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by koz1000 6y ago
Probably. Here’s someone that did it 4 years ago (although it was just a full-stop taxi and back out). It just takes some polite asking to TRACON on a hopefully quiet night. https://youtu.be/vipvtaRbQho
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by koz1000 6y ago
Back in April I spotted a Cessna 182 doing some late night touch-and-gos...at Chicago ORD. https://imgur.com/a/dIWXfij
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by koz1000 6y ago
We're still uploading photos from that QuickTake 100...
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by koz1000 6y ago
1994 checking in! http://www.lysator.liu.se/pinball/expo/ Is anyone from Linköping University reading this? I need to thank them for 26 years of free hosting. :-)
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by koz1000 7y ago
I was a Chinet subscriber in the 90s and early 2000s. For many years after I left UIUC it was one of the few places you could get a Usenet feed without belonging to a university or a company like AT&T. I met Randy at a number of parties
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by koz1000 7y ago
In a previous lifetime I worked for a company that had a Lucasfilm merchandising license for Star Wars: Episode 1. It was made precisely clear what the damages would be if script details leaked out prematurely, and they would be enumerated
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by koz1000 8y ago
It does, but it's owned by whomever owns the Williams IP. I believe these days it's Scientific Games. SG isn't making pinball machines but apparently has licensed the code to an outside group to maybe remake old games or wha
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by koz1000 8y ago
I don't recall. The lead O/S engineer was from Purdue so perhaps he went to XINU right away out of familiarity.
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by koz1000 8y ago
Pinball 2000 engineer here. The "Pinball 2000 hardware" setup was an ATX motherboard running a MediaGX CPU (x86 clone, it lives on as AMD Geode). It also had a custom PCI card for storage and sound DSP, and a secondary board conn
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by koz1000 8y ago
In 1999 my team at Williams Electronics chose XINU as the O/S for the Pinball 2000 project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rHbsCyde1g At the time, embedded X86 boards were not really a thing yet so we needed somethin
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by koz1000 9y ago
David was a pinball fan like myself and couldn't attend the expo in Chicago that year. I was commiserating on Usenet about not being able to find affordable hosting for the website. This was way before hosting-only companies were av
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by koz1000 9y ago
You could try my site for Pinball Expo 1994. http://www.lysator.liu.se/pinball/expo/ Did it by hand with MS Notepad, MS Paint, Apple QuickTake 100 camera, Chameleon TCP/IP, and Mosaic for PC. I did, however,
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by koz1000 9y ago
But note that it didn't stop the counterfeiters. It just slowed them down. In the arcade business, having that window of time was enough to get the production run done and not have any interference with knockoffs. Another lesser-know
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by koz1000 10y ago
Hey let me throw KaRo on that pile as well. They refused to remove a label from their SoC in production so we could install a thermal sink plate in our final assembly. Even for 2,000 SOMs/year they wouldn't do it. Went to Bounda
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by koz1000 10y ago
Thought the same thing. Remember in the early days when Tesla owners would claim some wacky thing or other about the car (unintended acceleration etc) and Musk would publicly say "Nope, got the logs right here on our server"? Seem
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by koz1000 10y ago
Want to know the best part? Nearly all of those signature sounds were generated algorithmically by the processor on the sound board. The main program would feed some values into a series of feedback loops and shifts to generate the waves
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by koz1000 10y ago
Spot on. BSP != "blob".
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by koz1000 10y ago
Sometimes talking to RPi developers is like talking to coffee drinkers that only visit Starbucks. You can't convince them that there's a bigger world of options out there that can be better for your particular application.
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by koz1000 10y ago
"Some designers have sworn off pulling the levers of luck at all. For a long time Larry DeMar, a noted pinball-game designer who worked with Williams, avoided using the ball-saver in the company’s designs, believing it undermined the
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by koz1000 10y ago
My colleagues at Creaform have something that works pretty well. Their latest handheld scanner can generate a wire mesh on the fly with 0.030mm resolution. http://www.creaform3d.com/en 10K scans/day is way beyond thei
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by koz1000 10y ago
1995. Pinball game code for Williams Electronics "Jack*Bot". I also don't count it as code, but the Pinball Expo 1994 website I put together before that (in Notepad, natch) is apparently still up and running at Linköping Univ
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by koz1000 10y ago
Oh man, that Torx wrench. Pre-internet, that was nearly impossible to find unless you knew someone that had a Mac repair business.
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by koz1000 10y ago
On Saturday he was looking for so-called Easter eggs, or surprises hidden by software programmers, on Macintosh SE models that reveal a slide show of the company’s development team. >G 41D89A That one has been etched in my brain for th
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by koz1000 11y ago
Sooner or later, all project management ends up in Excel. Doesn't matter what ticket or tracking tool you've paid for.
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by koz1000 11y ago
I was recently prototyping a commercial project with an IL9341 LCD driver, a common part that my LCD glass vendor used in their modules. I asked the glass vendor for a development unit that had a wired-up interface and available schematics
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by koz1000 11y ago
Namco is very involved with Pacman and still involved with arcade equipment based on it. Here's something my friends at Raw Thrills just introduced a little while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koLvoCMHCrI Fro
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by koz1000 11y ago
Closed door meetings with odd combinations of managers that don't normally meet is a HUGE red flag.
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by koz1000 11y ago
When your company sends a press release about the layoffs to the wire services and it accidentally gets released 24 hours before the event.
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by koz1000 11y ago
As someone whose last name ended in "rz", I was aware of this every single minute. =)
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by koz1000 11y ago
I won't lie, it was a blast. It was also an insane amount of work. Years went by like a blur. Some of what went on over there is documented in Greg Maletic's film Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball . Josh Tsui (from the Mortal K

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