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by spankibalt 2mo ago
> To the best of my knowledge, the scene never produced a pixel painter for the Amiga (except later ports of Grafx2), [...]. The 86ers got one, on the other hand. It's from Sweden. :)
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by spankibalt 3mo ago
> The fact that the corpses are kept upright as open source projects doesn’t really change anything. Bit harsh, lol. And you invited agriculture poetry! Albeit I've heard that many an old school Amiga lifer rejects those "Neomi
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by spankibalt 3mo ago
> The Amiga had a superior and hardware and software combo [...] All things considered, no. It didn't. It had, for quite a while, a better bang-for-the-buck appeal, hardware- and software-wise, especially in the market niches it w
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by spankibalt 3mo ago
> It’s close enough. 1990 was pretty much the start of the end of Commodore and Atari. I got the same impression from the German trade press in 1991, which emphasized the openness, adaptability and standardization of the whole PC platfo
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by spankibalt 3mo ago
> Flat design is so ridiculous. Flat, or quasi-flat (minimalistic/brutalist), design is fantastic if one makes use of appropriate visual discriminators, e. g. shadows, outlines, contrasts etc. Less is more here. Which makes this des
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by spankibalt 3mo ago
> Amiga was basically the poor man's UNIX-like workstation when you couldn't afford to shell out somewhere between 10k and 100k for a NeXT, Sun or SGI workstation. Or 6K (1.5K used in 92/93) for a well-specced 386 that can
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by spankibalt 3mo ago
The PC made it. Decisively and on all accounts. Save one. You Amiga nerdlingers got adequate enough hardware in them nice wedge-style keyboard computer cases (i. e. not counting Amiga buckets). AFAIK the highest high a (vintage) PC reaches
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by spankibalt 3mo ago
> The A3000 had a ficker fixer. That's demonstratably false. But the A3000 was a ficker fixer.
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by spankibalt 3mo ago
> But, the counterargument to this is if it helps people start books, [...]. It certainly doesn't. Not that it matters to people who love reading books, for they know judging a whole book by its first page(s), or based on some formu
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by spankibalt 3mo ago
Another day, another rotten candy apple for giggling postliterates.
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by spankibalt 3mo ago
The average user didn't have "to mess much" with that in DOSland either. Most of that is just false memory. IRQ settings? Pffft. Cards came factory-configured to a default that was then detected by the setup routine of any ga
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by spankibalt 3mo ago
Of course: [ https://www.starringthecomputer.com/feature.html?f=10 ]
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by spankibalt 3mo ago
"A machine of this make was Yelena's choice to confirm Xander's car payment and facilitate image uploads of Yorgi's safe!"
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by spankibalt 3mo ago
> [...] because interactive and non-interactive forms of storytelling have different narrative needs and require different approaches. Which can be blended and remixed successfully. The follow-up, Prophecy , is a clear testament to that
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by spankibalt 3mo ago
RIP. > When I posted a notice of his death on Bluesky, Shane McKee, a consultant in genetic medicine in Northern Ireland, responded: “I'm still using my Psion Series 5mx daily.” Psion's little marvels were (and in some instanc
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by spankibalt 3mo ago
> And that can be a problem. Especially in a city like, say, Vienna, where people just do not check before they cross some of these little cosy streets. And not just that: Street's full of smombies, already keeping in mind that the
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by spankibalt 3mo ago
> "Of course, none of the airplanes you listed are still flying passengers today." The Il-62 and the Tu-154 are still in limited service, for example. Not that it does your pseudoargument any favors anyway, as service history p
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by spankibalt 3mo ago
> "You just seem to have a fetish for aircraft with fully or partially rear-mounted engines." Hey, what can I say? I'm more of an ass man. > "Sitting next to those big engines would suck, especially after reading o
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by spankibalt 3mo ago
So or so, Bogost's statement is akin to describing the Amiga 500 as the only beautiful home computer. And that's obviously ridiculous. As for your statement, nah, I won't have to search very long for people agreeing with me o
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by spankibalt 3mo ago
Concorde, Tu-144, L-1011 TriStar , Il-62, Tu-154, SE 210 Caravelle , de Havilland DH.106 Comet and Vickers VC10 are all much sexier. Just for starters.
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by spankibalt 3mo ago
> "[...] the 747 is the only commercial jet that deserves to be called beautiful." Pathetic drivel. There's legion of commercial airliners that are more beautiful than the 747.
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by spankibalt 4mo ago
> "Websites are still inferior to Flash of the early 2000s. It's taken decades and they can only mimic a fraction of its power. And none of its ease." Somewhat mirrors my experience with all those rubbish non-PDF formats f
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by spankibalt 4mo ago
And you'll better start to practice worshipping those ads unless your ass wants to be the star in B-166ER's last home video.
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by spankibalt 4mo ago
Funnily enough, he spoke about one of his first "agentic computing" implementations: a computer agent of his he tasked with compiling a sort of newspaper for breakfast reading. It ran overnight for 12 to 15 hrs., and collated text
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by spankibalt 4mo ago
Yeah, just a week ago I read an interview with Alan Kay from 1990, where he shared his thoughts about the third revolution in computing: the "intimate computer" (the agentic platform that follows the "institutional computer&q
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Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56(lemonde.fr)
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by spankibalt 4mo ago
https://archive.ph/oTjO4
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by spankibalt 4mo ago
77,302,580 Americans made it happen. 87,037,184 voting-elligible Americans sat it out.
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by spankibalt 4mo ago
> "Are other IT shops really doing a lot of piece by piece upgrades for employee machines?" My experiences cover only Europe, mostly in sasec (safety and security, not infosec) shops, including sasec-related engineering and pro
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by spankibalt 4mo ago
The birth of machinima! One of the giants of 90s PC gaming, nothing even remotely like it on other platforms of the day.

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