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Mexican surveillance company Grupo Seguritech watches the U.S. border(restofworld.org)
80 points by classichasclass 6mo ago|84 comments
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by classichasclass 6mo ago
Not much more. It all fits on a single side of a 1541 floppy. Even considering compression it couldn't be more than a couple hundred kilobytes. https://csdb.dk/release/?id=99145
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Make your own ColecoVision at home, part 5(leadedsolder.com)
25 points by classichasclass 6mo ago|0 comments
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by classichasclass 6mo ago
Although he's trying to avoid using floating point, the dirty secret in many Microsoft-derived BASICs, including Commodore's, is that everything is floating point. In fact, even if you explicitly declare a variable as integer, i
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by classichasclass 6mo ago
We already know that's the case. I had to add little endian typed array emulation to TenFourFox.
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by classichasclass 6mo ago
So do I. I don't find that outrageous at all. Anyone trying to do the port to something unusual would appreciate the warning. Granted, I still work on a fair number of big endian systems even though my daily drivers (ppc64le, Apple sil
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by classichasclass 6mo ago
For Linux, yes. AIX and IBM i still run big.
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by classichasclass 6mo ago
(author) Hey, thank you!
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6o6 v1.1: Faster 6502-on-6502 virtualization for a C64/Apple II Apple-1 emulator(oldvcr.blogspot.com)
35 points by classichasclass 6mo ago|2 comments
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by classichasclass 7mo ago
Most emulators support .crt images, including large ones like these, so if this is their chosen distribution format they should work just fine on an emulator. They would also be okay on systems like the Ultimate 64, or real machines with Ea
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by classichasclass 7mo ago
I also recently bought a Honda hybrid. I turned off as many of the data sharing features as I could from the first day I drove it. They don't make it easy, of course.
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by classichasclass 7mo ago
Modern flash carts like EasyFlash and clones allow for absolutely cavernous cartridge images. As good examples, see the C64 ports of Prince of Persia and Eye of the Beholder, which run entirely from massive cartridge ROMs.
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by classichasclass 7mo ago
With a SID? No problem. I think the title track could be arranged very easily for three voices.
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MacDoom for the Macintosh SE/30(github.com)
1 points by classichasclass 7mo ago|0 comments
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by classichasclass 7mo ago
I mean "boring" in the sense that its ISA was relatively straightforward, no performance-entangling kinks like delay slots, a good set of typical non-windowed GPRs, no wild or exotic operations. And POWER/PowerPC and PA-RISC
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by classichasclass 7mo ago
OK, I'll bite. If this is a truly competitive core - I don't claim enough personal expertise to judge - does anyone fab and sell it? There should be a business case if it is.
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by classichasclass 7mo ago
As a counterexample, I point to another relatively boring RISC, PA-RISC. It took off not (just) because the architecture was straightforward, but because HP poured cash into making it quick, and PA-RISC continued to be a very competitive ar
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by classichasclass 7mo ago
Plus, Linus did it in the border, where only sprites can be, so it can't be a trick with bitmap graphics or custom characters.
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by classichasclass 7mo ago
Nitpick: I think he still has the Kernal banked in, so he'll need to use the soft vector at $0314. But that is exactly how I've done chained raster splits otherwise. It's really the most straightforward approach.
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by classichasclass 7mo ago
Ah, duplicate sector IDs. Ran into that not too long ago: https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/08/cracking-designwares-gra... V-MAX! and Rapidlok were like deep magic, though. I never successfully cracked a title with
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by classichasclass 7mo ago
It's a bit of both, but I think the bigger issue (at least in my experience) is the magnetic flux pattern, especially if you've got new-old-stock media that hasn't been written to much or physically damaged. If you successful
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by classichasclass 7mo ago
Don't forget Venix. It was the first true Unix that could run on a stock IBM PC, and beat Xenix on that platform by months.
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by classichasclass 7mo ago
I miss them. Spent lots of time looking at stuff and always found something neat. Plus, the store facades were fascinating: https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2021/02/so-long-frys.html
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by classichasclass 8mo ago
It's a shame that Hyper-G has not been better preserved. It had some remarkable features (disclosure, my article: https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/05/prior-art-dept-hierarchi... ).
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LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop(github.com)
417 points by classichasclass 8mo ago|222 comments
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Commodore, IBM, OS/2, ARexx: Deal or no deal?(datagubbe.se)
3 points by classichasclass 8mo ago|0 comments
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by classichasclass 8mo ago
Copy protection was also generally less robust for educational software, since it sold to generally law-abiding folks (parents, educators, etc.). Never saw Rapidlok or V-MAX! used for educational software on the Commodore 64, for example.
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by classichasclass 8mo ago
No, not typically. Myself I would usually order one either on specific request, or to investigate things like osteoporosis or pathologic fractures, but not as screening. USPSTF does not currently recommend vitamin D screening either in asym
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by classichasclass 8mo ago
Not in the areas of California I frequent. Walmart is usually the cheapest around here; heck, even Target beats Safeway on some items. On the other hand, Walmart is also usually the worst at stock rotation.
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by classichasclass 9mo ago
In the past this was pretty lax (I've had a long-term box at a Mail Boxes Etc. that then became a private mail boxes place that then became a UPS Store) and they didn't really care when I first opened it. Now there's a push f

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