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Sam Bo

@sammargh.bsky.social

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build clouds for a living | fix and make old hardware do stupid things otherwise ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ | games are fun too

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Sep 29

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a cartoon character from doug 's garage band

ALT: a cartoon character from doug 's garage band

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The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · 21d

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 21d

ux moment

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 25d

for mario’s anniversary here’s a video of one of the earliest nintendo emulators i can find on the internet. this is pasofami for the fm-towns released in 1994!

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Sep 6

it’s already f so i can’t even meme

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Sep 3

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Sep 1

The usb descriptor is enough to answer that. It’s not too wild of a controller

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Aug 29

Turns out osx kitty is a getty image as are a lot of the default early osx profile pictures www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo...

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Aug 22

Give it a few months and we’ll probably see some wall street magic

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Aug 21

the collapse of the hypercube

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Aug 4

I got a new (to me) smoker from a friend yesterday and set the app up today. I’m happy with the nickname I selected for the Pit Boss 💃

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Experiment T @experimentt.bsky.social · Jul 28

First screenshots of the first ever Pioneer LaserActive emulator, courtesy of Nemesis running as part of Ares. Major preservation milestone right here.

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Jul 12

i was talking about this game with friends earlier tonight. i want it bad but have a pile of games i’m working through

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Jul 7

Oh! A better one - I bought a random Plextor SCSI cd-rom off ebay and it was from Phil Nibbelink.

He let me recreate an Amiga system and share a copy to of the cd as well!

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Phil Nibbelink's Amiga System Backups : Phil Nibbelink : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Enclosed in this archive are backups unearthed from Phil Nibbelink's Amiga workstation. This computer was used to create many animated films in the past such...

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Jul 7

I have one of the two XBox Debug Kits that Official XBox Magazine used to test games for reviews.

It was found in a storage closet ~10 years after the system was dead. A friend sent it to me for free as they demanded it get destroyed. Didn’t have anything cool on it but hey!

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Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · Jul 5

Last night I got access to a digitized film reel from 1969 that shows off a computer artillery game called Potshot. And to explain why that’s a big deal, I need to talk about Dartmouth and the BASIC computer language.

Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · Jul 5

Here’s a clue that will probably only mean something to 5 people

A teletype printout that says “Potshot” with text about setting up the playfield

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Jul 3

lucy hopes you have a safe and happy holiday weekend

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Jul 1

Oh! Egg on my face! I was going to use my Wii U.

Nintendo Switch 2 console with game from Nintendo’s web store stating that the product is only for use with the Nintendo Switch 2.

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Jul 1

Please share the link if you do ❤️

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Jun 26

you can use a graphical installer or it can be fed flags for silent install.. any installer offers this unless they’re an asshole

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Jun 22

oh dear

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · Jun 22

#PicoGUS firmware v3.1.0 is released. It adds the ability to load a CD image by name and has *many* fixes for cd image listing and loading. github.com/polpo/picogu...

Release v3.1.0 · polpo/picogus

Fixes CD-ROM emulation Many fixes/improvements to CD image handling: Add ability to load image by name Fix memory leak when changing images (file handle not freed, causing crash after switching im...

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Jun 22

what about using ls in terminal? perhaps an attribute flag is being set via samba config

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Catherine @whitequark.org · May 24

implemented a script for #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer that lets you discover the connectivity of any IC with JTAG boundary scan, provided you can give the IC an arbitrary stimulus (here done by using a glasgow output connected to a needle point probe)

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · May 18

#PicoGUS can now emulate both a CDROM drive and Sound Blaster in parallel, smoothly playing both CD audio and SB sound effects simultaneously. Still a lot of polish to do before a new firmware release but I'm excited!! This is MechWarrior 2 with bin/cue stored on a USB stick plugged into the PicoGUS

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