if i go into town to buy a radio. can i? just a radio. just something anyone has been able to go and buy for the last 70 years. can you still just buy "a radio"? a lot of the general home department store type thing has been shutting down lately. the tech type places just sell computer stuff and phone chargers. big supermarkets with a large electronics section probably have a cheapest-of-the-cheap shower radio in the shape of a seahorse hopefully. a seahorse for your earthquake/hurricane go-bag
@ajroach42 there was some of this culture of publishing and curation in the early pre web2.0. I ran a weekly online magazine for indie film and we had clear defined issues - 99 of them - with a curated mix of interviews, news, reviews and editorial. We made no money but after that I worked for shootingpeople.org - an email newsletter that 10,000+ people paid to receive and every night was curated from submissions from those same paying readers. It worked online but Web2.0 killed it.
Great podcast chat for anybody that loves retro computing, #Forth, #BBS systems or #RC2014
https://straypointers.com/e/s2e18.htm
Featuring @Wintermute_BBS
i kinda feel like the emperor needs to be told he is not clothed re: "artificial intelligence", am i seriously being told to "appreciate" AI artwork?
2+2=5!
Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky | by Aidan Raymond | Nov, 2024 | Medium https://aidanraymond.medium.com/why-bluesky-isnt-the-alternative-to-x-formerly-twitter-you-re-looking-for-and-why-mastodon-is-46c8901f2748
Hello everyone! I just set up this new account?
Things seem pretty cool here on this "fediverse". What does that mean though, the "fediverse"? I hear it's using ActivityPub. Could anyone explain to me what that means? Thanks!
Sears used to sell a Commodore-compatible disk drive that was branded Blue Chip. This drive isn't especially rare but information about it is, so I gathered what I could about it. #retrocomputing #commodore https://dfarq.homeip.net/blue-chip-bcd-5-25-disk-drive/
You may recall I did one of these for a customer recently. I did one for myself yesterday!
Sony PlayStation, with mods:
* Stealth modchip (OneChip), disables copy/region restriction
* Replace GPU's NTSC master clock with 53.69mhz signal, for true NTSC timings (59.82hz vsync instead of 53.27hz)
* Replace the clockgen's 4.43Mhz subcarrier with signal from GPU, which changes according to PAL/NTSC mode; true NTSC instead of PAL60
* Blue power LED powered by laser sled; it flashes when a CD is read
i forget how long commodore 64 strings are, but i think for the sake of the bag quest game itself, i will have bags set aside as strings with 10 and 100 characters.
bags will look like this when empty:
LET B$ = ".........."
there will be specific turn based commands for going into and leaving a bag as a player.
given the eccentricities of 8 bit commodore BASIC, i will have to be creative with how many bags the game will be able to have in total, given variable names are actually only two characters.
@vidak On Atari, I often just poke stuff into screen memory. That's my game array. It's just faster to
POKE SCRN+XY,C :REM (XY is X+40*Y)
than
POSITION X,Y:?CHR$( D(X,Y) );
like what happened to all the cool shit
now it's just here, have an AI app
Like when when they show a humanoid robot working in a warehouse. Even humans use other machines like forklifts. Just make that the robot.