so officially-cool retrotech youtuber Tech Connections found the best thing in an obscure astrology program while he was repairing an old Tandy Computer. The "MAYBE QUIT" option! - ThreadSky

foone.bsky.social • 93 days ago

so officially-cool retrotech youtuber Tech Connections found the best thing in an obscure astrology program while he was repairing an old Tandy Computer.
The "MAYBE QUIT" option!

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dabluepittoo.bsky.social•93 days ago

Whenever you feel like quitting, click ''Maybe Quit''. If it shuts off, you're done. If it stays on, you gotta force yourself to keep at whatever you were doing.

tundrastruck.bsky.social•93 days ago

I love old software like this, there were no standards no codified ideas of what should and shouldn't be done.

bonkiscoolsite.neocities.org•92 days ago

if i ever finish up my game i need to add a maybe quit button that does this same thing

proctor013.bsky.social•92 days ago

Needs one for gamers

RAGE QUIT

legion303.bsky.social•93 days ago

"Click here to branch off a new reality"

bento-bongos.bsky.social•93 days ago

A TANDY COMPUTER WIZ-KID programmed this

redvampire.bsky.social•93 days ago

My productivity levels would be completely done if this was still offered in programs now

chibiufo.bsky.social•93 days ago

DON'T!

gadgetoid.com•93 days ago

“Maybe Quit” is just every fucking button in half the software I seem to use 💀

ryanrit.bsky.social•91 days ago

I remember this on my Tandy 1000! I think I got it on one of those shareware/demo disks back in the day!

pinballwitch.bsky.social•93 days ago

while i don't recall if my first computer, a tandy coco 3 had the maybe quit option, seeing this interface awoke a long dormant memory for me!

drunkukrainian.bsky.social•93 days ago

Advice for life

dasganon.bsky.social•93 days ago

Reminds me of the GrandMA lighting consoles, which don't have an enter key.

They have a "Bitte/Please" key.

growlph.greywolf.social•93 days ago

I've heard "Please" for Enter is somewhat standard on lighting controllers, since Enter/Exit describe scene transitions in that industry.

I like this, and think we should adopt polite keyboards in more places.

dasganon.bsky.social•93 days ago

Nope, just GrandMA.

ETC Eos stuff (which is all Windows based as it happens) uses Enter on the Consoles/Desks.

growlph.greywolf.social•93 days ago

Ah. I'm still a fan, though.

stuartwalton.bsky.social•93 days ago

Perfect for programming in INTERCAL

sneezingcactus.bsky.social•93 days ago

that's an awful lot of keys holy hell

lazerlord.com•93 days ago

Don't they also have "oops" instead of undo?

dasganon.bsky.social•93 days ago

Correct. (It's on the Fader Keys not the "traditional" keyboard though)

aao.bsky.social•93 days ago

I have to work with one of these, I hate it

captainstage.bsky.social•91 days ago

someone's gonna make an indie game with this option

dfx4509b.bsky.social•93 days ago

That was Tech Tangents that pointed that out, but Tech Tangents and Tech Connections would make a pretty cool collab.

metricconversion.bsky.social•93 days ago

I laughed so hard at that part. I’m so glad he tried that silly program.

ar7h4re.bsky.social•93 days ago

@moodboard.bsky.social

joblessandgay.bsky.social•93 days ago

FOONE FINALLY ON BLUESKY??? BEST MONDAY EVER 😭❤️ I LOVED FOLLOWING YOU BEFORE I MOVED TO BLUESKY

karilas.bsky.social•93 days ago

Die Hard Trilogy on PS1 has something similar when quitting out of the individual sub-games

osmote.net•93 days ago

perfect for a trilean type

patter.bsky.social•93 days ago

Reminds me of the abort/retry/ignore prompts you'd get in some old command-line programs

battlehork.bsky.social•93 days ago

That was Tech Tangents, although both Tech Tangents and Technology Connections are quite good

redvampire.bsky.social•93 days ago

Techno Tangenections

foone.bsky.social•93 days ago

yeah I somehow thinko'd it copying over from tumblr. whoops.

noisetheorem.bsky.social•93 days ago

This is really all UX in a nutshell.

mlgkina.bsky.social•92 days ago

Why this has such a @thesupersnes.bsky.social aura?

dervish-candela.bsky.social•93 days ago

SVN has a merge status "Conflicted (Maybe)"
I was also very much conflicted when I saw that

foone.bsky.social•93 days ago

For too long, computer programs have been asking if we're sure we want to quit, and only giving us a binary yes/no option. Finally we can leave whether we quit or not up to fate.

kholdfuzion.net•93 days ago

As long as Save is a definite choice haha. Don’t to leave that up to fate.

shuchancellor.online•93 days ago

LET THE HEAVENS DECIDE

scollon.social•93 days ago

I could do with a MAYBE QUIT option on several applications.

foone.bsky.social•93 days ago

And yeah. When he tried it out, it failed to quit a few times and then quit. It seems it just flips a coin when you select it and either quits/does nothing based on it.

cyborgurl.bsky.social•93 days ago

this is art to me

sockynoob.bsky.social•93 days ago

This is definitely a joke from the programmers for sure

ziyyigo-tipyigo.bsky.social•93 days ago

I would have gone with something like "IF Mercury = retrograde THEN quit"

schuldberg.com•93 days ago

That rules

braindamagedcat.bsky.social•93 days ago

perfect feature design, no notes

monophylos.bsky.social•93 days ago

I very much like this, because sometimes one is indecisive about quitting a program and therefore it's rather nice to have a sort of...divinatory option built in.

orpach.bsky.social•93 days ago

Exactly what I expected and an idea I need to steal.

Might actually be useful in preventing misinputs.

foone.bsky.social•93 days ago

The source video is here, check it out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apFLq3-fpL4

foone.bsky.social•93 days ago

FUCK ME I typo'd the name when I copied it from the original post on tumblr.

This is from Tech Tangents, not Technology Connections.

Sorry.

adriansdigitalbasement.com•93 days ago

Hehe I was about to say :-) 😂

usergoogol.bsky.social•93 days ago

I could see the reflection of someone who obviously isn't Alec in the video but I genuinely thought "well maybe Tech Connections is a second person??"

candle340.bsky.social•93 days ago

lol, I saw that and went “since when does Alec focus on old computers instead of toasters and heat pumps?

tuzi.iffy.xyz•92 days ago

Tandy powered heatpumps let's gooooo

foone.bsky.social•93 days ago

Maybe it's an old computer with a built in toaster?

On an unrelated note I need to go by the appliance store and my storage unit.

foone.bsky.social•93 days ago

if I actually finish the video I'm working on I'm gonna have to come up with a new screenname to make this even more confusing.
Who wants to watch a video about old games from some "foone" punk, when it could be from Techno Connecgents?

foone.bsky.social•93 days ago

"Hi and welcome to Techtronic Tangections, I'm here to talk about bible games from 1992"