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by reidrac 12y ago
I find remarkable he still has his games. The very few I made myself in gwbasic died with the double side floppy disks (720KB!) were I had them stored. At some point at the end of the 90s I tried to recover them, but it was already too late
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by reidrac 12y ago
I'm not sure how good is the test as it depends on the IO levels of the host where the VM instance is running. This is a 1GB Debian Wheezy instance with regular HDD in Memset [1]: dd bs=1M count=1024 if=/dev/zero of=tes
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by reidrac 12y ago
Thanks! I'm glad you like it :) After all the work was done I realized that perhaps would have been a more accessible project if I had developed an Arduino shield instead of an standalone PCB. You can still build it with an Arduino and
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by reidrac 12y ago
You shouldn't have any problems with CC65 (specially if you're emulating the Apple II!). In my case it took a good amount of work just to get a "hello world" using printf ;) And re:Mandelbrot... thanks! it took 2 hours a
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by reidrac 12y ago
The 6502 is a beautiful CPU, but is really simple too. I took me 5 days (let's say 10 hours) to get my 6502 VM working and passing Klaus Dormann's functional tests.
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by reidrac 12y ago
Great project! I released my own Arduino based microcomputer today and it is interesting that we implemented similar things in a different way (eg, I implemented composite video and not VGA; how different would have been my project if I had
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Show HN: An AVR based 8-bit Microcomputer(usebox.net)
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by reidrac 12y ago
"both 5V and 3.3V logic, meaning you can use pretty much any part without level shifters" Are you sure about that? It can provide different voltages in different pins, but the ATmega32u4 will work with 5v logic (if it is like the
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by reidrac 12y ago
Not convinced, still like tail -f because you can hit enter a couple of times and there you are... a nice visual mark to wait for new data without getting confused by existing content. All this in my humble opinion. less is useful and I may
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by reidrac 12y ago
I'm not sure if I understand what you're saying. They're using git, don't they? Obviously you miss the web interface to issues, pull requests, etc; but if you don't have git repositories distributed in your own infr
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by reidrac 12y ago
Is it frustrating because of the patches + mailing list or because the maintainer ignores them? Because pull requests can be ignored as well, although it is true that they're more visible than a mail in a mailing list archive.
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by reidrac 12y ago
That was the first editor I ever used in Linux back at the university. It was convenient because I had experience with Wordstar in DOS (3.0). I stopped using it when I had to telnet frequently to a server to do some remote work (circa 1998)
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by reidrac 12y ago
I don't think being passionate about programming, or your job or anything else, means it has to be at the expense of something else that is valuable. It's more about preference and priorities. I don't watch TV, for example. B
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by reidrac 12y ago
More information: http://bsd.plumbing/about.html
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by reidrac 12y ago
I love GitHub, but the "everybody to GitHub!" call makes me worry a little bit in the same way the predominance of Sourceforge didn't sound right back in the day; at least from the point of view of the open source community,
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by reidrac 12y ago
I doubt it will have the same effect and it is because this is not comparable to the BBC Micro. With the BBC Micro and other computers of that era (I got started in computing with a ZX Spectrum), you could start using the machine _almost_ s
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by reidrac 12y ago
That's the MCU of the Arduino Leonardo.
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by reidrac 12y ago
Good comment, thanks. I always have mixed feelings when Google has a project with two versions: the open source one and the binary only based on that one. Chrome and Chromium are not quite the same thing after all. I don't know for sur
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by reidrac 12y ago
My argument is that open source is what it is. Read the license and you'll find that there's nothing about free support; and if for some reason it breaks... you keep both pieces. I know this puts distributions in a bad situation,
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by reidrac 12y ago
Without defending Chrome team here; when a distro provides long time support (say > 1 year) I don't think is upstream responsibility to support the packages for that period of time. If the distro is upgrading the browser package I t
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by reidrac 12y ago
SOFTFAIL is only contributing to the anti-spam score (in theory) as it is supposed to allow the mail pass, but the host is still unauthorized [1]. Using "~all" means that you can only tell which hosts are definitely allowed to sen
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by reidrac 12y ago
It's been years since I last did some serious email hosting, but it looks like the SPF rule is the problem. Google is forwarding mail for dnalounge.com but the SPF rule doesn't allow Google's SMTP servers to do that: "v=
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by reidrac 12y ago
The 8051 is an MCU, the 6502 is not! May be my comment was confusing: I'm implementing a 6502 VM in an ATmega MCU; but my comment was about 6502's limitations and that I can relate to Wozniak's frustrations dealing with 16 bi
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by reidrac 12y ago
ca65 is the only 6502 assembler I've used, but I have experience with other CPUs assemblers and I must say I like ca65's macros a lot.
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by reidrac 12y ago
I've been working for the last two months in a personal project to build a 8-bit microcomputer based on AVR MCUs. Because these MUCs use a Harvard architecture I implemented a 6502 VM to run programs from external SRAM. But I digress;
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by reidrac 12y ago
"When using Superfish for the first time, the user is presented the Terms of User and Privacy Policy, and has option not to accept these terms, i.e., Superfish is then disabled." Brilliant! It is behind a "Terms of User and P
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by reidrac 12y ago
He has defended in the past his strategy of iterating over the same idea and keep his fan base happy with a solid product. I remember reading a post by Jeff were he mentions that instead of redoing all graphics and art in each new chapter o
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by reidrac 12y ago
It is pretty well explained in the docs: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cu... If they're confused on that, they probably have other isses to worry about.
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by reidrac 12y ago
I didn't say what was best, I said that comparing "only" MHz is missing part of the picture. Today machines are easier to compare because they have similar functionality, but back in the day it was different. I had a ZX Spect
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by reidrac 12y ago
I agree with your comment, mostly. Just mention that comparing MHz is not quite right in that era. For example Speccy's 3.5MHz were not that much of an advantage compared with the 1MHz of the C64 if you take into account that it didn&#

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