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by zandorg 16y ago
Couldn't think of a decent example off the top of my head. Also, proper term is 'undocumented opcodes' for further searching. Try "AXS * (SAX) AXS ANDs the contents of the A and X registers (without changing the contents of either
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by zandorg 16y ago
The 6510 (C64 6502 with extra ports) has secret opcodes, basically holes in the circuitry, which emulators have to support because they're used in demos for extra speed (eg, write to x what's in a). I wonder if this simulation also has secr
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by zandorg 16y ago
I'm using openSuse 10.1. I got 11.3 but it was awful. I don't know how they messed up. I went back to 10.1. Either way, Ubuntu didn't find my video card. but Suse did (it's a 1920x1200 Dell laptop). I don't know why Ubuntu didn't. Suse is e
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by zandorg 16y ago
Not quite on topic, but as for PC speaker tricks: I once found if you control the tape-interface relay switch on a BBC B (or BBC Electron), from a BASIC loop, you can make it click really fast and make silly noises! Doesn't work in an emula
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by zandorg 16y ago
Don't forget RIM and Blackberry in that list.
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by zandorg 16y ago
Ted Nelson said the world of computing would be different if AT&T hadn't charged $50,000 for a Unix license (yes, that's per machine!).
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by zandorg 16y ago
Some Bladerunner DVD collections have the 3:53 hour long documentary "Dark Days", which is excellent and goes into Trumbull's work in great detail.
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by zandorg 16y ago
I wrote a Windows application which reads in all your email files and creates an SQL database/index, along with a Lucene index for searching the email body. You can do an SQL wildcard search like SELECT * from mymail where SUBJECT like "%Gm
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by zandorg 16y ago
That's pretty amazing. Worked great for me!
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by zandorg 16y ago
Typically (say on Ebay), gold coins sell (eg, are bid up to) for the same amount as that weight in gold on the global market.
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by zandorg 16y ago
But the reporter gave no weight to his statement. "Arran has said he would like to solve" doesn't imply anything other than that's what he said.
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by zandorg 16y ago
A Windows 98 PC for sample transfer to an old Akai S950 (software doesn't work in Windows XP), and the same machine to run a HardSID ISA card (ISA is a pre-PCI PC device bus).
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by zandorg 16y ago
I'd much rather search/replace a huge string in Perl than in C++. Perl's hugely optimised.
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by zandorg 16y ago
Also a Gatesion is more than a "Bill"ion.
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by zandorg 16y ago
Once me and a friend did an explanation of the WWW in less than 100 words (in 1998). Quite a lot of fun.
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by zandorg 16y ago
I learned Prolog having signed up for an AI minor at University. It takes a bit of learning, but you quickly get used to it, with the right tutor and sample problems to solve. Basically, my Prolog code worked out a route through a London Tu
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by zandorg 16y ago
Great unless you're in the 5% of holders of bachelor degree's without a job...
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by zandorg 16y ago
I watched Cosmos on DVD, great series.
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by zandorg 16y ago
Put a webserver on the Moon accessible via satellite and/or short wave radio.
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by zandorg 16y ago
They put ZX Spectrum loading sounds (kind of like a modem except totally audio), on this LP, XL1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Shelley It is software which, when loaded into the Speccy's audio In port, does funny lightshows in time t
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by zandorg 16y ago
But the Kindle's screen is friendly on battery life, as it takes no power to refresh - it's static.
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by zandorg 16y ago
They can rebuild it, but they can't get back all the burned books.
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by zandorg 16y ago
They blew it big time by hyping it for RPGs, which never went anywhere. Get the RPGers on board, perhaps, and you can succeed.
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by zandorg 16y ago
Possibly a talent acquisition of Levchin. If he doesn't quit, it seems like a good purchase.
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by zandorg 16y ago
In this town in the UK, all the 2nd-hand bookshops are shutting down one by one due to Amazon's 'used book' sales. It's hard to sell a book for £3.50 when you can buy it from Amazon for 1 penny plus £2.75 postage.
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by zandorg 16y ago
I have signed copies of all Nelson's works but Future of Information. Not boasting, but I love collecting books. The Home Computer Revolution (inscribed "We haven't got to the future yet") is a stunning book, it predicts so many things in 1
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by zandorg 16y ago
IBM also makes a lot from their consulting (human mainframes).
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by zandorg 16y ago
I worked with Ted Nelson in Nottingham in 2003 (and again in Jan 2006 in Oxford) and it was a blast. He has so many ideas and brilliant endless anecdotes. I hope he works on his autobiography.
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by zandorg 16y ago
Can you please post a link to this 'discussions' page? I can't find it.
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by zandorg 16y ago
First, I skimmed the article and it doesn't surprise me to hear feminist rhetoric like this. My parents are only middle-class and got a Sharp MZ-700 in 1985, when I was 7. It had MS-BASIC (loaded from tape!) but had no decent games. Then, I

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