Look who came to visit — Ed Smith of APF!
Upon seeing the Imagination Machine II, he said, “Oh man! I never thought I’d see Myrtle again.”
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Tech history. AI/ML. Associate Editor, How-To Geek. Contributor Fast Company / The Atlantic / Retronauts. Creator Vintagecomputing.com, Culture of Tech
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The client on iPhone has been really buggy on my iPhone 11 Pro for the past 6-9 months.
Taps won’t register, parts of the interface float. Anybody else having problems?
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Post-apocalyptic thriller where the only currency is Kohl’s Cash
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The most insane thing about the tech sector that we just accept as normal is that so many pricey gadgets are built to be thrown out when the battery dies—an environmental travesty.
Those hidden "death dates" should be made public, says.
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Yes, we've known about dangerous human-caused climate change from fossil fuels for over a hundred years, climate scientists have been ignored that entire time, and we're still being ignored even today
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The first three ads in the Sept. 1931 edition of "Wonder Stories", a sci-fi magazine: archive.org/details/Wonder
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“Many libraries have struggled with what to do with their microfiche collections, as they contain important information but are difficult to use.”
That guy who emailed me a couple years ago loudly claiming microfiche was easy to use would disagree …
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My favourite game (or at least most memorable) was Paradroid.
But my favourite thing about the C64 was how the Programmers Reference Guide opened up the entirety of what could be done with the hardware, leading to many happy hacking projects.
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40 years ago, Commodore released the Commodore 64, which became the best-selling desktop computer of all time
As a game console and BASIC machine, it delighted millions. I wrote about it for @howtogeek: howtogeek.com/820304/the-bes
What's your favorite Commodore 64 game?
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Some #genart history:
Algorithm 133 by Peter G. Behrenz from 1962 might be the first documented random number generator used in generative art.
It can be found in Georg Nees' book "Generative Computergraphik"
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We were driving through Beaverton (Oregon) when an old memory came to me: this was the home of HAL America.
Yes, HAL, the Kirby/Smash/Iwata game company, once had an American office! I had some friend who worked here, and it was filled with teens testing Adventures of Lolo 2.
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iMovie on the iPhone not supporting vertical video editing is just…
GIF
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This was my first machine. Played games, learned Basic. Precursor to Computer Science degree. My Dad indicated this was the plan. Fav game? Easy, Hardball. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HardBall!
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40 years ago, Commodore released the Commodore 64, which became the best-selling desktop computer of all time
As a game console and BASIC machine, it delighted millions. I wrote about it for @howtogeek: howtogeek.com/820304/the-bes
What's your favorite Commodore 64 game?
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40 years ago, Commodore released the Commodore 64, which became the best-selling desktop computer of all time
As a game console and BASIC machine, it delighted millions. I wrote about it for : howtogeek.com/820304/the-bes
What's your favorite Commodore 64 game?
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Amazing little SNES game that never gets enough love. F-Zero fans, go check this out.
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Import review for Astro Go! Go! on Super Famicom from CVG 152 - July 1994 (UK)
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We celebrate the life of Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek actor, trailblazer, and role model, who symbolized to so many what was possible. She partnered with us to recruit some of the first women and minority astronauts, and inspired generations to reach for the stars.
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If you get the chance, go play Bandido, aka Sheriff! It's a Nintendo game with graphics by Miyamoto, and it presages Donkey Kong with some early story-like elements. Rare to get the chance to play the actual machine!!
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Question: When I was a kid, I sometimes felt like I was physically falling when going to sleep. Back then I thought that’s why we call it “falling asleep.”
To this day, if I imagine myself falling I go to sleep faster — does this happen to anyone else?
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Wow, I have never seen this before. Looks like an ASR-33 keyboard without the teleprinter components, designed for computer use (ca. 1964)
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“A word, if I may”
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some friends of mine finished their first playthrough of myst last night. to celebrate i made a super mario 64 rom hack for them to explore.
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These are the heydays of computerdom. Enjoy it while it lasts. ↯88FEB
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Discord Is Not an Archive
Treat it like a refrigerator with piles of post-it notes on front that constantly fall off when you reach inside to grab a beer
Anything else and you're fooling yourself
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Between this, the Alzheimer’s amyloid plaque study fraud, and the disputed serotonin/depression link, I’m starting to wonder what percentage of medical advice we follow is just arbitrary
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Whoah
nytimes.com/2022/07/27/hea
Normal vitamin D levels were *made up*
Read the whole piece from @ginakolata to the kicker in the end. h/t @weddellite
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200TB SSDs could come soon thanks to Micron's new chip | TechRadar
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if Mario Kart was about pure driving I would win every race but unfortunately my competitors insist on engaging in a great deal of unsportsmanlike behaviour
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What's the one thing you think keyboards need more of?
Macro keys? Flashing lights? Air horns?
Sound off below!
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Replying to @hackaday
+1 keyboards need more knobs
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So it turns out that the blocky pixels in Space Invaders were realistic details of an invading alien fleet
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