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social.solarpunk.au

vidak | @vidak@social.solarpunk.au

# LOCATION

The unceded, stolen land of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land!!

# QUOTATIONS

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~winnie-the-pooh

Pokemon Scarlet/Violet spoilers



I have picked up Pokemon Violet again and continued where I left off in the second DLC. I decided I wanted a completely fresh team to not be over-leveled, so collected a bunch of pokemon.
I started by looking at what pokemon I already had and decided to use my shiny Glimmora, shiny Toadscruel, and shiny Altaria that were sitting in my box.
I added a Hydrapple and Archaludon to the team and finished the team off by shiny hunting for my favourite pokemon of all time, Metagross.

I am now ready to battle Kieran.
I have managed to avoid spoilers up until now so don't know what to expect. I have the same excitement I normally have for a new game and am looking forward to find out what the new legendary is.

Meeting Hydrapple and Archaludon was really fun, I had my housemate drop some hints for how to find the new pokemon without spoiling what they were.
I found the battle with Drayton particularly hard as at that stage I had 4 dragon types on my team and not much in the way of coverage but I enjoyed the challenge of finding a way to get through him with my unbalanced team. My team is a bit more balanced now but I still have a strong dragon sub-theme.

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Screenshot from Pokemon Violet. A picnic with 2 pokemon on screen. The hydrapple in front looks at the camera while an Archaludon behind it looks off to the side.
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Screenshot from Pokemon Violet. A picnic with 4 pokemon on screen. A shiny metagross is looking at the camera while a shiny Toadscruel, shiny Glimora, and shiny Altaria play in the background.

The Kingdom of Cedrick

http://www.vic20listings.freeolamail.com/mag_popcompwkly2.html#830317kc

Popular Computing Weekly, Vol 2 No 11 (17-23 Mar 1983), Pages 8-9.

Strategy game. As the King, you face threats each year from floods, famine, bandits and invasion. Decide how to best allocate your resources. Can you survive until old age?

Controls: For each year, enter how many people you want as dyke men, farmers, guards and soldiers.

video game graphics screenshot first page of a BASIC listing two columns of VIC-20 BASIC

http://www.vic20listings.freeolamail.com/book_writeownfan.html

RPG construction kit, create your own RPG fantasy games. Comprises three modules: character creator, dungeon generator, and game module. Controls: Follow on-screen prompts.

on my bullshit again

@amszmidt 🥳🥳🥳

@mdhughes i dunno i kind of enjoy the experience of typing in things and checking it, it feels like meditation to me, a little.

@vidak … You know in most cases they've been scanned or typed in and are on Internet Archive or machine-specific site? Search by magazine, article title will usually find it.

@mdhughes wow i had no idea...

it has been a fun exercise though

Looking for a or instance to join. Something , or leaning. If anyone has any

Facebook is a different universe.

A screenshot of a Facebook group named “A group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony” picturing an anthill. 

PRIVATE GROUP 145,334 MEMBERS A screenshot of a Facebook post in the aforementioned group saying “Guyz I just found this on ground while doing my daily duties! Help me LIFT so we can take it to THE QUEEN!!!!” picturing a lollipop on the floor A screenshot of the comment section under the aforementioned post showing multiple people replying the word “LIFT”

@h3 i've been thinking about doing the MC6847 just because i am a massive fanboy

been slaving away over here trying to properly process all the magazine BASIC listings

i have many, many issues of this publication, luckily they have semi-regular page numbers for each of their magazine sections

@vidak
How about VGA? Ben Eater made a VGA Output with discrete ICs and a ROM (which could be a RAM instead)

starter pack

unix_surrealist starter pack

Fuck Computers, stanley lieber
book of C
Bell System
100% mothra-compatible
hackers.town cyber mantis
intelcore2duo
uxn
export TERM=vt220
ALL LLMS ARE BASTARDS
irc
greetings from RIO postcard, qrstuv
OpenBSD
snac - a simple minimalistic activitypub instance
9front
techno-mage
Nadja, Andre Breton
cat -v
links2 browser
plain text
RFC1436
book of kornshell

@wyatt8740 not necessarily!

https://github.com/robohw/nanoXL-Ezo-Script-language

i don't fully understand it, but it's very cool

the main thing i always end up endlessly stressing over with my retro computer designs is video display

does anyone know of any good designs for composite out video for say, a 6502 or 68k CPU based micro?

many thanks in advance.

Python got loop-assignment (a while ago), great!

while p:=nextPC(): stuff

still fails because p might be 0, which is false. End up doing:

while (p:=nextPC()) is not None: stuff

Uugh. Still need to do more design on the toy impl before I start rewriting in something fast.

But, got named subroutines with local variables now. Just 436 LOC.

# test.mrw
REM shows all main language features

PRINT "Hello, world!"

LET name$="global"
GOSUB yourname
PRINT "global name$=",name$
PRINT "global _return$=",_return$

LET pi = 3.1415927, r=16
?"\"pi\"=",pi,", radius=",r

GOTO answer
REM never gets here
STOP

LABEL answer
PN "The answer is "
?42

END

*yourname
LOCAL name$="unknown"
PRINTN "What is your name? "
INPUT name$
PRINT "You're awesome, ",name$,"!"
RETURN name$
% ./Morrow.py test.mrw; echo $?
Hello, world!
What is your name? Mark
You're awesome, Mark!
global name$=global
global _return$=Mark
"pi"=3.1415927, radius=16
The answer is 42
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