#nobot following please
I confirm every follow request as long as you have own content or at least written an #introduction post. Because I feel uneasy when followed by empty accounts.
First post. The post that hurts the most.
I'm afraid of saying "everything's complicated right now, but maybe next year" until there are no more years left.
#xkcdpoetry 752
I don't get how to find my own posts again in #tusky.
I had expected it similar and near the "Drafts" list, like an "Outgoing" or "Sent".
Any pointers beyond using Search for my own nickname?
@dosnostalgic We had a "censored" version where pedestrians had annoying "robot" sounds. But you simply had to rename the file with the original sounds to the correct name and be done.
I loved this game. One of my all time favourites.
Haha, it's that big avatar/icon of myself on the very top of the menu. Too easy...
《The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.》
#xkcdpoetry 893
I just love these retro devices. And it doesn't matter which company made them, they look all great. I miss that whole culture where you programmed a computer without distraction, studied a book with sprinkled in source code listings in 9-dot printer style, and did all that just for fun.
Once I was trying to find out how to convert an antenna signal (Atari 800XL) to modern digital screens.
Someone suggested to buy a video recorder to 'upgrade' the antenna signal to SCART first as from there other adapters would exist.
With a "slightly unfocused depth-first approach" I quickly ended up with 20 tabs about the VHS vs Betamax story and beautiful device pictures from that era. I even nearly bought one on ebay. Thank god they don't have 1click... :-)
@thomasfuchs International Karate, on Atari 800xl. I need the original Atari joystick to play it double-handed, but then I'm the master on the block.
One of my favourites. Retro surrealism.
I think that's the device.
I never used Rexx, just often heard others praising it. The old school language I rediscovered lately ist Tcl, through the use of Expect. I imagine it has a similar feel with Rexx, from what I read about macros and symbo handling to generate code.
@thomasfuchs pong, the original
@djsundog Maybe, maybe not, sometimes that old guy isn't the clueless person that others call him, but just strange and different and difficult. Yet, he has the right to be this way and say freely what he thinks. No need to push him out the door like an old dog.
@jeffmueller ...and Siri suggestions? Erm, no.
@niconiconi Reminds me of that synthesiser device in "Beat Street" movie. I don't know what that was, need to look it up...
I am here. And it's The Right Place.
@thomasfuchs Yeah, hard to grasp. Last weekend on the Vintage Computing Festival Berlin I "typed" my first small program into a PDP-11, got explained this gorgeous thing, etc. and somehow everything already was in place 50 years ago. Unix, compiler, debugger. Maybe they hadn't Emacs yet :-) and colored fonts but they certainly didn't need systemd.
@thomasfuchs The next great step was open source. Now you also had /usr/src for the very tools running your Unix. Easy days, I remember I tweaked my local tar to not whine on broken pipes... Just with and editor and a handful marines.
@thomasfuchs Nice. Isn't it featured in one of the 00:01 book from Constantin Gillies?
Building my PiDP-11/70. I got weak at the Vintage Computing Festival Berlin and also wanted to own one... :-)
How would John Connor play International Karate? Like this!
Atari 800XL controlled by Atari Portfolio. #retrocomputing
After the interlude with the two Ataris which I did together with my young John Connor, today I resumed and finished my own PiDP-11 soldering.
Not sure running a simulator on a Raspi4 inside a 60%-resized replica case qualifies as #retrocomputing for everyone but I absolutely love it.
@dosnostalgic Played this an DOS, although AFAIR the Atari ST version felt a bit smoother.
Hard to quote, but xkcd 1305 is one of those magic ones I often return to: https://xkcd.com/1305/
#xkcdpoetry 1305
@cypnk Gorgeous. I own a device from that era, still listen to my old tapes on it.
@dosnostalgic Where is this from? I have kind of an emotional flashback but can't remember details...
@dosnostalgic Amazing, I totally forgot this game, kind of a "Gamenesia". Just refreshed my cache with gameplay videos. Thank you.
When I read about the work of William Latham in the early 90s I was flashed.
It's a bit difficult to find, here's an entry point:
https://www.nemeton.com/static/nemeton/axis-mutatis/latham.html
The videos he made don't fit todays post-MTV speedinezz but the organic graphics are still awesome.
See also his book:
Evolutionary Art and Computers
ISBN 978-0124371859
@juliobiason m4
@stiefkind Aah, but the last millimeter is missing in the video, now my hippOCDcampus runs hot...
@mdhughes Foreshadowing? :-)
@beegrrl@radical.town Panza Kickboxing, the only valid DOS fighting engine alternative to 8bit International Karate.
@johannesg I am mostly interested in how you replaced milk, cheese and eggs from a taste perspective.
It is somehow harder to let go than it was about meat. The easy replacements from the super market don't really work, soy/oat milk, with very few exceptions, like Barista oat milk for Cappuccino.
I love that gorgeous logo of AXIS Komputerkunst. Only true with real scanlines on real Cathode-ray tube, obviously!
#atari #retrocomputing
Back in the 80s I branched into "high level" languages (what it meant by then), starting with #Atari Basic, Pascal, C++ and many more. Now that modern hypes mostly suck I decided to roll back to the future and speculatively branch out to low-level programming. Guess where I start.
#atari #6502 #retrocomputing
Though as busy daily live survivalist this will take me months to twist my head.
Haha, I just wanted to try this DOS-style Bootstrap theme http://kristopolous.github.io/BOOTSTRA.386/ briefly and now I can't stop it.
@sindastra Actually I miss the websites from the early web that had totally crazy funny structure and handmade navigation, so you needed to explore them. The times of image maps. Today it's either boring top+left navbar plus text, or huge images with meaningless content printed over it, scrolling in fancy but boring ways, yet probably using 90% gpu load to get that done.
Though, thank god we still **have** web pages to read and not all video-only.
@crash_override@cybre.space @mrbill0 Solder pads... I always read shoulder pads - the dark side of the 80s. Thank god I was too busy with my 800XL.
When machines rise one day, I hope we have them by the balls with "eventual consistency" as it has me today.
I would feel immediately consistent with something like this.
Here my first thought was they work on a new Tetsuo movie but it is some soviet "compute thing". Not sure if they say it *is* IBM or just relate somehow to it.
@dreamwebspace They got probably infected when they didn't carefully check the boot sector of their cloud startup disk this morning.
@EdS Dammit, indeed, I was too focused on 80s Tesla.
You might think czech retro computers appear a bit tame, but never forget *they* named them "Tesla" before the name became famous!
"Tesla PMD 85-2" - https://www.root.cz/clanky/ceskoslovenske-osmibitove-pocitace-2-ndash-pmd-85/
More czech retro in
Tool to read #atari #atari8bit .atr image files without much ado:
https://github.com/jhallen/atari-tools
Not naturally these days that sources compile out of the box with just a simple "make". Thumbs up.
@thomasfuchs DR-DOS is what you needed, actually. :-)
Color prompt, task switcher, Viewmax, brought to you by a traditional engineering company instead of marketing cheaters, etc. etc., am I missing something? :-)
@neauoire et al. - with your #6502asm programming lately, can suggest a beginner friendly delay function, or point out one in your code? I'm actually needing it on an #atari8bit but am generally a bit lost in with what I find online. Two nested 8bit X/Y register decrement loops are still too quick...