Notices by Studio 8502 :verified: (mos_8502@oldbytes.space), page 2

@jmorris Frobnicates the reticulated splines.

@HunterZ I just use Safari. It does what I need it to do, and it probably isn't selling my data.

Strange New Worlds is doing a musical episode. Not only do I love the idea on its merits, I love how it will piss off the worst sort of fanboy.

There is just something so satisfying about printing out documentation and putting it into permanent binders. Don't know what that is, but I just like doing it.

@inari In this case, these binders are accessories to go with my Z180 CP/M machine build.

If you espouse monstrous ideas, and I call you a monster, that is not a refutation of your ideas, it is a refutation of you as a person, which is a separate issue from the ideas themselves, which I can probably also prove are false in addition to being monstrous -- but that assumes that monstrous ideas deserve to be debated, rather than merely discarded without further consideration.

I've been around a long time, I've travelled all over my continent, and I can tell you for a fact that the person with a 4MHz computer that they built themselves is cooler than the person who spent $3000 on the latest toy from $BIGCORP.

Go dumpster diving, go thrift store and garage sale shopping, buy a bunch of tech trash and build something cool. No matter how it turns out, it will be cooler than anything sold to you by capitalism.

Seen on Facebook: A group entitled "LaserDisc Forever".

A bit optimistic, that -- given that every single LaserDisc in existence is going to rot into unreadability over the next few decades. Many already have done.

The things you find (and don’t buy) at Value Village.

For those who can't afford a ZX Spectrum Next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFudlR7znyo&t=16s&ab_channel=SpectrumNextStuff&fbclid=IwAR21XZ_uQ8iRjjbvWDGLt93dJCV6C78gARi093pVwQ77zP3Hldzebwf6AxE

Oh you can fuck right off with that shit.

@thomasfuchs Not a peep about it. What's inside? Z80?

@thomasfuchs It ran QNX, was a diskless network computer with a file server called LexICON, and it was only sold directly to Ontario schools.

My retrocomputing bucket list, updated:

• Commodore PET (if I had a spare $2000, I could get a rare as fuck SuperPET today, without even leaving town)
• Unisys ICON (a total pipe dream, there are like six of them left after the Ministry of Education fed them all into a wood chipper in the 90s)
• IBM PC XT (not so hard to find, just expensive)
• A Ukrainian-made Sinclair ZX Spectrum clone (Slava Ukraini! Herojam slava!)
• Neo•Geo MVS (I'd love the full stand up arcade, I'd settle for a consolized board)

In the past few years, I've acquired several important systems I'll never sell: My Amiga 1200, my self-build Commodore 64 SixtyClone, my KS1 ZX Spectrum Next, and now my Apple IIgs. I doubt I'll ever have all my bucket list computers, but you never know what tomorrow will bring.

Today's retro acquisitions checks one thing off the bucket list: A Woz Edition Apple IIgs. This one is in wonderful condition, needing only a little retrobrighting, and includes a GS-RAM card with what looks to be 1MB of RAM on it.

I will need to acquire a real floppy drive, some kind of mass storage (Booti? FloppyEmu?), a compatible RGB monitor or scan converter, and an ADB keyboard to actually make use of it, but I finally own one of the computers I have wanted since I was a small child, donated today by a gentleman and a scholar, who drove 10 hours from Iowa and braved Michigan's very own land that time forgot, the Upper Peninsula, to bring it here and experience Canada first-hand for the first time.

#retrocomputing

@patcharcana I'll be wearing orange and not participating in the stupidities. They can have Canada Day back when they find, return, and apologize for all the kids' bodies on the grounds of former residential schools.

Where is the lie?

@TechConnectify I'm a big fan of open source software, and freeware, and public domain, and rolling my own solutions out of whatever tools are at hand -- but I also have X amount of time in a day, and Y amount of stuff to do, which means I can't do for myself everything that I'm technically capable of doing, and paying someone else to do it is an entirely rational solution to get the rest out of the way.

@walkerb VICE works really well with JiffyDOS. And you can substitute the VIC-20 CHARGEN file for the C64 and get the nicer font.

Fira Code is a monospaced font with pre-programmed ligatures to make programming more visually appealing.