Thomas Cherryhomes / is on Nostr

Hacker, Artist, Engineer, Polymath, Goofball; Cynic.

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2024-09-18 18:13:10

Now that we have multiple modern retrocomputing systems, would it not be prudent to host a place where representatives from each project can post lessons learned developing each platform, so we can all learn from them going forward?
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #x16 #foenixf256 #agonlight #aquarius

2024-09-13 21:00:27

To those who know git/github well: How can I pull this PR request down from github to test it locally?
https://github.com/FujiNetWIFI/fujinet-firmware/pull/780

2024-09-03 15:27:12

In this part of the Amiga as a Workstation in 1986 series, we build an application which takes camera data from the lab vax, and visualizes it.
We use the Amiga's unique screen architecture to mix lo and hires modes to maximize what can be shown on screen, stacking them as two carefully positioned screens using Intuition.
https://youtu.be/DgCCqpfsnFQ
The code can be seen here:
https://github.com/tschak909/amiga-as-a-workstation/blob/main/Heatmap1/heatmap1.c
#retrocomputing #commodoreAmiga

2024-08-15 21:58:23

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@npub1rp6…wzqe This is awesome! is there anything the #FujiNet team can do to help? -Thom from FujiNet

2024-07-30 15:29:34

I had the bad luck of being exposed to NeXT's EnterpriseObjects very early on. It makes things like Hibernate and Spring Boot seem awfully quaint and backwards.

2024-07-26 23:32:30

The Commodore Amiga has a wealth of routines in its Kickstart ROMs, including a complete multi-planar animation system, as demonstrated by the Robo City demo, with each graphical element being a task, sending messages btw each other, to react to collisions. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hrUtn06jsGU

2024-07-19 23:45:45

Words can not express how transformative #MicroEmacs was to the #CommodoreAmiga development community.
In just 9 short months after the first version was ported by Dave Conroy, it had been improved more than a dozen times, culminating in Andy Finkel's version that showed up on the Amiga Toolkit disk in early 1986.
https://assets.oldbytes.space/assets.oldbytes.space/media_attachments/files/112/815/344/061/310/940/original/d57f766186833699.png

2024-07-19 17:46:42

For anyone using the WinUAE #CommodoreAmiga for things OTHER THAN GAMES:
Are you able to type the OR bar "|" character in emulation? I'm digging through the input mappings trying to fix it.
https://assets.oldbytes.space/assets.oldbytes.space/media_attachments/files/112/813/932/414/312/537/original/39e4140697f55d5c.png

2024-07-18 23:23:32

#retrocomputing and #retrogaming eBay be like:
https://assets.oldbytes.space/assets.oldbytes.space/media_attachments/files/112/809/594/210/057/387/original/b6e4b76bf981f948.png

2024-07-11 05:23:30

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@npub1rp6…wzqe which is honestly, hilarious, because Objective-C and the Application Kit are _ridiculously_ easy to use. :)

2024-07-06 23:55:20

I am genuinely trying to find a way to figure out where people who are using #FujiNet are talking.
Far too frequently, I've found a post on Reddit, or HackerNews, or buried deep in a tweet or on Facebook, something that I could have answered or contributed to, but never saw.

2024-06-21 00:54:17

I love bad movies. I love them even more, when they have bad theme songs. :)
Yor's World - the theme to Yor - The Hunter from the Future (1983)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx-F6VnLezM

2024-06-19 15:47:51

Today, 40 years ago. Bob Scheifler announces the release of the X Window System.
https://assets.oldbytes.space/assets.oldbytes.space/media_attachments/files/112/643/591/828/905/172/original/2569a7abbe88ad61.png

2024-06-01 19:16:12

A reminder for those jettisoning @Google Cloud services.
Be sure that you:
* Delete all your projects
* Delete your cloud account.
Failure to do the last point will cause @Google to helpfully charge you for simply being "Cloud-Adjacent." F*ckers.

2023-08-13 23:33:00

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@npub18yv…xxyn @npub1url…ga9x for firmware, it's vs.code (platform.io), and we have people doing dev on linux, mac, and windows.

2023-08-13 22:29:50

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@npub18yv…xxyn come here and introduce yourself. https://discord.gg/7MfFTvD @npub1url…ga9x heads up the #Commodore bring-up, and There's a solid group in the #Apple2 channel as well. Pick a spot and we'll try to get you what you need. :)

2023-07-22 17:11:42

Watching people entrench sides on #retrocomputing and #retrogaming topics is very strange to me.
(I'm not talking about the jokes, long running or otherwise. Jokes are jokes.) :)
I've developed code for so many of the systems that these people get awfully fanatic (to the point where it sounds an awful lot like nationalism!) about. I love them all, and do these projects explicitly as excuses to spend time on all these machines; and why I am trying to hard to make things to bring them all together.