Be Your Own Netflix: a “Why To” on running a personal streaming server - AJ Roach:
http://ajroach42.com/be-your-own-netflix-a-why-to-on-running-a-personal-streaming-server/
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Welcome to Linux.
Catching up on Atari Basics
https://ataribasics.com
June 2025, nice article showing off Atari (LCSI) Logo, which I haven't tried out (I've used ST Logo & UCB Logo extensively).
https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Logo
ROMs & CAR don't work in Atari800MacX, ATR does (but using disk RAM and if this was real hardware, it'd load much slower). Fujusan can load the CAR. Neither can do a CATALOG "D2:" which makes life hard, can't save.
LCSI Logo seems pretty good! But it's a pain to run.
#atari #retrocomputing #logo
![CS REPEAT 12 [SQUARE RT 30]](https://cdn.masto.host/appdotnet/media_attachments/files/115/315/687/920/146/145/original/24b3421c45a590e8.jpg "CS REPEAT 12 [SQUARE RT 30]")
People making mods or entirely new games for other peoples' proprietary games & platforms* strikes me as so weird & degenerate.
It's trivial to make *YOUR OWN GAME* for any computer, has been since the first home computers in 1974. Yeah you can't make a AAA engine at home, at least not at the start. Try mastering every part of it yourself and you can get there, on your own power.
* (obvs Nintendo is #1, but really anyone. No I don't want to hear your NTDO discourse.)
#videogames #gamedev
I built a 32-bit flat DOS executable using OpenWatcom 1.9 and it crashes. I re-compiled using the /d2 flag for debugging, and now it doesn't crash.
I have experienced this with DJGPP when the code uses uninitialized variables. In GDB the variables are initialized to 0 and that can prevent certain crashes. I am not sure whether that's the case here with Watcom.
Interestingly, this program doesn't crash when i compile with /d2 but it does crash when i compile with /d1.
When i use DOS4GW it does not give an error. The program just ends. When i use DOS32/A it gives a crash dump with an entry point, but that entry point doesn't correspond to anything in the map emitted by Watcom.
Using logging, the crash appears to happen when returning from a function.
Any suggestions to troubleshoot further?
Thanks!
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik-1, humanity's first artificial satellite. The 58-cm aluminum sphere, powered by a two-stage R-7 rocket, entered Earth's orbit and transmitted its iconic "beep-beep" signal.
Weighing 83.6 kg, it orbited every 96 minutes, completing 1,440 orbits over 92 days before burning up in the atmosphere. This landmark achievement marked the dawn of the space age, revolutionizing science, communication, and navigation worldwide.
Games limited to text and ASCII seem to have been my interest for some time.
I have been having day dreams about another. I seem to remember there was a kind of nonsense tabletop game called "10 000 blank cards". This text based game will be inspired by that one.
The concept revolves around awarding points based on whatever it written on blank cards by the player before the game begins.
Anything can be written on the cards, and players can indeed award themselves stupidly large numbers of points.
⚠️ Call to action: Use your retro IBM-compatible PCs to help the MegaZeux DOS port! ⚠️
In the late 90s/early 00s, MegaZeux introduced a mode called "Super MegaZeux": using an undefined behaviour of enabling 256-color VGA mode in text mode, it allowed the use of 256 colors on some graphics chipsets.
We'd like to know which graphics chipsets these are. Legacy compatibility lists are very limited and of poor quality, so we're building a new one. Here's how you can help:
1. Get your retro PCs out. The only requirement is a VGA-compatible graphics chipset; any 8086+ laptops and desktops are supported otherwise.
2. Download and run SMZXTEST.EXE from https://asie.pl/files/smzxtest.zip
3. Take a photo of the screen! (If you want, take another photo after pressing A to see if an alternate undefined mode works better on your machine.)
4. Reply with the photos and a description of the machine (which graphics chipset/card it uses; for laptops, a model of the laptop is also welcome).
5. Once verified, I'll add it to the list at https://www.digitalmzx.com/wiki/Super_MegaZeux#Compatibility
Thank you in advance and good luck!
This is neat, hyperlinks in terminals:
https://github.com/Alhadis/OSC8-Adoption
It works in iTerm2, but you have to hold Cmd down while mousing over to see the link, otherwise it's just underlined.
In NoteCards a "tabletop card" is an arrangement of cards (hypertext nodes) on the screen, such as the 3 cards at the center.
A "guided tour" is a graph whose nodes are tabletop cards (table icons) and whose edges are links connecting the cards. You traverse a guided tour with the control panel at right and the result is a "slide show" of tabletops.
For more on tabletop cards and guided tours see:
It's 1967 & she's 24 years old. It had taken her 3 months to go through the chart-recorder paper manually. She had helped build the radio #telescope that picked up the waves. There was a pulsating signal, regular; it turned out to be a #pulsar.
Her supervisor didn't believe her. She insisted it's real.
It was. But the press would ask her about boyfriends. Her male colleagues were asked about science.
7 years later, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
would be excluded from the #Nobel Prize of #Physics.
Just found an old CD burner and blank disks that still worked despite being at least 15 years old. Burned my Bandcamp acquisitions to a disk for my car CD player. I’d forgotten how good it felt to render digital possessions into physical form. Kids these days who’ve never done it are missing out
One of the best things about fediverse is we don't have a CEO.
There's Gargamel, and we all think he's a dumbass, even the fools who use his personal badly-run servers. If you don't want to use his software, you can switch to gotosocial or a few other server types entirely, and it still works.
No gods, kings, or CEOs.
Some players build astounding bases in No Man's Sky. I dug an archaeological site.
Perfect example of why Guix just needs to include stock Linux and ditch Linux-libre: https://lobste.rs/c/mbtxry
New users have no idea why their wifi doesn't work and then detractors use it against us. Every Guix thread outside official channels since the beginning of the project has been dominated by this issue and it overshadows all the good things Guix does.
A friend of mine has a question about #guile #hoot and kinda frustrated that no one's answered on official forum. Asked to consult with higher beings
https://community.spritely.institute/t/how-to-pass-global-state-between-modules-effectively/771
Where's the best place to ask on hoot? Irc?
Been thinking about:
- BASIC
- Common Lisp
- Virtual pets (again)
- text editors from 70s and 80s magazines
- my protest community