So, my dad found an old IBM PS2 model 50. It powers on, but displays weird stuff he can't make any sense of (doesn't help that it's probably english). He tried starting with the original floppy (yes, it's still there), without success. I personally would like to keep it. Is it treasure enough to keep? #retrocomputing#ps2#ibmps2#dos
"Over the past week or so there has been a serious spam problem hitting mastodon and rest of the fediverse especially misskey over on the japanese side of things and the story behind it is absolutely wild."
Done a lot of work on #ctran tonight. In fact, I think we might have a working parser! I definitely need to check over what I've done, but it's looking promising.
I need to add more checks to make sure that tokens don't appear in files that aren't meant to have them (e.g. DECLARE should only be in .EXT files). Then I need to test that the tree is being built the way I think it is.
After that, it's time to do something with EXTERNALs and REQUIREs to make MANY trees.
I've got the lever issue bandaided for now, but it looks like the onboard video is toast. I can hear it cycling up and POSTing, but no error beeps, no display.
I seem to remember the video being iffy the last time this board was powered up. I'll clean up the board, re-seat connectors and modules, see if that changes it, but otherwise maybe looking for a new video card.
A fantasy map of the #DOS#roguelike game Magus, by Ronny Wester.
It's not often we finish side projects so it was pretty satisfying to finish this one. It was started years ago with no thought put into when it would be done. It's rough but still looks kinda neat because maps like these are awesome.
For more info about this game visit https://github.com/cxong/MagusPreservation
Although not as fully featured as other roguelikes, you can play with unusual classes like the duck mage (can swim!)
Ich find's ja super. Mit #WSL und Co sehen viele Menschen vielleicht mal ein, dass sich - überspitzt - nur wegen der Malwareschleuder MS #Office ein Windows auch nicht mehr auszahlt.
Der Upgrade-Pfad auf ein ordentliches #Linux wird immer einfacher.
Und dann merkt man auch, wie viel unnötige Reboots und Performance so ein Windows kostet.
@publicvoit I believe that making Windows a #Linux distro is going to happen within the next 5-10 years, probably as a concurrent OS branch first, like #NT was in parallel to the #DOS based #Windows of the time.
The economical incentives to not have to make their own OS and the compatibility benefits with the whole Unix/Linux ecosystem that currently drive Microsoft to maintain #WSL will eventually become too seductive for them not to do it.
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NMH BASIC (http://t3x.org/nmhbasic/) is a tiny BASIC interpreter for the 8086 that I wrote in the mid-1990's. It runs in 12K bytes and includes a minesweeper game that runs on a TTY. Of course a 12K interpreter was an anachronism in the 90's, but it still was a fun project. #retrocomputing, #basic, #compilers, #dos, #8086
dosbox-staging Release 0.81.0 (github.com)
DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices....