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

Have more or less begun in earnest, the process of converting my solitaire blog to HTML. And that involves - yes - smashing together another stylesheet for it. There are things that I can't do in pure CSS, but I can still at least achieve the feel that I'm looking for, here.

Just a lot of busywork left, really.

https://netizen.club/~wildweasel/golfers.html - Just an update to the Golfer's Gallery over at Golfshrine today, with a few golfers I hadn't gotten around to adding, plus subsections on costume editors and course designers.

And then this happened today (unrelated to the previous couple of pictures obviously). Who can tell me what exactly this is? 😀
(Also, chances of revival around 50% 😬)

@thetacola and in case you think there is no possible linkage between gnu image manipulation program and bdsm (which i am fine and in favour of, just not the slur) this is the splash screen for version 2.7.2

@thetacola gnu (formerly general) image manipulation program was originally named for the pulp fiction character "the gimp" who is named after the gimp suit they wear which is a bdsm accoutrement named after a slur aimed at physically disabled people

you can corroborate any of this through your own research

I involuntarily (cheers @root42!) spent my Saturday on tracing down an ancient Turbo C bug. 😅

The intr() function, used to call DOS/BIOS interrupts will pass the wrong BP register value to the interrupt. BP is heavily used in stack handling, so intr() generates a BP-reload-and-INT-trampoline on the stack, but the BP reload offset it creates is off-by-four.

Fix: Look for the sequence C6 46 F4 E2 in affected binaries, and change E2 to DE.

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