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I live on track $00. he/him

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Zara senses shenanigans (someone sneezed)

Photo of brindle French bulldog sitting on the deck, looking towards camera

a2_4am, to retrocomputing
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Echelon.woz

https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Echelon

Thanks to @txgx42 for the disk!

gameplay screenshot from "Echelon" showing a cockpit
gameplay screenshot from "Echelon" showing a map
flux visualization of "Echelon" disk side A

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Acey-Deucey.woz

https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Acey_Deucey

demo screenshot from "Acey-Deucey"
gameplay screenshot from "Acey-Deucey"
flux visualization of "Acey-Deucey" disk

a2_4am,
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This is a fun one because the .woz file was created not by analyzing a flux image of an original disk, but by the original developer's master maker program. Several years ago, a "friend of Larry [Sherman]" posted a collection of floppies on eBay which included several maker disks, the source code to several of his games, and — somewhat amusingly — pirated copies of Locksmith, presumably used for testing his own games' protections. You can download the maker disk here:

https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/images/misc/lsherman_collection/lsherman-acey-duecey-duplicator-apple-no-notch-9-5-82.dsk

a2_4am, to retrocomputing
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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

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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

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@mcc an article went around recently about "rewilding" the Internet that made the analogy to clear cutting an old growth forest. You get incredible wood, but you can only do it once.

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

a2_4am, to retrocomputing
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Perfect product demo, no notes

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

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

https://archive.org/details/MathosaurusKindergarten4amCrack

flux visualization of "Mathosaurus: Kindergarten" disk

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@cyningstan It was definitely one of those "creativity springs from constraints" kind of art forms!

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

a2_4am,
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@mcc I'd like to invest $100 million

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

a2_4am, to retrocomputing
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"Mommmm, can I have a chatbot?"

"We have chatbot at home."

Chatbot at home:

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

a2_4am, to retrocomputing
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You will not believe the sound this 1985 Apple II educational software makes after animating the sperm uniting with the egg.

a2_4am,
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screen capture of sperm/egg animation from "From The Beginning... Contraception", with sound

a2_4am, to retrocomputing
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Nothing but respect for my president of AI

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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
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@mcc I am wholly uninterested in level 0 but I would like to hear more about Kristin.

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

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

a2_4am,
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@mcc Yes officer, this post right here

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

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@mcc 👀

a2_4am, to retrocomputing
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Current status: replaying Wizardry 1, 2, and 3 with Wizard Replay <https://archive.org/details/WizardReplay>

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

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

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Of course there's an "N–Z" menu too. How else would you check your ... [squints] ... ztats

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