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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I formed my filthy inclusive solidarity leftist agenda before the web was a thing.

    Though I did use dial-up BBS and FidoNet and later Usenet and email and FTP and some federated remote file polling services I don’t remember, mostly to get my hands on newsletters and FAQs and docs on studio electronics and hacking and philosophy and occultism and punk rock and industrial music. Regular nerdy computerized teen stuff of ~1990.

    But I also frequented the library and hung around in political circles.

    So, I guess?





  • Almost, but close enough. It had hardware to draw background solid blocks, two one-pixel dots and two sprites that had width but interestingly no height. The background was repeated or mirrored by hardware registers so if you wanted different patterns on left and right half of the screen, you need to switch the correct values at the right time at every line. Any positing of graphics would be in X position only so you’d have to do it by the line when the raster hit it. It had no interrupts except that you could forcibly wait for next frame to render and then you keep track of the clock cycles to render each line. And it has 128 bytes of RAM, less than the number of characters in this comment, while games were 1,2 or 4 KB on ROM cartridges, needless to say very efficiently coded directly in 6502 machine code. Oh, and the sound chip had no chromatic division of frequencies but weird intervals that aren’t even close to any scale we know. Yet programmers managed to create great games on the platform. It’s absolutely crazy.













  • Yeah because you started talking about something that was well beyond the scope of what I was suggesting. You could also have said “thanks, but I want to keep this in my laptop because reasons” it would have been clear and consistent but instead you started rambling about seemingly tangiental other aspects of your project. Neither me or anybody else has any obligations to bend over backwards to come up solutions for you. We throw out ideas and maybe you can find something that brings you forward.

    But certainly, I won’t bother trying to help you again. Ta ta.