Posts by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #9tmAj49ixXCgmJ5mNc by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
2020-04-06T18:06:03Z
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@RobF Yeah, that's probably a good way to do it. I just wish I had a good list of stuff that was good to faff around with. I'd love to get my kid up and running with approachable music making tools, for example, but that whole scene seems like a nightmare beast that I'm progressively more intimidated by every passing year, let alone a 12-year-old who's played the trumpet a bit at school
(DIR) Post #9tmAlbvKNlZK5PZVsO by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
2020-04-06T18:19:00Z
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@emptyfortress @RobF it’s bad enough that I kind of just want to give him Impulse Tracker because at least then I can show him stuffGod I loved making bullshit zines with Publisher
(DIR) Post #9uRWeKa6a7tpVHBTA8 by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
2020-04-26T16:54:52Z
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@polychrome My first programming job in 2000 was at a QNX consultancy. To this day I have not used a computing system as elegant and well-engineered as QNX. I remember reading Rob Krten's Getting Started with QNX 4 and saying "well of COURSE this is how everything should work."
(DIR) Post #9uxnU1nmQ0MjhV0vDc by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
2020-05-11T22:58:31Z
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@jk me: building a cable for an old Atari 8-bit computer and I need these particular Molex connectorsdigikey: they're like 13 cents eachme: cool cool, I'll take like 40? so I can make a bunch of cables? why notdigikey: oh hey if you buy 50 they're only 9 cents eachme: awesome! also I'll need a crimping tool I guess? So I can connect them to a wire?digikey: oh that's $500
(DIR) Post #9vFVFNtSsWLcG3Jx20 by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
2020-05-20T13:21:46Z
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@polychrome @devurandom It looks like the part of the RIPScrip spec listing the fonts matches up _exactly_ to BGI's text-drawing API, which was widely available in Borland Turbo C++ / Pascal https://www.cs.colorado.edu/~main/cs1300/doc/bgi/settextstyle.html
(DIR) Post #9vFVFOcUB8MOVgNuCm by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
2020-05-20T13:26:11Z
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@polychrome @devurandom I have lots of nostalgia for those typefaces - I made my podcast's logo using a Turbo Pascal program because of their prevalence in early shareware - but I had no idea of their origins, so thank you for giving the Hershey fonts a name for me!
(DIR) Post #9wHd1FjwgaKrMCapw8 by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
2020-06-20T18:53:40Z
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Got a sweet MSDOS palmtop in the mail from @ajroach42 the other day and after some small hardware fix ups I am settling in with it. This thing is an _astonishing_ device. I can hardly believe it’s real.
(DIR) Post #9wHg4rq7mwUIFhtli4 by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
2020-06-20T18:54:42Z
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This is a fully functional 7MHz 80186 DOS machine, running MSDOS 5.0, with full CGA graphics support. It runs off of two AA batteries. Apparently for weeks. While constantly powering a RAM disk. I have been using this thing fairly heavily since Wednesday, including large serial file transfers that took well over an hour of constant, sustained use. Battery is still at 7/8 full.
(DIR) Post #9wIExXJLDDoox5nuPg by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
2020-06-21T01:48:09Z
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why must every model of palm pda have a different connector, oh my godI have like 8 different Palms and at least 3 cradles and like one working pair
(DIR) Post #9wIFIwp7YIig9vsWgK by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
2020-06-21T02:10:38Z
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@wzqtparor part of why I wish I could find the cradle to go with the Palm that runs for weeks on 2 AAA batteries, instead of all the palms with built-in rechargeable that don't hold charge anymore
(DIR) Post #9x6GBKaQLtPgiSTPDU by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
2020-07-13T11:05:38Z
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@moshboy I’m sad John Romero stopped selling replica Cool Guys At The Beach shirts before I could buy one
(DIR) Post #9y8Ht3PuhTOURd56dE by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
2020-06-27T20:03:58Z
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Does anyone have any opinions on the best option for connecting to telnet BBSes from Linux? (With ANSI / codepage 437 support specifically) #retrocomputingI used to use SyncTerm on Windows but it looks kind of... still using CVS in 2020
(DIR) Post #9y8Ht48a1P7gg9ymFk by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
2020-06-28T02:10:13Z
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qodem seems to work pretty well for running in the terminal, and actually has a package on my distro! Also supports direct serial connections which is a nice feature for talking to actual DOS machines; I've been suffering with running Telix under DOSBox for that.
(DIR) Post #9y8Ht568RylHerqL56 by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
2020-06-28T02:11:49Z
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Netrunner is a nice SyncTerm-like with some nice ANSI upscaling features, but it appears to be distributed as a binary only? :thonking:I wanted to not have to deal with building it from source but I also just spent like an hour debugging my ANSI escape codes and having source access would have been kinda nice
(DIR) Post #9y8Ht5vBOBawDBj6eG by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
2020-06-28T02:15:06Z
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I'm messing around with this stuff because I have spent the day resurrecting MarMOTS: http://marmots.glorioustrainwrecks.com/not quite back online yet, but hopefully soon!
(DIR) Post #9y8Ht6vvctmlLn5DRw by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
2020-06-28T19:50:58Z
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MarMOTS is back up and running, and for the first time in 11 years, the source is now available too! It's a collaborative ANSI art drawing tool that runs over telnet, with dreams of someday becoming a ZZT MMO.http://marmots.glorioustrainwrecks.com/https://bitbucket.org/SpindleyQ/marmots
(DIR) Post #9y8Ht8THuM427XhN5M by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
2020-07-06T00:33:25Z
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10 years ago I implemented a multiuser structured code editor for MarMOTS. I've been slowly digging back into it over the past week, doing a bunch of refactoring and cleanup work. It's... not bad? Still needs a lot more usability work but I can write little scripts with it.
(DIR) Post #9y8Ht9GCyTCCZGaRKy by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
2020-08-13T18:45:33Z
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WiModem232 arrived in the mail today. MarMOTS... almost works? I think I must be overflowing a buffer somewhere
(DIR) Post #9y8HtABdWx8JRNSIqm by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
2020-08-13T18:56:10Z
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Punkim
(DIR) Post #9z4Rc8efHiG2eXYY40 by SpindleyQ@mastodon.social
2020-09-12T03:04:05Z
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lite is a reasonably nice programmer's text editor written in Lua. https://github.com/rxi/liteLast night I decided it might be fun to try to port it to love2d. Today it mostly works? It's bogging down sometimes for reasons I don't understand, some (but not all!) of the icon glyphs aren't showing up correctly. But it can edit itself!