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scourge of the fediverse, un-retired computer fairies founder (2017-2021, 2024-), drone #6502, official amiga mascot, begrudgingly making a return to the fediverse to upset those who told us to leave.
https://pronoun.gdn/byte?or=it, robot, check system link above, meat shell is 30yo, no minors thanks. flirt with me and i will love you forever
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ah, well, GAME, SOAKER and VIEWER ROM dumps for mega drive already existed here http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/demos/index.htm
those are most likely the same ROMs just formatted different
GAME does not have a SNES version, however SOAKER and VIEWER do. i don't understand much about the SNES ROM format but those aren't in the same format emulators expect either
so the mega drive ones aren't a mystery anymore, but the SNES ones still are
i've looked into the SNES archive. there are no sources. there are, however, compiled binaries.. in a weird format. and, also, for the mega drive.
looking at the mega drive ones, the header information seems to be there? but it's not in the right offsets it should be. which makes me wonder if this is somehow in a slightly compressed format, or a format for some esoteric devkit. i can't really get much else out of this and wish someone else would look at it
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For the 40th Anniversary of "Elite", Ian Bell has released the source codes for the Apple, Atari, C64, and NES versions of the game for free.
He also released the source for the unfinished SNES and BBC ports. A very cool gift for such a pioneering space sim.
http://www.elitehomepage.org/fourty/index.htm
http://www.elitehomepage.org/archive/index.htm
delete your discord server and start a forum
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Disability, NSFW
girls with chronic pain (me) deserve treats and cuddles and being tied up and then more cuddles and maybe some other stuff
ufo 50 spoilers
in the presence of seabird royalty
ooh that's good anti aliasing
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what if you could get – or give – kisses from (or to) a computer?
@angela we're right here
hah the sub ran linux mint
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CW: kink, nsfw, brought to you by my dreams last night
God I would look so cute collared and on a leash. I'm telling you, it's everyone's loss that I haven't been stripped and told to lay at someone's feet. I'm so soft and grabbable and nobody is taking advantage of that.
Morning yearning over I guess, back to sleep for tired pup
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dj rent resident
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@anna i can get those from pimoroni if you feel like paying for shipping
disclaimer: i like iframes
if you don't know what web development is, iframes and css are not interchangeable or mutually exclusive or even do the same thing as this person suggests
"[iframes are] better than css, everything is too heavy now" is an incredibly deranged take that if i had to hear it so do you now
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The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/
I've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here.
A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singularly unlovely places. The walls are brightened up with posters offering helpful services for people fleeing domestic violence. The security guards on the door are cautiously indifferent to anyone walking in. The air is filled with tense conversations between partners - drowned out by the noise of screaming kids.
In the middle, a young woman sits on a hard plastic chair. She is surrounded by canvas-bags containing her worldly possessions. She doesn't look like she is in a great emotional place right now. Clutched in her hands is a games console - a PlayStation Portable. She stares at it intensely; blocking out the world with Candy Crush.
Or, at least, that's what I thought.
Walking behind her, I glance at her console and recognise the screen she's on. She's connected to the complementary WiFi and is browsing the GOV.UK pages on Housing Benefit. She's not slicing fruit; she's arming herself with knowledge.
The PSP's web browser is - charitably - pathetic. It is slow, frequently runs out of memory, and can only open 3 tabs at a time.
But the GOV.UK pages are written in simple HTML. They are designed to be lightweight and will work even on rubbish browsers. They have to. This is for everyone.
Not everyone has a big monitor, or a multi-core CPU burning through the teraflops, or a broadband connection.
The photographer Chase Jarvis coined the phrase "the best camera is the one that’s with you". He meant that having a crappy instamatic with you at an important moment is better than having the best camera in the world locked up in your car.
The same is true of web browsers. If you have a smart TV, it probably has a crappy browser.
[🖼 Twitter's guest mode displayed on a TV.]
My old car had a built-in crappy web browser.
[🖼 The dashboard of a BMW i3 - there is a web browser on the central display.]
Both are painful to use - but they work!
If your laptop and phone both got stolen - how easily could you conduct online life through the worst browser you have? If you have to file an insurance claim online - will you get sent a simple HTML form to fill in, or a DOCX which won't render?
What vital information or services are forbidden to you due to being trapped in PDFs or horrendously complicated web sites?
Are you developing public services? Or a system that people might access when they're in desperate need of help? Plain HTML works. A small bit of simple CSS will make look decent. JavaScript is probably unnecessary - but can be used to progressively enhance stuff. Add alt text to images so people paying per MB can understand what the images are for (and, you know, accessibility).
Go sit in an uncomfortable chair, in an uncomfortable location, and stare at an uncomfortably small screen with an uncomfortably outdated web browser. How easy is it to use the websites you've created?
I chatted briefly to the young woman afterwards. She'd been kicked out by her parents and her friends had given her the bus fare to the housing benefits office. She had nothing but praise for how helpful the staff had been. I asked about the PSP - a hand-me-down from an older brother - and the web browser. Her reply was "It's shit. But it worked."
I think that's all we can strive for.
Here are some stats on games consoles visiting GOV.UK
Interestingly we have 3,574 users visiting https://t.co/CcU3PLPTpj on games consoles:
• Xbox - 2,062
• Playstation 4 - 1,457
• Playstation Vita - 25
• Nintendo WiiU - 14
• Nintendo 3DS - 1620/22
— Matt Hobbs (@TheRealNooshu) February 1, 2021
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/
less online banking more online barking
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scourge of the fediverse, un-retired computer fairies founder (2017-2021, 2024-), drone #6502, official amiga mascot, begrudgingly making a return to the fediverse to upset those who told us to leave.
https://pronoun.gdn/byte?or=it, robot, check system link above, meat shell is 30yo, no minors thanks. flirt with me and i will love you forever
HRT: 15/11/2015
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