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the micro$oft of yesterday becomes the microslop of today

the most ohio thing about legal weed in ohio is that there are drive-thru dispensaries

sad week. a close friend i’d reconnected with living here the past few years had to move away for a job opp he couldn’t refuse, and another vegan restaurant i love besides ramen is also scaling back food operations. a lot of my favorite things about cbus are going away all at once

i’m waiting 2 hrs for my ramen, and simultaneously decided to drink, which i haven’t done in six months and won’t do again indefinitely (approaching “california sober” lol)

i am rapidly becoming linux-pilled

finally someone who gets it!!

i didn't watch it and i'm going to tell you how good my life was because i didn't watch it

(i forgot to watch it but caught the last 15 min. i'm curious to find myself unattached to apple enough to forget after most of my life of personal and professional interest. the phones look decent tho lol.)

THAT SAID, I've been working on a replacement to the SR/SMX software part, and it's easily modifiable to work with any pad; nothing specific to SMX or FSR.

If you have a pad in hand and don't mind helping me gather some info, I'd be happy to help you get this working with yours. Feel free to DM me!

The code in the Dropbox link above is specific to SMX pads only as-is, as it is an integration of StepRevolution's own interfacing software (i.e., the backend of the SMX config tool essentially).

hmu if you wanna try the prototype? 1p only and smx pads only for now, but both mame and itgmania available (mame only on windows).

making it work with non-smx pads (like b2l, etc.) is theoretically possible, but i need help from someone who owns one

i’ve been prototyping yet new input code recently. no more smx sdk; came up with my own solution using the same low-level usb library that i believe itg uses to communicate with piuio (libusb). it’s working quite well for me.

this is mame!

Bill Fosters Facebook post to Bush’s Beans on July 23 saying he’s thinking about thos beans

Happy beans day to those who celebrate

I have updated the SMX-SDK-enabled ITGmania build to ITGmania 1.1.0.

If you are using a SMX pad on Windows, you may find responsiveness slightly improved with this build compared to vanilla ITGmania. (If you are not such a user, this build is not necessary for you.)
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/l8ney...

weirdly my home growing up had multiple minidisc players. they were very handy for recording audio in real time like you could with cassettes, but much higher quality. i don’t think we ever owned any commercial albums on it.

starting to break through on 13s

does anyone else have a cd that you’ve left in your car for like 5+ years, that you forget about for months but occasionally you remember and it hits really well?

for me, it’s Hardcore Heaven vol. 3 CD1

as far as i know, any smx pad will work fine!

i wonder how many pounds of potatoes i’ve eaten in my life

if you want to try

this is where to download for now:

www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/l8ney...

any smx pad(s) regardless of gen should be fine

i made a driver for ITGMania on Windows that talks to SMX pads in a much more efficient way. hmu if you wanna try; i am happy to send.

you ever just spend a weekend staring at stepmania input code 👀

in 2000,
ps2 was 300

in 2001,
gc was 200
xbox was 300

in 2006,
wii was 250

in today’s dollars,
ps2 was 550
gc was 360
xbox was 540
wii was 400

450 seems reasonable enough to me. it is a bit expensive for nintendo, but not by that much. probably even would’ve been 400 if not for tariffs.

always

oh yes, thank you :) i have had my eyes and ears very much tuned towards Dirty Loops since my original post

very nice work! excited to see what you’ll do now that you have a local r1

using groupon to get a discount on a medical marijuana card appointment so i can buy discounted legal weed