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fozztexx, 1 month ago to random

Hate those fake updates from USPS where their computer sees that nothing has happened for a couple of days and inserts some generic "oh, we've totally put it on a truck and it's heading to you!” It has been sitting there for 3 days! Definitely not arriving today. 😔

fozztexx, 13 days ago to woodworking

For the last couple of days I've been working on an #OpenSCAD program to create custom #Pantorouter tenons. Set the tenon dimensions, the inner bit/bearing, outer bit/bearing, rows/columns, and it does all the math. But after printing out a full size paper preview I think what I want to do is going to be much bigger than the Pantorouter can handle. #woodworking

Paper printout on 8.5x11 paper with full size tenons filling entire sheet

fozztexx, 9 months ago to Electronics

Hit a bit of a road block this morning. I need to setup my 4 channel oscilloscope but my bench is a bit full. And my scope is gigantic. #electronics #workbench #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

fozztexx, 11 months ago to macos

Am I missing something? Where is this setting in #macOS Ventura? I've looked all over and I can't find any place to configure having the Mac go to sleep after some amount of time. They just stay awake 24x7.

fozztexx, 1 year ago to random

Been a little while since I’ve felt a bit over my head with a project. But I’m not sure how to troubleshoot this Legend S’ RAM 1MB #AppleII card. I’m able to yank every IC and test them and they all pass. Except for the PAL16R8A. I have no idea how I could possibly test it. No schematics for the card available. The diagnostic software reports different failures each run. Software is also undocumented (“return card to us”) so the error codes aren’t helpful.

https://mastodon.fozztexx.com/@fozztexx/110137024889825388

Diagnostic screen with errors
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fozztexx, 11 months ago to retrocomputing

Opening up my Commodore Plus/4 to see if I can get it going again. The LED turns on but there’s no video signal. #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

fozztexx, 1 year ago to random

At first I thought this was some kind of film viewer, but I see a couple of 5.25” floppy drives under it. Anyone know what it is? #RetroComputing

fozztexx, 9 months ago to retrocomputing

Current acoustic status #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

fozztexx, 3 months ago to random

I think I'm ready to move the drives to my real server. Hopefully I've got enough copied that I'll only be offline for a few hours. Level 29 BBS will be down too.

fozztexx, 8 months ago to random

I've got a list of points in #OpenSCAD and I'm trying to make a new list which is the distance of all the points from the first one, but I'm getting the impression that it's impossible to do so.

fozztexx, 4 months ago to random

Why do companies insist on taking 24fps video, doing a terrible conversion to 25fps, then doing another terrible conversion from 25fps to 30fps, and releasing it that way?

fozztexx, 3 months ago to retrocomputing

I have this nice warm spot to sit in the sun and I keep thinking about coming out here with a computer. But it’s so bright it will wash out the screen. I wonder if I have any old passive matrix monochrome computers that I could do WiFi and telnet. And have a working battery.

#RetroComputing

fozztexx, 3 months ago to Cartoons

It took over a month to get the tapes, but I can now confirm that the "high quality" and "fully restored" DVD remaster of BraveStarr was done by people that had no clue what they were doing. They scanned the 24fps film, sped it up to 25fps, and then converted it from 25fps to 30fps. And to top it all off, there's no PAL release of BraveStarr at all so it makes no sense to have sped it up to 25fps.

#cartoons #animation

fozztexx, 10 months ago to random

Somebody drove up and stole my mail! All they got was the disk I was sending back to Netflix, but WTF!

Car drives up and opens mailbox and removes contents, then drives off

fozztexx, 5 months ago to 3DPrinting

Goofing around with combining the #pantorouter and #3DPrinting. Can’t seem to get the template dimensions quite right. I’m trying to replicate a key ring that got damaged a few years ago. 2x template was way too small, 3x is way too big. I’ve got a 1/8” bit in the router and using the 6mm shaft of a bearing to trace the template.

Probably not faster than using my mini-CNC since it took 2 hours to print the 3x template. Although if I were mass producing several it would be.

#woodworking

After milling with pantorouter. Small one was cut using 2x template, big one with 3x template.
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Original keychain and my “replica”

fozztexx, 6 months ago to retrocomputing

Anyone need an ISA Ethernet adapter? They have dozens and dozens at this Goodwill. $3 each. #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

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fozztexx, 4 months ago to random

Lost another almond tree.

fozztexx, 8 months ago to random

To people writing shell scripts: stop putting a .sh extension on them if I can't do sh script.sh

The extension is supposed to tell me which interpreter I can use to run it. If you're going to get it wrong then you might as well put any other random extension on it like .py or .tcl.

fozztexx, 3 months ago to retrocomputing

Messing around with making a web site to do things with Lode Runner levels. 😎

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #RetroGaming #LodeRunner

fozztexx, 2 months ago to random

I just put up a web server 30 seconds ago using a subdomain I created last night and it's already getting hammered by bots. They have to have the right hostname in order for it to pass through all the vhost proxy stuff I've got going on. How the heck did they get the hostname so quickly?

fozztexx, 1 month ago to retrocomputing

Watching #LGR's bubblejet video makes me sad I can't get cartridges for my DesignJet 488CA anymore. Oh the fun I had unclogging cartridges with my vacuum cleaner and the simple adapter I made!

Just a block of wood with a hole the size of the vacuum hose and a piece of foam with a slot for the inkjet cartridge. Worked amazingly well to unclog a cartridge.

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing

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fozztexx, 11 months ago to retrocomputing

It's the 23rd century and computer modems haven't been invented yet. Computers can only share data using a person to read it & relay by voice to another person to enter. You're developing a computerized RPG combat simulator for you & a friend stationed on a starbase in the next quadrant. Each turn is more complex than simple coordinates describing what piece moves where. How to encode data, keeping it wieldy for humans? (This is for the upcoming #BASICMonth.) #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

fozztexx, 6 days ago to VintageComputing

What was the last printed magazine article to publish detailed plans for building your own computer, and when was it? 1990s? Early ‘80s? I’m talking about plans with detailed schematics and PCB layouts, like the Mark-8 or COSMAC ELF. #VintageComputing #RetroComputing