Can you imagine a funnier sunday morning activity than reading a badly scanned #HP9830 ROM #assembly listing in search for the #BASIC tokenizer tables?
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/a6/6e/52/8c4a67aa704f77/US4012725.pdf
Reading through the write routines of DOS 3.3, I noticed that, differently from the (space constrained) code in the Disk II boot ROM, DOS actually checks the checksum and epilogue bytes of the address section of a sector, not just of the data part.
I might want to add the checksum check for the address on my read routines too.
Also, yes, I'm one of those people that love to print things on hard paper, then go through them and take notes with pencils or colored pens.
have returned from looking at the MITS Altair 8800 BASIC reference manual
yes, you can open multiple files (#1 - #15) in Altair BASIC
no, you cannot open multiple files in Stefan's Tiny BASIC
yes, EDIT.BAS opens multiple files in its code
yes, in order to get EDIT.BAS to work it will have to be modified
hey friends, our magazine collection is pretty great, but there is one title we have ZERO copies of... if you have copies of Mondo 2000 you'd like to give a new home, we will happily take them!
The @dino and #Conversations_im developers have a booth at @FrOSCon. Come find us to talk about #XMPP and grab some merch.
Walter is a Tiny Cellular Modem For Your Projects
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/16/walter-is-a-tiny-cellular-modem-for-your-projects/
a bit of success!
managing to trigger proper read-write statements -- i.e. ones not producing garbage outputs triggering overflows
https://git.sr.ht/~vidak/peoples-permacomputer/commit/4df9cc97a4a979deef58f67899045bb6a5545034
as suspected, much of this program is going to turn on the particulars of Stefan's Tiny BASIC's file statements (OPEN, CLOSE, INPUT, PRINT...)
small update
https://git.sr.ht/~vidak/peoples-permacomputer/commit/2158b004ffa7b20c6e3658774d403554e55e934b
the latest attempt at getting a text editor working--
it produces the fewest errors.
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we have been advised that compiling Stefan's Tiny BASIC for Posix does not "just work".
https://github.com/slviajero/tinybasic/tree/main/Basic2
compiling works for us on debian 12 easily.
if anyone has time to confirm if there are indeed issues, please feel free to try compiling the above and report your results:
$ gcc basic.c runtime.c -lm
coming up on one year of this pleroma instance 🙏
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If there's someone leaving windows, do the equivalent of housing your friend if they were homeless.
People entering the realm of Linux, GNU, BSD, whatever are digitally homeless. They cannot feed themselves.
Put your money where your mouth is. Give free tech support. Accept donations if you feel like it. Pay it forward.
Free software is more about what you do, rather than how many followers you have.
Do you practice carbon-aware computing, in production ? How about an interview ? 🤓 🌎
We are making a study about #carbonaware computing, for ADEME, and might need you for some grounded insights !
This study is an analysis of carbon-aware computing, considered as an eco-design potential lever, with a consequential approach.
https://github.com/CrankBoyHQ/crankboy-app Crankboy is a new Gameboy emulator - for the PlayDate console (that one with the crank). Even though the display is only black/white, the high resolution allows for reasonable dithering. Cool project. #retrogaming
kill computers
#unix_surrealism #mothra #cirno #rabbit #9front #technomage #comic
I dunno if this is funny, but I saw this really bad meme, wherein Ubuntu and Mint were depicted as the 'Ubuntu brothers'.
Now I have this brain worm...
Weird request, but if there's anywhere that can help with this it's Fedi, do any of the Germans here have a garden in which they are growing pumpkins? If so, could you take a photo of your pumpkin plant, and your vegetable garden please?
Danke Schön!