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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.

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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.

netizen.club/~maple/files/unit

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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"

if your fursona is closer to being "you" than a "representation of you", that might not just be your fursona

new on the #linkcache

mini-itx.com - A website maintained since the mid 2000s dedicated to the Mini-ITX form-factor of motherboards

Tom's Toys - A collection of web toys, games, tools and experiments

Mike's Digital Pog Page - Maybe we should bring these back along with 88x31 web buttons

3D GIFs by Dave Sutton - A wonderful, free-to-use collection 3D web animations that retain a GeoCities-like charm

links.netizen.club/

re: danger: linux 

@jk Linux can't be a cohesive system because Unix never reconsidered configuration as it evolved from a pile of CLI tools with man pages and a dedicated expert admin to a graphical OS where the user is the admin. an operating /system/ would solve the configuration problem once for all programs. in practice *nix people hear this, think "windows registry" and then implement their own config file parser. or they go GNOME and use dconf (good!) but also remove settings for fun

danger: linux 

i use linux every day. and when i want to configure something? i don't know where to look, don't know which one of the many configuration utilities to use, have to go on a big forum thread research session to find out what the best practice is for my situation, don't know which config file to alter, don't know if the file will be overridden in the near or far future, don't know why the changes i'm making aren't working, etc. everything is the Principle of Most Surprise, and it sucks

cats please stop constantly making wet mouth noises, signed, misophonia

Linux users stop being smug assholes about windows users being subject to a horrendous feature unknowingly

Difficulty level: Impossible.

re: social media (-), (2/2) 

@ReyCasting damn wholeheartedly agree with all of that

i don't think we've ever had a community other than a few scattered close friends we collected together in one discord server that nobody really seems intent on participating in

newer mastodon users please stop trying to rationalize antisocial behaviour challenge (impossible)

the people telling me i need to be using alt text and CW because this isn't twitter are the same people who keep thinking liking someone's post conveys anything (reach, acknowledgement) other than that you like their post because that's what it did in twitter

@pencilears in general people litter because nobody views it as making more than a small individual mess so we shouldn't change it right

there sure are people on the internet insistent on being wrong and boy do they know how to push my buttons to keep arguing with them 🫠

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