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  • bmonkey325 22 days ago | parent | on: Endangered classic Mac plastic color returns as 3D...
    I admit, English is not my first language but when I look at the colour on the filament site and in the articles. The "platinum" looks beige/creamish. When I think platinum, I think silver/grey/pewter. Maybe platinum is the grade and not the colour?

    Can someone with obvious good taste help me understand this ?

    https://polarfilament.com/products/retro-platinum-pla-1kg-1-...

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    • KODust 22 days ago
      Possibly the color when printed is slightly different from the color on the spools? Because the color on the spools looks like the previous cream/yellow/beige color used for the original Mac. Either that or they made the mistake of sampling a slightly yellowed Mac.

      The gray Apple used when they decided to modernize was indeed a light gray color.

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    • qingcharles 22 days ago
      I agree that platinum feels like it should be whiter than cream. It's more of an artistic name. I once showed my car to a friend and informed him the paint color was "Champagne Gold." He took one look at it and said "No, it's metallic beige."
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  • bmonkey325 23 days ago | parent | on: Endangered classic Mac plastic color returns as 3D...
    Discussion of when the great change happened.

    https://vintagemacmuseum.com/when-the-mac-plus-changed-from-.../

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  • bmonkey325 23 days ago | parent | on: The Manx catalog website knows about 22,060 comput...
    These documentation repositories are always welcome. As time goes by we lose more and more, especially items from the gold and silver ages that were mostly on paper that are tossed as luminaries age out of the system.
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    • rbanffy 23 days ago
      Is there an easy way to mirror it?
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      • viler 23 days ago
        I suppose it can be crawled like any other website, since it's a collection of links - manx-docs doesn't host any of the manuals.

        As such it can be bitten by the usual link rot problem, but at least it has multiple links for each entry, which should minimize that. Where no digitized copies are known to exist, the entry is listed without links - but that's still a good thing to have, for those with the means to do something about it.

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  • bmonkey325 25 days ago | parent | on: Learn to Build an Al to Play Tempest Step by Step
    I’ve played tempest for well over 40 years. It’s a hard and somewhat maddening game.

    The cool part of this is how davePL got the ai to feed real-time commands to play the game through MAME. In the video it looked like his AI had like 50 plus games going all the time to play and learn from.

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  • bmonkey325 25 days ago | parent | on: The Princeton INTERCAL Compiler's source code
    Repo is here : https://github.com/rottytooth/INTERCAL72
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  • bmonkey325 26 days ago | parent | on: The Big Ugly Old Thing
    I feel seen …
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  • bmonkey325 26 days ago | parent | on: Of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked i...
    @jgrahamc : What was different about the link URLs that lead to a dump posting. Asking for a friend…
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    • jgrahamc 24 days ago
      One was http:// and the other https:// I feel like the dupe detector should have been able to figure that out.
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  • bmonkey325 26 days ago | parent | on: Of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked i...
    Carmacks law in motion - all the computer platforms that can run Doom will eventually be hacked to run Doom
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  • bmonkey325 26 days ago | parent | on: The Hobby Computer Culture
    Also. Star Raiders is the greatest Star Trek game ever written. Change my mind.
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  • bmonkey325 26 days ago | parent | on: The Hobby Computer Culture
    The article captures the early thrill of tinkering—when computers were personal, hackable, and fun. Rebels and misfits built things they owned and understood, far from the sterile data centers run by the pocket-protector priesthood.

    Then the web came and turned PCs into terminals again—centralized, locked-down, dull. The mainframe returned in disguise.

    The maker movement has been our way back—3D printers, microcontrollers, Raspberry Pis. We’re finally rebuilding what we lost.

    Vive le cyberdeck!

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