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this was resolved thanks again to Paul Rickards! turns out using DTR wired to host's DSR as null modem serial cables usually are doesn't work with my setup, however rewiring it to CTS instead works as intended enabling hardware flow control on the host. twitter.com/paulrickards/statu

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i know plenty of retro computer people follow me so please if you don't know the answer retweet so it can reach someone who might

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from all i can tell debugging pyserial.dsr and hooking my scope up to dtr on the typewriter, the signal is being driven as i assume it should, but still messages are being clobbered no matter what which makes this plotter impossible to use as a printer

i'm at my wit's end

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RT @dolari@twitter.com

Oldie but Moldie Gaming dusts off the Wii U to see if it still works.
Games on tap for this episode: Splatoon, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Wii's Punch Out!!, NES Remix, The TG-16's Devil's Crush

Top of the hour on .

twitch.tv/jenndolari

🐦🔗: twitter.com/dolari/status/1394

i'd like to think printer interfaces in the 80s didn't have random arbitrary waits programmed into them to avoid this command clobbering and that hardware flow control actually works

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top is using arbitrary 3 second delays between each circle, bottom is several attempts trying to let hardware flow control tell me when i can send new commands or not which doesn't work because the commands clobber each other and several circles are skipped

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how can i write out to a serial device under Linux and wait until that device is ready to receive more data? device in question is a Panasonic RK-P400C and under pyserial listening to flush, DSR and CD neither work, several commands are overwritten and skipped

RT @alienmelon@twitter.com

@Kotaku@twitter.com kotaku, i wish upon you the same pain that you all have caused vulnerable people here with your abuse. you don't deserve the attention or platform that you have. all of you are hypocrites and cowards. the same to all of game journalism
twitter.com/alienmelon/status/

🐦🔗: twitter.com/alienmelon/status/

of course today i know tim follin and alexander brandon and some of their works but 9 times out of 10 people will say i'm influenced by someone i never heard of before and it's the funniest shit

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i love it when people are like "oh i can definitely hear tim follin influences in your music" "wow this track sounds just like alexander brandon" and i go "haha who"

almost 10yrs ago Sos asked me to make the soundtrack to McPixel. unfortunately due to my own circumstances i wasn't able to complete the project. in 2013, i revisited the tracks in a KNP game called "chocolate trampoline invaders"
glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/5
youtube.com/watch?v=B8L8JF9n8v

RT @helpmeskeletor@twitter.com

The sideways implication of ‘you can’t comment without a PhD’ is that people being oppressed aren’t able to comprehend their own oppression.

It’s part of the patriarchal right-to-rule messaging of imperialism and settler colonialism.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/helpmeskeletor/sta

RT @TechConnectify@twitter.com

If you don't close your eyes while something's loading so you can be delighted when you opened them that it's done loading (or disappointed that you opened them too early) you aren't having enough fun with this whole life thing.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/TechConnectify/sta

i'm living in a fucking cartoon

RT @Reuters@twitter.com

Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro said it was time to face the pandemic head on instead of hiding from it, as he addressed a crowd in front of the Planalto Palace

🐦🔗: twitter.com/Reuters/status/139

RT @Philip_Ellis@twitter.com

Saying that Palestine has a poor track record when it comes to LGBTQ rights isn’t the home run you think it is. So does Arizona, but I wouldn’t want to see children getting bombed there either.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/Philip_Ellis/statu

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