Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?
i could find some cool BASIC programs and type them into the emulator in some videos?
would be fun to do a super star trek one
i found this one called runequest in the people's computer company magazine
Also it so pisses me off to a level I can't even express without howling like a wild beast, that fucking Intel & MS won, snuffed out all of the competing home computers*.
INTEL SUCKS SO MUCH SHIT IT MAKES SEWAGE PLANTS THROW UP IN DISGUST.
Microsoft is like if Hitler made an OS.
* (except Mac, which was objectively the least interesting of the non-PC home computers. But they made more money, and got a $150M lawsuit payout from MS, so barely escaped bankruptcy.)
#retrocomputing
When you're leeching an entire series of a magazine, it quickly becomes obvious what the lifecycle was. Rainbow starts as this ratty little mimeograph with some issues on color cardstock, then a gigantic-ass 300+ page monthly tome, then shrinks again to 64, then 16 pages.
I'm a little shocked they got to have a final issue, most just ceased, maybe you got a postcard saying "your $X subscription is now ended".
https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1993-05/mode/2up
#retrocomputing #coco
yes, yes, you don't actually stand at a standing desk as much as you think you will when you decide to get one. everybody knows this.
BUT
the real benefit of having one is being able to dial in the height of the desk when you're sitting to EXACTLY where you want it. just being able to do that has significantly reduced my mid-30's desk job back problems.
seen this in glasgow on maryhill road the other day, a #sinclair C5 chassis being used as the sign for a bicycle shop. #retro #zxspectrum
You, people, are great.
joyful coding:
just coding for one's own self. giving yourself permission to do what you find fascinating.
i try to enjoy the moment of flow i have while working through a problem. the anxieties of life have melted away, and a glittering prompt flickers in front of me, displaying a pleasing result.
BASIC really does what it was designed to do
it is certainly very easy to get going very quickly and achieve quite a bit with very little effort
i praise the creators of BASIC, kemeny and kurtz, for their vision of an accessible and yet fascinating approach to computing
something of the spirit of BASIC is not captured by the UNIX tradition. compared to the friendliness and openness of BASIC, UNIX revels in being arcane, with its greyboards--its initiates being a select few.
This is how all you nerds telecompute, too, right?
