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by jdswain 7y ago
And quite a bit of MacOS was ported back to the IIgs, most notably QuickDraw. The IIgs had ADB before the Mac, and colour QuickDraw years before the Mac had colour graphics. At the time it looks like the 65816 was deliberately speed limited
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And the iPad of the 80's would be the Apple //c as featured in the movie 2010. It was seen being used on a beach, complete with LCD screen, and this was 1984. There's a couple of issues though, the //c did not
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by jdswain 7y ago
Which would look a lot like an Apple TV but running macOS.
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by jdswain 7y ago
Yep, that was what finally made him a billionaire. Probably Apple phase 2 well surpassed that by the end, but I think the first fortune is the most important Apple 1. Millionaire by 21 I think.
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Mainly because the assembler I knew I had on my computer was the GNU assembler and it uses that syntax. I did quickly try the .intel_syntax directive but it was just easier to change it around as the code was so short. Most of my assembler
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by jdswain 7y ago
For the first few years I spent more time thinking about projects rather than actually implementing them. Often this pays of in the long run as you have a much better design by the end and save all that wasted time when you change part way
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by jdswain 7y ago
And it’s important for kids to learn to entertain themselves. In this time of YouTube and social media and all the other things that are trying to grab kids time, they still need to learn how to be at peace with themselves.
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by jdswain 7y ago
I always thought it would be incredibly hard to have a child with difficulties like yours. I teach a gymnastics club once a week and have an autistic kid there and instead of being problem she is one of the most rewarding ones to teach (in
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Always stayed away from Intel assembly, but thought I'd have a go at running this. First issue was this is I think, Intel format, whereas I was using GNU as, so I had to make a few changes: .global _start .text _start: mov
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by jdswain 7y ago
Depending on how you measure it, it could be up to 4 fortunes: Founding Apple. Pixar. NeXT? Apple the second time. I'm not sure if you'd count NeXT as a fortune, it looks like he got something a little under $40m in Apple shares,
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by jdswain 7y ago
Objective-C was designed by adding objects to C. So the base syntax is C. Then the idea was that the object-oriented bits were inside [], and the named arguments or message syntax came from smalltalk and was designed to make the language ea
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by jdswain 7y ago
Your SO is very lucky to have your understanding. While personal torment in a situation like this is probably the biggest issue, the fear of others judgement is a very real problem to deal with. So many things that people say are just wrong
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It's mainly because I'm trying to write everything in Swift now rather than Objective-C. I still think Objective-C is a great language, but Swift is the future of iOS development. It was easier in Objective-C as you could just ren
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by jdswain 7y ago
I've been using C++ to share code between iOS and Android for years and have come to the same conclusion. I developed the C++ code on desktop operating systems which was easier to debug, but once you move it to mobile then the debuggin
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The biomechanical perfection of Simone Biles triple double(wired.com)
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by jdswain 7y ago
Theres some simple economics in this. If visitor numbers are down 3%, and say prices are up 5% then total profit is also up, variable costs are down, and parks are less crowded so everyone has a better time.
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by jdswain 7y ago
And the Mac SE wasn't introduced in 1984 as the article says, the original Macintosh (128) was introduced then, designed by Jerry Manock as the parent says. The Mac SE and Mac II were introduced in 1987, after the 512, Plus and 512Ke.
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by jdswain 7y ago
In my experience NDK development is quite painful now. Most of my NDK work is a little old now but I found the debugging process quite painful. This was for C++ code that was running on other platforms so almost all of the debugging was due
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by jdswain 7y ago
Regarding the foil reference, it’s actually a reference to something that technology has made obsolete. Back then people used to use overhead projectors for presentations, and the sheets of transparent film were called foils. There were som
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by jdswain 7y ago
There is an INC A instruction on the 65C02 and 65816, so this is better if you have anything newer than the NMOS 6502: EOR #255 ; Invert INC A ; Add 1 It looks like the Lynx has a 65SC02 which is a 65C02 without the bit mani
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by jdswain 8y ago
The books by Pong Chu are really good. You can choose either VHDL or Verilog and then the FPGA you are getting started with. I went through 'FPGA Prototyping by Verilog Examples' as my first starting point with Verilog and it was
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RiscOS Open Sourced(theregister.co.uk)
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Bill Atkinson ported UCSD Pascal to the Apple ][, and he was one of the very core Mac developers. Apple Pascal was probably one of the very few software systems that spanned all of Apple's computers at the time. The Apple //&
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by jdswain 8y ago
Simon Schama’s Power of Art series starts with an episode on Caravaggio. The series is well worth watching and explains a lot about the artists lives. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Schama%27s_Power_of_Ar...
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by jdswain 8y ago
There is a class of tools for this called Requirements Management. They tend to be expensive and clunky tools in my experience, but I haven't used one for quite a few years. Ones I have used are Rational Requisite Pro (IBM) and Doors,
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Like this? NeXTstep NextStep NEXTstep...
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I also have a 5D. Whenever I try manual mode I use the exposure meter to get the correct exposure, so it feels like I should have just used Aperture Priority mode and let the camera match up the exposure for me. Is there any real benefit in
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by jdswain 8y ago
But maybe if he didn't have those same issues he would have never started TempleOS in the first place. It takes a certain rejection of reality to even consider writing a complete operating system on your own, and yet he is one of the v
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by jdswain 8y ago
Does anyone know of a low cost way of getting a Product ID for a commercial product? I've been working on software for an embedded board and am using the USB port as a debug port. It works fine now as a USB serial link, but it would be
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by jdswain 8y ago
There’s an ongoing effort to understand the SID here http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4150 Lots of interesting analog chip level stuff, it’s all new to me as I’ve only dealt with things at the digital level, bu

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