I found it interesting that they include factors such as sales of over-the-counter COVID-19 tests in computing the index. I don’t know of anywhere else that uses that information, but using it makes a lot of sense, particularly when we don’t have many other data sources.

Here is their press release about it, from November 4.

Perhaps the DVD is specially encoded and isn't in a standard mathematical format. I would suggest calling an expert in Religious Iconology and Symbology, such as Harvard Professor Robert Langdon, to help decode its contents, one VOBU and CSS sector at a time. 😉

From a cursory search, it seems there may not be many (or any?!) other NewtonScript bytecode disassemblers out there, even today, so hopefully this will help anyone out who is looking to either understand or fix old Newton software.

BBC Radio 4 series ”Mastertapes” at the BBC Maida Vale Studios, London, May 11, 2016, broadcast May 28, 2016. Both Noel Gallagher and Paul Weller ask Paul questions during the recording. Listen at the Internet Archive. ✌️

It’s depressing. It also makes it that much harder for those of us making games the old fashioned way to have anyone even find them when they’re buried amongst so much AI slop. 😢

Hope you're able to get the board back online soon! ✌️

Pragmatically that’s the better way to do it. I could only fit one song on the floppy and even with ffmpeg’s most aggressive compression settings it was hard to even get that ONE song to fit!

Another crazy thing is the only way to get it to read a new disk is to unplug the drive and plug it back in again, since the car has no concept of “Eject.“

I also tried connecting a USB CD-ROM drive to see if I could play audio CDs, which would have been a great Easter egg. Sadly, it could not.

I didn’t know that was a setting, so thanks for the heads up. I always try to remember alt text but I forgot on my last post and was kicking myself for it right after. That setting will be fantastic; thanks!

DOSBox-X is fantastic! I would also suggest you check out @86box.net if you ever need to emulate a specific system (for example, a Tandy 1000SX) or a specific configuration (like a Dell OptiPlex 560/L with a Sound Blaster Pro and a Tseng ET4000 SVGA) rather than a generic “PC.” It’s crazy authentic!

You’re welcome! Thanks for making the PicoGUS! It’s what inspired this. I’m currently writing a low-level 32-bit GUS library in C++26, working from chapter 2 and using the GUSDK source to resolve ambiguities. (I’ll release that as open source when it’s ready.) Hoping to try it on my PicoGUS soon. 🤞

Unless there's just a single bad one, my preference is to remove all of them, add sockets for them all, test all the chips, and reuse any that test good. That way you're ready if more fail, but also aren't wasting a bunch of NOS 4264s.

I've now converted Chapters 2 and 3 of the GUSDK Word documentation into Markdown format. Combined with the annotated source code (which essentially moves Chapter 4 into the source code itself), I think this covers all of the core features.

It is available on GitHub here: github.com/RobertSundli...

I've now gone through all of the public functions in the GUSDK and converted the old, historical Microsoft Word .DOC SDK documentation into Javadoc comments for each function, placed in the appropriate source code files.

It's a start! I've created this new repository for the annotated SDK so far.

Wow! This deserves a watchalong!

Amazingly, your post was in my feed directly under this one.

And yes, the lazy dog is "calming" simply to demonstrate Monaspace's texture healing, which loves the word "calming." 😃