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root42

@root42@chaos.social

https://www.youtube.com/root42
Coding, tinkering, ancient hardware and software.
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#retrogaming #letscode #demoscene
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ipaschke, to retrocomputing
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Interesting fault: After playing around with my childhood C64 breadbin from 1983, the screen suddenly lost all contrast and went very dark. 1/3

root42,
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@ipaschke Wow, that VIC-II was ANCIENT. I wonder what problem caused this failure... Which part of the VIC died...

aaronsgiles, to random
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Hooray, he finally did a feature on my all-time favorite arcade game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeaIpUTpo34

root42,
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@aaronsgiles oh yeah! Mine as well! I only learned about Mappy thanks to ChampGames‘ Atari VCS port. And I LOVED it. Also like the NES port quite a lot.
As we didn’t get many arcade cabinets in Germany (we actually never had proper arcades) I never played the real Arcade version.

root42, (edited ) to retrogaming
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And there we go again! Larry 3 is on. Never played this one either! From the get go it already seems a bit more polished and seems to have more of a musical score, which is nice

root42, to c64
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I finally finished Sam‘s Journey and I must say it’s an extremely well done game. I „only“ got 63% score, so retrying a couple of the levels will definitely be on the menu!

An old CRT monitor displaying a retro video game pause screen with overall score, time played, and options to continue or quit.

root42, to random
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The number you have reached has been disconnected...

tagesschau, to random German
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Braucht es wirklich eine Wehrpflicht?

Die Bundeswehr sucht händeringend Nachwuchs. Immer lauter wird die Debatte darüber, die 2011 ausgesetzte Wehrpflicht zu reaktivieren. Doch die Bedrohung und auch mögliche Antworten darauf sind vielschichtig. Von Nikta Vahid-Moghtada.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/wehrpflicht-112.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

root42,
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@AndyGER Und der Zivildienst..? Es werden viele Leute verweigern. @wrint hatte da jetzt eine interessante Episode rund ums Thema Bundeswehr und auch Wehrpflicht.

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@AndyGER Aber den Wehrdienst willst du verkürzen… da frage ich mich wie ein sinnvoller Zivildienst aussehen kann der ebenso kurz ist.

root42,
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@AndyGER also 6 Monate Zivil/Wehrdienst zum Beispiel? Wäre ne Option…

root42, to retrocomputing
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I never heard about the Ohio Challenger 1P before. Did you ever see one in person?

root42,
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@RichieRich They are 6502 based and as far as I can tell they were their own thing.

root42, to random
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I‘m the thirteenth at the table
I‘m the uninvited guest

root42, to random
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40 years lie between both games.

The backcovers showing the contents of the box and a description of the game

root42, to solar
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The sun is out! Turning on the washing machine!

18+ root42, to random
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The BBC investigates links of the German AfD to far right extremists:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68931170

root42,
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@rubinjoni

root42, to retrogaming
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In 1991 the size of 20 MByte was gigantic and a CD full of game data unthinkable. See alt text for translation.

root42,
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@KeyJ Well, VCDs could store a (short) movie on a CD... and I think the CDTV could play those? Yes, it was no LaserDisc, but close...

root42,
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@KeyJ Oh, they didn't support MPEG-1? What a missed opportunity! I guess people didn't have much contact with either the CDTV nor with CDs outside of music, so no wonder they got that mixed up.

elomenelomina, to random German
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Hab aktuell derartigen Flugzeuglärm Tinnitus, dass ich davon nachts wach werde mit dem Gefühl, das Flugzeug starte gerade 😬

Meine Matratze bebt dabei krass unter den Vibrations"lautstärken" in meinem Körper bei gleichauf starkem Tinnitus.

Muss wohl ärztlichen Rat holen. 🤔Bloß bei welcher medizinischen Fachrichtung? HNO sicher nicht ...

root42,
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@elomenelomina @phryk naja, aber befasst sich der HNO nicht trotzdem mit dem Hörapparat auch wenn er bei dir nicht richtig funktioniert? Ansonsten haben die Unikliniken idR Spezialisten. War mit meiner Tochter auch schon mal in der dortigen Abteilung für alles rund ums Hören.

root42,
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@elomenelomina @phryk mit Hörapparat meinte ich auch unseren eigenen. Keine Technik. :)

computertruhe, to random German
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Es gab mal wieder eine eher ungewöhnliche Spende. Wir haben sogenannte bekommen. Das sind modulare Bausteine, die spielerisch Elektronikgrundlagen vermitteln und magnetisch miteinander verbunden werden. Jeder Baustein hat eine spezifische Funktion, die farblich gekennzeichnet ist: Power, Input, Output und Wire. Sie eignen sich v. a. für Workshops mit Kindern ohne Vorkenntnisse im Elektronikbereich. Wir freuen uns, die beiden Sets an die @Campushebe und den @chch übergeben zu dürfen.

root42,
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@computertruhe toll, aber der Name ist … bedenklich. :)

https://youtu.be/Gj4-E5Hs3Kc?si=G40rsmvMcY1CO1WB

root42, (edited ) to retrogaming
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...and another game finished! This time Larry 2. Never played this one as a kid, so it was quite the new experience!

root42, to amiga
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To my bubble: How can I pin the icons of a folder after doing "Clean up". The "fixate" entry doesn't help. After every restart the icons are all jumbled...

root42,
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@didier Ahhh! Thanks!

root42, to retrogaming
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Finally it arrived: The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor by @8bitgames
#interactivefiction #retrogaming #commodore #c64 #plus4 #blackwoodmanor

Back of the game box showing An assortment of objects related to the interactive horror game "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor," including a program diskette, an SD card, a how-to-play card, posters, stickers.

root42,
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Interesting twist! The game is dialog driven when interacting with NPCs!

Tattooed_Mummy, to random
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But is AI a scam?

Tick tock video asking if AI is a scam. the answer is yes.

root42,
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@nikatjef @tob @Tattooed_Mummy My point. And memory is already on its way and will be another game changer for current models. I do think that AI will still do great strides, but I don't see the point or better: I see a lot of drawbacks and dangers. We totally lose track that whatever we do we should do it for humanity, not "because".

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