Notices by Pawlicker (pawlicker@makai.chaotic.ninja), page 4

@mint@ryona.agency @allison@hidamari.apartments the inverse of the pc98 keyboard which is also CBT

@allison@hidamari.apartments the arrow keys are actually sane here ngl

touhou on the go

@mischievoustomato@rebased.taihou.website there are two people using Turbo C++ in 2024: DOS gamedevs with autism and Indians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyEjuHlOd58

I really want to learn to write a DOS sound driver so I can do something like Zone 66 or PPZ8 (on the PC98) did and have multiplexed drums/similar on the PCM channel.

A lot of western gamedevs/demosceners went for "use the PCM as a codec for mod players in software" route instead, while Japan's method is more associated with arcade games and the distinct sound used in later PC-98 games.

However one western game notably did this, and it was Zone 66:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnbrosPkq_M

Chaotix on the 32x infamously did this too. Well, some other 32x games did too, but Chaotix really sounds like a PPZ8 title:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh_Egb-aEEI

@allison@hidamari.apartments @mima@makai.chaotic.ninja Bryan Cantrill is a Rust Enjoyer now btw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKv_IDN0zCA

@mima >luke smith fumo

why not a Bryan Cantrill fumo asking if you have kissed a girl yet, fedi?
https://landley.net/history/mirror/linux/kissedagirl.html

@Flaky@furry.engineer remember if your 11 install seems slow check if bitlocker is on

Nintendo is still DMCAing emulators and fangames.I think people really need to apply the lawnmower analogy when it comes to Nintendo lawyers. Nintendo lawyers literally don't care about fair use or enjoying their games or emulation, they just want to mow the lawn.

Stop supporting and giving the time of day to a company that hates you. Instead, make games totally influenced by them but better. Look how fucking big Palworld got, we need more of that.

@allison@hidamari.apartments @atlas@thonkbox.rightmouse.click The #1 mistake MS made with 11, aside from random bugginess from trying to mangle with shit that worked, is that Windows 11 arbitrarily forces you to buy new hardware.

This is by design of course. Windows never had a hardware cutoff this dramatic, there are tons of machines that came with 10 but either due to lacking a TPM or being before the hardware cutoff (Skylake, Excavator, etc.) they are Unsupported (tm) and you have to wrangle with it to keep getting updates.

@allison@hidamari.apartments @atlas@thonkbox.rightmouse.click My school ordered C2Ds with XP in 2010, to replace....PowerPC Macs.

There were a LOT of XP holdouts because XP quite frankly was the same as 7, it just worked for most people. Furthermore XP ran fast on a lot of low-spec hardware that 7 struggled on, and so on a C2D XP was crazy fast seemingly.

Sure it lacked 64-bit, 4GB+ RAM support, and the like, and the move to Vista/7 is what really made 64-bit Windows come into it's own.

@atlas@thonkbox.rightmouse.click Eh, not really.

There were plenty of people trying to use XP until the bitter end, especially in the Vista era. "Downgrading" a PC was extremely common.

Also Windows 10 changed a bit from RTM/1511 to 22H2.

@atlas@thonkbox.rightmouse.click Also what also happened in the late-XP era was the Netbook craze. Netbooks were too underpowered to properly run Vista 9 times out of 10, which led to the Netbooks getting a special ULCPC SKU which was identical to Home Edition with the restriction that you had to sell it on what Microsoft defined as a Netbook.

Of course Intel bungled that whole thing but that's another story IMO.

Japanese PC-98 owners are built differently, like Amiga owners they will upgrade the crap out of an old machine to say "My PC-98 can do this".
https://twitter.com/Arizona422/status/1721478068668334264

@mint@ryona.agency just wait till you talk to @iska@catposter.club about the TSX rabbit hole

With Nitter now dead, it's time to do the world a favor. Post fedi links (not screencaps) into public chats, shill the fedi at every chance you get (preferably an instance that doesn't block 500+ instances), and most importantly try to get big names like artists and the like on fedi.

when I relaunch pawlicker.com on another shit tier lowendbox VPS I'm thinking about making a PC-98 braindump on shit I've learned about the PC-98 hardware over time, it'll just take a while due to anxiety and all.

experimenting with oses on the laptop from hell

PSA: update your mastodon install now
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-3fjr-858r-92rw