Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Weekend achievements:

Install Mac OS 7.5.3 m68k in QEmu, although I don't know how to move data in & out yet, only in through ISO & floppy image files.

Get Windows 3.11 working at a higher resolution than 640x480, no small feat because compatible Cirrus drivers don't like QEmu's '-vga cirrus' option, & the usual SuperVGA patches don't like any of QEmu's VGA options.

Get mGBA to run Gameboy roms in blissful silence, so I don't have to rely on Mame for that.

All in FreeBSD as host OS.

A fever dream:

An obscure and short-lived '80s cartoon, "The Commodore's SixtyForce," in the style of the (very real!) comic book series, "Tandy Computer Whiz Kids."

In the first two seasons, they were led by Commodore Vick Twanei, while in the third season, they were led by Commodore Juan Tweniate, without an adequate explanation for the leadership change.

Did you know that FreeBSD 14.2 runs very well on a Dell Inspiron 518 desktop PC?

Did you know that a Dell Inspiron 518 can put in 40 hours of power-on time a week for 17 years and counting?

Even running massive applications like LibreOffice and Firefox? (Firefox with NoScript and uBlock Origin, of course.)

It's bad enough that Windows 11 absolutely requires an Internet connection just to turn it on for the first time.

But now I've confirmed on two different brands (Lenovo and HP) that Windows 11 *CAN'T* connect to an ordinary Linksys router's WPA2-PSK wifi via the WPS button, even though it encourages the setup user to do precisely that. It tries, errors, and reverts to needing the key/passphrase.

The Commodore Plus/4, but it didn't reinvent peripheral interfaces, and its integrated software ROM was a dealer-swappable or user-swappable ROM instead.