The Old New Thing

January 2010 - Page 4 of 4 - The Old New Thing

The goggles, they do nothing!: Gemulator advertisement from 1992

January 1, 2010 Jan 1, 2010 01/1/10
Raymond Chen
Darek Mihocka, proprietor of emulators.com, and whom I linked to a few years ago, released the source code to Atari ST emulator Gemulator 9.0, and in celebration, he also posted his 1992 promotional video to YouTube: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Warning: It's a really bad video. The music, the hair, the cheesy video effects, the bad acting...

Your program assumes that COM output pointers are initialized on failure; you just don't realize it yet

January 1, 2010 Jan 1, 2010 01/1/10
Raymond Chen
We saw last time that the COM rules for output pointers are that they must be initialized on return from a function, even if the function fails. The COM marshaller relies on this behavior, but then again, so do you; you just don't realize it yet. If you use a smart pointer library (be it ATL or boost or whatever), you are still relying on ...