A new (old) song for the playlist: https://youtu.be/J6AiZaGBal0
#GiantIsopods #Isopods #music #doritos
if i was gonna make a VM
i think it would be either:
- something like CHIP-8, for making amazing games for the TV
- something like smalltalk, where you have very high levels of abstraction
i will meditate on this. i like DMA video RAM so CHIP-8 would be fun
I'm trying to #crowdfund ā¹20k (~ā¬224 or ~$237) by the 20th of December, to add
~350 POIs (shop, restaurants, healthcare, etc)
~150 building levels,
shop phone numbers,
shop addresses,
named commercial and apartment areas,
and much more to #OpenStreetMap in the city of #Mumbai, #India.
To learn more and to contribute, visit -
https://contrapunctus.codeberg.page/projects/osm-mumbai-2024.html
(I've been an OSM contributor since 2016, and this is my latest attempt at trying to contribute to it full-time.)
#LambdaMOO update available at https://lambdamoo.blogspot.com/
Power outage. In case you were unaware of this blog, now you know.
i think the entire australian welfare system must now be entering crisis because it changed its app name from mygovid to myid
THANKS š
have a lovely little BASIC listing (:
This version of Chase was written for SWTP 4K BASIC. The idea for this game came from Creative Computing. There are a high voltage fence, 15 high voltage posts, and 5 robots all out to get you. As you move, the robots will always take the shortest path toward you. Your only chance is to run them into a post or each other. If you can destroy all 5 robots, you win! I found that many times more than one move could be made without the map, so the printing or not printing a map was written as an option in the program. This program should run on most 4K or 8K BASIC with minor changes. (For in- stance, to run this on Altair 8K, the random number statements must be changed.) Good luck with your Chase.
source: https://archive.org/details/Kilobaud197702/page/n49/mode/1up
Interesting, this works, ran about 45% faster in my quickie test in emulator. What's it like on real hardware?
On Atari there's a "fast mode", but it turns off the screen. Used to use that in long processing like fractals, hours generating one screenful.
#retrocomputing #coco
created a new retrocomputing space on matrix
could not find a recently active one https://matrix.to/#/#retrocomputing:matrix.solarpunk.au
I've been doing way too much assembly recently...
Someone on Tumblr was complaining about a remake costing $79CAD and I read it as a hexadecimal literal.
had a weird minor fiasco today regarding matrix-synapse
my quick and dirty solution required hard-coding some JSON into an nginx reverse proxy
i am not so much bothered by the bizarre changes that broke my matrix federation, than the complete disregard for program correctness
it's a little like trying to clean your apron by pouring more and more filth onto it
https://federationtester.matrix.org/#matrix.solarpunk.au
honestly if HAM radio makes half as much sense as matrix i will probably be now doing that...
Juice Galaxy
https://fishlicka.itch.io/juice-galaxy
is going to $5.00 instead of $0.00 on Dec 7, so you should grab it now. Or give the author money anyway, because it's worth it.
It's a *fantastic* game. Maybe one of the greatest weird-ass things ever. Goat Simulator, Saints Row, kinda thing, open world insanity.
#videogames
Back in the dirt ages, computers were enormous things. Some of them were the size of your hand. Really enormous ones could be the size of your torso. They hooked up to household power, hundreds of volts (and people TOUCHED these things!). They were so inefficient they needed cooling fans, like they were some sort of information furnace.
These days we kind of forget computers exist, they're just there, woven into the nanomaterials of our homes and furniture and appliances. Only those of us who write software for them really notice them. This can be a problem, if you've had one rice-grain-sized compute unit go berserk and start sending out spurious notifications. I'm wandering around the building with a scanner, but I did too good a job implementing stealth mode, I can't find the little blighter. I really hope I don't have to EMP-burst the house (again) to make this one JUST. SHUT. UP.
created a new retrocomputing space on matrix
could not find a recently active one https://matrix.to/#/#retrocomputing:matrix.solarpunk.au
I accidentally tried to upload 7gb of star trek episodes to mastodon
that was a terrible mispaste
The nav bar on 100r.co was getting a bit too long(so much content), and it was causing problems on mobile.
So, we now have all of the content nested under 5 categories, each represented by an algae-eared rabbit :).
(note that I'm still working on the website at the moment ^^)
