I write about the past, present, and future of technology across three sites. imapenguin.com explores retro computing and programming fundamentals, milkcrunch.com covers modern software development and engineering culture, and evadot.com examines commercial spaceflight and the new space movement.
Posts
- Working on my project to recreate my first Linux install close to how I remember it. Would you consider it cheating if I replaced the marginally flakey 30 year old hard drive with an IDE to SD card adapter?
- Looking like winter is coming.
- I was telling someone that I never use my Commodore 128 in 128 mode, so playing @8BitShowAndTell’s“10 print racer” game on it checks that box AND I get to use the number pad just like on the PET he demoed it on. #Commodore
- Recording time! Forgot how much work (and how fun) this is.
- Not surprisingly this was WAAAYY easier in BASIC. Although it runs at about 1/100th the speed
- I played around with programming Commodores as a kid, but only got so far. This is my first “real” software on the Commodore. Implemented generating one time encryption pads using a random(ish) generator. Never stop learning. #commodore #c64
- I love Turbo Macro Pro, but sometimes I want to keep things in version control. Turns out exporting to ASCII files is only two steps. (this is @8BitShowAndTell code with my annotations while I was following his video) #commodore #c64
- Urg, my “office” needs a cord organization and clutter intervention.
- I guess we used to fly without @ForeFlight, I can’t live without it in the #tigerbaron
- If you’re a pilot in winter this is what it looks like out your office window. #tigerbaron
- Oh, one more December project… Getting RedHat 5.2 (1998) on a 486 Monochrome laptop with 4MB of RAM.
- Brain, what’s the thing we’re gonna learn in December? FPGAs Pinky. FPGAs.
- I don’t have a portable Commodore and felt like coding in a different room so my MacBook is just gonna have to do for this evening. Do you suppose when they designed the Retina display they considered some yahoo using it for a 40 column display?
- On the prowl for Nat’s Christmas Album on Vinyl. I have several of his other albums but missing that one.
- Imapenguin, reborn · imapenguin
- Why does there have to be a why? · imapenguin
- Took a little modern electronics wizardry to get it working on an LCD but this is a surprisingly usable writing machine. Plus it has no internet which is its best feature. #commodore 128
- Trying to decide which to have in my office setup next. Note that the RedHat 5.2 is from the first time they used that version number. So 1998. I’m leaning Amiga...
- We're being invaded
- What's your favorite fiction book?