maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es
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scourge of the fediverse, retired computer fairies founder (2017-2021), drone #6502, official amiga mascot, begrudgingly making a return to the fediverse to upset those who told us to leave. i've been here longer than you.
https://pronoun.gdn/byte?or=it, robot, check system link above, meat shell is 30yo, no minors thanks
HRT: 15/11/2015
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Joined Jan 2021
she slot machine on my one-armed bandit till i jackpot
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plugging my game console and its jam again
https://itch.io/jam/gametank-game-jam-2
there's a theme but actually I'll be happy with games, tools, PRs on the emulator or SDK, or even just getting the SDK example to compile and run and feedback on your experience doing so 🙂
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I need help with some C code for MSDOS.
Does MSDOS provide an API for getting the width (in number of characters) of the screen?
Struggling to find any documentation on the internet. There is a bit but it doesn't cover this.
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like if i want to use xmpp just to hang out and i don't have friends where do i go
or should i just go back to discord
is there any xmpp chatroom not dedicated to a piece of software
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netizen home registrations open today in our irc channel, as long as you host a cool website with it https://netizen.club/homes/
@blitter sorry about that, my nginx path solving was unhappy with files without extension -- should work now
@drwho anywhere i can chat with you longform? i got like 3 cascading rewrites i thought solved my use case and i just found one exception that's making me tear my fur out
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this is a screenshot that i believe to be from the Mac 512 retail ROM (it says "Insert the initialization disk" in Portuguese). in trying to locate this ROM (the only known dumped Mac 512 ROM is actually the Mac Plus copy) i accidentally found the Unitron 1024's instead.
some misconceptions: Unitron did not work on multiple mac clones, it only changed name:
"Mac 512" is the initial project, which was simply a straight up copy of the original Macintosh with 512K RAM, eventually became closer to a Mac Plus clone
"Turbo Mac" is the same identical machine with improved PAL timings for RAM access which sped it up
"Unitron 1024" is the same hardware with 1MB RAM, in a futile attempt to make it more legally distinct after the lawsuit
none of it fully came to market
the only other known dump of a Unitron Mac 512 ROM is the earliest one, which is identical to the Mac Plus ROM, which caused the Apple lawsuit which shut down the project. had Unitron not rushed to market before they could've made a clean room clone of the ROM (which the eventual Unitron 1024 tried to, too little too late), the Mac 512 project might have passed certification (necessary to be sold) and survived.
i wanted to investigate these more before uploading them but i lost interest. here they are
it looks like they're (at least partially) compiled from C(?), not sure how complete they are, not sure how much of them are still just copied from apple roms. both have the same build date, smaller one seems to boot and the larger one just sadmacs. functionally the only difference i could see are graphics. the sources are as far as we know completely lost.
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no offense to humans who have fursonas i'm just not one of you
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if you tell me you like my "character" i'll be very confused and if you insist my picture is of a "character" or "fursona" i'm going to personally boil your entire face off until the pale weak skin covering your bloody muscles turn into gas
@suspiciouslyBee i love it when people say "oh i like your fursona!" because i get to reply "thanks i don't have one"
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if your fursona is closer to being "you" than a "representation of you", that might not just be your fursona
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Operating systems aren’t actually that interesting or important. Their purpose is to let people run apps with a minimum of fuss
The purpose of an app is to let people do a specific thing they want to do, which is usually something unrelated to computers. The things people want to do are the important part, not the apps
Tech culture is a vast collective effort to deny these obvious facts because they threaten our sense of our own importance. We’d rather create imaginary kingdoms to rule than admit we exist to serve others
- website
- https://maple.pet
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- https://netizen.club
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scourge of the fediverse, retired computer fairies founder (2017-2021), drone #6502, official amiga mascot, begrudgingly making a return to the fediverse to upset those who told us to leave. i've been here longer than you.
https://pronoun.gdn/byte?or=it, robot, check system link above, meat shell is 30yo, no minors thanks
HRT: 15/11/2015
⚠️ do not like or favourite my negative posts: https://computerfairi.es/@mavica_again/110573733959251340 you will be blocked for not following protocol
Joined Jan 2021
