maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button

i make music: https://maple.pet/music

i make open source tech tools and toys: https://maple.pet/tech

i started the netizen club and the link cache, to help my yearning for a simpler internet: https://links.netizen.club/

i'm looking for work. if you know anyone who needs someone with 8+ years professional experience plumbing nearly any sort of bespoke tech, talk to me.

if you like a post where a person is talking about killing themselves that means that you like that that person wants to kill themselves, there is no other interpretation for the wording x has liked your post that i can infer in good faith and this is why i tell people not to like my negative posts unless they like that i'm in misery because if you want to convey anything else you have 26 letters and punctuation at your disposal

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after fixing a couple more typos, it seems the game is playable

but i'm rubbish at it 😅

i'll take a break for today, i've taken down notes on what i found interesting about this experience to write a blog post on later

oh nevermind!

went to check on a dumped BBC copy of the game (it has a fancy title screen, perhaps usborne published it as a disk at some point, or a superfan made a very fancy version?) and the behaviour i thought was a parser bug is there just as on my conversion

well, time to test play it through then :)

fwiw the parser on this is equal parts extremely clever and extremely jank - only the first 3 letters of a command are parsed

yes part of the typos keeping it from working were here 😅

i think it's mostly working... but i think something on the parser is still wrong

on top of some typos i made, i've had to make quite a few modifications as the book doesn't recognize IBM/GW-BASIC as one of the languages the game is ported to

well... i'm done typing!

only one more page to go!

i'm half way through 🙂

the software i'm using by the way is PC-BASIC which i found out about yesterday

it's a modern recreation of GW-BASIC, BASICA et al, simulating many video modes including Hercules and even Tandy 3-channel sound

https://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/

the book targets C64, TRS-80, Spectrum and Apple, so we'll find out what bugs arise and need to be fixed only once i'm done typing and try to run it

the book tells you when to take a break from typing. it's cute

it is 2025 and i am manually typing a 446-line basic game from a book

if all ALL you ever do is browse the web and edit libreoffice files then you will have no problem at all and ABSOLUTELY those people could and should switch to linux (and even then i fear they may run into more issues than if they were using windows)

but to say that linux is a fits-all solution to people who don't want to poke under the hood on a daily basis to get their daily driver merely working, is fucking annoying

i want Linux pundits to try installing and using a Linux system for a whole month without ever EVER touching the terminal ONCE and then try to tell me Linux is ready to be a desktop operating system

you are now manually hearing CANYON.MID inside your head

what i don't understand is if youtube insists on bigger thumbnails with less columns then why does it still serve the lower resolution thumbnails so they look like garbage blown up like that

disappointing to hear that james channel is a hogwarts legacy player