Scott Williams 🐧 @vwbusguy@mastodon.online
Do you use your powers for good or for awesome?
Senior #DevOps Engineer at a major research university and a severe #Linux and #opensource enthusiast. Also into #retrocomputing, #fountainpens, #Volkswagen, #music, and #cooking. #fedi22
Joined Sep 2020
Here's a YouTube video I found about the #Commodore VIC-20 to VIC-40 expansion.
I also read some debates about whether the first and third were the same thing or not.
From a quick Googling, it sounds like VIC40 means three distinct things:
* A successor to the VIC-20 that supported 40 column text.
* An add-on upgrade to the VIC-20 itself that supported 40 column text.
* An early internal prototype of the C64 before it was ultimately renamed before going to market
Whatever happened to the VIC-40 and why does no one seem to talk about it much? I see it mentioned in passing but I rarely ever see anyone showing it off. #commodore #commodore64
I'm thinking of porting qbsh to CBASIC2 for the Osborne but wondering what I should actually call it.
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Feeling like I need to take a break and "detox" from the internet in general but my dayjob is about keeping stuff on the internet alive and so much of my IRL comms depend on internet connected devices.
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Even #BASIC programs are like this. The file with be *mostly* there but have little corruptions of characters being off here and there so it won't load to MBASIC or CBAS2 without some frustrating surgery in WordStar.
PIP has no validation and it also doesn't seem to grok the EOF bit consistently, so I need to send it multiple times, leaving junk in the end of the file.
I know it's possible to do over serial with converting to hex, but I haven't been able to get it over with PIP without it getting corrupt in the process. I can get files from Osborne fine, but I have a catch 22 here with getting them on.
Is there anyone that sells #KERMIT floppies (DD) for #Osborne One? #retrocomputing
My wife: Evanescence is just Nightwish on a bad day.
😂😂😂
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First look at the Fedora 36 KDE Plasma Spin!
https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/92ece2d7-0951-4dd5-8e2d-37c3b9ebee98
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Looks like our account was hit with the oldbytes.space data loss event, so you'll need to re-follow again. So, let's try this again:
PRINT "HELLO WORLD!"
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If you're a #BASIC programmer and needing a quick reference for a keyword, check out our wiki! It's wiki.qb64.dev/ + the keyword. For example, for DIM:
Shout out to the street musician in Old Town #Pasadena doing an up beat happy flamenco cover of Radiohead's Creep.
Do you use your powers for good or for awesome?
Senior #DevOps Engineer at a major research university and a severe #Linux and #opensource enthusiast. Also into #retrocomputing, #fountainpens, #Volkswagen, #music, and #cooking. #fedi22
Joined Sep 2020
