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social.solarpunk.au

vidak | @vidak@social.solarpunk.au

# LOCATION

The unceded, stolen land of the Wadjuk people of the Nyoongar 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

A version of Missile Command for the Commodore 64 where the bottom of your screen is the game state in memory and missiles cause memory corruption, which eventually causes you to lose: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=135463.

In the video below, a missile broke my controls and caused my cursor to move down and to the left so I couldn't stop other missiles.

Now is the time I will commence working on reading and writing files on the VM/OS host system.

I know I said I would work on documentation and/or message passing at this point, but I think this is more important in the shorter term.

Basically, granting VM/OS the ability to read and write files now lets me write useful build-time tooling for VM/OS itself. For example, autodoc extractors, and example documentation validation tools, etc.

Unfortunately, this will involve synchronous calls into the emulator, I'm afraid, so use of tasks is extremely limited here. And you can't wait for results because there are no signals involved.

okay i have about 19 or 20 good looking and engaging game listings for a lil zine series about BASIC and retrocomputing!

every folder has:

  1. a screenshot
  2. a tape or disk image
  3. the listing in UTF-8
  4. the scans of the magazine from where the code was lifted

okay i got back into my government pension account

EXORCISE THE DEMON~

Degrowth in Scotland Handbook - Enough!:
https://enough.scot/degrowthhandbook/

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

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