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by blakespot 3y ago
I don’t suppose there’s a version that is not scaled to 1.2x height, for conversion and display on an Amiga CRT, avoiding the need to scale the PNG and lose quality. (Ahoy, if you’re reading this.) I’d love to have such a version.
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by blakespot 4y ago
It's not an extremely unusual peripheral, but I use a rather nontraditional display with my Mac Studio, the LG DualUp. It's a 28-inch 16:18 aspect (square-ish) display with 2560x2880 native resolution (roughly the pixel density of
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by blakespot 4y ago
Easy there, tiger.
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by blakespot 4y ago
There's SyncTerm.
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“MuffinTerm”: A great new terminal app for BBSing on iPhone, iPad, and Mac(bytecellar.com)
93 points by blakespot 4y ago|19 comments
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by blakespot 4y ago
This is magic. I love it.
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Upgrading the Gaming PC (6 year old Skylake to Ryzen 7700X)(nmsspot.com)
1 points by blakespot 4y ago|0 comments
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by blakespot 4y ago
Seems rather a shame.
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Linux 6.3 to Remove Obsolete GPU Drivers: ATI Rage 128, 3Dfx, S3 Savage, I810(phoronix.com)
37 points by blakespot 4y ago|24 comments
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The Secret Apple M1 Coprocessor(medium.com)
2 points by blakespot 4y ago|0 comments
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by blakespot 4y ago
Yep, I just "tooted" a few screenshots in a discussion yesterday. When rendered on a CRT, the effect is shockingly good. https://oldbytes.space/@blakespot/109441218193887773 It makes for a far better color 80
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The Apple IIgs' unique approach to 16 colors @ 640px with a 32K framebuffer(blakespot.com)
8 points by blakespot 4y ago|2 comments
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Configure your modern Mac to allow vintage computers to “dial in”(bytecellar.com)
2 points by blakespot 4y ago|0 comments
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A handy guide to the humble BBS(hackaday.com)
8 points by blakespot 4y ago|0 comments
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The Apple M1 is fast enough to win the Linux dwc3_set_mode race(lore.kernel.org)
1 points by blakespot 4y ago|0 comments
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by blakespot 4y ago
Rosetta 2 could serve as a crutch for developers that don't want to expend the time and effort updating their apps to native ARM compiles. As such, those apps will perform more poorly than they would otherwise. Of course, that needs to
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by blakespot 4y ago
Indeed. I recall reading, in the end, that some 90+% of the code had been converted shortly before OS X became the mainstay.
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by blakespot 4y ago
I've just heard a rumor that a very capable, active developer in the Apple II community was handed the source code at some point. That would be nice.
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by blakespot 4y ago
I have added some potentially helpful links in the text, and a bit of explanation for what IRC is, in an effort to help the uninitiated. I should have done so earlier.
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An Apple II Tale(bytecellar.com)
171 points by blakespot 4y ago|38 comments
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Gallery of photos recently taken on 25+ year old Apple digital camera(flickr.com)
3 points by blakespot 4y ago|0 comments
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by blakespot 4y ago
Well, to start, of course there is no fan. So, that's quite a place from which to start.
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by blakespot 4y ago
Presumably due to thermal throttling.
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8 GPU core M2 MacBook Air shown to outperform 10 GPU core model under game load(youtube.com)
3 points by blakespot 4y ago|5 comments
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by blakespot 4y ago
KARR - Knight Automated Roving Robot
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Microsoft Sunsets Amiga’s Killer App: Internet Explorer(bytecellar.com)
1 points by blakespot 4y ago|0 comments
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Dave Smith, “the Father of MIDI,” died last Wednesday (1950-2022)(weatherreportdiscography.org)
23 points by blakespot 4y ago|2 comments
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by blakespot 4y ago
For whatever reason, I expected this to be a work of art, something of an impressionist style painting, of rather pleasant-seeming snakes enjoying some bubble tea in the grass on the shore of a river.
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Original iPod purchased on 2001 launch day from the first Apple Store(flickr.com)
1 points by blakespot 4y ago|0 comments
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Interview with the Creator of AmigaDOS(youtube.com)
2 points by blakespot 5y ago|0 comments

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