Posts by kroc@mstdn.social
(DIR) Post #APwR7WlM4o8aPwY91k by kroc@mstdn.social
2022-11-24T20:33:54Z
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@textfiles cc'ing @thomholwerda (No QRTs on Mastodon yet?)
(DIR) Post #AQ03i0fAlTdlJDMQyG by kroc@mstdn.social
2022-11-26T15:38:52Z
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@NanoRaptor Reviewers concluded that, whilst cheap, performance was hobbled by the half-rate front-side bus
(DIR) Post #AQ8l9ZUnDU1eS7ZebI by kroc@mstdn.social
2022-11-30T20:23:23Z
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@ActionRetro Being able to make old machines operate on the web through fast, efficient native interfaces is what I've been waiting for for years. I hope to see a lot more clients become available!
(DIR) Post #ASlXETDltywyK7wPAG by kroc@mstdn.social
2023-02-17T09:00:40Z
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@textfiles IS NOBODY GOING TO COMMENT THAT THE TAPE IS FROM 2004 BUT IS CONSIDERED THE HOTEST RENTAL IN 2007 BECAUSE THAT’S HOW LONG FILMS TOOK TO GET HOME RELEASES IN THE 80s???
(DIR) Post #ASpi2AhKoxxRWnwlBQ by kroc@mstdn.social
2023-02-19T09:25:09Z
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@textfiles the ‘80s we’re like “The ’80s”, but un-ironically
(DIR) Post #AUBRsPyPt6DShy65oW by kroc@mstdn.social
2023-03-31T18:59:30Z
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@textfiles RIP John McAfee
(DIR) Post #AUMr4j1V0KK2RAxKqm by kroc@mstdn.social
2023-04-06T06:59:02Z
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@textfiles These are the kind of magazines printed on the lowest-grade toilet paper reserved for phonebooks and you're scanning them like they're Da-Vinci's lost diaries. I have no comments
(DIR) Post #AWgQsOkcfCvtAq45mi by kroc@mstdn.social
2023-06-14T13:28:59Z
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@nkizz @foone does it have an option to auto-frogfind links? (Or the users choice of URL-proxy like OneWeb)
(DIR) Post #AY0z3imos2llJ2EGg4 by kroc@mstdn.social
2023-07-24T09:17:10Z
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@textfiles (This assumes that we are not in the Matrix)
(DIR) Post #AaeaL3PBL5E5aFZjRg by kroc@mstdn.social
2023-10-10T19:08:06Z
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More ports of #PrinceOfPersia is always a good thing! https://www.indieretronews.com/2023/10/prince-of-persia-classic-game-as.html cc/ @jmechner
(DIR) Post #AcVNW7dSWxdz5eHyGO by kroc@mstdn.social
2023-12-05T16:25:10Z
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@textfiles Create a prepared citation string + short-url on every page so that editors can copy/paste whilst they're researching
(DIR) Post #AclrPQGVrmUab1sSWG by kroc@mstdn.social
2023-12-13T09:58:55Z
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Quickly download this before Nintendo takes it down... https://linksawakeningdxhd.itch.io/links-awakening-dx-hd #zelda #retrogaming
(DIR) Post #AdBokwqFYs9gQ2LSHw by kroc@mstdn.social
2023-12-26T01:07:10Z
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Phenomenal design and execution! https://youtube.com/watch?v=_rRCEbcjiho #gameboy #retrogaming
(DIR) Post #AdEOMeM4d1BQncra7c by kroc@mstdn.social
2023-12-26T21:48:56Z
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Gosh, I love #Libretto’s so much but they’re basically unobtainium at this point and becoming ever more fragile. https://youtu.be/xfMrqJwuMX8 I like trying to find the balance between minimal and usable in old tech. I have a beautiful Dell X200 which just straddles the line of obsolete and modern as even though it’s an 800MHz PIII it can connect to WiFi and run a browser barely new enough to access the web. #RetroComputing
(DIR) Post #AdEOMfKL0xOBoX3i3U by kroc@mstdn.social
2023-12-26T21:56:49Z
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Even though old software has not changed, new software has introduced faster, more efficient workflows at the cost of the speed of the software itself. The knowledge and tools to even produce software that uses a few megabytes of RAM is, in practice, lost. We can produce better tools but we cannot produce them for the computers that would benefit most from them. #RetroComputing
(DIR) Post #AdEOMgB9qZdkSLltNw by kroc@mstdn.social
2023-12-26T22:13:24Z
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Have you ever tried to compile an old piece of software that first required compiling an old compiler which itself required an old environment that you can't reproduce? #GCC & #LLVM all work within very narrow bands of time, platforms and environments that shift constantly, meaning that the aparant portability of C/C++ is unusable in practice for any non-current OS. #retrocomputing #cpp
(DIR) Post #AdEOMh5WT0j7HA8uEy by kroc@mstdn.social
2023-12-26T23:33:24Z
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I don’t think developers truly appreciate the fragility of software until their first run-in with an obscure file format for which the only converter in existence was written by one guy in college in 2003 and released as source only with no comments and requires applying a patch to a library to compile, but it’s not for a release version, oh no, it’s for a very specific SVN revision from a long dead server