Notices by Spindley Q Frog (spindleyq@mastodon.social), page 9

@djsumdog not quite a laptop; there’s no battery. But yes! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_T3100

I’m using a Raspberry Pi as an etherdfs drive and at some point soon I’m definitely gonna plug a USB RS232 converter into it and turn it into a wifi modem

@djsumdog I’m purposely limiting myself to the segment:offset memory model for... “fun”? I’m trying to deepen my understanding of this weird system as it was before too many complex hacks got piled on top of it to make life easier

I am SO tempted to write a little Forth REPL to drive my game logic right now, nnngggh

@djsumdog I have so much more sympathy for the developers now for that kind of stuff than I did then!

Today’s thrift store find! I’m so excited to have a contemporary source to learn how EMS and XMS work!

I wonder if there’s a single other person in my city who would be disappointed to learn they missed out on this book; if so, we should hang out

@ajroach42 floppies as filing system is a _much_ better interface than a giant hierarchical filesystem

A particular floppy has a particular purpose, and a particular physical place where it is kept. The amount of stuff on it is human-scale. Keeping and organizing data on a floppy is _always_ intentional.

@Ludonaut Is there a word for totally agreeing with you and also being utterly guilty of this

@nicknicknicknick is that why the puzzles make no fucking sense

@gamehawk I miss Callin' Oates

I almost set up a Twitch stream but was having trouble with my headset making me sound like a weird glitchy robot for some reason

Nothing visually new today, just a bunch of overdue code cleanup. Everything used to be in one giant C file but now there's proper modules and header files. Fun Turbo C++ tip: to create a new multifile project, select "Open Project" and type in the name of a file that doesn't exist

@pupy DOES MEET MEDIABAND COUNT
Residents Bad Day on the Midway
Laurie Anderson's Puppet Motel
Queen: The eYe
uhhhh Omikron's got David Bowie in it

@jk oh hey this was literally my job 14 years ago, it never shipped and the company got bought by Microsoft and I have strong doubts they'll ever ship it in any useful way either

http://www.jetbrains.com/mps/index.html is the closest thing that actually exists in a form you can use AFAIK

Hello, old friend, today you're going to teach me how to hook the keyboard interrupt again https://mastodon.social/media/q_jH0jjh9xYy3GlHgKs

@darius it is on my list to track down and interview Denthor of Asphyxia for the fringe.games podcast, because IMO his Turbo Pascal VGA tutorial was an absolutely world-changing document

@aparrish @darius This was incredibly wise.
At one point I had a connected cousin hook me up with a copy of Microsoft QuickC, assuming it would be a natural progression from QBasic, and was crushed when the integrated help system didn't teach me the language or how to do graphics fast.

@darius beautiful.

I have successfully used a far pointer

@darius I never had access to it as a kid! The real exciting thing is having TASM though - I would have absolutely murdered someone for a copy, 'cause ALL the graphics tutorials used it