A few days ago, my groovebox, the #SynthstromDeluge, running the new and awesome community-built firmware, crashed, which was very cool.
Not that it crashed, but what happened next: It displayed a colorful pattern on its pads.
That's a stack trace. It's listing the last steps the code made before crashing. The devs are have asked to be sent photos of these, to help them find bugs.
I've pasted it on Discord, and there's a _bot_ that recognizes these images and decodes them into addresses!
huge thankyou to @mavica_again who fixed one of my ZX Spectrums, and is currently fixing two more for me :)
It did a very thorough job of repairing, tuning, and composite-modding this machine that was really showing its age. It now has a lovely stable image with all the right colours.
If you need an old computer fixing up, definitely see if Mavica has some time :)
I am begging people, talk to your artists that you appreciate.
Give them some encouragement. Tell them what you love. Gush a bit even.
If it wasn’t for some random DM in my inbox this morning, I’d be taking my internal compulsion to close up shop a lot more seriously tonight than I am.
Artists are tired, exhausted even.
I am *lucky* to do this as a glorified hobby.
Others’ abilities to get bread on the table depend on coin that isn’t coming in.
Don’t leave words left unsaid as well.
i just want to be hired to do and recommend me chill games for the other robots. im sorry i went on it to all stop and think about how upset i only now realized, i cannot fucking tell the difference between TTL serial and RS232 serial you will be anger directed at a subtweet to many games, but I don't know anybody? it seems like someone would pay a $150k/year computer prima donna. All that AND it’s a killer designer? For real: hire it!
turns out the carriage starts at an offset of 60 steps, so when i was scaling data to a full page width of 960 steps everything was offcenter to the right. i've corrected this in pypenwriter and made it not issue redundant moves to minimise penup/pendown noise
(this picture being offcenter is just due to the scale not matching the paper)
my sister @angela really needs a break and some good things towards its way right about now
WEREWOLVES VERSUS makes me proudest of everything I've made or been a part of. I had a goofy idea in 2015, and it turned into a sprawling, 11-part project that showcased the work of over 120 people, including some of my favourite authors and artists. https://werewolvesversus.com/issues
queer robot squirrelbunny girl, un-retired computer fairies founder (2017-2021, 2024-), drone #6502, official amiga mascot, making a return to upset those who told us to leave.
https://pronoun.gdn/byte?or=it, robot, lowercase, check system link above, meat shell is 31yo, i block underage
flirting good but get at least acquainted first?
HRT: 15/11/2015
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