end?
I always like the musical taste you put on the videos. This one is nostalgic and like a farewell.

[Bisqwit]

That can be a really fascinating adventure and really open you to the world of different languages, especially if all your previous experience is with Indo-European languages such as German, English and Spanish. For practical use, Finnish isn't much going to help you anywhere else than in Finland, Estonia and in some very isolated parts in Russia. (Russian language itself is not related.) Beware, for English speakers Finnish is even more difficult to learn than Japanese is. :-)

[cr]

Regarding you disassembling a game for a TAS, did you make your own 'smart' disassembler (can distinguish between code and data) or just use one that already existed and take guesses where data begins and end? Something on my 'to-do eventually' list is to make a python wrapper for a disassembler which uses heuristics to determine code and data boundaries (such as: 'the destination of a jump instruction is guaranteed to be code, regardless of code alignment).

[Bisqwit]

That indeed sounded very nice. Mind you, I did not compose this song. It is composed by nickname "Lucky-7" who presumably worked at time for I-Max, the producer of Dual Orb, the Super Famicom game from which this music is.

[mirabilis]

Finska är ett ganska fint språk när det kommer från dig. ^^

[vectork]

I wish to be like you in terms of knowledge one day

[Bisqwit]

Oh! You are right. I should have checked this beforehand. I even have a program for that purpose...

[Thewsx]

i have a suggestion for you: try out a game called space engineers on steam.

its a sandbox game about surviving in space, but it implements a C# compiler to control your creations. i have made a vector thrust program

[CorakAvatar]

Oh Thanks ^_^ I'll fix that. misunderstanding. Thanks for Info And Excellent Extremely Informative Channel on Programming, Games and so on :3

[CorakAvatar]

btw do you have win32 compiled binary/pack of your adlmidi? If yes, can u upload it somewhere, I still not get close with cygwin of Linux environment, but your program will be extremely useful for me :3

[Bisqwit]

The numeric base of 7? I can't say I have. Please elaborate on its neatness :-)

[oramatash]

I need to start learning to understand the Finnish :)