SeenNotHeard

7 ms·

31.
by SeenNotHeard 1y ago
Atari's port of Asteroids also supported four joysticks. You could play melee, co-op, or team mode, with four players on the screen at once. It was a blast. https://www.atarimania.com/8bit/files/Asteroids_ma
32.
C64 User Logs into BBS After 39 Years with His Original SX-64(theoasisbbs.com)
12 points by SeenNotHeard 1y ago|1 comments
33.
Did John Lennon think he was Jesus?(ian-leslie.com)
1 points by SeenNotHeard 2y ago|1 comments
34.
Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
277 points by SeenNotHeard 2y ago|499 comments
35.
by SeenNotHeard 2y ago
Copyright for me, but not for thee.
36.
A look back at Coherent OS, a 1980s Unix lookalike ported to PCs(itsfoss.com)
2 points by SeenNotHeard 2y ago|0 comments
37.
by SeenNotHeard 2y ago
TADS, an OOP language + VM for interactive fiction, has this "value database" model. Once loaded into memory, the compiled image can be updated with values stored in a separate save file. The compiled image itself could store up
38.
Photo of the CEOs of Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi is the perfect album cover(typo.social)
2 points by SeenNotHeard 2y ago|0 comments
39.
by SeenNotHeard 2y ago
Exactly. As Dr. Hipp writes on the web site, "SQLite does not compete with client/server databases. SQLite competes with fopen()."
40.
by SeenNotHeard 2y ago
INT 2Fh was the so-called "mux" that various TSRs and drivers could hook into for (in essence) interprocess communication. The half-baked idea was to solve the problem of TSRs commandeering other interrupts for one-off needs, whi
41.
DOS APPEND(os2museum.com)
119 points by SeenNotHeard 2y ago|56 comments
42.
Altair 8800 kits went on sale December 19, 1974(dfarq.homeip.net)
3 points by SeenNotHeard 2y ago|1 comments
43.
by SeenNotHeard 2y ago
Some of these problems (esp. Facebook's) look like someone used an existing service framework to code OAuth2, and either didn't or couldn't adjust the framework to conform to spec. Some of the other problems look like a commo
44.
The Arresting Typography of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps(kottke.org)
1 points by SeenNotHeard 2y ago|0 comments
45.
Where can one read archived Microsoft Knowledge Base articles?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
3 points by SeenNotHeard 2y ago|0 comments
46.
by SeenNotHeard 2y ago
On top of that, the content itself—a spectrum of lean to rich—isn't all that informative, especially compared to its solemn presentation as the result of some kind of deep meditation.
47.
Why is the term "card" used in "expansion card"?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
2 points by SeenNotHeard 2y ago|0 comments
48.
by SeenNotHeard 2y ago
The licensing fee wasn't the sole reason, but it certainly sounded the death knell for Gopher and gave users reasons to look elsewhere. For all the gauzy what-could-have-been speculations about Gopher, it really was more like a hierarc
49.
by SeenNotHeard 2y ago
Back in the late 2000s, a viral blog post (which I can't find now) asserted that Microsoft was irrelevant—that Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. wiped out MS as a market leader, if not in income, but in reputation. Look at MS today. Not
50.
How were 70s versions of games like Pong built without a programmable computer?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
240 points by SeenNotHeard 2y ago|122 comments
51.
So It Goes: GHQ, Kurt Vonnegut's WWII Board Game(spacebiff.com)
2 points by SeenNotHeard 2y ago|0 comments
52.
The $621M Legal Battle for the 'Soul of the Internet'(rollingstone.com)
7 points by SeenNotHeard 2y ago|0 comments
53.
How similar were the MC6800 and MOS 6502?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
10 points by SeenNotHeard 2y ago|2 comments
54.
Did Microsoft Release a "Critical Update Notification Tool"?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
1 points by SeenNotHeard 2y ago|2 comments
55.
Why were there so many OSes that had the name "DOS" in them?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
3 points by SeenNotHeard 2y ago|1 comments
56.
There is no clear etymology for calloc(hachyderm.io)
3 points by SeenNotHeard 2y ago|0 comments
57.
What Happened to Egghead Software?(dfarq.homeip.net)
2 points by SeenNotHeard 2y ago|1 comments
58.
Why did Borland ignore the Macintosh market?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
135 points by SeenNotHeard 2y ago|164 comments
59.
What purpose did the lower-right Enter key serve on original Mac 128k keyboard?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
69 points by SeenNotHeard 2y ago|60 comments
60.
by SeenNotHeard 2y ago
Make a drunken sad face. https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Sad_Mac

More ›