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- Comment on Lemmy through SDF is basically read-only now. Read interesting stuff, but open an account elsewhere if you want to reply. 10 months ago:
Not as of yesterday, no.
And that’s fine, I certainly have no shortage of things to occupy my time, I’d just hoped to be able to help make the SDF even more awesome :)
I’m giving up on this Lemmy FWIW. I signed up over at lemmy.ml
- Comment on Lemmy through SDF is basically read-only now. Read interesting stuff, but open an account elsewhere if you want to reply. 10 months ago:
I could be wrong but I think this is a general issue within the SDF. It’s an incredible organization and I value my membership in it very highly but I wish it were easier to pitch in and volunteer to make things better.
Ah well, we live in an imperfect world. I’m grateful for them in any case! :)
- Comment on The history of Vim 1 year ago:
I love how much modern computing culture has its roots in the good old Amiga, and folks who didn’t own one are totally clueless about it.
- Comment on The 8-bit Guy - My Dream Computer is Finally on Sale! (Commander X16 update) 1 year ago:
One could, but I would argue that this idea pre-supposed a very ascetic class of programmer, and that depending on one’s goals in learning how to program, recursion can be a useful concept but saying it should be the one litmus test for any learning platforms seems highly questionable to me.
- Comment on The 8-bit Guy - My Dream Computer is Finally on Sale! (Commander X16 update) 1 year ago:
Are there any off the shelf available 68K based computers these days? I wasn’t aware of one but that would be cool :)
AMIGA 2023!!! :)
- Comment on The 8-bit Guy - My Dream Computer is Finally on Sale! (Commander X16 update) 1 year ago:
Or maybe there are people who find working in low powered environments that behave a certain way, more like computers did in the 80s enjoyable.
It’s not about boomers or what’s powerful and what’s not. Some things are just for fun and that’s all the justification they need IMO.
- Comment on The 8-bit Guy - My Dream Computer is Finally on Sale! (Commander X16 update) 1 year ago:
Also, how would that ‘weirdness’ impact using the device in a teaching context?
- Comment on The 8-bit Guy - My Dream Computer is Finally on Sale! (Commander X16 update) 1 year ago:
What would you like to see instead? Z80? Something else?
- Comment on What are your defining memories of computing in the old days? 1 year ago:
Oh MAN those magazine listings!
I remember my mom, bless her, reading them to me so I could type the bloody things in becauase, being partially blind, I couldn’t get the bloody page close enough to my face to properly read the infinite lines of DATA statements :)
And then, years later, they finally came out with checksum programs so you could see a number at the end of each line and compare it with what was in the magazine.
Crazy to think back, innit? :)
- Comment on What are your defining memories of computing in the old days? 1 year ago:
For me as a kid growing up in the 80s, it’s absolutely walking into Radio Shack (my favorite place in the mall next to the arcade!) and seeing a TRE-80 Model II set up for demo.
Kind of intresting as I think about it that I ended up not going for a Tandy computer and instead bought an Atari ;) No regrets. I still adore my 800XL!
- Comment on On the off chance someone hadn't heard of it - Fujinet is amazing! 1 year ago:
I had absolutely never heard of this. Super cool! I unfortunately don’t own any of the supported platforms but this is awesome regardless.
No problem! You don’t need to own the hardware. You can use the pre-built fujinet-pc if your platform is supported, or just run Altirra (works fine from WINE if you’re not on Windows) and install the fujinet SIO adapter.
It’s pretty cool stuff getting on the internet with an emulated atari running an emulated fujinet IMO :)
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