Notices by Jason Scott (textfiles@digipres.club)

Oh, you got your emulator running with a few games to play? That's cute.

Andrew Warkentin has made a VM that has over 1,700 operating systems on it that you select from a launcher. One Thousand Seven Hundred Plus.

Aww, your emulator takes a couple gigs. His takes 174 of them.

https://www.virtualosmuseum.org

Spammers run rampant against the archive, trying their best to post advertisements and tricky links outward to sketchy sites. They've been doing it for years, and there's mitigations I and others work to keep it contained and miminal. Recently, someone is trying to break out of containment and is posting literally thousands of items a day.

I'm paying to have two UMATIC decks restored to service standards, if anyone wants to throw some bucks at this (everything I digitize ends up at the Archive, always) my paypal is jason@textfiles.com and the venmo is @textfiles

@jwz blocking people is like a spa treatment for my online life

If I can sadly skip the anniversary of the day that Internet Arcade slammed the Archive's bandwidth to death levels and crashed their servers, you can wait a few more days for the features to return.

Mozilla Apologists:

I now realized we passed the tenth anniversary of the FILE FORMATS WIKI without a whisper in 2022. Previously "Just Solve the Problem", the File Formats Problem (not enough documentation and links to tools) was important and big enough that it's still going!

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Main_Page

I mean, look. Rescued master tapes of interviews with the likes of Douglas Adams, Bill Gates, Atari’s Jack Tramiel, MacPaint’s Bill Atkinson, Infocom’s Joel Berez, Star Trek’s Gene Roddenberry, musician Herbie Hancock, EA’s Trip Hawkins....

They want to do it RIGHT right, so they're paying a professional to do it. The gofundme is here:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/digitizing-the-famous-computer-cafe

Let's put this one to bed quickly. Two episodes are already digitized, there's 54 in total.

A passionate review is still a review

I Am No Longer Attending Vintage Computer Festivals

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5587

GET LAMP, the documentary I created 13 years ago, is available for free, but the GETLAMP.COM website didn't make that clear. Now it does, linking to the Internet Archive's set of .ISO files.

http://www.getlamp.com

DMA design OGs were at the unveiling in 2011.

The DMA design (Lemmings, later Grand Theft Auto) original office was over a fish and chips shop.

Now it's got a plaque.

Hey, people. Foone Turing (the "I go way too deep into computer investigations of vintage tech" person) has indicated they're officially laid off, and running out of money while trying to find a new job. If you have a job, hit them up. Otherwise, please throw some dollars:

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

If that "Google Cache replaced by Internet Archive" isn't accompanied with millions of dollars, it's going to crush us.

One of the hackernews commenters in the (massive) thread about TEXTFILES.COM asks why I simply don't host the whole site as README files in Github.

These people work on things you depend on.

Andy Baio places Ello (RIP) on the table and does a dissection that leaves not a single hypocrisy, lie, overstatement, and fake promise untouched.

https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/

Here's a fun request: Does anyone (or any game company) want to sponsor a ticket for me to go to GDC? It's time to run around and do some attending and preserving and noisemaking.

What I think when they tell me a large-language model can now be run on a Raspberry Pi

Imagine waking up and telling Puerto Rican restaurant that their color scheme is not appropriate for california.

By the way, I saw this because they framed the letter and have it at the entrance