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

flash was too easy to fuck around in so we needed to raise the barrier of entry so that only big corporations could make eyecatching websites anymore

maybe the thing i need is to whittle down the already anemic number of people i talk to. maybe this is why hermits are a thing. i understand now

i'm going to go back to a windows 98 computer connected to the internet and whoever i cannot reach because of TLS1.2, good

i'm not gonna say flash is the end all be all but to say "it's good that flash died and HTML5+JS reigns supreme now" is an incredibly bastard take

it's so funny and not at all stressful how i'm mutuals with so many bootlickers for the current disrepair of computing

"flash had to die so that the internet could move on" is such a funny clown take to me. you're actively rooting for enshittification

@NanoRaptor making a religious pilgrimage to here

@angela autism

had to do it, as with anything that has BASIC and a speaker

so i bought an Amstrad NC100 as broken on ebay for less than 20 pounds. i was going to use just the shell and repurpose the keyboard to make it into a modern cyberdeck. i bridged a blown fuse and it's working. now what?

@NanoRaptor as ESL i picked up mostly generic-USA accent thru voice calls online for a decade, which makes living in southwest UK turn funny faces at me because people can tell i'm not from around here. but once someone unprompted asked if i was Danish, of all nationalities, because of my cobbled together accent

hey it's been a few years since win3.11 can we maybe use a better folder picker than this?

downloading win98se iso (because i can't find any of my multiple copies) from winworldpc and setting up a p133 vm in pcem as you do on a sunday (fuck 86box)

paying 40 quid for something that would probably cost me 5 if i could walk up to the market stalls in shenzhen

why is an LCD module twice the price of a cheap nobrand car head unit that uses the same LCD module

@mhd i've done some VB6 with crude graphics back in 2005 or so, i think it's the easiest option to get around to it then :) didn't think to use lua! i'll have to look about how to integrate that into a program, could open up some fun possibilities...

broadly, the idea is a MMO-ish thing with a closed server that runs on much more modern hardware - so there i can just use python.. but i want something that can be played on any number of retro PCs :)

@mhd VB6 might do, i wonder if it'll be too limited/crude but at least it would be easy on me... i speak fairly ok C so i figured it would be more robust that way but if VB will be just as good i might as well. hoping to make something using sockets that'll work on 98 thru 10. i've done a bit win32api that works across that gap but it's a pain to do it all by hand that way 😅

toying with the idea of win98 development. what framework/workflow should i follow? i want windows with some bitmap drawing. something similar to what furcadia or the palace have done back in the day. i'm wondering if mattkc's .net 3.5 backport is good enough for it ​ #windows #development #coding #retro