Ed S @EdS@mastodon.sdf.org

Paul Rikards posted the plotted Atari 800 ROM. Visible in the details is the embedded font, which is remarkable to see in context

https://twitter.com/paulrickards/status/1217250223078113280?s=21

#RetroHardware

I just pushed a new release of my #forth system.

Source code, examples, documentation are at http://forthworks.com/retro or gopher://forthworks.com/1/retro

I've submitted a patch to the FreeBSD ports and submitted an updated iOS version to Apple for review.

Other than bug fixes, in this release I rewrote the assembler and have hand tuned assembly for a number of words in the standard library. It's smaller and faster than before.

Ahem.

My #rc2014 lives.

IT LIVES

I bought an RC2014 kit

Gonna spend some quality time with my soldering iron and a Z80 assembler next week

metablog: What Alan Kay Got Wrong About Objects https://blog.metaobject.com/2019/11/what-alan-kay-got-wrong-about-objects.html

What a curious find at the #fleamarket : a 1888 copy of the A1 Commercial #telegraph code. You can see how complex messages were translated to simpler words, faster and easier to transmit. #ancientbooks #oldtech #books

@malte Turns out, it was unplugged lol

@rick @foxhkron It was unplugged!

@AzureKingfisher I figured it out

It was unplugged haha

Thanks for the help!

Figured it out

It was not plugged in

@djsundog CHIP-8 is what I was talking about. You probably gathered that from the description, but I just learned about it a few days ago and it has me thinking.

Ran into an old friend today, @th

Of the 223 companies that have manufactured hard disk drives, there are only three left: Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital.

None of the first four pioneers in the field continue in the industry today.

Awesome two part write up of the early AtariST days from a young coder's perspective #retrocomputing
The Atari ST (part 1) | Dadhacker

norway

Computer latency: 1977-2017 https://danluu.com/input-lag/

huh this might be fun

https://twitter.com/jef_poskanzer/status/1213258774938415104

<< Apparently a non-trivial number of systems are experiencing #Y2020 bugs. A common Y2K "fix" just postponed things by 20 years, interpreting 00-19 as the 2000s and 20-99 as the 1900s. 20 years is now up, some of those systems are still in use, and they think it's 1920. Oooops. >>

mondrian pong…

#pietmondrian #pong #videogame #animatedgif