Russell Davis

I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one.

#RaspberryPi #IchigoJam, #Z80 #CP/M #Retro #SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy

Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

2025-06-28

@CleoQc 99 & half hours or so

2025-06-27
2025-06-27

@CleoQc are they open yet, are they open yet? it's nearly 9am, how long have you been queued at the door?

2025-06-26

@CleoQc Wrong. There is never enough chocolate to last longer than an hour even if you bought 3 metric tons

2025-06-26

@CleoQc Mark Gatiss's new detective drama Bookish release date confirmed | Radio Times

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Julia's Reruns Botb0rk_reruns@jvns.ca
2025-06-23

oh shit! I tried to commit a file that should be ignored!

Permalink: wizardzines.com/comics/oh-shit

A hand drawn programming comic with the title 'oh shit! I tried to commit a file that should be ignored!'. Doesn't have a proper caption yet.
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Battle for Wesnothwesnoth@fosstodon.org
2025-06-23

1.19.13 has been released! This update includes attack, defend, and standing animations for the Dune Rover as well as fixes the game crashing when hovering over the grey bat in SotA, among other changes.

As usual, for more details see r.wesnoth.org/t59373

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K. Reid Wightman :verified: 🌻 :donor:reverseics@infosec.exchange
2025-06-23

On this day in fake history: Professor Falken's account was removed when he decided to quit the nuclear war game.

War Games terminal screen:

WOPR: HOW ARE YOU FEELInG TODAY?

Broderick: I'm fine. how are you?

WOPR: EXCELLENT. IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME. CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE REMOVAL OF YOUR USER ACCOUNT ON 6/23/73?

Broderick: People sometimes make mistak[sic]

WOPR: YES THEY DO. SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?

Broderick: Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War?
2025-06-22
2025-06-22

Got Linda's release date er I mean discharge date. Another 10 days until home. Still not 100% but much better with stairs and walking than when she started PT rehab and her breathing is much much better. Guess I can stop digging the escape tunnel now

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2025-06-13
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2025-06-11

RIP Brian Wilson.

Brian Wilson, co-creator of iconic 1960s band the Beach Boys, has died aged 82 bbc.com/news/articles/cg71xrxr

2025-06-11

@scruss and they peel them with their metal knives

2025-06-11
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Paolo Fabio Zaino ☮️🌍💻🎸🎮☕️🍩🍕DarkL0rd@mastodon.online
2025-06-07

#RISC_OS I've put together a presentation page for #ProjectMerlin, which also includes a real-time progress update widget. This is to help answer questions I've received from various people. Please note: I am doign this for fun, I am NOT trying to save #riscos .

riscoscommunity.org/projects/r

#rust #RustLanguage #operatingSystem #programming

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2025-06-07

@glitch25 Usborne published some excellent books for learing BASIC in the early 80s, and they have them as free pdf downloads now usborne.com/gb/books/computer-

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WANTED: Intel Architecture Labs 1990’s CD-ROM’s. They appear to have maybe been monthly. They contained a mirror of Intel’s ‘download.intel.com’ ftp server, specifically the /ial/ subdirectory which is not in the 2014 backup of the site on archive.org.

Lots and lots of white papers and design guideline documents in there. Especially looking for ones from the late 1990’s (1998-ish onward) if they exist. I’ve seen references in mailing lists to them that lead me to believe they do.
Example gem: intel trying to cover its ass after the FDIV bug, and have some more FDIV

Photo of an Intel Architecture Labs CD-R or CD-ROM from the mid 1990's (september 1995), stolen from archive dot org which has exactly two CD's backed up.
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The FreeDOS Projectfreedosproject@fosstodon.org
2025-06-05

This is pretty cool! 😎

This guy managed to boot FreeDOS on a #Nintendo #GameBoy Advance using a Pokemon save file. Great job!

youtu.be/nEwmYOZ-xME

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2025-06-03
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@cstross @Uilebheist ...I am now *extraordinarily* tempted to build a repository of INTERCAL programs, easily searchable and indexable by AI crawlers.

They'll be labeled as Java code, of course. As you do. (The Brainf*ck collection will be marked as Python, or possibly Excel formulas)

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