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by masswerk 2y ago
Well, here's a more realistic test, reading and printing 16 × 16 slides from DATA statements. With BASIC 2.0 more like 1.5 fps… :-) BASIC 2.0 (slow PRINT): https://masswerk.at/pet/?prg=hn-globe-slides-test&rom=
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by masswerk 2y ago
I'm trying… ;-) State of affairs (progress with the game this is for); https://bsky.app/profile/masswerk.at/post/3lflueg7vdc2z
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by masswerk 2y ago
OP here: Feel free to use/to refer to it. I'm pretty sure, I'm not the first one to have come up with something like this. (My part in this is really in organizing the data and the related 6502 code for rendering, maybe the h
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by masswerk 2y ago
BASIC is about 1000 times slower, so there's no way we could do this in realtime. Moreover, as mentioned in the article, the original PET 2001 suffers from bus conflicts when the CPU and the video circuitry access the video memory at t
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“PET-Globe” Demo(masswerk.at)
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by masswerk 2y ago
I guess, in terms of preservation, about the same rules apply as for a citation and/or block quote. Meaning, clearly state that this is a quote and provide references to the original (so it can be identified). Include a statement of go
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by masswerk 2y ago
Setun (1958) and Setun-70 (1970) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun
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by masswerk 2y ago
This was already the cut ending, as indicated by its abruptness. The extended edition apparently tried to reintroduce some of the original ending. (I guess, the towering tsunamis were a new addition, as this would have hardly been possible
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by masswerk 2y ago
The letter was complaining to Kubrick, not to the cinema, which I personally find bizarre.
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by masswerk 2y ago
Hum, the ending had to be remade after first screenings, and even as-is, it's subject to critique by many, diminishing the value of the entire film. (I recall it even being laughed at. I guess, audiences may have become more tolerant,
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by masswerk 2y ago
The third act is pretty much Jaws after the breakdown of the animatronic shark. There are actual pre-production stills showing aliens [1], but this was found unsatisfactory and the film drifted towards a much more abstract direction. Prob
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by masswerk 2y ago
> She had a valid complaint, putting pooh at 11pm after 2001 Mr. Kubrick's programming choices are, indeed, bizarre. ;-)
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by masswerk 2y ago
Apparently, it does. There is a -g flag (background) to prevent focus.
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by masswerk 2y ago
That's also my theory: Country houses used to be partially shut down, a whole wing, which may only be required as an accommodation for guests, or the household may contract to a manageable core of room in winter. Every now and then, so
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by masswerk 2y ago
Hire me! Unfortunately (or is fortunate?), I'm rather bad at real-life cynicism. So, no results guaranteed… ;-)
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by masswerk 2y ago
It's about the price of placing an advertisement. Ads becoming that cheap has eradicated significant portions of the Web, which is now flocking to the few big content platforms. I'd call this an anticompetitive development. Ad net
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by masswerk 2y ago
So, what are my ideas? - static banners (non blinking, no transitions, esp. no vertical transitions that are designed to force you to lose focus – I've come for the content, not the ads) - no tracking that exceeds maybe, if you have se
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by masswerk 2y ago
Fun effect: When finally confronted with the page-leave dialog, I automatically went for the non-default, grey option button – and was kind of surprised that this wasn't the option I wanted. I've a minor criticism: The "No th
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by masswerk 2y ago
Color coding any executables in file managers (in an otherwise reserved color) should be a standard.
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Still, the attraction, it got the attention for, may be the more general question.
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by masswerk 2y ago
That may be a factor, excellent point. Electric supply is pretty good and there hasn't been a major outage, since I was a child. Also, power lines are buried (under ground), here. (But I have surge protection, just in case, and am runn
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by masswerk 2y ago
My two cents: If we are talking about 1970s and '80s machines, they tend to run pretty hot, related to the PSU technology. Things like electrolytic capacitors "don't like this" and may contribute to cascading failures. P
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by masswerk 2y ago
This is exactly what EM (electro-mechanical) arcade games were, which were eventually replaced by video games. There were driving games, flight simulators of sorts, bombing missions, shooters, etc. Some of the earlier video games were direc
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by masswerk 2y ago
I once wrote about this on the example of Computer Space (1971) — the very first coin-op video game and also the first one using this technology — and how this relates to the Atari VCS / 2600 and its TIA chip. https://www.
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by masswerk 2y ago
A "message at no-not-the-famously-complex-RPG-with-the-aliens"is always worth considering and probably on topic. ;-)
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by masswerk 2y ago
> Are people just... not doing any due diligence around company names any more? At all? Well, there was a famous tweet/post/("X"?), answering to the claims of illegal relicensing, reading, "dawg i chatgpt&#x2
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by masswerk 2y ago
The problem being, we have "economized" academia, by things like "publish or perish", a citation pseudo stock market or third party funding, and all incentives are built around this pseudo-economy. Which also imports all
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by masswerk 2y ago
Well, this is about Pierre Bourdieu, and he had a few things to say about academia, as in Homo Academicus . And I'm not sure what example could illustrate the problem with the lopsided valuation of economic capital and the general dev
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But this is really a societal/political issue: since we decided that economic capital is king and symbolic capital not that much… (This is really the story of the last four decades or so.)
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by masswerk 2y ago
> The thing I’m tired of is elites stealing everything under the sun to feed these models. I suggest to apply the same to property law: make a photo and obtain instant and unlimited rights of use. – Things may change faster than we may i

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