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GeneralWhere Russian peasants come from... Pin
CodeWraith25-Oct-21 4:13
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The stork brings them, but that's not the interesting part. I want to see 3D graphics on an 8 bit computer, at least once I get around to build the graphics card. It's going to have a TMS9981 graphics chip, a RISC graphics processor and a DMA based DGP (Decelerated Graphics Port).

Anyway, I'm going to need some math routines for, let's say, 32 bit fixed point math. Will 24 bits for the whole numbers will be enough, but maybe just 8 bits for the fractions are not. We shall see. Anyway, I intend to use the Russian Peasant Multiplication[^] algorithm. It's based on multiplying and dividing by 2 (also known as shifting) and addition. That should be easy to implement. But what is the algorithm for division called? I'm going to need that as well.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.

His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.

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