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In case you don't know, I've been working in a new Atari 8-bit emulator (well, a new UI for Atari800 to be precise). Despite the version 1.0.4, it is still a work in progress but already usable!

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The holy grail of Atari 8-bits at VCF West. The San Lorenzo Computer Club brought three 1450XLD computers to the show. First time I've ever seen with one, let alone three. I even got the V: device to output some phonemes from its built-in speech chip.

I want to say "I told you so." I should say "now do you understand?"

I am not enjoying all the capitulation.

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That's it. That's the... uh... skeet.

Holy comments, Batman: www.facebook.com/STLPD/posts/...

Love a good song with a retrogaming title howdoesitfeeltobeloved.bandcamp.com/track/sounds...

“My wife complains that open office will never print on Tuesdays”

A bizarre sentence; which kicked off one of the most interesting bug hunts in Ubuntu’s history.

It all starts with some goofy pattern matching.

My Atari Projects book is available on Lulu. 50 fun projects for your Atari 8-bit computers & game consoles www.lulu.com/shop/jason-m... #atariprojects #atari8bit #atari

Ever wondered why ~ represents the home directory on unix systems?

It’s an artifact of a very particular keyboard.

The Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminal was quite popular in the 1970s, and happens to have a HOME key that is also a tilde.

Notice anything else?

#atari8bitbot
10 GRAPHICS 8:COLOR 1
15 ? " PEEK(20) PEEK(53770)"
20 S=160/256
30 X1=0
40 P=20
50 GOSUB 1000
60 X1=160
70 P=53770
80 GOSUB 1000
90 END
1000 FOR I=1 TO 100
1010 X=PEEK(P)*S
1020 Y=PEEK(P)*S
1030 PLOT X+X1,Y
1040 NEXT I
1050 RETURN

I hope to get back to the podcast in the new year. In the meantime, this is a surprisingly optimistic take from a formerly imprisoned Russian opposition leader. I need optimism as we head into 4 years of the stupidest people in power in the US. www.vox.com/world-politi...

This week's interview! Mary Eisenhart was editor of MicroTimes, a free, advertising-supported magazine in California. The first issue was May 1984, and Mary remained at the magazine until 1998, producing more than 180 issues. They're available on Internet Archive now.
youtu.be/oysXRGhQf0s

Yes! I built a new emulator in C# with the MonoGame/XNA library. I don't think it's too bad for my first C# project. It's very similar to my first emulator but now it has many parts I could not realize originally. Much more is needed but I haven't been able to work on it for about six months.

@xot.bsky.social Where are you with your emulation projects? It looks like you may have moved on to C#?

I hadn't posted to twitter in several years, finally got around to deleting it today. I'm looking forward to some schadenfreude as they try to turn ex-twitter into the "everything app". Like, who's going to trust them with their bank account?

I remember reading this for one of my episodes (playermissile.com/podcast/ep03...), there was an article on women in the video game industry. 🧵 (Thanks to @decafjedi.bsky.social for the thread that prompted me to look back at this article.)