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(author) Yes, I couldn't resist the obvious. :)

edit. I should also point out that it's the same word in Ukrainian, for the record.

Sucked, compared to? If the 6502 sucked on every other metric but cost, while it would have gotten some use I don't think it would have been as heavily used as it was.

It's not just Zork: a number of games, including Hitchhiker's, are open source now. https://github.com/historicalsource

That's pretty neat. I look forward to the graphical version, though: love those double-sized characters.

Heck, we made that joke about the Yugo.

If it's the model I'm thinking of, it's basically a 9000/712. An easy way to get a PA-RISC workstation from someone who doesn't realize what it actually is. :)

Then they started loading the protection code from disk doing tricky things. One I cracked recently was a pair of Commodore 1541 sectors that appeared to be the same logical sector (because the drive head is blind). It needed to hit both of them to compile the next portion of the loader. Naturally the segment up to that point was encrypted as well, but nothing survives a VICE breakpoint. https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/08/cracking-designwares-gra...

Obviously this is nothing on things like V-MAX! and Rapidlok which even nowadays have variations that are tough to remaster.

You could call it a sub-scene of the demoscene, I suppose.

Of course, there's the small matter of them instead choosing to hide under the desk in your command shack and refusing to come out.

Good to hear (I have my own 64-bit fixed pilrc but POSE was the missing piece). What do you mean by the Windows UI, though? Likely I'd compile this on my MacBook.

There is immune tissue in the gut as well (see Peyer's patches et al.), so oral exposure only may not actually be enough.

Is your POSE 64-bit fixed or still 32-bit? ISTR running into this problem trying to compile the original from source and have yet to find the round tuit.

The readme mentions a PDF conversion tool, but I just cut and pasted into Preview, and that seemed to work.

You can approximate BLOAD with SYS calls. Something like SYS57812"FILENAME",8,1:POKE780,0:SYS65493 will do it.

Tymshare! What kind of work did you do for them?

Thanks for the kind word! They were fun to write.

(author) Next one in sequence. You can leap forwards or backwards. On the Cat, there is also a LOCAL LEAP for within the current document only.

Pocket Writer (version 2, at least). Used it heavily for term papers.

(author) You can also count me in that list - working on a PA-RISC system was my first job out of college. I found the ISA very clean and they were strong performers. How HP got the wrong idea about VLIW, I'll never understand.

(author) Rear panel on this one says "Made in USA."

I suspect your dismissive coworker didn't realize everything else inside a Crimson. I just wish I had the space for one, even though I'd be using the workstations more.

(author) Just because I'm used to 6.5, no other reason particularly. Any of the SCSI emulators are generally fine but I now gravitate to the ones that let you run multiple devices from image files because that makes it very easy to do backups. Here I used a ZuluSCSI, which is also one of the ones where if you have an existing drive, it will clone it for you in initiator mode.

The power supplies are a bigger question, but some work has been done on this already with other systems, notably the Fuel. There is at least a way to repair the Impact supplies' caps, though that's not all that can go wrong. I expect we'll eventually see conversion kits for these other big systems at some stage.

No, no, I had a thinko when I wrote that. The Indy had a ISDN port. Thanks for spotting the error.

Author here - thanks a lot! Glad you enjoyed it.

I can't believe the sound effect isn't in the "Assets" folder. This seems like a miss-ed opportunity.

ITYM "caffeinate"

  DESCRIPTION
     caffeinate creates assertions to alter system sleep behavior.  If no
     assertion flags are specified, caffeinate creates an assertion to prevent
     idle sleep.  If a utility is specified, caffeinate creates the assertions
     on the utility's behalf, and those assertions will persist for the
     duration of the utility's execution. Otherwise, caffeinate creates the
     assertions directly, and those assertions will persist until caffeinate
     exits.

But you'll need one of the 8K boards ...

Likewise, my P7P's fingerprint sensor seems fine. I am similarly concerned about the APK installation lockdown. I may go GrapheneOS on my next device from day 1.

The problem with that CAPTCHA is you're not allowed to solve it on Saturdays.

I made no claim it was. I was pointing out that ROM BASICs on 6502s have kept track of the current pointer in self-modifying code by copying the relevant section to RAM. Just because it originated in ROM doesn't mean it doesn't. Thank you for explaining the situation with BBC BASIC.