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Trina's Technobabble @trinastechnobabble.bsky.social · 1h

A picture of Carol Shaw sitting on a chair holding a copy of River Raid. Above her it says "Meet Carol Shaw, the first female video game designer in history. In the late 1970s, when gaming was dominated by men, she joined Atari and created classic hits like River Raid - a game that became a global success.

She proved that creativity has no gender and inspired generations of women in tech and gaming"

Below her it says "She didn't follow the game she built it joystick and all."

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 16h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 19h

Woo-hoo! I’m now set up to properly archive Apple II 5.25” disks! 💾

An AppleSauce sync sensor installed to properly track disk drive motor speeds.

A later Apple II series 5.25” disk drive with the top cover removed, reading a floppy disk.

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Trina's Technobabble @trinastechnobabble.bsky.social · 18h

There is a picture of a cat and above the cat's face it says "Every time you repost this image" and below the cats face it says "A trans girl gets hormone treatment and a transphobe dies"

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John Calhoun @engineersneedart.com · 22h

youtu.be/vyeeQAcho00

Looks like Gruez (sp?) has posted a nice Glider history.

History of Glider for Macintosh

YouTube video by Classic Mac Gaming

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 1d

Related note: I should create a Ghidra server somewhere and put my work on it, so folks can collaborate on the decomp directly.

Hmm... that's for later.

Right now is sleep. Morning is order prep. Sunday is order pack.

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight's Spectragen Update:

I'm trying to work out how to send updated date and time to the unit. I'm very close: I can see in the code where data should be parsed, and I can seemingly send "valid" time commands to the unit: but the time doesn't update.

Any Z80 freaks out there wanna help?

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, Nerds!

I've updated the github repo for the Spectragen Project. Files now available for editing pages directly on your computer. It's Python, so it should work on just about anything.

Maybe one day I'll learn how to do version forks. HA!

GitHub - jcm-1/sg3_4-reverse: Texscan MSI SpectraGen 3/4 Reverse Engineering

Texscan MSI SpectraGen 3/4 Reverse Engineering. Contribute to jcm-1/sg3_4-reverse development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 2d

Did you know that the Texscan MSI Compuvid Spectragen 4B can make a picture of a Millennium Falcon?

On an unrelated note: I created this screen on a PC with a Python script and sent it over serial.

The page editor works. YAY!

Still some rough edges, but we're getting there.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 2d

This is Manolo. His family invited strangers to spend time with him on his last day. His mom said, "This was such a perfect way to celebrate the life of a dog who truly loved spending time with people and their dogs. Run free and fast forever, Manolo. I will never stop missing you." 14/10 for all

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Robert Sundling @robertsundling.bsky.social · 3d

It's time! After 33 years, I'm adding Gravis UltraSound support to my DOS game engine. 😄

I never owned a GUS back in the day, so it never happened. Now I've got a PicoGUS from @polpo.org (and a great emulator from @86box.net). So off we go!

Step 1A: I mirrored the final GUS SDK (v2.22) on GitHub.

GitHub - RobertSundling/GUSDK222: Gravis UltraSound, PC GamePad, and Analog Pro SDK V2.22 (GUSDK222.ZIP)

Gravis UltraSound, PC GamePad, and Analog Pro SDK V2.22 (GUSDK222.ZIP) - RobertSundling/GUSDK222

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 2d

I released a Public Service Announcement video on why you cannot use a Macintosh Portable without a good battery, on a Powerbook or after-market AC adapter: youtu.be/ed7-AqrY70s

PSA: Macintosh Portable Powerbook AC Adapter Damage

YouTube video by THEtechknight

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 3d

They've lost it several times before. I'm not holding my breath.

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 3d

*shrug*

Not sure even the admins know. From 10,000 feet: it seems like the admins don't know how to run a server properly.

But I'm not there, so I can't really say.

Get your fix at tinkerdifferent.com instead.

TinkerDifferent

A community of tinkerers dedicated to vintage computing.

tinkerdifferent.com

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 3d

Recent progress on the Texscan MSI Compuvid Spectragen project: the page editor can now render graphic characters AND you can input them.

spectragen text editor written in python showing it's built in on-screen keyboard that allows the entry of non-typeable graphics and control characters

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 3d

It's even funnier because I misspelled it and ruined the joke.

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 3d

68KMLA?
More like 68LMIA.

* Thanks to Eric for the joke. I just thought it was funny.

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 3d

Now that's a neat QuickBooks Desktop glitch...

quickbooks desktop screen showing repeating menu graphical glitch in lower left corner.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · Aug 15

ever since i was a little kid
when i would walk through libraries
imagining that the air around me was imbued
with the wisdom of all the books and their authors
i always dreamed that
one day
i would grow up
and write something
that people bung into ChatGPT to get a 1 paragraph summary

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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 3d

Whoa, I found another floppy from original Macintosh team member Joanna Hoffman! 😳

It contains the earliest version of ResEdit I’ve seen, v1.0 D4 - from 1985! 💾

#AppleHistory #Macintosh

The disk catalog showing Joanna’s system disk.

The Get Info window showing the ResEdit application version 1.0 D4 and a date of December 1985.

The application about window showing the ResEdit application version 1.0 D4 and a date of December 6, 1985.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t let this go @housedemocrats.bsky.social

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 3d

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 3d

YES. I have an ancient ThinkPad as an emergency spare. Has Linux on it. Unless I'm trying to watch crazy resolution video: it just works.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

donald trump is a fascistic leader who has surrounded himself with people who are explicitely pro-fascistic that want to end democracy as we know it and punish anyone who dissents. pretending otherwise leads me to believe you agree with them doing this

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 3d

If you answer negative to any of these, the quality of the machine is in question. More "no" answers means crappier machine.

If it's silver, 17 inches and also HP: just shove it under a wobbly table.
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