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by dusted 3y ago
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2F...
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by dusted 3y ago
While my knee-jerk reaction is to blame bad backup practices, that's not what I believe happened here. Not entirely at least. The setup is too complex to easily verify and restore. Yes, a bespoke box is annoying and "inelegant&quo
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by dusted 3y ago
On the other hand, we're in the multi gigahertz, multi gagabyte era, there's almost no excuse for loading times except bloated libraries and not giving a damn about performance.
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by dusted 3y ago
Yeah, I should have figured that HN would probably be a place where it'd be okay to write kernal, but then again, someone might point out the spelling difference between the penguin one and the chicken lips one :P
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by dusted 3y ago
So, I like Linux and I love my C64, but.. Linux are for computers too primitive to come with their own kernel and.... the C64 comes with a kernel and shell right from the factory :P
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by dusted 3y ago
Depends what good code is to you. Good code is different depending on your sense of aesthetics, but also it's purpose. Good code for an enterprise-life-blood type of system is terrible code for a "let's check if this is an id
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by dusted 3y ago
I'm probably still a mediocre programmer, but I've never hit any limitations, or read any books or courses, the only improvements I've noticed in myself have come from discussion with colleagues and deep thought about my valu
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by dusted 3y ago
Absolutely!
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by dusted 3y ago
Yesterday, All those backups seemed a waste of pay. Now my database has gone away. Oh I believe in yesterday. Suddenly, There's not half the files there used to be, And there's a milestone hanging over me The system crashed so sud
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by dusted 3y ago
The fact that there's a cartridge compatibility list indicates that this is not a real machine, but an emulator which does not even do a good job of emulating the cartridge ports. I was so close. This is the same disappointment as the
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by dusted 3y ago
Random stuff, mostly my "projects" whatever they may be, both as a way to share what I enjoy doing with the world (the minuscule subset that is actually on the WWW), and as a way to remember the details about what I've done.
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by dusted 3y ago
I read the article, and I see nowhere that the author states that the title of their review is the title of the book. However, whatever was being reviewed seemed interesting enough to ask here. So, except for your arrogant way of telling me
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by dusted 3y ago
This looks like a review or comment on something, that Ellen wrote, but I've no idea what, it does not link to anything ?
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by dusted 3y ago
This seems too shallow to allow any drives at all ?
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by dusted 3y ago
I started using the samsung note series, now the "galaxy ultra" and their stylus and general performance satisfy my needs, I enjoy the DEX experience too, it's very nice with a docking station that gives you usb mouse/ke
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by dusted 3y ago
Even the giant ones I find seem to have no drive bays, either just filled with fans, or some glass plates with LEDs.
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Ask HN: Where are the good PC cases?
3 points by dusted 3y ago|10 comments
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by dusted 3y ago
My approach is very different, firstly: Storage is local, not on some cloud service. My music is stored on my fileserver, along with my other files. Even uncompressed PCM is cheap enough to store that I see no good reason to convert to a le
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by dusted 3y ago
Very interesting! Now we need to make a translator for the DOS version of 3Dfx Glide 1 & 2 and drivers for Windows 95, 98 and 2000 ^_^ I'm getting on with the 3DFx one this weekend if all goes well.
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Show HN: Retro site with wrong AI generated description of obscure game(retrogoody.com)
3 points by dusted 3y ago|0 comments
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by dusted 3y ago
I wanted ZIF sockets for three reasons things: I want to be able to swap out chips (and their fake replacements) easily to test compatibility and stuff like that. The chance of breaking the pins off of the vintage chips is very real, especi
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by dusted 3y ago
The guy has worked on a complete chipset replacement for a very long time, I could understand if he would want to earn some money for his efforts before open sourcing it, he's under absolutely no moral obligation to opensource this, bu
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by dusted 3y ago
Yes, I put mine in low-profile zif sockets, additionally, I put ESD protection diodes on the joystick ports because that's where you're most likely to touch and fry (including the orignal sid and cias)
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by dusted 3y ago
I find it perfectly fine and acceptable for long periods of time, I think the original keyboard is quite good mechanically (springed keys with conductive rubber feet onto pcb pads), the ergonomics of the breadbin (I have an ultimate64 and a
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by dusted 3y ago
A Pi400 is also an excellent option in my opinon. I love doing both real hardware and emulation for different purposes, I don't see anything wrong with picking either, neither or both (neither of course is the worst option ;) )
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by dusted 3y ago
FPGA is in absolutely no way more faithful, which FPGA implementation has 100% compatibility with all internal and external interfaces ?
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by dusted 3y ago
I have an Ultimate64 too, I did this project for philosophical reasons, since everything is new, even the motherboard, it's definitely a new machine, but at the same time, if you look at the electrical activity on the traces, you would
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by dusted 3y ago
I'll definitely do the keyboard, actually I'm using the breadbin keyboard here because I think it looks neat. Commodore were pretty good at keeping things compatible. The motherboard was intended for breadbin as well, but fits fin
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by dusted 3y ago
I guess we can never know, but I strongly suspect they've never sounded the same, similar, but not the same.
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by dusted 3y ago
You can do it with a linear supply, a common mod that people do is actually to replace the lm7805 regulator with a pin compatible switching replacement for less power draw and heat generation. I think ripple-free is by 1982 standards ;)

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