Weasel @wildweasel@computerfairi.es

My cold got better in the evening, so I finished editing the article about reverse-engineering a rare but historically important operating system VisiCorp VisiOn. A ~10,000 word long write-up is accompanied by the first-ever third-party application for Visi On, developed by my fiancée Atsuko.

https://git.sr.ht/~nkali/vision-sdk/tree/main/note/index.md

Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life, because nobody is hiring for that.

“A ZZTer's Examination of Conscience” by Agent Orange/PogeSoft (2025)
Published by: PogeSoft
[EoC.zzt] - “HAVE YOU SEEN THIS CAT”
View World: https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/eoc/?file=EoC.zzt&board=2
Play Online: https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/eoc/ #bot

What I'm listening to today: "mode 1", StereoMan

Some more 1997 sample tracker music. A lot going on in this and just a lot of satisfying sounds. A kind of crashing silverware-on-glassware percussion, beats like some 90s dance act I can't place, and a bunch of synth sounds that give me a feeling like the composer listened to Incunabula/Amber-era Autechre and was like "what if I tried to make something sounding like this but more dance-y?".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJpNKJRNNVM

Will someone please pass a law requiring EV charging stations to just put a fucking credit card reader on them

This AT&T demo diskette was discovered in a large box of unsorted floppies. The instructions are for running it on a 3B2 computer which we have running as “lcm3b2” and is remotely accessible. Would you like to know what is on this diskette? #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #floppydisk #unix

This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.

TL;DR: the poverty line in the US for a family of four with two young children is about $140,000, and there isn't much improvement in quality of life between $40K and $100K.

https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie

Fun stuff: VisiOn kernel has a memory-leak. Clicking the menu ~200 times in any app results in running out of memory, and eventually the system crashes. The easiest way to replicate the bug is to press "Esc" down (it will send the Escape key event over and over); it won't even do anything, just redraw the menu.

:D Please, don't let me fix a 42-year-old bug in an OS :D

The silliness will continue until morale improves!

#comedy #humor #joy #Joyscrolling

Well, well, well, imagine this:
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/climate/iowa-city-free-buses.html?smid=tw-share

I remade the map for Moonstone - A Hard Day's Knight.
It was a lot of fun to draw.

I wish there was a modern version of this game.

#art #digitalart #pixelart #retrogaming #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #retrocomputer #amiga #commodore #gamedev #indiedev

This is an odd situation, and genuinely one worth reading about if you actually Do care about games as art

Because is there challenging, troubling imagery in the game? Sure, yes

Is any of it like- porn or whatever? No. Not even remotely. But this is why rulings against porn media hurt everyone.
https://www.ign.com/articles/unsettling-horror-game-horses-banned-from-steam-leaving-studio-with-high-risk-of-closure

This feels like a metaphor

This is (un?)fortunately not a true contender for cursed connector status, while it looks like a north american outlet blade connector it's narrower than they are.

I'm going to be able to charge my Blackberry so fast now!