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O cool! This approach was used in WASTELAND too, on four floppies (the progenitor of the FALLOUT series).

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This. The 'black circle' in the tutorial is no good, maybe a dotted circle instead to make it clear you're supposed to be tapping empty space and not a black bubble.

Paul Graham's essay today: "We should have a conscious bias against defining new forms of heresy. Whenever anyone tries to ban saying something that we'd previously been able to sa…

Another approach using spreadsheets: https://aaronbell.substack.com/p/visualize-your-life-the-eas...

My side project was to remake the Commodore 64 game, ENCOUNTER from scratch in three.js, adapted for both mobile and desktop. I got pretty far. Then in 2017 I interviewed for an En…

The writer & comedian Richard Herring devised a fairly complete set of rules for this, calling it Consecutive Number Plate Spotting (CNPS). It's amusing, https://www.richardherring…

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross used a SID (in an Elektron Sidstation) on the soundtrack for THE SOCIAL NETWORK, https://reverbmachine.com/blog/trent-reznor-social-network-s...

You can convert a cheap USB floppy drive into one that reads Amiga disks using a Drawbridge from https://amiga.robsmithdev.co.uk/ - I've done this and it works. Notice Amiga Foreve…

I recently did this and found pretty much everything still worked. The creator of AMOS is still around at https://www.aoz.studio and their Discord will help you with any AMOS issue…

Wow this has a ton in common with my port of the C64 game ENCOUNTER, https://github.com/air/encounter Look for the Play link in the README. Great job on the aesthetics!

It's really excellent as an emulation machine for retro gaming. I have an X-Arcade dual arcade controller attached. It's great because 1. there's a compact keyboard built in, and 2…

Fun fact: the Minecraft client has for years supported SRV to discover the server port number. Thanks Notch.

Update from Google status page: We're still actively working to resolve issues with Identity/Authentication. Future updates will follow when there is significant progress to report…

Why use Gallium over crouton? I've used crouton/XUbuntu as my main laptop OS for a couple of years. I've pushed it pretty far, running Steam with a removable SD card to play things…

Absolutely! We're actively working on this here at Mesosphere, in partnership with Google. You can check out the project at https://github.com/mesosphere/kubernetes-mesos You might…

Hi, Chronos Product Manager here ('air' on github). Status: Having fun creating issues in the wake of the Jepsen post : ) I can say that Mesosphere is 100% committed to both Marath…