polpo.org
I created PicoGUS, an ISA card that can emulate sound cards like the Gravis Ultrasound, Sound Blaster, and MPU-401: https://picog.us
I’m a retrocomputing generalist!
Also on Fedi at https://bitbang.social/@polpo
In Colorado, USA
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I'm afraid I do too
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This chart reads like the dril candles tweet. Seems like the only ones actually making money are the ones like AWS providing the "web services" part of it
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Ah, the days when all you needed to do to get an animated series made was do a funny voice
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That would be a great way to do it. I still need to test joystick + mass storage device on a hub. It should work theoretically but I haven’t tried it yet.
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I want to try something like that but I’m worried about games that override the BIOS keyboard handler. We’ll see what works!
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It should work, but I haven't figured out a good way to swap CD images yet. Maybe a TSR for DOS and a small utility for Windows...
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Good luck!! 🤞
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Maybe this is the correct orientation for the southern hemisphere
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Ooh, semi hot take, but I kinda get it.
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The way the edge connector is attached is clever. Was it similar on the original board?
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Oh dang. That car really didn't look at all! Glad you're OK, minus the tea
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Now that I think of it, that was the track that really made me lock in and get the best times.
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this is absolutely perfect!
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Wipeout XL!
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love my moo gun!
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And GenAI has disappointingly been creeping into the demoscene, even in oldskool productions. There were a lot of Amiga prods at Revision this year that were pretty shameless about it. There are tons of artists out there that would love to contribute to a prod!
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Hi Arthur!
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Oh man, “the burden of other people’s expectations” hits hard
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I mean, yeah!!
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If I wasn't in Colorado I think I'd love living in that area!
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Before I learned that COAST modules weren't intercompatible I just casually moved one from one board I have to another. I got lucky!
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I can get around the worst of it by having prototype PCBs made in the EU by Aisler, and for production runs there may be a chance of getting an exemption from the mega-bad tarrifs because I make "Parts And Accessories For Automatic Data Processing Machines And Units Thereof". But nothing is certain.
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*sneezes*
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Two of them!!
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Aww yeah that’s the stuff! It has a nice sweet smell
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AuthenticAMD!
Btw when we visited NYC last month we got MetroCards knowing it was going to be our last chance 🥲
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So happy to see you again!
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Yes! In fact it should already be working in theory but there’s a bug I need to fix.
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Another hour of hacking and we have decent CDROM speeds equivalent to a bit more than a 2X drive. Here it is running the intro FMV to Mechwarrior 2 with simultaneous Sound Blaster and CDROM. Need to tweak things still, since the CDROM reading is starving the audio playback (hence the audio stutter)
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Oooh. It's been a long time since I've seen them but it was an amazing show.
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It will support CD audio as soon as I fix a couple bugs!
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optical! fancy
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wow!!
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They’re more expensive than the usual suspects in China but still way cheaper than anything I can get here in the US. Their design rules on their cheapest service are a bit less forgiving than JLC’s, and they only offer green solder mask, but I can deal with that for now…
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Believe it or not, it's OpenGL: github.com/ecumber/winn...
The famous 3D Maze screensave also isn't a raycaster like a lot of people think, it's OpenGL and is in that repo too.
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It's funny, playing old games with modern controllers feels like cheating sometimes, since they're so much more responsive than old joysticks.
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Congrats!!
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Ugh and it's the action game too. That's never going to sell!
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One feature I miss from the Twitter days is turning off reposts from certain people.