jim_lawless

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Tandy Assembly 2018 – Arthur A. Gleckler [80's game dev, video](youtube.com)
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by jim_lawless 8y ago
I like various, older compression algorithms: Huffman, LZ77/LZSS, LZ78/LZW.
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by jim_lawless 8y ago
Out of the Inner Circle (1985) - the autobiographical true story of "The Cracker" Bill Landreth.
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by jim_lawless 8y ago
Yes it was! They have the issue at the archive: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1986-05
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by jim_lawless 8y ago
I started reading Byte in the mid-80's, while at tech school. It was a great source of information on all kinds of computing subjects. It began to lose it's attraction (for me) when they stopped publishing source code. I still ha
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by jim_lawless 8y ago
No, these instructions are still present in IBM's z/Architecture.
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by jim_lawless 8y ago
I'd like to point out that COBOL generates rather efficient fixed-point math code on IBM mainframes because those mainframes have a dedicated set of machine-level instructions that deal with fixed-point math. The data type used is &quo
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by jim_lawless 9y ago
This sounds like a modern-day equivalent of the classic "Fool on the Hill" played on the AM radio sitting on top of an Altair 8800 ( recreated in the video below ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FDigtF0dRQ
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by jim_lawless 9y ago
An effort to bring Minitel-based computing to the masses happened in Omaha, Nebraska in the early 1990's. The service was named CommunityLink. It was a joint venture between U.S. West ( then, a Regional Bell Operating Company ) and Fr
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by jim_lawless 9y ago
Some of the emulators for older computers provide similar functionality. The VICE Commodore computer emulator can use an external program called TCPSer to provide an emulated Commodore PC with a virtual modem. The command ATDT ip-address:po
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by jim_lawless 10y ago
I reviewed the compiler in an old issue of DDJ: http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/examining-the-tawk-compiler/184... I ended up writing a couple of command-line email utility programs with it that I sold, for a while.
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by jim_lawless 10y ago
I agree with your approach! I built a non-Turing-complete Forth-like interpreter in Go a few years ago with words similar to the set you've defined above: https://lawlessguy.wordpress.com/2013/07/20/an-r
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by jim_lawless 10y ago
In 1997, I wrote MailSend, a commercial command-line SMTP emailer for Windows. It is now free to use, open-source software. http://www.mailsend-online.com/blog/mailsend-is-free.html There were (and are still) a number
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by jim_lawless 10y ago
"Running a Software Business on 5 Hours a Week" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1206649 Patrick talks about techniques he learned to streamline his business when selling Bingo Card Creator.
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by jim_lawless 10y ago
Many years ago, I had a land-line service that allowed my phone to ring only if the number was available via Caller ID and was on a white-list of numbers. Any other caller would hear a message prompting for a touch-tone code to ring our pho
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by jim_lawless 10y ago
Stuff I've written independently: MailSend ... a command-line SMTP mailer I sold starting in 1997 (with the same name as some other command-line mailers ) is still in use by some of my oldest customers. It doesn't directly suppor
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by jim_lawless 11y ago
In that same era, there were other proprietary programming languages just outside the mainstream that also attempted to abstract the low-level details of working with the Windows API. The Whitewater Group's Actor: https://en
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by jim_lawless 11y ago
The history of one of the software companies mentioned, Big Five Software, can be found here: http://www.bigfivesoftware.com/ They produced some excellent arcade games. They also sold adapted Atari joysticks which could be
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by jim_lawless 12y ago
I experienced a similar problem with a POP3 utility that I had written years ago. I had been appending an extra space to the end of each text line (before the CRLF ). There were a few people using this utility with no problems until one da
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by jim_lawless 12y ago
It looks like Paul is still working on his own ( via http://www.arachnoid.com/administration/index.html ) "In 1988 Lutus cast off his lines and began what was to become a four-year solo circumnavigation of the wor
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by jim_lawless 12y ago
In Windows, the program should check for the presence of a unique, global atom via GlobalFindAtom(). If present, terminate. If not present, create the atom with GlobalAddAtom() and continue the initial execution of the program.
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by jim_lawless 13y ago
1) Early 80's: TRS-80 / Apple / C64 BASIC, Z-80, and 6502 assembly-language via books and the wealth of magazines available. Mid 80's: Turbo Pascal via a local CP/M community and a couple of books. I did take an in
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by jim_lawless 13y ago
From the write-up: "BANCStar actually came with a "screen generator" that was supposed to be used to construct applications. But the 5.1c version of the generator was so limited that experienced programmers soon began to pry
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by jim_lawless 13y ago
Here's a list of some other free books on Forth and stack-machines. http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20130618144353106/Invaluab...
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by jim_lawless 14y ago
The "Load 80" icon in the upper-right corner of the first page indicates that the code was on the issue's counterpart cassette tape ... which could be purchased separately.
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by jim_lawless 14y ago
In the late 90's, I began selling several command-line programs for Windows using the shareware model. I sold a command-line SMTP mailer (MailSend), a command-line POP3 reader (MailGrab), a command-line scheduler (TSched), and a command-li
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by jim_lawless 14y ago
The copper was a video-sequencing co-processor that lived as part of the Agnus chip. A copperlist is a sequence of copper instructions that would execute in parallel with the main processor. Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origi
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by jim_lawless 14y ago
A few months ago, I saw Andrew Betts of the Financial Times Labs speak at the O'Reilly Fluent JavaScript conference. I was intrigued by their focus of using HTML5/JS to provide offline caching of content so that a reader could keep clickin
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by jim_lawless 14y ago
pg - I'm curious if you've ever given thought to the idea of exposing a filter or ranking Domain Specific Language to us ... something that we could enter in a spot in our user-profile ... so that we could either choose the current ranking
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by jim_lawless 14y ago
It's not just Symantec. I've had issues with multiple AV companies that pertained to binary-string signatures in my code. The AV companies I've dealth with all seem to have online ticketing systems that allowed for rapid correction of thes

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