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They made me an offer I couldn't refuse (1997)(jens.mooseyard.com)
69 points by classichasclass 10mo ago|35 comments
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by classichasclass 10mo ago
Yes and no. Yes, it stunk for BASIC programming, but it also meant that by necessity you made the jump to driving the hardware bare metal much quicker, which is the best way to get the most out of it.
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Modern Walkmans(walkman.land)
166 points by classichasclass 10mo ago|141 comments
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by classichasclass 10mo ago
P.A. Semi contributed greatly to Apple silicon, but the company has nothing to do with PA-RISC. In fact, their most notable chip before Apple bought them was Power ISA.
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by classichasclass 10mo ago
A lot, I think. PA-RISC had a lot going for it, high performance, solid ISA, even some low-end consumer grade parts (not to the same degree as PowerPC but certainly more so than, say, SPARC). It could have gone much farther than it did. Not
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by classichasclass 10mo ago
A bit of a sharpshoot here, but Power Mac applications for classic Mac OS, including fat binaries, put the PPC executable code in the data fork. This was also true for CFM-68K binaries. Only old school 68K code went in CODE resources.
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by classichasclass 10mo ago
(author) At one time I thought of doing a PalmOS port, and even did a little code to draw the tank, but never got farther than that. I'm not even sure where that went.
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by classichasclass 10mo ago
I think Multiplan for 8-bit systems was implemented in a similar fashion, which enabled it to be widely ported.
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by classichasclass 10mo ago
(author) Yes, I couldn't resist the obvious. :) edit. I should also point out that it's the same word in Ukrainian, for the record.
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by classichasclass 10mo ago
https://archive.md/zK1vG
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by classichasclass 10mo ago
Sucked, compared to? If the 6502 sucked on every other metric but cost, while it would have gotten some use I don't think it would have been as heavily used as it was.
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Universal-tbxi-patchset: Mac OS New World ROM patchset to boot System 7.5(github.com)
36 points by classichasclass 10mo ago|2 comments
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by classichasclass 11mo ago
It's not just Zork: a number of games, including Hitchhiker's, are open source now. https://github.com/historicalsource
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Sit – Create StuffIt archives on Unix systems(github.com)
60 points by classichasclass 11mo ago|6 comments
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by classichasclass 11mo ago
That's pretty neat. I look forward to the graphical version, though: love those double-sized characters.
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by classichasclass 11mo ago
Heck, we made that joke about the Yugo.
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by classichasclass 11mo ago
If it's the model I'm thinking of, it's basically a 9000/712. An easy way to get a PA-RISC workstation from someone who doesn't realize what it actually is. :)
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by classichasclass 11mo ago
Then they started loading the protection code from disk doing tricky things. One I cracked recently was a pair of Commodore 1541 sectors that appeared to be the same logical sector (because the drive head is blind). It needed to hit both of
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by classichasclass 11mo ago
You could call it a sub-scene of the demoscene, I suppose.
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by classichasclass 11mo ago
Of course, there's the small matter of them instead choosing to hide under the desk in your command shack and refusing to come out.
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by classichasclass 1y ago
Good to hear (I have my own 64-bit fixed pilrc but POSE was the missing piece). What do you mean by the Windows UI, though? Likely I'd compile this on my MacBook.
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by classichasclass 1y ago
There is immune tissue in the gut as well (see Peyer's patches et al.), so oral exposure only may not actually be enough.
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by classichasclass 1y ago
Is your POSE 64-bit fixed or still 32-bit? ISTR running into this problem trying to compile the original from source and have yet to find the round tuit.
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by classichasclass 1y ago
The readme mentions a PDF conversion tool, but I just cut and pasted into Preview, and that seemed to work.
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by classichasclass 1y ago
You can approximate BLOAD with SYS calls. Something like SYS57812"FILENAME",8,1:POKE780,0:SYS65493 will do it.
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by classichasclass 1y ago
Tymshare! What kind of work did you do for them?
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by classichasclass 1y ago
Thanks for the kind word! They were fun to write.
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by classichasclass 1y ago
(author) Next one in sequence. You can leap forwards or backwards. On the Cat, there is also a LOCAL LEAP for within the current document only.
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by classichasclass 1y ago
Pocket Writer (version 2, at least). Used it heavily for term papers.
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by classichasclass 1y ago
(author) You can also count me in that list - working on a PA-RISC system was my first job out of college. I found the ISA very clean and they were strong performers. How HP got the wrong idea about VLIW, I'll never understand.

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