Notices by linear cannon (linear@nya.social)

love that kind of hole in the wall restaurant that looks super rickety and run down and stuffed between two gas stations and the name of the place is "mike's" but its owned by a guy named muhammad, the beverage options are just a bunch of soda cans you have to grab from a fridge yourself, theres like three parking spaces

because you know you are getting some damn good food. if it werent good, it wouldnt still be standing

@mike@social.chinwag.org if you want to do it the most cursed way possible, install the PowerPC version of Windows NT on the iMac, install the x86 emulation subsystem onto that, and then download no$gba (which also does DS emulation)

@Janeishly@mastodonapp.uk it took me two re-reads to parse this correctly with "grizzled seafarers" as a metaphor rather than literal, since i've encountered a handful of these types who are also literal seafarers

my laptop stopped working over the weekend and as a consequence of that i have essentially been daily driving windows nt 4.0 for the past few days on my pentium 2 machine, and somehow it doesnt suck that much

im not joking, this is how i am managing my homelab right now

i'm actually dual booting with windows nt4 but, close enough

type of girl whose brand new laptop dies in 2025 and so she just installs os/2 warp 4 on a thinkpad a30 and decides that's good enough

just had my first ABEND. finally i'm a real novell netware administrator

if it happens again i'm going to turn off SMP to rule out an issue with that. i don't really need SMP anyway, i'm serving like, a single 486 system

girls should be allowed to install Windows NT on devices it was never meant for

anyway here's my ibook

i had the idea for doing this in 2019 and had briefly explored actually doing it but i really did not want to write an ARC firmware from scratch

thankfully @Rairii@labyrinth.zone had the same idea and went and did the whole thing and now i don't have to

... but i am now considering a port to a different system that was never meant to run NT

success

this is weird, and cursed, and i like it

@growlph@greywolf.social far from it, this is a G3/ppc750. the 601 was mostly only used in the really early Nubus PowerPC macs, and upgrade cards for 68k macs

this works because the developer i mentioned earlier in this thread wrote an implementation of the ARC firmware that the PowerPC version of NT requires, that works on some powermacs, and then proceeded to use the NT DDKs to write a HAL that supports the platform

this was never meant to run on here, the PowerPC version of NT only supported a handful of IBM RS6000 machines - but that doesn't mean it can't be made to work with a bit of elbow grease

@growlph@greywolf.social Windows NT was originally designed and written on Intel i860 and MIPS R4000 processors, and was ported to x86, because they wanted a portable OS like Unix.

by the time of Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0, it supported x86, DEC Alpha, MIPS R4x00, and PowerPC out of the box. retail and OEM discs alike supported all of these architectures. you did not need a special version, just a computer that had the right firmware and drivers.

@growlph@greywolf.social photos showing this, taken from my retail box copy of NT 3.51, and the hardware compatibility list from 3.5 (which didn't support PowerPC yet)

@growlph@greywolf.social see also the labeling on the NT 3.51 and 4.0 discs

"Disc contains code to run on WIndows NT-compatible x86, Pentium™️, Mips ®️ R4x00, Alpha AXP ™️, and PowerPC ™️ systems."

@acsawdey@fosstodon.org @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me modern mips still has the exact same set of ABIs as IRIX did, and nintendo 64 linux is equally useless in all of O32, N32, and N64 ABIs :)

@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me IRIX would be really tough for a lot of reasons even if we had the source code or used a leaked codebase

netbsd, iirc, historically has issues with 64-bit mips toolchains, but probably would run fine with a 32-bit kernel and userland

i think that people forget that an important fact about the nintendo 64 is that it is a device designed for you to have fun with by playing video games on it

this isn't cute or heartwarming. nintendo 64s only run linux when they are VERY DISTRESSED

it really irritates me when drinks have artificial sweetener and are not prominently labeled as such

it seems they do it because they want to counter bitterness of an additive without adding calories - it especially seems to happen with caffeinated variants of an otherwise non-caffeinated thing, as one example, but it happens for other stuff too.

it also irritates me that i can tell which artificial sweetener it is by the taste