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       >> 1  Anonymous Techie  2026-05-10 04:26 ID:EoUnsXMn
         Redshift is a nearly forgotten line of astronomy/planetarium programs. The last non-enshittified version is Redshift 7.
         
         It features all sorts of bells and whistles, a codex that's been supplanted by Wikipedia and "visualizations" that have been supplanted by SpaceEngine, but the core of the program - a night sky simulator - is absolutely unmatched. Full of features and extremely useful, it lets you pick any time/date/location and you can easily search for all sorts of events (eclipses, conjunctions, etc.) both in the future and in the distant past. It has an intuitive-yet-powerful user interface of the 90s/00s variety that for some reason software developers apparently forgot how to make.
         
         I've been searching for a "modern" alternative for over a decade now and shockingly, there simply isn't one. There are plenty of mobile apps, but for desktop use the closest we get is still Stellarium, which is simply not as powerful (not to mention much more annoying to use).
         
         Google doesn't even find it anymore unless you specifically type in "redshift astronomy software", but you can still find it at the usual places you get non-free software for free.
       
       >> 2  Anonymous Techie  2026-05-11 00:33 ID:9sdXHo/U
         Icy Hexplorer is one of the most useful hex editors I've ever found for game hacking, because it has the surprisingly rare useful feature of being able to interpret the data into a pixel image with various options for interpreting the bytes as 8bpp, 4bpp, 1bpp etc. and adjustable row widths.  Unfortunately it has an inability to show them with a specific palette nor zoomed in from a one pixel of data = one pixel on screen view, which I ended up having to do roll-your-own solutions for, but even with those limitations it's great for getting a quick look at whether a file might contain uncompressed graphics or for that matter uncompressed map/level data that might be recognizable when read as an image.
       
       
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