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- So many great resources for learning how to do more with retro computers. My #Septandy day 5 choices
- For #septandy day 4, I did the beloved 10 PRINT program. The Color Computer’s slash and backslash characters are a 5 × 7 region in a larger box of 8 × 12. It’s not a great character set to demonstrate this as a random “maze” or even really a clear connected pattern. Still fun.
- Calculating Pi via the Gregory-Leibniz series in BASIC on the Tandy Color Computer 2 · imapenguin
- In today's episode of "Stupid races between old computery things", we have a #Septandy day 3 duo of a Coco2 with and without extended BASIC vs a VIC-20. Curiously Color BASIC is missing the exponent function so we had to implement it. Will #commodore win?
- The PC-4 is a neat little handheld, but it isn't going to win any speed competitions. Simple "benchmark" on my Coco2 takes 39 seconds. Exact same code on the PC-4 took 3:35. But BASIC in your pocket is pretty nifty! #Septandy
- It's September 1st. Getting the #Septandy train rolling. All aboard!
- Well, thanks to @8BitShowAndTell this is on my VIC-20 today. Follow him on the YouTubes for Gorf goodness in a couple days (or on Patreon for sooner). All the cool kids are doing it.
- This evening I’m exploring the first CAD software I ever used seriously. Where’s a light pen when you need it?
- Well I know what I’m adding to my Christmas list.
- Time to up my game. I own a nice collection of various knives but not a proper bowie knife. Never leave home without it.
- Gonna try to get through both of these this week.
- Spent time dodging thunderstorms today. This was the one clearing that was long enough to get a shot of.
- Early morning summer departures means bugs on the windshield.
- Interesting that @VansAircraft and @SonexAircraft are working on high wing models. Apparently I missed some industry trend memo somewhere.
- bow chica bow wow
- Haven’t been flying much but we kicked off the rust for a couple minutes this morning after almost finishing the flaps on the zenith. Was nice to have my buddy Simon help with the building this morning.
- I’m short a transistor to do a composite MOD on this Atari VCS/2600 so it’s the ol route the RF through a VCR trick for now #atari
- Since I only eat once a day now, I had time to recap and heat sync an Atari 800 during lunch. Working like a champ
- This morning the "learn something every day" was a maze walker in BASIC
- The Selectric II restoration was a snap. About an hour, and it’s working like a champ. It’s built like a tank and probably has 100 years of life left in it. It’ll take me a little bit to get fast on it, but that sound is just so satisfying.