GOTY, if the year is 1981 and you have a CoCo.
https://archive.org/details/zeldabat.coco
#retrocomputing
(Zelda's shooting is erratic and almost completely disconnected from your keypresses. But I like the aesthetic.)
wow these OCR tools are atrocious
you're probably better off doing it all by hand, these supposed tools are so obtuse
good news is i now possess an enormous amount of BASIC listings! i will be lovingly curating a zine with these listings ๐
I wonder why so much of hobby osdev is just making Linux (and sometimes Windows) again. Cause like, Linux already exists, it's right there, wouldn't it be cooler to make something new?
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#LambdaMOO is back up, earlier than predicted, in case you hadn't noticed yet.
#identity #ideologies #trans #cis #veganism #carnism #vegetarianism
If you are upset that someone uses a term to describe your identity or ideology because it is the predominant one within a society, you should think about why it makes you feel uncomfortable. People are going to create terms to describe identities or ideologies so that we can talk about and understand them. Being upset because a trans person called you cis or a vegan/vegetarian called you a carnist or any number of other words that describe the predominant identity or ideology within a society is just ridiculous and says more about your views than any one else's.
People are going to create words to talk about identities or ideologies so being upset that yours is being described is nonsensical. If you are so sure about your ideology or identity, why take issue with other people describing it?
@notptr i got it running under wine...
there is a special circle in hell for people who only target windows for their releases...
Only AMIGA Makes it Possible. #CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats #Caturday but a day early.
@cwebber explained in great detail how Bluesky isn't actually decentralized and immediately some people on Bluesky have pivoted to "okay it's not decentralized but it doesn't have to be and actually we don't want full decentralization" lol
https://github.com/NAMIP-Computer-Museum/scan2run/
This project focus on the digital preservation of computer heritage distributed in paper form (e.g. old magasines) Such material can be the only available form (no electronic support available) but can be found scanned format or can be scanned. However in order to transform such a listing in a running computer programs and sharing the experience requires quite a few steps:
- retyping the program
- loading it into the device or some emulator
- capturing some result in textual, image or even video format
The main scope is to be able to run listing of 80's programs (e.g. BASIC) into an emulator with MAME as primary target. Our use case are emulator such as the Amstrad CPC (quite widespread) and the DAI In-DATA Imagination Machine (very rare computer).
New video! Building and testing the new DesTestMAX test cartridge for the Commodore 64/128.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/uuIKRRgv2K0
PeerTube: (coming soon)
#C64 #C128 #Commodore #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #DesTestMAX #TestCartridge #RAMTest #Troubleshooting #Repair
alright scraping the internet archive for PDFs of magazines containing BASIC listings
will then manually strip out the listings
pretty sure there's a good tool for OCR of printed retro code, i chaired a presentation by someone at FOSDEM by a hacker who made one
Reading up on retro graphics...
Display Drivers, OS/2 and 16-bit Windows - Michal Necasek @ OS/2 Museum:
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/display-drivers-os2-and-16-bit-windows/
Extended Graphics Array - Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Graphics_Array
I gather home computers didn't quite have the rendering primitives Microsoft expected, and when we did hardware-accelerate the primitives offered were designed for 3D games. Now with libraries like LibGSK (for GNOME variants) we're returning to teaching GPUs these primitives.
1/1.5!
New video is up for all monthly supporters on Patreon, Ko-fi and the YouTube community tab! Thank you so much for your support (and sorry for the long delay)! <3 https://www.patreon.com/posts/116517542