Notices by Ian Scott :apple_inc: 🐙 (polpo@bitbang.social)

When you want to fit a DIP in a footprint meant for an SOIC

I finally found the last sticker I wanted to put on my tool drawers (Live Laugh LocalTalk by @billgoats)! I’ve been collecting and I didn’t really have anything to stick them to until I got these drawers. I had so many stickers stashed up they overflowed to one of the sides.

Anyone else have a pile of these microSD to SD card adapters that they don’t need but can’t bring themselves to throw them away?

This made me curious if there’s any difference between the generic and name brand adapters so I opened some. The generic one is a bit more cost reduced (less plastic, less metal) but seems to have the same rough idea behind the design. Generic on left, Sandisk on right

I found a bad solder joint and after reflowing it (and every other one on the board while I was at it) and the Osborne CRT seems to be fixed! I love this cute ascii art “self portrait” in the help on the system floppy

Every time you take the card out you are greeted by longcat

I needed to create a breakout board for debugging and doing bus captures on the Sharp #X68000. It has to stick out of the card slot so it's longer than a normal board. Hence, longcat

@lanodan @tomjennings what this modem calls "autodial" would be done on Hayes compatible modems with the ATDT command. This modem uses some other scheme and finding a manual is proving difficult...

This was the first modem I ever used - a Concord Data Systems 224. My original one is long gone so I’ve been waiting for a cheap one to show up on eBay forever and one finally showed up. This modem opened whole new worlds for me and I hope to see those RXD/TXD lights blinking again on this one! This one is actually slightly fancier than the one we had since it has autodial. Ours lacked that feature so I had to dial the phone myself and hit the DATA button when I heard the modem on the other side

Getting back into getting WiFi support tidied up for release for #PicoGUS. This is a little funny because it doesn't work on the PicoGUS 2.0 boards - only the original PicoGUS 1.x boards that you can plug a Pico-W into. Anyway you can set the SSID and password and get the connection status with pgusinit, and it'll work on whatever an NE2000 works on: DOS, Win3.x, Win9x, Linux, NeXTStep, OS/2, pretty much anything.

@thomasfuchs I did one of these dialect surveys for the US a while ago and it *nailed it* for me. Kinda spooky

@thomasfuchs I also got this email and had the same thought 😅

This is the first MIDI I've seen that programs the display on the Sound Canvas to show artwork! Nice work by Brother-Nao who also made the display show his name.

This auction that I stumbled across on HiBid for an "Atari typewriter system" is INSANE.
- Atari Falcon 030 which is crazy enough
- Bin of wires, peripherals, and oh just a casual *unreleased N64 game prototype* just sitting there
Someone near Maryland PLEASE bid on it! They don't ship and I can't get to Maryland to get it. It was at $3 a few days ago and is at $17 right now with just over a day left.
https://hibid.com/lot/201232092/atari-typewriter-system

@thomasfuchs @vga256 I’ve found that the SC-88Pro’s SC-55 mode is just not quite right, so I keep an SC-55mkII.

@thomasfuchs it definitely was one of my least smart moments, but somehow I had enough smarts to think to take it outside 😅

So this is what happens when you use compressed air to clean toner out of a laser printer drum unit

For the latest issue of Make Magazine, I wrote a feature article about #PicoGUS! The online version of the article is now up. Come read about my beginnings as a teenage #demoscene fan, how I was introduced to the GUS and how I decided to make an emulator for it so many years later. https://makezine.com/article/technology/computers-mobile/democratizing-the-demoscene-picogus-brings-the-90s-tracker-sound-to-the-masses/

@passim @thomasfuchs @Cdespinosa @pixel because @Cdespinosa, the one saying it’s fake, would be the “Chris” on the purported office diagram

So I just discovered that someone that is not me registered picogus.com. That is VERY much not cool. It currently redirects to the official site (https://polpo.org/picogus) but who knows what they can change that to in the future. I thought about registering it but guess whoever it is beat me to it. #PicoGUS