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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RSS- On a tip from @NoelsRetroLab I found these ROM adapter boards. Picked @PCBWay to manufacture 10 of them to me. I'm still blown away that they can make these and have them at my front door all the way to the US in 6 days. Incredible.
- This morning's "learn something every day" is some polar plotting. R=1+2*COS(Z), pretty neat patterns from this one #commodore #c64
- I love these equation plots. A little lunchtime fun today to relax. This one only took 16 minutes to render, faster than I anticipated. #commodore #c64
- Anyone aware of a scan of this book online? I see some others by him, but not this one. I just copied the Floppy to a disk image. Could scan it easily since it’s spiral bound. #commodore
- Since I was scolded for taking out the Plus/4 yesterday, I figured I might as well fully get in trouble by powering it on and having it do something. #commodore
- Another @8BitShowAndTell book recommendation arrived today. This will be a fun one.
- The road to our house… At some point recently I had realized I have everything I dreamed about 15 years ago. I wonder what our next adventure will be.
- Afternoon walk is starting to feel like November.
- Well, it’s a good start. Just need to do that 29 more times. It’s not even 7am #NaNoWriMo
- Same Sierpiński's Carpet program but with PETSCII instead of graphics. This is a job for a PET! (2x speed) #commodore #PETober
- Sierpiński carpet on the Apple IIe took 3 1/2 hours. Here sped up A LOT. Machine language version is next and should be WAAY faster #appleii
- I’m doing #NaNoWriMo for sure, but looking for another thing in November to also dig deep on. I’m thinking about mashing these two concepts.
- Dice frequency · imapenguin
- Quick Tower of Hanoi with Sound on the Commodore 64 · imapenguin
- I LOVED @Ayliean's Tower of Hanoi video on @numberphile this week. I wanted to try it with some "soothing" sounds from the 80s with the SID from a Commodore 64 #commodore #c64 (sound on!)
- Warranties are for losers.
- I just picked up this 386 laptop from a guy up the road from me. New in the box. I literally cut the plastic from the factory on it
- TI-81 Screen pixel issue was a manageable repair. Took just a couple minutes. Reflowed the solder on all of the ribbon cables with the hot air station. She's all set for 30 more years of mathing.
- Well this is sad. My TI-81 has developed a column of dead pixels. I wonder if I can replace the LCD.
- Neither my son or the dog care that it’s way too cold to be in the river today.