betamaxthetape

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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
Indeed. The "gayme" one you mention is called Caper in the Castro, and is considered one of (if not the) earliest known LGBTQ video games. https://obscuritory.com/adventure/caper-in-the-castro/
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
I've mentioned this several times on HN before, but I maintain a collection [1] of over 3,500 HyperCard stacks hosted by the Internet Archive. The great thing about modern technology is they're all emulated in-browser - just selec
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
There's also the FluxEngine: http://cowlark.com/fluxengine/ (I use it as it has support for reading and writing 800KB Mac disks, which would otherwise require a special floppy drive that can change the rotation sp
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
I assume there are off-site backups, though? Asking as someone who was impacted by the OVH fire last week, and I didn't have recent backups and therefore lost data.
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
This is certainly a good reminder to have regular backups. I have (had?) a VPS in SBG1, the shipping-container-based data centre in the Strasbourg site, and the latest I know is that out of the 12 containers, 8 are OK but 4 are destroyed [1
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
This is amazing. I had a play around with it whilst it was in beta, and was blown away by the variety of papers returned. On a whim I searched for a very obscure topic that I'd researched before (just for personal interest) in the past
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
As someone who always used the Ctrl-P keyboard shortcut, I never even knew that a print-with-preview interface existed in Firefox.
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
While there are only minor changes between VSCode and the open source builds, increasingly the ecosystem around VSCode is becoming proprietary. For example, the Remote Development extension is proprietary[1]. [1] https://code.vis
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
As someone who as expressed concerns about the Hippocratic license in the past, it is 100% about the term Open Source. As noted in my earlier comment, this new organisation may(?) be signalling a change where the term "Ethical Source&q
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
This has been pointed out before, but the Hippocratic license is not an open source license as defined by the OSI[1]. The author of the licence, Coraline Ada Ehmke, argues that OSI does not define what is and isn't open source[2]. My p
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
Jason Scott (textfiles on HN) explained[1] the main reasons that make several people (including myself) uncomfortable with KyroFlux. (sidenote: the author of FluxEngine[2] replied to that thread, which is where I first heard about it) [1]
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
Earlier today there was discussion of the FluxEngine[1], due to it's newly added Mac 800k disk read/support (OK, it had read for a while, but now it can both read and write). What I love about the FluxEngine is that it is so sim
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
This is why I was so excited when I heard about this. I have a Mac Classic II in the role of "transfer station" - it has a SuperDrive (the floppy drive, not the CD/DVD drive), so can read both standard IBM 1.44MB disks as wel
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
I thought that was neat too (and the video itself was awesome), however I do with that they had hidden the gif when the video begins playing. Most modern machines won't mind, but my older machine didn't like having to play a video
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
Take a look at the Creative Commons licenses[1]. All but one of them (CC0 - the Public Domain one) require any copies / remixes of the work to display attribution. As the creator, you can specify how you want the attribution, such as w
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
What a great site! I've flicked through a few of the videos and really like the style. My one nitpick / thought would be that the terms of service[1] are a bit limiting. I wasn't expecting Creative Commons (although it's
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
Out of curiosity, which video? The videos are all hosted on Vimeo, I believe, so I imagine it's vimeo doing the blocking. I have uBlock installed and additionally block all cookies (I have a whitelist but neither calmcode nor vimeo is
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
I've always found the folks at DigitalFAQ.com to be helpful. For example, here's [1] a thread about the best VHS players to buy. I'm interested that you're trying to recover the audio only, and from an S-VHS tape. Both V
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
Note that the linked video has a computer-generated voice-over, and is reading a direct transcript of a Medium post [1]. The medium post also links to a more complete source article [2] from War History Online. [1] https://medium
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
That would be awesome! Those sound like some really interesting stacks - particularly the industrial monitoring one, as there currently aren't many stacks like that in the collection. I'm happy to answer questions about moving sta
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
> As someone who made a great many HyperCard stacks... I don't suppose you still have the files for those stacks lying around? I maintain the HyperCard Online project, a collection[1] of over 3,500 HyperCard stacks on the Internet A
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
LiveCode can import HyperCard stacks. You'll need to use LiveCode version 6, since the HyperCard import functionality has been broken in LiveCode 7 onwards, but you can import a HyperCard stack using LiveCode 6, save the project in Liv
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
Since the original version of DDS tape is basically just DAT tapes being used to store computer data, many of the commercially-available DDS drives could be re-flashed to allow them to read DAT as well. (Re-flashing was necessary to remove
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
There are in fact proof-of-concepts similar to what you describe[1] (this one is based off the Doomsday Duplicator[2], a hardware device used for Direct RF capturing off laserdisc players). My (admittedly basic) understanding of VHS vs S-VH
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
I'd be really interested to know what difference (if any) the S-VHS deck made compared to the regular one you were using. I've got a decent capture setup (semi-Professional gear that captures at up to 10-bit uncompressed 4:2:2 - o
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
> What about my bank? They have >100M users, and with an app/service portal, they'll be required to be "interoperable". I don't want my bank or my bank info to be interoperable. Here in the UK we have somethin
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
Wow, that's an amazing effort! What a generous thing to devote your time to - I'll look forward to the results. I'm not sure how you're planning to upload them back to the archive, but be aware that the command line tool
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
If you still have any of those XCMDs lying around, it'd be great if you could upload them[1] to the HyperCard stacks collection[2] - particularly if you still have source code. (Of course, only if not covered under NDAs, etc...). If th
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
I've just checked "of" on my Mac with HyperCard, and the answer is no - it's not optional. (I tried with "answer the number of cards" and "answer number of cards", which both worked fine, but "an
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by betamaxthetape 6y ago
To inspect stacks you need to be in a "privileged" user-mode. Often stacks set the usermode to unprivileged upon startup to prevent accidental / nefarious edits. To change this, and be able to inspect the stack: 1.) Open the

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