a2_4am

a2_4am, 1 day ago to retrocomputing

I was exploring some old Softdisk (magazine-on-a-disk, Apple II) and stumbled on this double hi-res title screen and it's... a lot

#AppleII #retrocomputing

mcc, 4 days ago to random

Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

a2_4am, 5 days ago to animals

Zara, who did nothing wrong, would like a blueberry, on account of her being cute and having done nothing wrong.

#DogsOfMastodon

a2_4am, 11 days ago to retrocomputing

Perfect product demo, no notes

#AppleII #retrocomputing

boot video of "Super Draw+Write" ©Avant-Garde, for Apple II

a2_4am, 12 days ago to retrocomputing

Mathosaurus: Kindergarten (cracked by Passport, 13-sector track embedded in 16-sector disk)

https://archive.org/details/MathosaurusKindergarten4amCrack

#AppleII #retrocomputing

flux visualization of "Mathosaurus: Kindergarten" disk

a2_4am, 13 days ago to random

I regret to inform you that we have found more software.

mcc, 13 days ago to random

Nix is too complicated. I have decided to fork Nix and create a minimal distribution named "Minix"

a2_4am, 15 days ago to retrocomputing

"Mommmm, can I have a chatbot?"

"We have chatbot at home."

Chatbot at home:

#AppleII #retrocomputing

a2_4am, 23 days ago to random

loading screenshot from "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" showing a mysterious figure in a trench coat

a2_4am, 25 days ago to retrocomputing

Nothing but respect for my president of AI

#AppleII #retrocomputing

a2_4am, 25 days ago to animals

Zara, who did nothing wrong, is sorry for that thing she did.

#DogsOfMastodon

a2_4am, 25 days ago to retrocomputing

You will not believe the sound this 1985 Apple II educational software makes after animating the sperm uniting with the egg.

#AppleII #retrocomputing

mcc, 1 month ago to random

When I think about the security of a computer system, I have a specific scale I rate it on:

1. The US government can crack it OR the government of China can crack it (equivalent)
2. The government of Israel can crack it
3. My friend Kristin could crack it
4. The government of Russia can crack it
5. A nation-state not listed above can crack it
6. A well-qualified single infosec professional could crack it
7. I could crack it

mcc, 1 month ago to random

Have you ever heard of "Linux"? It's the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

mcc, 1 month ago to random

Nice templating engine, Air Canada. But can I make a recommendation

mcc, 1 month ago to random

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a2_4am, 1 month ago to retrocomputing

Current status: replaying Wizardry 1, 2, and 3 with Wizard Replay <https://archive.org/details/WizardReplay>

#AppleII #retrocomputing

a2_4am, 1 month ago to animals

Zara, who did nothing wrong, did not get any pie — but she did get one (1) blueberry

#DogsOfMastodon

a2_4am, 1 month ago to vintagemac

Annals of awesomeness in interface design: Ultima III has an "A–M" menu for commands that start with those letters

#VintageMac #retrocomputing

mcc, 1 month ago to random

Unity (the game engine) is just really ruining my week. This program is crashing in a way that the actual Unity process (standalone exe or the Editor) just crashes, hard C crashes inside Unity's closed source code. I'm reduced to turning objects on and off and seeing the minimal set of objects to cause a crash, but I still have no idea what [my] C# code was doing before [Unity's] C++ code crashed!

I wish I could get, like… a trace of every unmanaged to managed transition. Every C# entry point.

mcc, 1 month ago to random

If UNICEF is so great then when are we going to get MULTICEF

a2_4am, 1 month ago to retrocomputing

Nibbles Away ][ vA1.woz

https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Nibbles_Away_II_A1

Thanks to @A2_Canada for the disk!

#wozaday #AppleII #retrocomputing

[main menu screenshot from "Nibbles Away ]"
[copy parameters screenshot from "Nibbles Away ]"
[flux visualization of "Nibbles Away ]" disk