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Re:The home computer war
on Friday March 06, 2026 @04:53PM (#47281600)
I was lucky enough to be able to mail £5 notes to Llamasoft in Mount Pleasant, and receive freshly reproduced tapes from Jeff Minter, or more likely his mum or dad.. The sheer joy of getting home from school and there being a Jiffy bag with Yaks latest game was like nothing else.. From GridRunner, LaserZone, HellGate, MetaGalactic Llama Battle At The Edge Of Time..
Re:Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993
on Friday February 27, 2026 @05:27PM (#47186620)
Oh, so we’re including the unwashed masses ? Cool.. You’re right, of course..
Re:Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993
on Friday February 27, 2026 @04:12PM (#47185683)
I think it perhaps took off with NT4 in ‘96..
Re:Bryan Johnson's Immortals program costs $1M. How to DIY it <1% of t...
on Friday February 13, 2026 @04:53PM (#47008343)
Reads much like my daily-menu when I had Graves Disease..
Re:TI-99/4A: Leaning More on the Firmware
on Friday January 23, 2026 @04:37PM (#46738286)
Commodore fanboy at heart, but maximum love to the weird uncle of home computing.. I was so jealous of Parsec on that, speech and all, in 1982, when our local nerd group used to go and stare at computers after school..
Re:C64 Blood Money
on Friday October 24, 2025 @02:58PM (#45697953)
PDS required a PC with PDS ISA card (not much more than an 8255 iirc), was never available on the ST..
Re:FBI seized $40k from Linda Martin without charging her with a crime
on Friday August 01, 2025 @03:33PM (#44761354)
Let’s wait and see eh ? I don’t rule out anything in this country right now in the foreseeable future..
Re:UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in...
on Friday July 25, 2025 @03:03PM (#44686968)
Three has been fucked for years on 5G:
https://community.three.co.uk/t5/Broadband/Intermittent-conn...
Re:Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu
on Saturday June 21, 2025 @07:45AM (#44336765)
Cascadia Code ?
https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code
Re:Iranian Crypto Exchange Nobitex Hacked for over $82M by Suspected I...
on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @04:00PM (#44312857)
A quality choice of addresses :)
“0xffFFfFFffFFffFfFffFFfFfFfFFFFfFfFFFFDead,"
"1FuckiRGCTerroristsNoBiTEXXXaAovLX,"
and
"DFuckiRGCTerroristsNoBiTEXXXWLW65t."
Re:Honda Conducts Successful Launch and Landing of Experimental Reusab...
on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @02:26PM (#44312190)
I believe they can do 140kg to 800km, but #5 was only 4kg to a 180km x 1800km orbit..
Re:John Carmack at Upper Bound 2025 (slides and notes)
on Friday May 23, 2025 @05:37PM (#44076855)
The world seems to have rewritten history, and forgotten Ultima Underworld, which shipped prior to Doom..
Re:32 Bits That Changed Microprocessor Design
on Friday May 23, 2025 @02:57PM (#44075477)
movsb doesn’t set any flags, so no, it isn’t..
Re:The Dawn of Nvidia's Technology
on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @04:58PM (#44056266)
Roundabout when NVIDIA breached 3T USD and ousted Apple from #1 spot: “That is a long way from Curtis Priem's kitchen table, a $2.5M A-round from Sutter Hill and Sequoia, and the NV1.”
Re:Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gets M.2 SSD boot support 12 years aft...
on Saturday May 10, 2025 @10:17AM (#43945828)
It’s not stunning, ~420MB/s and 36k IOP/s and it’s limited to 2242 sizes.. But it was a nice cheap 2TB upgrade for the old girl :)
Re:Sneakers (1992) – 4K Restoration
on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @04:27PM (#43920244)
Had no idea that even existed!
Re:The vocal effects of Daft Punk
on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @04:03PM (#43920054)
Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem for the first time was an astonishing thing with that soundtrack..
Back then wasn’t really into DP, but that sold me entirely..
Re:Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gets M.2 SSD boot support 12 years aft...
on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @02:42PM (#43919225)
Could stick a drive on an ExpressCard to NVMe adapter.. I’ve got one in mine, I don’t boot off it, but I believe it can.. Runs a bit warm, but it’s been powered up and running 24/7 for 2 years with no issues..
Re:I want a good parallel computer
on Sunday March 23, 2025 @05:10AM (#43451720)
I was always fascinated by the prospects of the 1024-core Epiphany-V from Parallella.. https://parallella.org/2016/10/05/epiphany-v-a-1024-core-64-...
But it seems whatever the DARPA connection was has led to it not being for scruffs like me and is likely powering god knows what military systems..
Re:Commodore Invented the Mass Market Computer
on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @05:03PM (#43417310)
I’ve always been fascinated on more details about the VIC-1 in the Vixen/VIC-20.. Apparently designed for an arcade machine use, but then put into use for the VIC.. Wish there was more about that part of the story as I’ve no idea how it really came about and would dearly love to know more..
Aside from that, the gang did an amazing job, Jack, Chuck, Bob, Tony and Co. I raise my glass to you all :)
Re:The masters of Commodore 64 games
on Friday March 14, 2025 @04:37PM (#43367031)
RoBB was something truly special!
Re:Making the Video That Made Gorillaz
on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @05:06PM (#42871855)
Deltron 3030 is one of the most amazing things ever!
Re:Where is London's most central sheep?
on Friday January 24, 2025 @03:15PM (#42816531)
The Ouseburn Farm in Newcastle (your last link) is a great place :)
Re:WebGPU Tech Demo
on Friday December 20, 2024 @02:52PM (#42474362)
I’m puzzled by that too.. iPhone 15 Pro and FPS is 60.1ms permanently, but clearly moving at 60fps+..
Very nice though, very nice indeed..
Re:Reliably Benchmarking Small Changes – Ankush Menat
on Friday November 22, 2024 @03:25PM (#42217125)
Windows has been driving me crackers the last few days trying to benchmark hard to measure optimisations, and tend to end up on long runs, looking for the minimum time.. Usually closing chrome results in an immediate ~10% performance boost even minimised.. I’d love to see an option for a Developer to lock off some cores totally, nothing runs on them unless its in an approved list.. At least then I can profile on those cores and get a reasonable result..
Re:What Shapes Do Matrix Multiplications Like?
on Friday November 08, 2024 @05:22PM (#42090932)
Yes.. And no, you can inspect and measure the SDRAM component, at runtime, to best determine how object sizes will be allocated.. Is kind of what I was getting at, and have spent the last month implementing ;)
Re:What Shapes Do Matrix Multiplications Like?
on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @05:18PM (#42070379)
DRAM page size surely ? All those cheap CASs’ ?
Re:What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on "unsupported" PCs
on Friday October 25, 2024 @05:10PM (#41949812)
The man dissed the ThinkLight(tm), other than that fair dinkum..
Re:Demis Hassabis Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @05:27PM (#41792837)
Nice one Demis & Chums!
Re:Patch Proposed for Adding x86_64 Feature Levels to the Kernel
on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @05:28PM (#41585766)
I like the sound of AMD engineer Borislav Petkov, him & I could fix the world together }:-8)