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See my home page here: https://MW.Rat.bz Contact Michael Walden: https://MW.Rat.bz/contact.htm
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m_walden··on Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site
Looks great! One suggestion, please consider adding a dark mode option for those users with visual impairment. The current light mode is too bright for some users. The dark mode on your site would compete with https://wttr.in which is dark.
m_walden··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://mw.rat.bz
m_walden··on Epson MX-80 Fonts
Thanks for you memories and observations on old printers!
m_walden··on -=:[ WarGames Terminal Fonts ]
You are welcome! Thanks for posting the link.

Cheers, - Michael Walden

m_walden··on Colored Bar Paper Colors
All of the color values were collected over a long period (years) of collecting that I did for personal reasons. It was only recently I decided to publicly post them. I am sorry I did not keep specific details.
m_walden··on Tell HN: John Friel my father, internet pioneer and creator of QModem, has died
Could you please provide a link(s) to an obituary if/when it gets published?

Sorry to hear of you loss, and my condolences to you. Thanks in advance.

m_walden··on Demoscene and video game music streaming radio links
I am aware of this site, and it has great demoscene demos! I am not aware of it having demoscene streaming music. If it does, let me know where.

Thanks!

m_walden··on Demoscene and video game music streaming radio links
I went to the https://www.twitch.tv/sgqfmfunk link and saw video of a video game being played and turned up the volume and heard Jazz, Fiddle, Flamenco Guitar and real music from acoustic instruments and no ripped video game music. What am I missing here?

I went to http://dmpsoft.s17.xrea.com/hoot/ and see that the hoot... - Sound Hardware Emulator program is documented all in Japanese. I am not interested in going to the effort of translating this page.

I went to the other links from the pastebin page and find this stuff a little too difficult to get into right now. I am not interested in downloading software and content to try this stuff out. I may not be interested, but possibly another reader will see your comment and dive into it.

Thanks for you comment and please enjoy what I posted on my page!

m_walden··on Demoscene and video game music streaming radio links
Yes, they are a good source of interesting music. I found them way back when I first got Winamp to stream music when I got broadband after having dial-up Internet.
m_walden··on Demoscene and video game music streaming radio links
I am sorry to hear that. As for ads, I do not run an ad blocker, so none of the links were an issue for me. Try others, you likely will have no issues on some of them. Kohina, at the top of the list, has no ads for sure.
m_walden··on Demoscene and video game music streaming radio links
I do not recall any other demoscene/vgm station on the list with voting capability. Yours is the only one. Thanks for the invite.
m_walden··on Demoscene and video game music streaming radio links
The following still works, though the home page has no functionality. I will add this later. Thanks. Radio Hyrule - Zelda music 24/7! http://RadioHyrule.com https://RadioHyrule.com:8443/listen.m3u https://RadioHyrule.com:8443/listen (192 kbps MP3) https://radiohyrule.com:8443/listen-lo.m3u https://radiohyrule.com:8443/listen-lo (64 kbps MP3)
m_walden··on Demoscene and video game music streaming radio links
I will add the following later. Thanks!

RadioSEGA - Playing the best SEGA music 24/7! https://www.RadioSEGA.net https://www.RadioSEGA.net/listen/ RadioSEGA - Playlist https://www.RadioSEGA.net/play/ http://Content.RadioSEGA.net:8006/live (64 kbps AAC+) RadioSEGA - Playlist http://Content.RadioSEGA.net:8006/rs-mpeg.mp3.m3u http://Content.RadioSEGA.net:8006/rs-mpeg.mp3 (96 kbps MP3)

m_walden··on Demoscene and video game music streaming radio links
Have a look at the following link to learn about the demoscene

Demoscene https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene

The music devoid of humans :-) is meant to sound that way. The history of the demoscene music goes back to the 80s and 90s on microcomputers with limited memory and other capabilities. These tunes are created in chiptunes and module files that are surprisingly small size for the amount of music they produce. See the following two links for more info.

Chiptune https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiptune

Module file https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Module_file

m_walden··on Demoscene and video game music streaming radio links
Could you please clarify the statement "An internet radio program written in the Hy language + Flask."? Is this a streaming radio player program? I might add it to my "Desktop Streaming Radio Players" list at https://mw.rat.bz/players/ . Is it mostly a Linux application?

Thanks.

m_walden··on Hoard-of-bitfonts: turns out I like bitmap fonts
If you like retro bitmap fonts from old PCs and Terminals you will just love this project!
m_walden··on Nixpub archive – 80s and 90s public access Unix lists
Nostalgia for the good old dial-up Internet days from before ISPs were a thing.
m_walden··on Chiptune.app
If you like Xtree Gold, then check out the updated successor:

ZTreeWin https://ztree.com/html/ztreewin.htm Free 30 day trial period (USD $29.95)

m_walden··on “WarGames” Magazine Identified
I was a regular reader of BYTE magazine and Creative Computing. Nibble, not so much since I did not have Apple II class PCs. I believe that the TV series you refer to was Whiz_Kids: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiz_Kids_%28TV_series%29
m_walden··on “WarGames” Magazine Identified
No, not at all. I hope I did not sound like I was upset. I was just trying to convey that it may seem easy when you see the answer, but it was a bit tricky to find the answer.
m_walden··on “WarGames” Magazine Identified
Exactly!

Also, I think that the magazine will still be out of focus since the camera was focused primarily on the father.

m_walden··on “WarGames” Magazine Identified
If it is that easy, why is it that this information did not exist on the net until now? I am someone who had the interest and took time to put this together in a nice presentation.