@kalleboo Ah Famichiki, In the west they called it Poultry Entertainment System. 🙃

Chocolate Quake:
A minimalist source port of Quake focused on preserving the original experience of version 1.09 and earlier DOS releases. Inspired by the philosophy of Chocolate Doom, this project aims for accuracy and authenticity over modern enhancements.
https://github.com/Henrique194/chocolate-quake

The cool thing about [vendor]'s implementation of DDS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Distribution_Service) is that it's a native library even in C#/Java apps, so is in theory very performant with a small memory footprint.

The less cool thing is that they seem to use sequence<type> in the IDL as an alias for a plain old C array of <type>.

The default size for a sequence is INT_MAX. Therefore the default malloc for a sequence<type> is "sizeof(type) * INT_MAX".

...so THAT'S where all my RAM went!

@flexion Do you know which disk this was distributed on? I have a 6.5.something set of IRIX disks included with my Indigo2, and I got a bunch of the common demos (buttonfly, atlantis, sgidoom, etc) but had to download this from somewhere else.

@vga256 @allainyann OK don't mind me, the 33 apparently is 7-bit ASCII, the Arduino was to handle the lack of lowercase, and perhaps also act as a buffer.

@vga256 @allainyann

CuriousMarc used his ASR 33 with Linux a while ago, he built an RS232 to Current Loop adaptor, and used an Arduino to convert between baudot and ASCII, I wonder if he'd share the schematics and code?

#PicoGUS can now emulate both a CDROM drive and Sound Blaster in parallel, smoothly playing both CD audio and SB sound effects simultaneously. Still a lot of polish to do before a new firmware release but I'm excited!! This is MechWarrior 2 with bin/cue stored on a USB stick plugged into the PicoGUS

@lzg It can only host microservices

@rood "Support your local cryptids!" - Moth probably 🤣

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@foone Just #cursedWindowsThings 😅

@foone It's complicated by the way that /sometimes/ if you do

`windows_binary ~/path/file.ext`

...in WSL, it automagically resolves that to...

`windows_binary \\wsl$\distro\home\user\path\file.ext`

...except when it doesn't.

@foone Cursed knowledge.

You know what's worse?

If you use WSL in the out-of-the-box configuration, tab completion will ambiguously resolve Windows executables from %PATH%

Which is double bad if you happen to want/need/have the same executable in both environments.

Took me hours to figure out why I just started something but couldn't see it in `ps` 😭

@harrysintonen I've long thought having *some* drivers baked into your hardware was a clever idea. Obviously the practical ramifications are terrible, but the idea of any given piece of hardware working "in a vacuum" without a disk or download always appealed to me.

Why can't we just have nice things 🤣

@janamarie Delicate application of a /very/ fine grit sandpaper or fingernail buffer is what I'd opt for.

Good luck!!

@labellaragassa

The upside of open source: if you want functionality you can implement it yourself.

The down side of open source: if you want functionality, you have to implement it yourself.

I agree 100% with your take. Open source software needs a MASSIVE attitude shift for Desktop Linux to be an alternative for everybody.

Baked beans 😻

@neil Electric Sheep is fine but FreeGoats has a more permissive licence. It's pretty good once you get used to the UI quirks and spend a few hours to get your ~/.goatsrc dialled in.

@RueNahcMohr Sure, but if you know, you know. 😎

@vwestlife Would love to see a formula, factoring suspension stiffness, vehicle weight, wheel base, clearance, bump profile, etc to produce a maximum speed at which the chassis experiences the minimum acceleration and jerk, without bottoming out.