please find attached the results of my research into BASIC type-in listings
every program on this list has an associated:
- tape or floppy image
- a UTF-8 text file listing its code
- scans of the magazine listing
- a screenshot
did i say this already?
i have some really nice BASIC type-in listings now, and i'm going to record some videos explaining how they work!
gonna go with a 6502 + 6847 build to begin with.
32 column text mode is not as much as i am used to on the commodore 64, but i figure it is best to go with something simpler to refamiliarise myself with electronics.
the vic-20 and commodore 64 are what i know best, and their VIC- chips are, on reflection, just superb.
i want, ultimately, to be able to be able to make a kind of 'dream' 8 bit system for myself, i hope by making this first lil puter i will begin that process.
Having implemented Eliza 1.5 times, I am convinced: being a Rogerian therapist was a glass ceiling for it. Eliza's engine was simple regex-like tree rewriting. Which is a lot, but not enough. Not enough for "Mathematician" script Weisenbaum envisioned, for example—there's no math engine in Eliza.
Though it's fun to see the parallels between Modal and Eliza.
Honestly just making it do The Incredible Machine puzzles would be hilarious
Many of the tools that we thought we could rely on broke down, whether it is Apple products, or software that require subscription services, DRM, etc. As an artist you spend time developping a skill, you become a Photoshop illustrator. When your connection to the internet fails and that the software locks up, that skill that you thought was yours was actually entirely owned by someone, and can be taken away.
This is a blog post based on a transcript of a talk Devine gave at Handmade Seattle on November 26th 2022.
Greenspun's tenth rule of programming is an aphorism in computer programming and especially programming language circles that states:
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
If your project is beholden to the billionaire class, it will either eventually serve fascism or be killed. The material interests of the fascists and the billionaire class are aligned. The capital class *cannot* save us from the fascists; at the end of the day, they are *at best* two sides of the same coin, if not entirely identical.
i think i might not release the BASIC zine as a zine after all, or at least not at first. i will make a website and some videos first.
it will be the "how it is made" genre of media
🐹 Dan, you know coin-ops, I run a small business and would like some coin-ops in there, how does that happen?
🦝 That depends on the sort of coin-op.
PINBALL
🐑 The whitest man you've ever seen hands you a business card. After mulling it over you call the number and a pinball machine shows up. It develops a fault within three days. Within two weeks you have eight machines and weekly tournaments, during which your bar is full to capacity but nobody buys any beer. Two of these machines work at any given time.
FRUIT MACHINE / GAMBLING
🐻 A large stranger turns up with a large cabinet. He places it somewhere inconvenient, plugs it in, points at the plug, says "See that? Touch that, you're fucking dead," and leaves. You mind your own business.
JAPANESE RHYTHM GAMES
🐿 These are delivered by a trans woman you met on Discord. She brings five friends to help. Setup takes longer than planned and you want to close and go home. They offer to finish the job and lock up. In the morning they're still updating firmware. Their pizza boxes attract mice. You have to remind them periodically that they're not allowed to sleep here.
ARCADE / VIDEO, GOLDEN AGE
🐨 A man in his fifties asks if you want a Pac-Man. You say sure. Next week there's a Pac-Man, all good. The week after, it glitches out, and he puts in a 60-in-1 emulation board as a temporary measure while he fixes the Pac-Man board. The 60-in-1 brings in way more money. You feel you have to persuade him not to fix the legit board. This discussion becomes far more heated than the situation warrants.
ARCADE / VIDEO, 90's
🐍 These are delivered by a green-haired guy you met on Discord. There's no firmware to update but he still brings five friends and wants to sleep there. The Japanese rhythm games lady is his ex but they're on friendly terms.
CRANE / CLAW PRIZE GAMES
🐐 These are delivered by a big hard-faced woman with places to be, but not so quickly she doesn't pause for a cigarette before unloading the truck. She explains the scam and you would prefer if she hadn't; you feel robbed of your innocence and complicit in something seedy. You ask her to set the payout as high as possible, to soothe your conscience. As she pours cuddly toys from a big black bin bag she tells you people have more fun if it doesn't win as often, but if you really wanted, she could set it to give a toy every time and you would both still make money. She smiles as she says this, and calls you "Honey." You feel dirty.
GUMBALL / BULK VENDING
Scenario 1: 🦊 a man in his fifties with a moustache and Willy Wonka energy talks you into a single gumball machine and then two months later you're selling Pokemon cards.
Scenario 2: 🐺 a man in his seventies arrives with a small girl in a brown vest. He says 🐺 Go on honey, ask. She mumbles something about how her 🐇 troupe's raising money and can we please put one of these on the counter please. He says 🐺 good job honey. He has a kind and careworn face. Thirty years ago he told a man "Touch that, you're fucking dead."
reddit reminded me of my VGA-card-with-bad-ram from 2017ish.
I hate dealing with Ijvalid drire specibicapikn problems
