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I am a life long nerd who seems to be perpetually chasing the next bright shiny thing :) I will always be puttering with technology whether I'm paid for it or not :)
I love spending time with my wife and our rescue pup, playing with old computers, reading, and playing video games.
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An Atari 8 bit community on an instance with working federation...
As a Skeptic, I have a very hard time with The Seth Material
It's not even merely the idea that some trans dimensional being might choose to communicate with our plane, it's the manner they allegedly chose to communicate: A Ouija board.
The Ouija board is the ultimate self fulfilling prophecy. The humans who place their hands on the planchette can either consciously or subconsciously dictate the messages the purported being on the other end of the board is transmitting.
And I don't even necessarily have a problem with that, but let's be up front about it if we're all going to play a party game that amounts to recreational fiction writing with a spooky feel.
I also don't mean to take anything away from anyone who feels they have benefited from the Seth material. Inspiration can be drawn from many sources reputable and not.
I just wonder if the people in that room actually believed what they were purporting to.
I don't think Pascal is clunky! I think it represents a point on the evolution of programming languages and is still well loved by a LOT of people! Just google Free Pascal or Lazarus Pascal.
The back catalog is amazing too. They've interviewed SO MANY amazing luminaries from the Atari's past and present.
I love how much modern computing culture has its roots in the good old Amiga, and folks who didn't own one are totally clueless about it.
One could, but I would argue that this idea pre-supposed a very ascetic class of programmer, and that depending on one's goals in learning how to program, recursion can be a useful concept but saying it should be the one litmus test for any learning platforms seems highly questionable to me.
Are there any off the shelf available 68K based computers these days? I wasn't aware of one but that would be cool :)
AMIGA 2023!!! :)
Or maybe there are people who find working in low powered environments that behave a certain way, more like computers did in the 80s enjoyable.
It's not about boomers or what's powerful and what's not. Some things are just for fun and that's all the justification they need IMO.
Also, how would that 'weirdness' impact using the device in a teaching context?
What would you like to see instead? Z80? Something else?
Do you folks choose OpenBSD over FreeBSD because of its enhanced security or are there other reasons to recommend it for folks looking for an alternative to Linux?
Remember Compute! magazine? :) I Lived for that thing :)
So much this!
I remember having to order tech books from Waldenbooks, and getting blank stares from the clerk, who'd basically tell me they were never going to actually receive it after I'd waited WEEKS.
Then I finally got to visit QuantumBooks, a technical bookstore in Kendall Square Cambridge, and it was like going to heaven :)
Oh MAN those magazine listings!
I remember my mom, bless her, reading them to me so I could type the bloody things in becauase, being partially blind, I couldn't get the bloody page close enough to my face to properly read the infinite lines of DATA statements :)
And then, years later, they finally came out with checksum programs so you could see a number at the end of each line and compare it with what was in the magazine.
Crazy to think back, innit? :)
For me as a kid growing up in the 80s, it's absolutely walking into Radio Shack (my favorite place in the mall next to the arcade!) and seeing a TRE-80 Model II set up for demo.
Kind of intresting as I think about it that I ended up not going for a Tandy computer and instead bought an Atari ;) No regrets. I still adore my 800XL!
I had absolutely never heard of this. Super cool! I unfortunately don’t own any of the supported platforms but this is awesome regardless.
No problem! You don't need to own the hardware. You can use the pre-built fujinet-pc if your platform is supported, or just run Altirra (works fine from WINE if you're not on Windows) and install the fujinet SIO adapter.
It's pretty cool stuff getting on the internet with an emulated atari running an emulated fujinet IMO :)
Mental Health has been a big topic in tech over the last few years
I recently transitioned back to working in academia after 6.5 years at a MegaCorp, and by the end I was pretty burned out.
I got better, and I'd like to think I learned a few things along the way. that I wanted to pass on to folks in case they might help somebody.
On the off chance someone hadn't heard of it - Fujinet is amazing!
This project really showcases the power of open source and passionate people building something for the sheer joy of it :)
It's basically an EP32 chip with a tiny smidge of custom hardware that's been programmed to speak the serial protocol of quite a number of 8 bit machines.
I have one for my 800XL and that speaks Atari's SIO protocol.
The depth and breadth of software for the thing is amazing, and overall I find the whole project incredibly inspirational.
Lately, they've been on a kick of creating a project where they've instrumented classic Atari games to post high scores on the internet, with a website 'lobby' where you can sign up to play games online with others.
Totally love mine, and which I had a bigger house so I could have an Apple II and a C64 and get the Fujinet for those platforms as well :)