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Coincidentally, I bought one of these recently and it was delivered this morning. Including the MultiPort II port replicator and floppy drive. Boots and runs fine (sans some unhapp…

Many games already throw brass across the screen. To the extent that mirroring weapons or using lefty versions right handed is a thing. It "looks cool."

> we figured out how to send messages to all computers (using Novell Zenworks or something) The Novell messaging utility[0] thing? For us that was disabled in the registry. Unfortu…

They were joking, and you're being needlessly hostile. Plus you're wrong on multiple counts. Most of the counter examples are historic, but still. Yes, barrel is not a unit of roun…

In this context we're talking about death: giving more death to the enemy than they could give to you. Ultimately the meaning is the same as your rewording. Just a bit more grim.

I'd wager they meant drum. Though superimposed loads are a thing too.

Not a hard confirm, but I stood there marveling at the pneumatic ceiling fans in an Amish bakery once. Each one had a little oscillating engine and some plumbing for the compressed…

Why does it need to be relevant for more people? It looks as if you're treating it as a means to an end. I would say that it was more of an end in itself. Sure, something else migh…

To clarify, I was only talking about audio formats. Not automagically converting everything to run on the new engine. Doing that would kind of be missing the point. There is a simi…

Supposedly some file formats have changed between Fallout 3 and 4 so you'd need to convert said files as well. Not exactly an insurmountable technical hurdle. There is at least one…

Is that number attached or crawling? If attached, how many have you caught before they dug in? I live in the same area and that number would be really low. Stumble on some deer tic…

The best 879 pages of urgent meaninglessness and near-constant déjà vu ever written. I found picking different starting points on later re-reads rather interesting. For anyone who …

Pretty slick for what I'm assuming is your first big project. Tangentially related: do you think your mentor might have been indirectly encouraging you by telling you it was imposs…

That is beautifully well documented. Are you planning to extend it further or do any similar projects?

Take it a step lower and do one in assembly and it is even more fun. I almost have enough code together to say that I'm doing one in RISC-V assembly. At this point I have already a…

So far everything is in Logisim[1], but I'm actually thinking of writing an emulator so I can debug programs quicker. I started a lisp interpreter in risc-v assembly, but testing m…

Actually designing an ISA is voodoo, but doing the mircrocode is fairly easy. On a tiny little 4-bit design with only a few control lines you can do it by hand. Past a certain poin…

I'm actually gearing up for a RISC-V processor in Fallout 4. All of the design work is done, but building it with the vanilla logic gates (introduced in the Contraptions DLC) actua…

Having done a bit of lisp spelunking myself, I would suggest that you dig into the source of the lisp your program ran under. Trying to figure out behavior from the surrounding con…