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Any cow that is above sea level is technically a Highland cow.

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Aha Iโ€™m not the first to find this apparently, someone already made the Adaptec 2940UW SCSI gingersnap recipe! youtu.be/lLvLvSCgGqk

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It is not good for Tektronix 4010s vector graphics terminals to be left on their own, they are very social terminals, if possible, give them a lil friend

#tektronix #tektronix4010 #tektronix4006 #vintageComputing #retrocomputing

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I found this photo in an eBay listing for a batch of used pinball-machine balls in July of 2000.

I didn't bid, but I messaged the seller letting them know they absolutely made my day with this photo and they replied with gratitude. I even set it as the desktop image on a computer I used in the arcade workshop I worked in at the time.

It's been sitting on my hard drives for 26 years, and I no longer wish to keep it to myself.

#RandomPhoto #Pinball #Balls

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Porting Willows TWIN (A Win16/Win32 emulator that started in 1993) to modern-ish Linux. Making some progress, but I saw an error from #skifree that probably very few people have seen!

Yet outta memory, duuuude!

#retrocomputing

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The fun(*) part of building a Z-machine interpreter from scratch is that once you get the basics working -- opcodes are parsed and handled correctly, objects and properties and attributes are tracked correctly, subroutines are called and returned from correctly, conformance checkers pass -- you are still sitting on a pile of undiscovered bugs. Some of these bugs are subtle and difficult to find. And then there's this one, where you can't go west.

#AppleII #retrocomputing #interactivefiction

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Photo from my collection, and I actually have some interesting info about this lady. This is Mina Winslow in 1915. She was an accomplished biologist specializing in mollusks (malacology)! She was the first curator of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology's Mollusc Division.

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congrats to clรฉment on the big box collectors group for completing his eidos stargate ๐Ÿ™

#bigboxgames #retrogaming

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We're trying something new: in January we're hosting a game jam!

It's about Basic, the programming language. We ask people to make a game in Basic, any version will do. GW-Basic, QuickBasic, whatever you like.

The only other requirement is that your game runs on DOS, because that's our whole thing!

The jam runs for the whole of January 2027. And in February we'll play all the entries with the club and talk about them in a podcast!

More info here: dosgameclub.com/basic-game-jam

#dosGaming #gamejam

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INSTR00A.ICO - Activity, Workers

...Artist, Astronaut, Detective, Fighter, Medic, Pirate, Wiz

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on this halloween let's look at some cursed connectors. may i present: the DB-20

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I am (relatively) at ease, this morning. Even though I woke up late and my feet are cold.

sam altman can have all 32 gigabytes of my RAM for precisely $5,592.77, which is precisely the amount of money it would take to pay off my student loans in one single payment.

...plus another hundred for a good night out on the town.

i say this because i know he'll never see it, and even if he does, he'll never make good on it. asshole.

almost feeling like i ought to leave the place where that happened, anyway, because while it's not as elitist as some of the fighting and shmup circles i keep getting glimpses of, it recently feels like i am just not getting anything of value from it, as the most active people in there are the ones whose attitudes just do not mesh well with mine.

and, yeah, i tend to not want to talk because things like the above have happened to me, too.

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anybody can engage with a game in whatever levels and angles they want. there is no wrong way. if you do this, i consider you just as valid.

i will continue to champion these ideals. ... from a comfortable distance away.

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