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In case you don't know, I've been working in a new Atari 8-bit emulator (well, a new UI for Atari800 to be precise). Despite the version 1.0.4, it is still a work in progress but already usable!
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Thought you were about to grind the rail, which is extra impressive on a road bike.
3 prototype Atari 1450XLD computers on a table, each with a monitor attached. The leftmost has cutouts where the floppy drives were mounted, the middle has hacked 1050 drives in place of the original bezel, and the rightmost has drives mounted in the original bezel.
The holy grail of Atari 8-bits at VCF West. The San Lorenzo Computer Club brought three 1450XLD computers to the show. First time I've ever seen with one, let alone three. I even got the V: device to output some phonemes from its built-in speech chip.
I want to say "I told you so." I should say "now do you understand?"
I am not enjoying all the capitulation.
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I remember finding this as a kid! I think it was pressing up and down on the joystick at the same time would get you to levitate & scroll up into the game code.
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That's it. That's the... uh... skeet.
Streisand Effect 🍿
Love a good song with a retrogaming title howdoesitfeeltobeloved.bandcamp.com/track/sounds...
Thanks, I was using mpv on linux but VLC on win. Any recommendations for Android? mpv-android is what's available on f-droid.
I was super impressed with how readable the FFmpeg source code is. It's the biggest project that I've been able to dive into and (sorta, kinda) understand.
Love the 80s box art.
"First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price."
“My wife complains that open office will never print on Tuesdays”
A bizarre sentence; which kicked off one of the most interesting bug hunts in Ubuntu’s history.
It all starts with some goofy pattern matching.
My Atari Projects book is available on Lulu. 50 fun projects for your Atari 8-bit computers & game consoles www.lulu.com/shop/jason-m... #atariprojects #atari8bit #atari
Another great video of yours. :) The debugger has a lot of C64 tools that I hope have equivalents for the Atari, but if not... I am familiar with the internals of the atari800 emulator, so maybe I can help bring feature parity for the Atari.
Yes, Atari 8-bit with a minor in Apple ][+. I have been out of the retro scene for a couple of years, but am slowly returning. 6502 assembly never seems to leave my head completely, so I am excited to check out the Retro Debugger.
Thanks for producing this video. It pushed me over the edge to finally install (and try to figure out) Ghidra -- a hot mess of a program, but it seems to be the de facto free alternative to IDA Pro. I can only imagine how much time it took you to become that adept where you can write extensions!
Ever wondered why ~ represents the home directory on unix systems?
It’s an artifact of a very particular keyboard.
The Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminal was quite popular in the 1970s, and happens to have a HOME key that is also a tilde.
Notice anything else?
Thanks, Atari 8 Bit Bot!
#atari8bitbot
10 GRAPHICS 8:COLOR 1
15 ? " PEEK(20) PEEK(53770)"
20 S=160/256
30 X1=0
40 P=20
50 GOSUB 1000
60 X1=160
70 P=53770
80 GOSUB 1000
90 END
1000 FOR I=1 TO 100
1010 X=PEEK(P)*S
1020 Y=PEEK(P)*S
1030 PLOT X+X1,Y
1040 NEXT I
1050 RETURN
I hope to get back to the podcast in the new year. In the meantime, this is a surprisingly optimistic take from a formerly imprisoned Russian opposition leader. I need optimism as we head into 4 years of the stupidest people in power in the US. www.vox.com/world-politi...
404Media does such good work. I fear for their continued existence, probably destined to be sued (like Media Matters) in the eastern district of Texas by some right wing billionaires.
I keep The Guardian as my primary news site also... Buuuut, I think them as having a left of center bias, certainly in their editorials.
It's concerning that factual reporting can be considered left leaning in this day and age.
This week's interview! Mary Eisenhart was editor of MicroTimes, a free, advertising-supported magazine in California. The first issue was May 1984, and Mary remained at the magazine until 1998, producing more than 180 issues. They're available on Internet Archive now.
youtu.be/oysXRGhQf0s
Definitely reminds me of the AppleWin debugger color scheme. :)
Looks great! Nothing like an ambitious project to be able to understand a new language. Source code anywhere yet? It would be fun to play around with.
