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by bwldrbst 11y ago
Do you mean Speedball or Speedball 2 ( http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/speedball-2-brutal-delux... ) ?
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by bwldrbst 11y ago
It's been a while but, from memory, the parts that caused me the most grief were infix operators, unary minus and statements like IF with a variable number of parameters. I parsed the text into nested lists of Nodes where each node cou
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by bwldrbst 11y ago
To be honest, I just grabbed a PDF of the Apple Logo II manual and blazed away at it, hence the scariness of some of the eval and rendering code... I got distracted by other things before completing the IO and editing parts but it was a lot
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by bwldrbst 11y ago
I learned Go and built my own Logo: https://github.com/adkennan/logo :]
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by bwldrbst 11y ago
With WHDLoad ( http://whdload.de/ ) and a compact flash card disk swaps are a thing of the past.
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by bwldrbst 11y ago
I'm with you. I have the A1200 I bought as a teenager and have recently acquired an Amiga 2000 that I'm in the process of restoring and upgrading. A new motherboard doesn't interest me as much as new CPU cards or other expans
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by bwldrbst 11y ago
I was interested in coding from a young age but was a terrible student. I barely scraped through high school and never completed any tertiary education. By 22 I was unhappily working as a pizza store assistant manager. I then took a pay cut
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by bwldrbst 11y ago
Forget about old mechanical hard drives. I installed one of these in an Amiga 2000 a couple of weeks ago: http://www.codesrc.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=SCSI2SD . It lets me use an SD card as a HD. It's not the f
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by bwldrbst 11y ago
And that's why I like to eyeball the piles of junk on the side of the road waiting for collection by the council. So far the best I've managed is a Commodore 64!
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by bwldrbst 11y ago
I've been running Ubuntu on an Inspiron 17R SE since 2012. With the exception of the multi-touch touchpad pretty much everything worked fine out of the box.
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by bwldrbst 11y ago
We could save a lot of typing if xkcd:// was a protocol understood by browsers. For example, xkcd://927
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by bwldrbst 12y ago
When I was about 5 I wandered into the room just in time to see my slightly older cousin watch the opening scene of An American Werewolf In London. That convinced me I wanted nothing to do with "scary" movies. A few years later I
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by bwldrbst 12y ago
Looking forward to seeing the 6502 as a supported architecture in Linux 4.x!
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by bwldrbst 12y ago
Here's the blog of a guy who's building a machine based on it: http://c65gs.blogspot.com.au/
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by bwldrbst 12y ago
I've read Neuromancer about once a year since my late teens. It only took me about 10 years to realize there's actually some pretty good comedy in there...
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by bwldrbst 12y ago
I did pretty much exactly this a few weeks ago to make a DB-23 video cable for an Amiga :]
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by bwldrbst 12y ago
"Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the Emus of War!"
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by bwldrbst 12y ago
It's true. I was late for work today but at least I got a seat on the train.
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by bwldrbst 12y ago
Same - in fact, it was the very first exposure to computers I had (a Microbee) and I was hooked. I've recently been hacking away at a logo interpreter based on the manual for Apple Logo II.
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by bwldrbst 12y ago
logo-a-go-go perhaps? I haven't spent much time thinking about a project name beyond "my logo interpreter that's on github" Plus, just because it's written in Go I don't think an application should have extra &
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by bwldrbst 12y ago
It's at github.com/adkennan/logo but is still very much a work in progress. My goal is to get it running nicely on a Raspberry Pi.
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by bwldrbst 12y ago
I'm nostalgic for the days of 8 and 16 bit computing but whenever I sit down at my c64 or Amiga now I marvel at how far we've come. That said, I agree that a simple and constrained environment can be great for learning and creativ
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by bwldrbst 14y ago
Made me think of Terry Pratchett's Strata: "Kin's flyer circled the low offices and headed northward to the big complex on W- continent. It skirted the bulk of what had been Hendry's machine, its new pilot now laying down a pattern of offsh
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by bwldrbst 14y ago
If you know of someone throwing lego in the trash, please point me in their direction!
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by bwldrbst 15y ago
That's what separates us from the animals. Except for the weasel.
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by bwldrbst 15y ago
Hah! i read The Calorie Man two days ago and I was thinking of it as I was reading this thread.
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by bwldrbst 15y ago
This gives me an idea for a movie! Those poor Swedes.
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by bwldrbst 15y ago
After about a week we broke down the office door. People on the floor below were starting to complain about the smell.