Very cool. My version of base64 wants -d, not -D, though.
Linux vs BSD (ie Mac OS X). Sorry about that. Also, you shouldn’t paste weird looking things from the internet in your console :P
A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet
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Re: A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet
#42Make sure you check out the floppy version from ~3 years ago. Fits in “old” tweets (ie 140 chars): https://www.quaxio.com/bootloader_retro_game_tweet/
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#43Man I love these things. Back before Twitter upped their character limits, I remember a trick to cram more data in a tweet was to abuse how Twitter counts characters (it attempts to count visually rather than by byte), so by using a ton of multipart emojis or larger Unicode characters to over double the information that could fit in a tweet.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Further irony: this page weighs over 30MBs , thanks to a huge GIF that is arguably not necessary for the article.
Yeah, not happy about that idiocy (probably 1MB as video) burning through 10% of my monthly bandwidth on the first day of the month...
I think "1MB as video" actually _hugely_ overestimates the size that file could be if it were just e.g. mp4 with the same frame rate, quality, etc.
Re: A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet
#45Make sure you check out the floppy version from ~3 years ago. Fits in “old” tweets (ie 140 chars): https://www.quaxio.com/bootloader_retro_game_tweet/
You should investigate adding an RSS feed!
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
> what we have now x86 processors still boot into real mode…
It's my understanding that UEFI actually comes up directly into long mode? "UEFI firmware performs those same steps, but also prepares a protected mode environment with flat segmentation and for x86-64 CPUs, a long mode environment with identity-mapped paging. The A20 gate is enabled as well." - https://wiki.osdev.org/UEFI
This inadvertently triggered my A20 gate rage.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Further irony: this page weighs over 30MBs , thanks to a huge GIF that is arguably not necessary for the article.
Yeah, not happy about that idiocy (probably 1MB as video) burning through 10% of my monthly bandwidth on the first day of the month...
Wow, how low is your monthly download cap?? What ISP and where?
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#48This is the second time this week I've seen someone note that ISO standards are expensive - are they copyrighted or something? Why doesn't someone just publish them online for free?
Re: A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, not happy about that idiocy (probably 1MB as video) burning through 10% of my monthly bandwidth on the first day of the month...
Wow, how low is your monthly download cap?? What ISP and where?
Probably mobile, here are the plans mine offers (I'm on the 2GB one): https://www.whistleout.com.au/MobilePhones/Carriers/iiNet
So page bloat is a real issue, not just "old man rants about good old days". A shame really because the rest of the page is pretty light wieght, 5.2kb for the content and 2.2 for the css.
Even worse is that the static preview of the monster gif is the second largest element.
Re: A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet
#50Looks like the turbo button needs to be in the on position for this one: 0.05 FPS in a qemu KVM on my old P8600... I presume the game loop uses the hardware clock :P
btw my base64 util needed lower case -d