Notices by root42 (root42@chaos.social)

@dosnostalgic Really? Gamecube?

@lanodan @jonty or maybe IEEE488 aka GPIB? Very similar.

Checking out the GameGear library on my flash cart. First game is "5 in 1 Funpack" by Interplay. It's a game collection of 5 board games: backgammon, checkers, reversi, chess and yahtzee (here as "yacht").
#retrogaming #sega #gamegear

Chess is working as expected, but doesn't seem to have an opening library. Or not a very exhaustive one at least. Easiest level should be okay to beat for inexperienced players.

Reversi and checkers play as expected, too. I must say I am ver bad at both, failing to grab the border squares.

Yacht is actually Yahtzee, but probably renamed for trademark reasons. The rules are a bit weird, full house counts as the dice values, not 25 points.

SID Wizard by @lukhash
#commodore #c64 #demoscene

@nafmo haha! Yes I know the feeling…

@nafmo …and the car industry is still on C++11 for the most part. No wonder I miss out on all the good stuff.

TIL that you can use ' to group digits in C++…? Since when is that a thing?
int i = 1'000'000;

@thanius Luckily we are playing on an A500 with ACA500+. So We have a hard disk and plenty of RAM as well as 21MHz.

@thanius It is. Well, that's Sierra for you. That's one way to prolong a game...

Are f****ing kidding me? We can now restart Larry 5 from scratch because we didn’t take the battery charger and didn’t degauss the tapes. Dude, Ron Gilbert wrote those rules for a reason! Oh I know why I usually play Sierra games with a walkthrough nearby to check for dead ends.
#sierraonline #larrylaffer

Now this is an interesting application of LOCAL LLMs. I shall try this out at some point to see if it actually works.

https://github.com/mrphrazer/reverser_ai

@Tattooed_Mummy we are trying to replace humans with humanlike computer programs. What could possibly go wrong? Calling it now: we will soon have equivalents of babysitters, teachers and psychologists for AIs. Assuming that next steps will be memory and self correction in AI development.

@nikatjef @tob @Tattooed_Mummy My point. And memory is already on its way and will be another game changer for current models. I do think that AI will still do great strides, but I don't see the point or better: I see a lot of drawbacks and dangers. We totally lose track that whatever we do we should do it for humanity, not "because".

And these are the before and after pictures of the cast metal frame. I used deoxit and an old cloth and cotton buds to remove the dirt and cover the metal at the same time with the deoxit, which usually gives a very thin coating that will protect the metal. Smells horribly though. :)
I think I will need to lube the top and bottom ball bearings of the spindle. The top one I can reach easily. For the bottom one I probably have to unmount the flywheel, but I don't want to...

The read/write head is freshly cleaned, the rails have their dust removed and a thin coat of lithium grease has been applied to all surfaces that slide around.

Now everything is put back together. All things that I could reach are lubed. I am slightly optimistic...
To do:
* one more drive mechanism
* testing the transformer
* maybe getting rid of the mains filters...?

This is drive unit 0, which I still have to clean. It looks better AND worse at the same time as drive unit 1. The corrosion on the die cast metal looks worse, but the microswitch looks better. The spindle motor looks slightly different...