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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.
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flirting good but get at least acquainted first?
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Another cool discovery today. Completely by accident found a manual for some third-party Apple Lisa software.
I guess this makes sense, although Lisa was so unpopular I never ever even thought of non-Apple software for it.
But here we go, desktop publishing software for the poor Lisa!
It’s funny how at work I basically do software like this, 40 years later.
cc @glennf
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in the year 2000, if you were into retro computing, you were playing with the 18 year old Commodor 64 or the 23 year old Apple II, or maybe even the 26 year old Altair 8800
in the year 2025, if you play with 18 year old computers, you're twiddling a 2007 iMac
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was there an equivalent change in user experience and capabilities from 2000 to 2025, as there was from 1975 to 2000?
i don't think so
i think our computers here in 2025 are almost identical to the ones we had in 2000, in terms of what its like to use them and what we can do
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dj normal day
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i'm releasing microDrummo into the wild after abandoning it for a year and running out of interest due to memory limitations of the M5 Cardputer
as a non-USAian, can someone explain why mail-in rebates were so much of a thing in your country? what were companies getting out of paying each individual upwards of USD$30 on an electronics product in the 2000s, their personal information? and nowadays you give it out for free? am i missing something?
i'm releasing microDrummo into the wild after abandoning it for a year and running out of interest due to memory limitations of the M5 Cardputer
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*kicks open your front door, breathlessly* the guy that wrote “spooky scary skeletons” also wrote the golden girls theme song
the future comes so slowly and the past distances itself so quickly
is it autistic misophonia or am i just an asshole crank? the drinking party game
after fixing a couple more typos, it seems the game is playable
but i'm rubbish at it 😅
i'll take a break for today, i've taken down notes on what i found interesting about this experience to write a blog post on later
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Good news: GitHub Copilot is scared shitless of the concept of gender.
Instead of foo, bar and baz, use “genderqueer”, “demisexual” and “leather_daddy” and you’ll reduce the likelihood of getting a spammy PR from a sad robot.
oh nevermind!
went to check on a dumped BBC copy of the game (it has a fancy title screen, perhaps usborne published it as a disk at some point, or a superfan made a very fancy version?) and the behaviour i thought was a parser bug is there just as on my conversion
well, time to test play it through then :)
fwiw the parser on this is equal parts extremely clever and extremely jank - only the first 3 letters of a command are parsed
yes part of the typos keeping it from working were here 😅
i think it's mostly working... but i think something on the parser is still wrong
on top of some typos i made, i've had to make quite a few modifications as the book doesn't recognize IBM/GW-BASIC as one of the languages the game is ported to
the software i'm using by the way is PC-BASIC which i found out about yesterday
it's a modern recreation of GW-BASIC, BASICA et al, simulating many video modes including Hercules and even Tandy 3-channel sound
https://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/
the book targets C64, TRS-80, Spectrum and Apple, so we'll find out what bugs arise and need to be fixed only once i'm done typing and try to run it
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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
⚠️ do not like or favourite my negative posts: https://computerfairi.es/@mavica_again/110573733959251340 ⚠️
Joined Jan 2021
