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   13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 19:01:53 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

   This month we are playing:

   What's On That Disk?!

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 19:06:30 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Nrrdleweed Park

     @djnrrd I have two different generations of Zip drive, a USB parallel port adaptor, some ppa modules, and I'm being paid for my time. Gonna find out what I backed up in 2001!

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     Nrrdleweed Park (djnrrd@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 19:06:32 JST Nrrdleweed Park

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     @HauntedOwlbear Aww a Zip disk. Bless ya little fella, you tried to be a thing.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 19:44:23 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     Ah, dammit, my USB parallel cable's chip (a Prolific PL2305) is only printer class compliant.

     Might keep it anyway, as I can then start using a dot matrix for all printing tasks.

     At least I know this before the end of the month when this is going to be due.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 21:00:17 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Andre Louis

     @FreakyFwoof I am shocked that I was so rigorous about backups

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     Andre Louis (freakyfwoof@universeodon.com)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 21:00:18 JST Andre Louis

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     @HauntedOwlbear Aah man, I wish I had all my disks from when I was younger.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 23:08:48 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     Hey, I found a MIDI file that I'd lost (luna12.mid) in my 1999 college application portfolio! I'll have to run it through the SC-55 to get the voices, but it sounds good enough to go on compilation I'm making of my early dungeon synth stuff. Might export it via Fluidsynth to give you a quick preview if I get a minute.

     I remember having a major (but polite) debate with my school music teacher, who held that my synth stuff was pastiche, while I maintained that it was a genre in its own right.

     I don't think the dungeon synth moniker had even really caught on at that point, but writing synth works of this sort was definitely a thing in my end of the black metal scene.

     I submitted the music as part of my graded work anyway, which - along with a typically catastrophic live performance - is probably why I only got a C.

     The music college I applied to took me anyway, probably because I somehow didn't fuck up the audition, but also because of my demo tapes.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 23:24:46 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     Urgh, my music was fine but almost everything else about teen me was really embarrassing.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 23:32:09 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

     @DarkestKale I was so edgy, Kale. so edgy

     Black and white photos of people hanging out with skulls while they do drugs edgy.

     (But yes, I acknowledge that personal growth primarily seems to function by cringing yourself into being a better human, certainly for me.)

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 23:32:10 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     @HauntedOwlbear can't be the lovely person you are now without a little cringing stuff in the past

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 23:53:38 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     Oh no. I just found the disk with my old horror film script and the TreePad file containing all my research. I mean, I'm delighted, but also terrified and inclined to never look at it.

     However, the disk isn't reading properly, so you can bet that I'm ddrescueing this fucker.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 23:58:44 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     In the mean time, here's a copy of the Roland SCC-1 sound card utilities for DOS that don't appear to be in wide distribution,

     The sound card in question is still missing and may even have been binned with a computer that damp happened to (RIP, you were precious), but I bought myself an SC-55mk2 a few years ago, so this is still a useful find.

     https://archive.org/details/MPUPLAY

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 00:21:37 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     Well, it's not fully recovered, but the disk did not contain my film script.

     It's a copy of "The Symbolism of the Vampire in Film", an article that I published in Pathways to Darkness magazine in 2000.

     It is bad, so was my grammar (it's terrible), and I had weird ideas about excessively fancy writing sounding smarter.

     So if you're young and write bad, take consolation in the fact that one day you might, like me, be middle aged and write slightly-less-bad in exchange for money.

     Here's your "reward" for hanging out with me on this ride. I am so sorry.

     Moving on.

     (alt text continued in second post)

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 00:22:15 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     same image, continued alt text

     (last bit next post)

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 00:22:32 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     Final alt text post.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 00:29:13 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     OMG, I've found backups of an article from the computer fanzine I wrote when I was 13!!!!

     (my opinions were standard bad gamer opinions, except for the ones about sexism and core gamer audience demographics)

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 00:36:33 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     Oh wow. The (now mostly recovered) research file for the vampire essay included a bunch of email interviews I did with people who claimed to be vampires and vampire hunters on the internet in 1999 and a collection of some pretty obscure myths and papers on the subject, plus copies of now-long-gone web pages.

     Much more interesting than the essay. I'll see if I can get CherryTree to parse it.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 00:44:50 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     Wrapping up for the day. Here are shareware floppy disk images of Heretic.

     https://archive.org/details/heretic_ep1_floppy