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qingcharles 32 days ago | parent | on: How I ported Windows XP to the original Apple TV
That one was a lot of work! Hat off to the guy for managing to finally get it working.
bmonkey325 32 days ago | parent | on: Microcomputers – The First Wave: Responding to Alt...
First time I saw an imsai 8080 was in the movie Wargames in 1983. It was nothing like the micro machines that some people I knew had in their homes. There wasn't IMDB or google or anything like that where you could go and search for it. completely enthralled by it and the modem it used to connect to mainframes
KODust 32 days ago | parent | on: Microcomputers – The First Wave: Responding to Alt...
This is great; it's really well sourced. Check out the footnotes for additional reading material.
qingcharles 33 days ago | parent | on: I explored Nintendo's Family BASIC on the Famicom ...
This was a really fantastic, really in-depth examination of the Family BASIC cart.
qingcharles 33 days ago | parent | on: Working on twostopbits' code
The only change I would make are these three links at the bottom of the user page which always seem like an afterthought -- just needs a little CSS to make them not look out of place:
> submissions comments rss
ddingus 33 days ago | parent | on: Procomm Plus: What happened to the program and its...
Procomm Plus and that scripting language was awesome for automating Symix MRP software.
Great program.
bmonkey325 33 days ago | parent | on: How I ported Windows XP to the original Apple TV
Continuing in the fine tradition of porting and running obsolete software on obsolete hardware that was never intended to do so.
ddingus 33 days ago | parent | on: U.S. Atari parts store still open after 41 years
Go Best! I have purchased a few times. You can be sure you will get exactly what was advertised.
And if you are suggested an item, consider it. It was suggested for good reason
ddingus 33 days ago | parent | on: U.S. Atari parts store still open after 41 years
Go Best! I have purchased a few times. You can be sure you will get exactly what was advertised.
And if you are suggested an item, consider it. It was suggested for good reason
ddingus 33 days ago | parent | on: Retro Monochrome and High Contrast Color Display P...
https://www.1001fonts.com/flexi-ibm-vga-true-font.html
https://www.1001fonts.com/flexi-ibm-vga-false-font.html
Both by a friend of the site.
The color choices on that page are excellent! Bookmarked for the future.
qingcharles 33 days ago | parent | on: The Curious Case of Jupiter Ace
The Jupiter Ace was a massive fumble. What a shame. I bought one from a charity shop for a quid in about 1988, but I couldn't figure out the Forth syntax :(
qingcharles 33 days ago | parent | on: MilliForth-6502 - The smallest Forth real programm...
Did you post this after reading the Jupiter Ace article? ;)
qingcharles 33 days ago | parent | on: Working on twostopbits' code
Just a thank you for everything :)
jgrahamc 35 days ago | parent | on: Working on twostopbits' code
Ah. I see that now. I'll take a look at why. Dark Mode really is dark!
jgrahamc 35 days ago | parent | on: Working on twostopbits' code
That's great. Glad you like it.
jgrahamc 35 days ago | parent | on: Working on twostopbits' code
Thanks for visiting!
shdon 35 days ago | parent | on: Working on twostopbits' code
I just go to my profile page by clicking on my username, and in the theme dropdown, I select "dark" and then click "update" (side note: regardless of the current selection, the theme dropdown always reverts to "default", but the theme does apply correctly)
losso 35 days ago | parent | on: Working on twostopbits' code
Just stopping by to say thanks! twostopbits is a daily visit for me, too
jgrahamc 35 days ago | parent | on: Working on twostopbits' code
What dark mode are you using? I'm happy to change the CSS but wasn't aware this was a problem.
shdon 36 days ago | parent | on: Working on twostopbits' code
Hoping you'll make a quick CSS adjustment for the links in the top bar in dark mode. They're black on near-black right now, for visited links. I use custom CSS to fix that for myself right now.
In particular, there is a line in layout.css that goes:
.page-header a:visited { color: #000; }
and should probably have an override in dark.css.
bmonkey325 36 days ago | parent | on: Retro Monochrome and High Contrast Color Display P...
Can anyone recommend a retro font to go along with these nice colour choices? Lately I use Hack but it’s not forever I feel
Hack : https://github.com/source-foundry/Hack
jgrahamc 36 days ago | parent | on: Working on twostopbits' code
Your sins are forgiven and I'm going to add some automatic "fixing" of common errors like that.
jgrahamc 36 days ago | parent | on: Working on twostopbits' code
Yes. I've been using it to sort out some things like "80386" "386" "i386"
claxo 37 days ago | parent | on: Working on twostopbits' code
Kudos, and thanks for this site
classichasclass 37 days ago | parent | on: Working on twostopbits' code
Glad to hear it - the tags were getting pretty unwieldy.
markran 37 days ago | parent | on: Working on twostopbits' code
Love it. And love this site. Never a day when I don't visit!
bmonkey325 37 days ago | parent | on: Working on twostopbits' code
This is good. I never remember that history more popular than historical and appleii instead of apple2. Amongst other tagging sins.
splorp 37 days ago | parent | on: Working on twostopbits' code
Great work! Love that the admin will have the ability to merge tags.
larsbrinkhoff 37 days ago | parent | on: The PDP-10: history and replica
My argument is that the PDP-7 and PDP-11 possibly forced the Unix philosophy. I don't understand what you are arguing.
bmonkey325 37 days ago | parent | on: The PDP-10: history and replica
This version of Unix was all assembly code and not portable. Once they could move to a better machine I think they realized they didn’t want to write it again in assembly because porting could be difficult.
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