I don’t think developers truly appreciate the fragility of software until their first run-in with an obscure file format for which the only converter in existence was written by one guy in college in 2003 and released as source only with no comments and requires applying a patch to a library to compile, but it’s not for a release version, oh no, it’s for a very specific SVN revision from a long dead server
Even though old software has not changed, new software has introduced faster, more efficient workflows at the cost of the speed of the software itself. The knowledge and tools to even produce software that uses a few megabytes of RAM is, in practice, lost. We can produce better tools but we cannot produce them for the computers that would benefit most from them. #RetroComputing
well that was a short search once i had a better picture!!!
IPC TLA UQMY Control Module 21613115
oh here's a much better look at it from S6 E2, those are not tape decks at all
what the hell is this??
seen in the background of The Expanse S6 E1. i don't think it's a made up prop, i think it's a piece of hifi/video equipment turned prop. makes me think of technics vhs pcm audio recorder, but might be regular cassette instead. bottom bright spots are VU meters maybe?
Added some extra little details, spikes on the knees and lfrith style bunny antenna on the head, in an eye catching red #gunpla #mobilesuitgundam
family got a new samsung tv with a "remote" that has almost no buttons because you're meant to use a phone app instead. phone app is 80mb and tells me my browser (firefox nightly) is unsupported to log into the samsung account to control this tv that's already in our living room. hey @internetofshit
ah ha ha we did it
chaining and score multipliers, and a score display, now potentially fully implemented
this has finally reached "playable" status, though there's much more to do before it's "releasable"
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
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