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.
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- Still working on iOS animations before the day job starts. This morning's project was pretty fun.
- 10 PRINT is cool, but there are soooo many 1 liner possibilities. Need to try this on the VIC-20 next. #commodore
- I should have just used my front porch as a tree stand
- Time to cartridge ROM dump following along with an @8BitShowAndTell video. You know, for science
- I was very lucky to get a 6502 high resolution die shot print from Siliconinsid
- I love that HP still makes the 12C. I never have one out of arms reach. 41 years and running and the CPU is very 6502ish. Make RPN great again.
- I did #AdventOfCode Day 6 on a #commodore VIC-20 today just for a change of pace. Pretty fun.
- Commodore PET 2001 #AdventOfCode Day 5 sorting crates and stacks.
- I spent WAAAY too long today figuring out #AdventOfCode Day 4 on the Commodore 64, but it works. Took me 10 minutes to write my solution in Julia this morning and 3 hours this evening to write it for the #commodore. Probably can't spend that kinda time on work days, though. Fun!
- Got a Coco1 from @K0FFY_Radio today including some other goodies. Doing the ol route the RF through a VCR trick to get that soothing toxic green screen. This is now in the running for the worst computer in my collection and I couldn’t be happier about it.
- I did #AdventOfCode Day 3 in @julialanguage because it's Saturday and I needed to knock it out quickly. If I have time this evening, I'll try it on a retro computer.
- In December, I am adding SwiftUI to my skillset. Not bad for a first pre breakfast session.
- These are a few of my favorite things…Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashesSnowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes… Happy Friday!
- Alright, part 2 of #AdventOfCode Day 1 went to my Commodore PET 2001. Only took 58 seconds to do it, including reading the 2200+ data points from a floppy disk #commodore
- Been asked several times today if #AdventOfCode2022 is possible on vintage computers. The answer is "some of it". Today's was doable. Takes a minute to read 2200+ inputs from a floppy, but it worked. #commodore
- Validating Pilish · imapenguin
- Well @8BitShowAndTell made me get the paddles out for a deep dive Ultimax cartridge/LeMans Patreon exclusive. Don’t tell anyone I’m using my #Atari paddles on a #commodore though okay?
- Well, #AdventOfCode2022 is off to a good start. I'm using @JuliaLanguage this year, and I realize I'm not nearly as good at Julia as I thought. The month's challenges will be hard, and that's great.
- We have two Christmas trees, so naturally there are two trains.