@kelbot my all-time favourite #retroComputers / #retroGaming #consoles are probably the #MSX2, #SNES and #PS2 though, as that's what I have the most games for. Especially the first two, as I grew up with those systems.
The #MSX was a big part of my early childhood. While it may not be the most well-known system/standard internationally, I used it not just for #gaming, but also for writing and printing my elementary school reports on, doodling and messing with music.
An introduction in hashtags:
Updated #introduction:
— #MSX #MSX2 #retrogaming #retrocomputer #demoscene
— #Ruby #WebDevelopment #backend #dev #scripting #PlexodusTools
— #landscape #photography #MiA1 #Canon1000D
— (casual) #hiking
— Born #Dutch #Netherlands
— Emigrated to #Bodø #ArcticCircle #Norway
— Fan of #TerryPratchett's #DiscWorld, #StephenKing's #DarkTower, #StarTrek and #DoctorWho
— Enjoys interesting #beers such as #Trappist #AbbeyBeer
— #linguistics #GooglePlus
#introductions #WhoAmI
A brief #Introduction for the #GooglePlusExodus of former #GooglePlus users:
I'm Filip, online better known as #FiXato or FiX
Current interests:
· #MSX (#MSX2 in particular) and various other #retrocomputer / #RetroGaming topics such as the #demoscene.
· #Ruby #webdevelopment and #scripting
· #Photography and casual #hiking
· #LetsPlay and other #casualgaming content
· #DiscWorld novels.
· Drinking interesting #beers, #Trappist beer in particular.
re: CLI Player Queue progress
got some more #coding done on #CliPlayerQueue, and I can now easily add channels by name and channel id either via a single #CLI command, or by hitting ctrl+n in the #fzf menu and entering the values when asked for.
Existing feeds can be updated from the menu by a single ctrl+u press.
Filtering is also slightly improved.
At this point it's one thing I can cross off the #ScratchYourOwnItches list. :D
Google Photos
Started the download of about 250 GB of photos and videos from #GooglePhotos.
So glad we have #fibreInternet now, so I can just download five 50GiB archives one at a time, rather than 25 ten GiB archives, which then still had the tendency to time-out while downloading...
Once I've verified the archives, and successfully extracted them all (hope I have the spare disk space for that on the missus desktop...), I can tell #Google to reduce the quality to claim back cloud storage space.
Inspired by @benhamill's #WolfShirtWednesday post, here's a snapshot of me wearing my #SonataArctica #wolf #tshirt.
#DailyPhoto #contentWarnings: #selfie, no direct eye-contact from me, as I'm looking towards the banner on the wall behind me, but the wizard drawn on it does kind of look directly at the camera.
And I guess the metal horn hand-sign?
#wolf #wolves #beard #selfies #FiXato #FiXatoBlog
(repost because the (long) image description didn't seem to have gone through from mobile...)
I've created an alt account over at toot.cat: @FiXato
You can find the re-introduction post at https://toot.cat/@FiXato/105504780630535192.
Once the avatar and other profile data are properly cached (currently I'm showing as a #bluehead without profile info for some reason, at least from m.s), I'll boost the intro post and import my follows list.
Currently I don't have concrete plans for migrating away from this profile, yet. I first want to explore #glitchsoc's features, and maybe try out other alternatives.
I've created an alt account over at toot.cat: @FiXato
You can find the re-introduction post at https://toot.cat/@FiXato/105504780630535192.
Once the avatar and other profile data are properly cached (currently I'm showing as a #bluehead without profile info for some reason, at least from m.s), I'll boost the intro post and import my follows list.
Currently I don't have concrete plans for migrating away from this profile, yet. I first want to explore #glitchsoc's features, and maybe try out other alternatives.
computing, today vs yesteryear, atari st
this PDF of this book I've been virtually thumbing through on the Atari ST internals is wild through a modern lens.
it was contemporary to the machine itself, so it was for all intents and purposes examining a new thing in as much technical detail as it could. as you'd expect.
then I scroll to page 275 of the PDF and am presented with Section 3.9 - The BIOS Listings - Version 1, which appears to be a full disassembly of the system BIOS along with comments throughout explaining what was (supposed to be) happening on that line
highly secure: can't jailbreak what's already unlocked
if you like to nerd out reading 68000 assembler, this link's for you
https://www.synacktiv.com/ressources/Atari-ST-Internals.pdf#page=274&zoom=100,-409,1
#TodayILearned the #etymology of #drug:
«late 14c., drogge (early 14c. in Anglo-French), "any substance used in the composition or preparation of medicines," from Old French droge "supply, stock, provision" (14c.), which is of unknown origin. Perhaps from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German droge-vate "dry barrels," or droge waere, literally "dry wares" (but specifically drugs & spices), with first element mistaken as indicating the contents, or because medicines mostly consisted of dried herbs.»
