gonna get my amateur radio licence for real this time
we gon do the bulletin board system on the radio thing
@mdhughes oh, it’s a fun advice. I seem to have (unknowingly) followed it at https://github.com/aartaka/ed.bas
@brouhaha big Huey Lewis fan!
@mdhughes there's this really interesting word processor for Atari BASIC called SCRIPTOR--i need to get deep into the 4000-lines in order to actually how it's doing its work
@vidak Noticed this in Bit of Basic (cool cover & cartoons, not otherwise too interesting), which leads to:
"You just bought a personal what?"
https://archive.org/details/TRS-80_Programming_In_Style_1980_Radio_Shack/page/n237/mode/2up
#retrocomputing #basic

https://git.sr.ht/~vidak/peoples-permacomputer/tree/master/item/results/phase-4.md
new documentation.
a nice big post to interest both the minimalists and the retro-computing crowd.
hardware, software, the whole shebang.
discord has so many pop ups, and i never know where to go when it tells me i have mentions. and the DO YOU WANNA EXIT DISCORD warning is like ministry of love shit.
facebook makes me angry
i don't have X
google wants me to rent disk space from them
instagram is a weird treadmill of everyone screenshotting entire essays written by everyone else
linkedin is fucking scary, so much corpo circle-jerk, and the job search sucks
it's a fucking hellscape out there
but the fedi is beautiful
< 3
thank you everyone, you know who you are.
I'm not logged into Google and the default recommendations on YouTube after watching a couple of bland music videos are all neo-nazi shit
was gonna do the BASIC in Lisp,
turns out the Lisp was done in BASIC lol
https://github.com/kanaka/mal?tab=readme-ov-file#bbc-basic-v
eyyy I got the website hosted on a vape to load finally now that its not trending news across the fedi.
hello ewaste.fka.wtf
i think GNU/hurd is like this zen master yogi thing maybe
you kinda get started on it and you realise you don't actually have to finish anything or show anyone lol
youse know about this, right?
The Tiny BASIC Interpretive Language IL—and Onions
https://troypress.com/the-tiny-basic-interpretive-language-il-and-onions/