Posts by deater78@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AWWOt5eUgCHxlxdz0q by deater78@mastodon.social
2023-06-09T15:38:47Z
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rate my new laptop that just came in this morning...the students always find it odd when I present with a 10-year old ARM chromebook, maybe I should start trolling them by presenting with increasingly weird devices as the semester progresses
(DIR) Post #AWzmopW5v09shg0DZI by deater78@mastodon.social
2023-06-23T18:28:49Z
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testing my EPROM burner in what I assume is the @foone approved method
(DIR) Post #AX9If6Iu4zg8t8YD0y by deater78@mastodon.social
2023-06-28T00:40:01Z
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kids: can you surprise [other kid] by remotely sending xeyes to their screen again?me: yes, but we should do it while we can as X11 network graphics forwarding is not long for this worldkids: why?me: because only 5 people care about that feature anymorekids: hahaha we bet you're one of themme: ..... (sigh) yes
(DIR) Post #AZFCGaxkDsZNbTRvxw by deater78@mastodon.social
2023-08-30T02:28:44Z
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(DIR) Post #AcjWlisWrCcTLDX0u8 by deater78@mastodon.social
2023-12-11T16:11:52Z
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it took a really long time to get here but I finally have a proper Atari 2600 Myst cartridge...
(DIR) Post #AhHX54TNO6lo8mgdZw by deater78@mastodon.social
2024-04-26T13:42:38Z
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@foone not sure exactly what you're doing this time, but if you need an award winning spiral program that's 32 bytes long, here you go: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=96019
(DIR) Post #AiDrtTAapHRcxZWzTs by deater78@mastodon.social
2024-05-24T15:21:54Z
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digging through my Apple II collection I found everyone's favorite obscure crossover. She always seemed to be hiding in Ae'gura
(DIR) Post #AkFGW26fDlmfBihx7Q by deater78@mastodon.social
2024-07-24T04:07:13Z
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can't seem to stop adding more locations to Apple II Riven.Up to 13 floppy disks now, that's more than Sierra infamously had with "Time Zone". Probably for the best I added hard-disk support.Hitting the limitations of my game engine, especially in 5-sided rooms (engine only supports 4 directions per room)
(DIR) Post #AmkKJpEuLFq4r73NnE by deater78@mastodon.social
2024-10-06T23:23:15Z
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Previously unpreserved Apple II edutainment game "Trogdor: Let's Burninate Phonics" by Videlectrix, 1983
(DIR) Post #AmkKJq8uz0drepG760 by deater78@mastodon.social
2024-10-06T23:25:24Z
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I'm old enough this just reminds me of this incident
(DIR) Post #AoZ1uYoJbVhNqq9TFo by deater78@mastodon.social
2024-11-30T08:11:54Z
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bizzarre coincidence found when grading embedded system homework.to get mcp3008 to read channel 1/2 you need to write 0x80/0x90student was doingout1=1000000; out2=10010000;(note, no 0b at front, so decimal value not binary)this should not work at all, butby some extremely weird coincidence(?) those decimal values are 0x989680 and 0x98bd90 so the bottom bytes have the correct value so the code worked?too late at night to try to work out how unlikely this is
(DIR) Post #AoZ1ubT9idYW65H7Bo by deater78@mastodon.social
2024-11-30T08:18:37Z
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the next part of the homework they are supposed to read channel2, so I was thinking no way they could continue having it work. But it did, because they set it to "10020000" which isn't even binary anymore which I would have hoped would have led them to re-examine their choices
(DIR) Post #AtgAvPHbFTyvqSh3qq by deater78@mastodon.social
2025-05-01T02:44:15Z
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if you happen to be at PAXeast in Boston next week, I'll be there on Friday helping present a panel on "Apple II Origins of Today's Games"
(DIR) Post #AwGAML9wohoqp6GH0y by deater78@mastodon.social
2025-07-18T13:55:28Z
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@foone I wrote a game like that back in the day, probably in a similar timeframeIt was written in Turbo Pascal which could only do real mode, but I was targeting a 386 so it had a lot of hand-written x86 32-bit assembly sprinkled in. Also the soundblaster code I was using (also written by a teenager) was using XMS (I think?) to store the sound samples
(DIR) Post #AwflH5ghey4aeAl9BA by deater78@mastodon.social
2025-07-30T22:16:58Z
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@foone the game also glitched out weirdly in cutscenes for me back in the day too. We had a trident TVGA super vga card of some sort.
(DIR) Post #Awlusc0wUydC9jx66S by deater78@mastodon.social
2025-08-02T21:23:29Z
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a 2661 byte program I wrote just won the "Sur Prize" at the International Obfuscated C Code Competition. You can probably guess what it is once I mention that @foone might enjoy ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2ulsnSTbUQ
(DIR) Post #AwlusgYPcTmSEhdspM by deater78@mastodon.social
2025-08-02T21:28:31Z
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urgh I threw that video together at the last minute here, didn't prep in advance because didn't think it would win. Anyway that explains the extra "n" in Winner in the title card but I am probably too lazy to fix it
(DIR) Post #B267mhgTzBF2cjzQYq by deater78@mastodon.social
2026-01-09T03:25:59Z
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hitting the stage of procrastination where I figured out how to inject arbitrary images into the DOS "Second Reality" demo. This is in the actual demo running on dosbox. It's harder than you'd think! I feel like @foone might appreciate this