Great... 2021 has barely started, and I already have a #coding idea for yet another #PetProject xD
Of course it's also something that fits my #ScratchYourOwnItches set of ideas...
Fortunately it should be something that's fairly straightforward. (or so I hope... :P)
People complaining once again about the #MSX spec limitations of the #MSXdev competition.
So, this year I decided to suggest that those who want to compete with #MSX2, #MSX2Plus, #turboR or other #MSX configurations that don't match the #MSX1 limitations of the #compo, to participate in one of the many #demoparties out there. :)
https://www.msx.org/news/challenges/en/msxdev21-is-on#comment-396739
Feel free to comment here with your suggestions for #demoscene events that welcome #MSX in their specific compos or #WILDCompos. :)
There are times I wish the lowercase form of my online handle wasn't an #Italian verb...
Or that people would consistently spell my name with proper capitalisation, so I could just filter out the lower case results from mentions/highlights in logs and search results.
oh my god https://omar.website/tabfs/
“TabFS is a browser extension that mounts your browser tabs as a filesystem on your computer.”
“Now you don't need to code up a browser extension from scratch every time you want to do anything. You can write a script that talks to your browser in, like, a melange of Python and bash, and you can save it as a single ordinary file that you can run whenever, and it's no different from scripting any other part of your computer.”
story of the early Minecraft (2009)
Back in 2009, at the dawn of Minecraft, I wrote the first-ever custom Minecraft server software, using a small proxy to reverse-engineer the simple and unencrypted networking format. Before that, there was only creative mode client hacks (noclip, fly, superspeed) and simplistic console wrappers ("if !kick appears in chat, send /kick to the server" kinda crap).
My custom server's initial features included the first custom world generation, anti-cheats (no flying! no superspeed! no standing inside solid blocks!), the ability for server mods to turn invisible (to "spectate" new players), red player names for admins, and the ability to save/load multiple maps on the fly, (hopefully) without disconnecting anyone.
Initially everyone was thrilled and I was heralded as the "Minecraft Hacking God", but when I planned to release the software publicly for free and open-source, the community forum moderator suddenly did a 180 and threatened to ban me, taking issue with the fact that users would be able to program their own minigames before the official survival multiplayer came out.
"You're stealing money from Notch", they claimed, thinking that a quick 'n dirty Counter-Strike style "Zombies" game mode would be somehow equivocal to the premium "official" mobs that would soon follow, which included zombies as a staple, and therefore nobody would have a reason to buy the full version of the game anymore.
So instead of releasing the software for free, publicly, on the Minecraft forums... I just left my email address and told everyone to send me $10 if they want it.
A few people eagerly bought it. They didn't know how to mod it, so they sent it to the first person they encountered who claimed to be able to program. Then those people, perhaps not realizing this was paid software, would run it themselves and also freely give it away to literally anyone who joins their server and asks.
Thus, it spread like wildfire, and I only made like 10 sales total, which I almost entirely re-invested buying the game for myself and a few friends.
This is the event that started the entire modding trend for Minecraft, in general. My original server software was succeeded by a Python script, and then eventually Bukkit.
Later, Notch hired the entire Bukkit dev team to form his "Mojang" company, when he finally decided to stop working as a solo developer. Then he made a cool 2 billion dollars selling the company.
I did the opposite of steal money from Notch. Fuck.
food
Used up the remainder of the #appelflappen batter to deep-fry the last of the apple slices I didn't get to on #NewYearsEve. :)
Now a bit nauseous from eating several... #SendHelpPls
Didn't get to do any real #coding, but I tweaked my #tmux status line a bit more, cleaned up some code and committed some old changes I hadn't committed yet, and sorted out some of my #browserTabs again.
Chrome-dev's built-in tab groups are finally useful now that you can easily collapse and move them. :)
Would be nice if they would automatically unload them from memory while collapsed too.
#Dutch father, #Developer, #RetroGaming & #Photography enthusiast living in northern #Norway.
Plays #Ingress, #PokemonGO and #MarioKartTour.
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