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  1. bmonkey325 48 days ago | parent | on: Technical analyses of Free-X’s “Bert & Ernie” XBOX...
    The irony of this made me LOL. A break and enter is often called a Bert And Ernie. Here’s an example of a digital one.
  2. KODust 49 days ago | parent | on: The first 3dfx card announced 29 years ago, Orchid...
    > The Righteous 3D had mechanical relays that clicked audibly when you were using it

    Interesting! I assume these had something to do with bridging to the 2D graphics card? I found other references on the web to the relays clicking, but not an explanation of what the relays are doing, or how often you'd actually hear them in practice.

  3. boofar 51 days ago | parent | on: NetBSD on a JavaStation
    Yeah, love the int10h font collection!

    Already have them all, and also the actual Sun console font :)

  4. bmonkey325 51 days ago | parent | on: ESDI Adventures
    I had totally forgotten this technology was a thing in the PS/2 era.
  5. bmonkey325 51 days ago | parent | on: What I Saw at the Evolution of Plan 9
    TIL, Plan 9 has a Raspberry Pi port. I feel like I need to build up a Pi to run this so I can claim to be a rebel against the sea of Linux.

    Also, the fact that they called the thing to playback Youtube video Treason made me LOL.

  6. bmonkey325 51 days ago | parent | on: Copyright and the demoscene
    I was in high school and university when this scene was at its prime. I was always amazed by the effort that went into composing, announcing, and promoting specific distributions. The PC scene operated on an industrial scale, primarily supplying exotic ASCII and ANSI art in file_id.diz files and titles associated with handles like "Prez" and "Warez." In contrast, the Amiga and Mac clans displayed more panache by incorporating audio and animations.
  7. MagerValp 52 days ago | parent | on: What I Saw at the Evolution of Plan 9
    The index page is a wild wild ride, can recommend.
  8. benmca 52 days ago | parent | on: What I Saw at the Evolution of Plan 9
    Bravo. I love jump cut from anti-trump, let’s give Florida’s and Texas back to Mexico, to ipv6 delegation on Comcast biz svcs.
  9. KODust 52 days ago | parent | on: What I Saw at the Evolution of Plan 9
    Author's website is here

    http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/

  10. bmonkey325 53 days ago | parent | on: U.S. Atari parts store still open after 41 years
    Good to know. Concerned it was out of date and just found “alive”. I
  11. classichasclass 53 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.
  12. bmonkey325 53 days ago | parent | on: Software only hypervisor exploit for Xbox 360
    Even if not persistent it’s the kind of hack that should give MS a load in their pants. Xbox basically runs a version of hyper-V - same as used by Windows, Windows Server and Azure. While the vector may not exist it’s still flawed code.

    Sigh.

  13. bmonkey325 53 days ago | parent | on: U.S. Atari parts store still open after 41 years
    Og title : U.S. Atari parts store still open after 41 years, has spent $100K+ designing new parts — last original Atari hardware launched 32 years ago

    Also. Link to best electronics the site mentioned in the article https://www.best-electronics-ca.com/

  14. KODust 54 days ago | parent | on: Aleph One: open source Marathon
    This was the Mac's answer to Doom back in the day. Huge during Mac LAN parties of the era.
  15. bmonkey325 55 days ago | parent | on: Gameboy Emulator for the Pi Pico 2
    There is a narrative thread on Reddit for this https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberrypipico/comments/1h6hb3l/gb.../
  16. bmonkey325 56 days ago | parent | on: NetBSD on a JavaStation
    The font sample in the link takes me back. Spent a lot of time looking at that font watching sparc stations boot.
  17. Borg 56 days ago | parent | on: Time formatting and storage bugs
    Holy moly. I didnt know that there were so many of them. I knew only y2k problem and 2038 Unix Epoch sign overflow.

    Anyway, I think that making Unix epoch signed was one of the biggest mistakes in that case. When you design stuff that cannot live for at least 100 years, you do it wrong imo.

    Having Unix TS unsigned 32bit, problem would surface in 2106. Probably most system would be 64bit by that date and so the Unix TS itself.

    I recently had to fix this bug in my software. Now I store file TS as 48bit unsigned unix TS. Should be enough for livespan of that civilization ;)

  18. jwillia3 56 days ago | parent | on: NetBSD on a JavaStation
    If you're a fan of serif terminal fonts, you may also like Corona/Cordata PPC-400's font.

    https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/font?cordata_...-

  19. jwillia3 56 days ago | parent | on: NetBSD on a JavaStation
    The font's name is Gallant. You can get a TTF conversion here:

      https://github.com/dim13/gallant
    It comes with Linux as a console font, too.

      /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/sun12x22.psfu.gz
  20. splorp 56 days ago | parent | on: Time formatting and storage bugs
    I’ve been hesitant to post Wikipedia stuff as well, but I’ve never run across such an extensive list of date related bugs.

    Although, I will have to add a few missing entries related to Newton OS.

  21. bmonkey325 56 days ago | parent | on: Time formatting and storage bugs
    @splorp - Thanks for posting this. I have always resisted posting wikipedia stuff - like the Atari Video Music[1] in favour of blogs etc of the same subject. But now I realize that some stuff is so rare that wikipedia may be the only source of truth on the subject.

    also - thanks to the article my retirement date is moved by two years. originally I was going to avoid Y2K38, but now the Y2K36 bug with NNTP is going to be more serious. I plan to be offgrid in a unibomber cabin in the great white north woods...

    [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Video_Music

  22. bmonkey325 58 days ago | parent | on: SubLogic Flight Simulator
    Not retro so much but definitely a world class simulator. Has penguin support.

    https://www.flightgear.org/blog/release-2024-1-1/

  23. bmonkey325 59 days ago | parent | on: Leningrad-1: a 44-IC Soviet style ZX-Spectrum clon...
    Fixed link here : https://alex-j-lowry.github.io/leningrd.html

    Sorry all. It’s a worthy read if you are into Soviet computing.

  24. BirAdam 59 days ago | parent | on: Farewell to a netbook
    Love the site style, love the content.
  25. markran 59 days ago | parent | on: Leningrad-1: a 44-IC Soviet style ZX-Spectrum clon...
    The link above (https://alex-j-lowry.github.io/leningrd.htmlI%E2%80%99m) didn't work for me on Firefox x64 but taking the last few characters off does work: https://alex-j-lowry.github.io/leningrd.html
  26. bmonkey325 59 days ago | parent | on: The 90s Gamer Experience: Handwritten Notes and Ma...
    I had maps for the bards tales and wizardry. The only use of graph paper i had at the time. A game wasn’t “solved” until I had a complete map.

    Sometimes I would compare with a friend and find “hidden” places I hadn’t seen.

  27. bmonkey325 59 days ago | parent | on: SubLogic Flight Simulator
    For the record. Each time I played it on the IBM PC I crashed and burned. Today I know there are whole hobbyist simulator cockpits out there
  28. zxm 59 days ago | parent | on: The 90s Gamer Experience: Handwritten Notes and Ma...
    same as the 1980s so. made maps during class in maths exercise book from memory. really passed the time.
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