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Blog: http://www.breakintoprogram.co.uk YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/BreakIntoProgram Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/breakintoprogram Software developer & electronics dabbler. Restoring & programming vintage computers from Acorn Atom to ZX81.

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Andy Toone @lockfarm.bsky.social · 1h

OK BlueSky network, can we do the six degrees of Kevin Bacon thing? Does anyone know Ian Livingstone or someone in similar tech/tabletop gaming/boardgame area? I've got a tech demo that I'd love to take further, or at least show to people who might 'get it'.

Reposts appreciated.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 12h

I used to have a stack of them, taken out of various PC builds. Have given loads away. Down to my last two now.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 12h

Tomorrow I’ll be mostly fixing a couple of 3.5” drives, one just needs cleaning and lubricating, the other requires yet to be diagnosed repairs to its electronics. Hopefully just capacitors. And I need to snip the CMOS battery off that 386 luggable before it leaks.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 12h

Inevitable, I suppose.

Rishi Sunak hired by Microsoft and Anthropic as paid adviser

The former prime minister has been told not to lobby the UK government by the appointments watchdog.

www.bbc.co.uk

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 12h

Yowsers! Yes, thank God for the NHS.

L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 13h

Hahaha! Same here!!

L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 13h

Eek! That sounds painful.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 13h

Exactly.

L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 13h

It’s not that far from us, near Knutsford. It also has am entry in the Meaning of Liff

The front cover of The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd.

A photograph of a page in the book with the entry for Lower Peover.

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just a hint of a luxuriant handlebar moustache.

LoUTH (n.)
The sort of man who wears loud check jackets, has a personalised tankard behind the bar and always gets served before you do

LOW ARDWELLO (n.)
Seductive remark made hopefully in the back of a taxi.

LOW EGGBOROUGH (n.)
A quiet little unregarded man in glasses who is building a new kind of atomic bomb in his garden shed.

LOWER PEOVER (n.)
Common solution to the problem of a humby (q.v.)

LOWESTOFT (n.)
(a) The balls of wool which collect on nice new sweaters.
(b) The correct name for 'navel fluff"
86
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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 16h

I don’t recall uploading any ID on Discord, or being asked to verify my age. Anyone else share my experience?

The Register @theregister.com · 16h

Discord says 70,000 photo IDs compromised in customer service breach

No word on why the outsourced supplier was storing this data in the first place Communication platform provider Discord has admitted that around 70,000 users had their government IDs stolen as part of its recent data breach.…

dlvr.it

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 1d

There. Fixed it.

A Conservative wearing a blue "Make Britian Great Again" cap with badges on the peak.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 1d

The devil is in the detail. This is more the specifics of how to do this with a scan converted (filled) circle with minimum overheads in Z80. The principle is sound. Just refactoring the code for performance and simplicity. A job for tomorrow now.

L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 1d

I’m not doing two clips. Just a screen clip.

L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 1d

That would be ideal, but ideal is too slow for games in Z80.

L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 1d

Or use the shape tables and simplify. Get opposite X values and clip/discard as above. Store in R variable. Draw once both calculated.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 1d

Thank you. I’ve got some different exhibits this year.

L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 1d

This will be my third consecutive year now. I was booked as a +1 in 2023 alongside Mack Wharton demonstrating the Agon. Disaster struck, Mack's house was badly hit by Storm Ciarán and as a result he couldn't make it. So I quickly pulled together an exhibit of my own. Twas good fun. Full story here.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 1d

The irony would be wasted on them.

Strange Days at Blake Hol(e)sey High 👻 🍑 @reactionordinary.bsky.social · 1d

The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 1d

Line off top or bottom of screen: Don't draw
Both points off left or right: Don't draw
Left point off left: Clip left
Right point off right: Clip right
Draw between them

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 1d

Lower Peover

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 1d

Note to self: Might be quicker to just draw the horizontal line rather than going through the shape table.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 1d

Making some pleasing progress with the filled circle clipping. Just a couple of bugs left to fix and then I can merge that. Going to call it a night now.

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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 1d

My passion from an early age was programming, electronics and art. I ended up getting a job in the computer games industry rather than going to university. Currently an unemployed business software developer. If I had my time again, I'd do some kind of art and computing degree.

L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 1d

Cheers! I did wonder with this whether I'd done some permanent damage. Thankfully it seems not. Getting near to that age though! Will attempt a gentle jog on the treadmill if I still feel good in the morning.

L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 1d

I spent a couple of years coding Forth commercially back in the late 90s. Never owned an Ace, but did have a HP RPN scientific calculator at college which helped me get the job.