- Turbo Pascal had a similar method where code segments could be swapped in and out via .OVL files that were created at compile/link time.
https://secondboyet.com/articles/publishedarticles/theslithy...
- I am on my 3rd keyboard for the 1200xl. probably the only flaw in the system. I feed video off of it from my DVDO Iscan video processor - I hope to have a revive machine some day so that I can go direct to display, but I dare to dream.....
- Facts. Only attacks I ever saw were physical where the code would seek the drive head on Atari 810s repeatedly or strobe it or attempt force xt drives in and out of the landing zone to similar effect. obviously over time this is not good for the mechanism.
I don’t remember cpu therms being an issue until the mid late 90s - and then it was athlons. I could be wrong but I dont remember seeing CPU fans until the Pentium II cartridge but that is probably misremembering nostalgia.
80s was just robust against thermal - heck ataris had a giant aluminium shield over the mobo
- Fun way to learn 6502 is to get the Stella emulator and write some demo code for the Atari 2600. Simple code and you can get the feedback on screen with immediacy.
Here’s a talk by Will Lindsay that might inspire https://youtu.be/D3ZlyJEQW0w?si=__vC9YxnRICjZyH2
- FTA:
The original request was for a startup sound lasting about 3 seconds. However, Eno submitted dozens of sound elements for the Microsoft designers to explore, and they chose the one we know and love today—even though it's twice as long as initially requested. Perhaps the most scandalous part of the sound bite's creation is the admission in a 2009 BBC interview that Eno created the jingle on a Mac.
- Repo for build instructions: https://github.com/kmilne40/PiFrame
- iPod was a halo effect. it gave people a reason to buy a mac. Just like Microsoft sold things to bundle together. Outlook is best when you buy it and use it with Exchange.
- With all the nostalgia for the ST and Amiga, I couldn’t pass up posting this. Ballmer comes off like a late night infomercial huckster.
- Excellent find! It's almost hard to remember how primitive Windows 1 was at launch. Frankly, GEM, Desqview and several other competitors already on the market were somewhat better.
To be fair to Ballmer, that looks like it may be one of his internal videos to hype up the field sales force. Ballmer was known for doing those and he cultivated an over-the-top persona in contrast to Gates' nerdy engineer at Microsoft internal and developer events. The schtick eventually devolved into self-parody which Ballmer was happy to go along with as long as the sales force kept making the numbers. And we should never forget the legendary cringe that is "Developers! Developers! Developers!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fcSviC7cRM.
- well...there goes my afternoon.... :-)
- In the AI lense of today, _A Mind Forever Voyaging_ is a really interesting game. I can share the frustration of having an author not finish anything. My fear is that George R.R. Martin will die before completing A Song of Ice and Fire.
- I'm 100% convinced those books will never get finished now. I wish I hadn't read the first five.
- Facts. We can only hope that George appoints a successor like Robert Jordan did for his Wheel of Time series. I mean even Dune got finished eventually....
- I was amazed when I got to the end of Dune to find that there was an ending completed by his son. I'm still suspicious about the story of finding a loose 5.25" disk containing the plot. Regardless, I actually loved the writing of the final books and felt that his son's books were actually toned down a little in a such a way that made them more enjoyable to read.
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I also heard stories of programming graphics card registers in a fancy way to trigger high frequencies in the CRT coils that could, again if the CRT was vulnerable, potentially destroy the coil. But this also relied on very specific hardware to pull it off.
A generic attack on such a high volume home computer or floppy drive like the C1541 would definitely have made the rounds back then in the computer magazines.
And the myth that developers deliberately put in code to damage or even destroy the pirates' computers can also be ruled out almost entirely, as (at least in europe) even back then there was a strong legal protection against deliberately damaging other people's property. I distinctly remember reading about this being debunked in the largest German C64 magazine (64'er) by a lawyer....