My first computer was a C128, and everything has been downhill since. Interested in retro and modern retro projects. I know how to code. Retro: yes Hate: no Sys: 32800,123,45,6 Pronouns: He/him
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Last Notes npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing Being able to develop on it would be a cool thing. An assembler would be nice. :) npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing I’d be the same:) I just suspect we are over-correctors :) It’s been difficult to keep up with all that’s is going on. Did you get a keyboard hooked up by the controller port? npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing So a 0.0.55 that should be 1.0.0 :) npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing Finding working floppies isn’t a walk in the park:) Wish someone could find the old machines and fix them up. Newly made floppies would be so cool. I’d buy a stack. npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing I love the card mechanics that can straight up put the cards in any order they damn well please. Feels like a casino shuffler would be the only way, and a machine that handled the cards. Because if you get to touch the deck, those guys can do whatever they want with those dang cards. npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing OSB for streaming? npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing Which is why it’s so sad that the IIgs didn’t have a faster CPU. Should be mentioned that a 68000 has many more registers though, which can affect things. More saying it’s difficult to compare depending on what one is doing. Would be fun to write some benchmarks though. The SNES had fun coprocessors in the karts:) Maybe I need my own Sentinel. I’m kinda curious. npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing I missed the sides at first. Nice touch! Makes me wonder what you’d do to a Countach :) npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing It’s such a damn nice color scheme. npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing Blue Pizzas? npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing Seemingly random question. Have you seen Spice and Wolf? npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing I’ve got a college degree and I wouldn’t have been clueless on how to solve that. I think there’s a massive value to teaching. If you can get that base and get things going, people will run with it and take it a lot further. I’d watch the shit out of someone going to Africa with only the intent to teach sensible and practical things while documenting it. Would be nice to cheer something positive for once. npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing How about demo effects? npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing When you write something, especially if it’s a bit formal in nature (no sending messages to friends and yapping on the fedi), how do you feel about it? npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing Bet you love BASIC :) (Sorry.) npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing As long as you don’t constantly cut video where I can see you speaking we are good. That’s my personal pet peeve. People splice together a sentence at a time. It’s like looking at Max Headroom crashing. I get that it’s not easy to yapp for a long time, but splicing in some B roll is perfect for breaking stuff up. Just so it flows. Never heard your voice before:) Going to be interesting to see a video when it pops up. npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing I’m guessing Manga is more varied. But it’s easier to sell teens to older people than the over way around. My issue with that is that there’s too much sexualization of minors in anime. Wish they would move away from that. If there’s none of that, it’s fine imho. A good story is a good story. If they aren’t in school making them 20-30 won’t exactly change much anyways. npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing It’s the genre I’d say. Targeted at school age people in the first place and it’s a pretty chill show. At least it’s not in the way in this case. Would be nice if they did a +10 age on a lot of shows across the board. I badly want another season of Uncle from another world soon. Such a goofy show:) Love the uncle and the kids are college age. npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing Don’t sleep on the Train show. Three episodes in and it’s pretty cool. There might be a few more sleeper shows. Have to see how they turn out. I like the two first episodes of Salad bowl of Eccentrics (third was, odd). Could go either way. npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing She did a great job in the show. Moving from that indoctrinated homeschooled fake niceness to facing the full awfulness of reality. The ending of the season was downright brutal. Looking forward to her journey in S2. npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing Just from a point of curiosity, ever looked at go? It’s very “get things done” just like C, shares ancestry, and easy to learn. Very good tool chain as well. Obviously not a fit for retro level hardware. But otherwise quite useful. It has made me look at C more again. npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing They built over 8500+ DMC DeLoreans. A car while it actually looks pretty neat still owes all its reputation to the movie and isn’t at all a good car. But if I could choose between the two metallic rides, I’d go for a DeLorean. (The Countach is ever so much more cool though, and even that one is better built and designed :)) npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing I swear that company was especially boneheaded in so many ways, and every time I hear anyone who worked there talk about it, they had zero direction either. But a macro assembler should have been included. Just as a high quality C environment should have been included with AmigaOS out of the box. That was such a mistake imho. npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing I still wonder how a C64 with a macro assembler in ROM would have been to use. Back in the day. As you might remember I have zero nostalgia for BASIC, so I often wonder what else could have been put in there. npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing Lots of copies from people you knew (kind of an impressive network when you think about it), as well as industrious mail order type setups. I think a lot of older home computers were only successful due to piracy to be honest. And it saddens me that to this day we know how to lower piracy, yet the opposite is constantly done:( (Hint anti-piracy doesn’t work, but fair prices and fair access do.) npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing Should also mention that piracy predates general internet adoption :) npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing No, and now I’m curious. Which ones are in that scene? I kinda assumed everything is “made up”. (I’ve seen ep 2, but isn’t very far in yet. So no spoiling things further just in case:)) I did for Silo though, but didn’t find anything I recognized. I wish they had proper long behind the scenes for anything with made up tech (and OSes!). npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing And you used your very particular set of skills to do so. npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing Not much fun having wifi in a computer and no access point with bad security enough to connect :) npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing Be aware that the wireless card doesn’t support much modern anything. npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing Make your own? Should be able to find the rice, then you need the thing you make it in plus something to flavor it with. Could do several variations and several different fillings. Seems to be a lot of them. Dango always looks tasty. Bonus if you attend something. Can sell them and be the mochi man :) npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing The C128D is genuinely cool. npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing C1581 and C128D, those are on my wish I owned list, and I bet a bunch of other people’s as well. Looking forward to you doing something cool with them! npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing Open source needs a new fresh generation. All the old needs to go at this point. npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing I looked up Eric. What an utter twat. Reiser is a murderer, and would fit like a glove with the far right. npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing It’s not just what he has said, but what he has done. You can find out if you dig a little, but prepare yourself first. Caveat emptor. npub1x3jhuq8tt3ha4v70svwjs2al7pv5yc4ywyffj3srtq8gtj5h47aqw39xmr Gen X-Wing Jobs isn’t sensibly judged, there’s so so much bullshit people regurgitate because they love hating on Apple. Very own the libs vibes. (Not saying he was flawless, saying it’s better to listen to people who knew him than someone that just rants. Folklore.org etc is out there after all. Also he was came up with so so much stuff. Plus if anyone wants the actual reality distortion stories, they are on folklore.)