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classichasclass 18 days ago | parent | on: WarGames Terminal Fonts
Is it me, or is the aspect ratio not quite right? The letters seem wider than they did onscreen.
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- mwalden 18 days ago
  Hello classichasclass,
  As the author of that web page I can point you to this text from the page:
  "In the following section you will see all of the text in these images transcribed in the WarGames Terminal N W.woff (Normal) font used for this web page's text. This font is slightly ## vertically compressed ## compared to the font in the images. WarGames Terminal D W.woff (Double) looks closer, but I will not use it here now due to the issue with .WOFF font creation in FontForge that I described earlier."
  Note where I put "##"s around "## vertically compressed ##" in the text above.
  When I get the .WOFF file situation sorted out, I may change the font for the page from the Normal version to the Double version so that it looks closer to the images of on-screen text. You can see the Double and Raster fonts in the "Font samples" section of the page to get an idea of what they will look like.
  Cheers, - Michael Walden
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classichasclass 22 days ago | parent | on: Chocolate-quake: purist Quake source port that res...
And as a bonus it even sounds like "Chocolate Cake."
Who doesn't like chocolate cake?
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- bmonkey325 22 days ago
  mmmmm... cake....
  cool feature of this "port" is that there in external music playback from ./music folder
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classichasclass 37 days ago | parent | on: The Computer Collection: Unix Workstations
Always wanted to play with a Clipper RISC. It's about the only significant 90's RISC not represented in my collection.
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classichasclass 42 days ago | parent | on: Lord of the Sord
Of course! It was a fun article.
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classichasclass 43 days ago | parent | on: The Singing 1541 Floppy Drive
I'm always amused by this demo, but I always wondered what it was doing to my drive's heads (and the 1541 is so easy to throw out of alignment).
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classichasclass 72 days ago | parent | on: Commodore hardware viruses–yes, they were possible
There was the BHP virus, but that was more of a proof of concept, and I don't remember hearing much (if anything) of it being in the wild. That said, it could stamp itself on disks even by simply listing the directory. 64'er was indirectly its source (by claiming it couldn't be done), and they were also the ones to issue a cleaner to remove it from disks.
See also groepaz's list: https://hitmen.c02.at/files/docs/c64/C64_Virus_List.txt
classichasclass 73 days ago | parent | on: Compute!’s Gazette Magazine returns to print (and ...
Except it's unlikely to be exclusively for Commodore systems - they seem to be making it retro-general. Which is fine, but that's not Gazette, either.
classichasclass 86 days ago | parent | on: Working on twostopbits' code
Glad to hear it - the tags were getting pretty unwieldy.
classichasclass 102 days ago | parent | on: U.S. Atari parts store still open after 41 years
Bought from them relatively recently myself. Old school way of doing business but the items were precisely as advertised.
- bmonkey325 102 days ago
  Good to know. Concerned it was out of date and just found “alive”. I
classichasclass 118 days ago | parent | on: Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator
I contest the verisimilitude of this simulation. Mine started over from 1% a lot more often than this one does!
- bmonkey325 117 days ago
  This simulator has the benefit of no independent writes that trigger a restart.
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