ChristopherDrum

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by ChristopherDrum 11mo ago
Great to know, thank you for the investigation.
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by ChristopherDrum 11mo ago
That worked for you? I was having a devil of a time getting Feedreader to bring in that feed. I also had never touched Feedreader until last night and might have done something dumb. Inoreader did bring in the feed, but only after I "t
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by ChristopherDrum 11mo ago
My pleasure!
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by ChristopherDrum 11mo ago
Thanks! I don't actually know anything about how Ghost blogging platform interacts with RSS feeds, but I get a small amount of traffic from personal aggregation services. I guess I kind of thought RSS is enabled, but I don't use
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by ChristopherDrum 11mo ago
Thanks for the kind feedback, and I'm happy you felt resonance with those words. I use tons of Internet Archive material, but also stuff from various retro enthusiast sites which focus on specific hardware platforms. Lots of books, I
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by ChristopherDrum 11mo ago
Thanks, I hope you enjoy the series!
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by ChristopherDrum 11mo ago
Continuing with my retro productivity software blog, Stone Tools: https://stonetools.ghost.io I was getting a little bored of retrocomputing discourse being so centered on gaming, so I'm exploring the productivity software
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by ChristopherDrum 1y ago
Author here. I address data portability in a step-by-step process in the blog post. Long story short, it’s too much hassle while still being imperfect. If data sharing is important, it’s not a good choice. If you’re content to build a littl
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by ChristopherDrum 1y ago
Author here. If not AppleWorks, Multiplan, Excel, or Lotus, then possibly “Full Impact?”
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by ChristopherDrum 1y ago
Author here. Thanks to OP for linking to my recent post and to the HN community for visiting and sharing their personal anecdotes. I’m glad to see a continuing shared interest in these classic productivity tools. I don’t blog about games at
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by ChristopherDrum 1y ago
Author here. Yes, I’m glad someone agrees with my assessment on the documentation quality. It pulls off a pretty amazing hat-trick, considering it was the first exposure anyone had with such a program. `sc` is the only option I’m aware of
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by ChristopherDrum 1y ago
Author here. That is kind of one of my reasons for starting the blog, is to see what may have been forgotten in old productivity software.
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by ChristopherDrum 1y ago
Author here. Sorry to disappoint you.
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by ChristopherDrum 1y ago
I assure you it was there from the start. No worries.
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Stone Tools: Re-Examining Retro Productivity Software(stonetools.ghost.io)
4 points by ChristopherDrum 1y ago|2 comments
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by ChristopherDrum 1y ago
Recently, I've been a little disillusioned with how retro-computing discourse feels dominated by two things: hardware and games. In an honest assessment of my own life with computers, there's so much more to it than that. Producti
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by ChristopherDrum 1y ago
The PICO-8 actually has 32 colors from which we can choose any 16. I understand that making use of the default palette is the article's intent; I'm just thinking aloud. If one were wanting to render an image on the PICO-8 itself,
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by ChristopherDrum 1y ago
Author here. Thanks for reading, and I'm happy you enjoyed it! I've never touched Animator, but I'm intrigued now.
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by ChristopherDrum 1y ago
Author here. I made explicitly certain to credit her in the image caption from the start; that wasn't added later, it was there from the very moment I posted. I also mention her again, and note the relationship to the Tut image, in a q
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by ChristopherDrum 1y ago
Stone Tools author here. I did mention that web app twice in the story, though I didn't catch that "Preview" function!
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by ChristopherDrum 1y ago
Correct. I did not say anything about the circle tool being slow.
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by ChristopherDrum 1y ago
Author here. It's very kind of OP to post this on my behalf. I'm happy it is resonating with people. Maybe I should have self-promoted here sooner, but I thought I should put a little more meat on the blog's bones before post
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by ChristopherDrum 1y ago
Author here. I did not say circles don't draw well. I said that "swiftly-drawn curves are flattened" and likened it to a "large wash." By that I mean long, swift, edge-to-edge brush strokes. Perhaps the use of the w
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by ChristopherDrum 1y ago
I have seriously mixed feelings about this kind of philanthropy. Yes, it is good that he's going to give his wealth away like this. I do not want to diminish his efforts in that! But also, why collect such wealth in the first place? Wh
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by ChristopherDrum 1y ago
I am the author of PicoCalc. I had no idea anyone had posted it here on HN, that it had so many points and comments, or that anyone still remembers it. Makes my day :)
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by ChristopherDrum 2y ago
As a side-note to the Scott Adams interpreter and the struggle of writing in BASIC, it should be noted that Scott Adams's original work was in fact in BASIC. He published that source code in BYTE Magazine, should anyone wish to poke ar
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by ChristopherDrum 2y ago
TV series, absolutely; I've actually never heard the radio program. It aired on PBS in my area along with Monty Python, The Young Ones, and other shows from "across the pond."
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by ChristopherDrum 2y ago
Oh wow, thank you for the clarification. I completely didn't even consider to audit for that in the ZIP source (though the ALL CAPS maybe should have been my hint). I'll update the post with this and another small thing another pl
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by ChristopherDrum 2y ago
Wonderful, thanks for playing!
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by ChristopherDrum 2y ago
Great! Glad to hear we have a simple solution for this issue. It is interesting to note your trouble, because another player in this post is running Arch and says it worked flawlessly. I guess Mono gets in the way a little.

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