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by polpo 2y ago
In my experience with parallel FRAM, it’s as fast as SRAM and is a drop in replacement with the same timing. A lot of folks have replaced battery backed SRAM with FRAM on game consoles.
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by polpo 2y ago
This is a framework for building things that run on DOS (yes, that means running JavaScript on DOS). If what you’re running DOS on has a working parallel port, DOjS can use it.
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by polpo 2y ago
If all you want is text chat with no shared history, sure IRC is fine. But think about these features that the chat apps bring: Search: half-remember some conversation from months/years ago? It's right there, in the app. Persisten
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by polpo 2y ago
The grandparent poster may be talking about ATSC 3.0 which has been rolling out for a while. H.265 at a reported 28-36Mbps is nothing to sneeze at!
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by polpo 2y ago
I don’t know where he got his, but last August there was one on shopgoodwill.com. I was tipped to it on a small retrocomputing Discord server but I stupidly forgot to bid on it. There were only 2 bids and whoever won the auction only paid $
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by polpo 2y ago
And the other item the seller had was a Taylor Swift concert ticket that used the wrong font. There’s definitely a pattern there. https://social.panic.com/@cabel/112452964691814590
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by polpo 2y ago
It’s interesting to note that the WiFi on the PicoMEM is based on code from yyzkevin originally from his PCMCIA project. And the PicoMEM uses PSRAM code from my PicoGUS project. And then PicoGUS uses Sound Blaster code from yyzkevin. And no
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by polpo 2y ago
It could happen at any time to the 65C02. The Z80 was only EOLed a few weeks ago because they couldn’t get wafers from their fab any more. Any chip on an old process is at risk of this.
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by polpo 3y ago
Thanks for the link – just opened an issue concerning the font weight and text color on the site.
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by polpo 3y ago
I'm going to push back on the comment in the article about the build system being overkill. While "tiny" is a relative term, not all projects built for the RP2040 are tiny – my PicoGUS project relies on several external libra
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by polpo 3y ago
I sure hope mainline Vim isn't dead. I keep trying NeoVim but I prefer using Vim in a GUI and no NeoVim GUI I've found has the level of polish that MacVim [1] has. VimR [2] comes close but keep finding myself going back to MacVim.
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by polpo 3y ago
It runs natively, not under emulation, and can integrate with any other build system that you have running natively. Granted, if you're building DOS apps, the overhead of running the x64 version of OpenWatcom in emulation probably isn&
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by polpo 3y ago
I really don't understand why chip resellers re-mark chips like this. It's always obvious and it gives me the idea that they have something to hide. I've paid more for obviously used chips that I can tell are genuine than &qu
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by polpo 3y ago
I did this in college in the late 90s/early 00s. It was fun and I could keep up but ultimately it was a dumb flex and I didn’t retain the info any better. I’m glad I stopped. I still did my homework exercises in LaTeX but that was sort
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by polpo 3y ago
I love the AY-3-8910, can't wait to see how this turns out. I really don't understand why chip resellers re-mark chips like this. It's always obvious and it gives me the idea that they have something to hide. I've paid m
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by polpo 3y ago
The person who imaged the disks commented on this video exploring 86-DOS 0.11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd7T5euID1E (It's a neat video by the way – he shows how 86-DOS would be used in that state back then by cr
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by polpo 3y ago
Given that Boeing currently has to ship planes to Europe with 25 hours of recording capacity, and that this plane is only a few months old, I'd guess it already has 25 hours of capacity and it's artificially limited to 2 because i
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by polpo 3y ago
Gunpei Yokoi's ethos of "lateral thinking with withered technology" [1] has been an guiding principle within Nintendo since the Game & Watch days: to use "seasoned" or otherwise imperfect technology in creative
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by polpo 3y ago
Way back when the Nintendo Wii was brand new and hard to find, I wrote a script to scrape Target.com for store inventory and notify me if a nearby store restocked. A few years after that I revamped it to check on inventory for newly release
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by polpo 3y ago
There are guardrails around access to the clipboard (and the post talks about the circumstances around it) but this exploit takes advantage of the fact that simply selecting text on X11 puts it in the primary selection buffer. The code just
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by polpo 3y ago
Just looked at the Wolf3D source ( https://github.com/id-Software/wolf3d/tree/master/WOLFSRC ) - it uses VGA in unchained mode but still at 320x200. So not exactly Mode X, but "Mode Y".
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by polpo 3y ago
In St. Louis most stations are K but there are a few Ws.
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by polpo 3y ago
Because the footage isn't "real" and isn't through the lens from the perspective of the player. Actual through-the-lens video I've seen is constrained to the retroreflective surface. Example: https://www.
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by polpo 3y ago
It's projection and the gameboard is a retroreflector. Their about page goes into pretty good detail about how it works: https://www.tiltfive.com/the-system
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by polpo 3y ago
Reminds me of Apple’s Chalkboard font, which basically fixes everything that’s off putting about Comic Sans while still being casual and child-like: http://www.identifont.com/differences?first=Chalkboard&secon...
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by polpo 3y ago
More than 32 instructions per PIO block: my main current project (PicoGUS) uses 32 instructions on one PIO block and 31 on the other to handle ISA IO, ISA DMA, I2S audio out, and SPI PSRAM access. Having more would let me cut a few less cor
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by polpo 3y ago
Given that there is a whole publicly traded company that does ARM SoC interconnect as their bread and butter (Arteris IP) and they and their stock price seem to be doing OK is an indication that it’s still allowed.
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by polpo 3y ago
Pretty standard in that they were included in what you sign when you start a job? Or standard that they were actually enforced? When I was in California in the mid 00s I worked at several jobs that gave me a noncompete to sign when I starte
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by polpo 3y ago
We are legion! Love my NextLight.
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by polpo 3y ago
Yes, to switch the card being emulated, you can flash new firmware images directly from DOS using the pgusinit.exe program that ships in the release package. It takes about 5 seconds to load the firmware and the new emulation is available t

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