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

plugging my game console and its jam again

https://itch.io/jam/gametank-game-jam-2

there's a theme but actually I'll be happy with games, tools, PRs on the emulator or SDK, or even just getting the SDK example to compile and run and feedback on your experience doing so 🙂

I need help with some C code for MSDOS.
Does MSDOS provide an API for getting the width (in number of characters) of the screen?

Struggling to find any documentation on the internet. There is a bit but it doesn't cover this.

netizen home registrations open today in our irc channel, as long as you host a cool website with it https://netizen.club/homes/

this is a screenshot that i believe to be from the Mac 512 retail ROM (it says "Insert the initialization disk" in Portuguese). in trying to locate this ROM (the only known dumped Mac 512 ROM is actually the Mac Plus copy) i accidentally found the Unitron 1024's instead.

no offense to humans who have fursonas i'm just not one of you

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

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

Operating systems aren’t actually that interesting or important. Their purpose is to let people run apps with a minimum of fuss

The purpose of an app is to let people do a specific thing they want to do, which is usually something unrelated to computers. The things people want to do are the important part, not the apps

Tech culture is a vast collective effort to deny these obvious facts because they threaten our sense of our own importance. We’d rather create imaginary kingdoms to rule than admit we exist to serve others

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

https://links.netizen.club/

@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

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