Was recently reminded about this glorious moment in time: A real-time-turn-based-play-by-e-mail-hybrid by the tactics master himself, Julian Gollop. Never seen anything like it since. Anyone remember playing this? It’s not quite retro gaming yet, so not sure how to hashtag it… 😅 #JulianGollop #LaserSquad
Sega Genesis: Your World Will Never Be The Same.
Source: GamePro 3 (September/October 1989)
Scan Source: RetroMags
sometimes i wonder, do we even need an operating system?
to this day we still ignore the obvious: that general purpose computing is frequently not needed for every computing domain.
anyway i still think every language should use block scope like python because fucking fuck
Mistodon: I'd say that this #PLAYSCII piece by @piaille.fr@/yenenpeuplou, released a year ago in the MIST1121 artpack, was prophetic, but really when has resistance been bad advice in our lifetimes? Instead I'll say we post this to commemorate the recent death of #BASIC co-inventor #ThomasEKurtz.
@mdhughes i am assuming eventual primitive clean room conditions, perhaps the recovery and maintenance of what few electron microscopes are left
have you heard of sam zeloof? we can do intel 4004's in the backyard as of now
@ozzelot @xChaos well i am really just imagining kansas city encoding:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_standard
so i think it may accommodate recording technologies that we would normally consider quite poor!
long play records--can you press them at home? i would ordinarily imagine them to be worth using for long-term, high integrity data storage?
@xChaos this is a strategic question for me, yes--i am imagining a 'left wing' long termism, to put it quickly.
i encountered something like this while studying hegel--italian fascists also loved him, it seems.
maybe a built in EEPROM flasher--and the permacomputer will be geocached/time capsuled with a stash of EEPROMs?
i wonder what the most ubiquitous form of audio playback device is now
probably people's phones... i ask because i am trying to think of a way to help the permacomputer project store data in a format that would be used day-to-day.
the requirement of long-term data integrity is not a requirement, that will require some other medium. this question concerns more short- to medium-term storage.
ideally you would have a long term, well-engineered master copy, and then many cheaper, lossier copies made off that.
i figure something analogous to a cassette tape could work--audio data transfer is easily implemented in TTL circuitry, so it would make the permacomputer much simpler.
i wonder how one might store audio in the future? after a technological and ecological decline? maybe a lil mp3 player with a universal adaptor for any kind of drive, flash memory, smart card... old laptop hard drive?
i was originally gonna keep the 80s microcomputer/BASIC type-in noodlings separate from the people's permacomputer project.
but i may collapse parts of the 6502 hardware build i am doing into the permacomputer project.
it seems this would contradict the latest direction that the project took--the path the permacomputer project has gone down has been rather unpredictable. it often oscillates between several opposing recommendations for action, such as whether it is a good idea to actually commit to providing some specific hardware.
i do encourage you to follow along, it has been very exciting so far
If you’ve already set up an adventure log for this year’s #DecemberAdventure and you want me to include it in the big list of adventure logs drop me a link to it!
New #RC2014 boards that arrived today work exactly as planned. That's a huge relief having changed a lot since the last revision.
Spent a lot of time on the firmware today. Happy to report that it is making progress... bars
