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Vision BASIC(visionbasic.net)
27 points by nickt 3y ago|13 comments
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by nickt 3y ago
[1] Earl Butz - Secretary of Agriculture under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford (1971 - 1976) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Butz
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That's a great site. I though it was generally Microgramma which I first discovered on the front of a Commodore PET for Sci Fi movies. TIL that one of the designers of Microgramma (Aldo Novarese) later designed Eurostyle and they are q
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Hacker News Highlights(news.ycombinator.com)
256 points by nickt 3y ago|44 comments
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Can the U.S. win the microchip war?(semafor.com)
2 points by nickt 3y ago|1 comments
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Talking of registering domains, xerox.com was the 7th registered .com, and SRI was the 8th - less than a week apart in January 1986. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_r...
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by nickt 3y ago
Stu makes great videos - truly the David Attenborough of video game history. In case you've missed it, he has some other channels, including the brilliant DrinksAhoy [1], Krush Dev Diary [2] and music on Bandcamp [3] [1] https:/&
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The Amiga Museum(theamigamuseum.com)
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I dunno. The 6502 looks pretty large with this version. https://monster6502.com/
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It's great to see a real SIO port, as well as USB. SIO always felt ahead of its time, particularly its ability to attach multiple devices to the bus. Joe Decuir who did chipset design for the VCS and Amiga is well known for his work on
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The Mega 65 gets pretty close, they say “highly compatible”. https://mega65.org/
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And the wind itself backs (anti-clockwise) and veers (clockwise) with height.
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I think you're right, depending on how you define "IT". The operational part of IT wants zero change and high levels of predicability to maintain reliability. It thinks long term. The development part of IT wants to add featu
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You might be interested in the Maelstrom GPL port. https://github.com/libsdl-org/Maelstrom
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Could this self-driving EV charging robot be a game changer?(electrek.co)
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Just curious, while I’ve ordered various 3D printed parts, I’ve not bought a 3D printer. What do you use 9 3D printers for?
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The 205 Gti wasn’t bad for an 80’s hot hatch. https://www.classic-trader.com/en/magazine/peugeot-205-gti-b...
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Very much reminiscent of the British Rail Corporate Identity Manual, which includes such details as train crew uniforms and even clock faces. http://www.doublearrow.co.uk/manual.htm
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To be fair to the author, they are using that sentence to link to the (admittedly fairly lightweight, but somewhat interesting) NPR article. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765&#x
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Lenslok Copy Protection(en.wikipedia.org)
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PDS Development System – a 1980’s game development system(cpcwiki.eu)
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PDS in itself is quite interesting, I was familiar with the Apricot PC version but had no idea it ran on an ST. https://retro-hardware.com/2019/05/29/programmers-developmen... https://www.cpcwiki.e
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Vicii-Kawari – An FPGA Vic-II Replacement for the Commodore 64(accentual.com)
12 points by nickt 4y ago|4 comments
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I just noticed that you can play all the Magnetic Scrolls games online from that sites home page: https://msmemorial.if-legends.org/memorial.php Click on the chalice and there goes the weekend…
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Magnetic Scrolls! Thanks for the blast from the past. Here’s a great snippet from an interview with Anita Sinclair, one of the founders: How do you design your adventures? We have three development systems. We've got the VAX, which run
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Why the US and UK can’t stop fighting the metric system(theverge.com)
30 points by nickt 4y ago|36 comments
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In a similar vein, from back in the BBS days, The Big Book of Mischief. https://archive.org/details/Big_Book_Of_Mischief/mode/2up
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Indeed. Here’s a discussion from yesterday for those who may have missed it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34276519
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Modern Retro Hardware List for the BBC Micro Master and Acorn Electron(elminster.github.io)
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Reminds me of the day, obviously some years earlier, that a few of us aged about 10 years discovered *NOTIFY and even better, *REMOTE on the Econet connected Beebs we had at school. Oh, here’s the manual (PDF), which we never read: http:&#

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