orphean

Sounds almost like a fever dreamy Fellini movie. A modern satyricon?

"The first models of the Elektronika B3-21 had a red LED display. The comma used one full position in the display. Later the display was changed to green fluorescent but this made its operation slower by 20 %"

The red ones go faster after all (waaagh).

It’s just a joke. It’s referencing the fact that no matter how obsolete or obscure something is somebody out there likes things How They Are.

I work in a small company and we have to have SSO for compliance reasons (SOC II, HIPAA, NIST, etc)

It’s dumb but without it trying to tick all the compliance boxes is much more annoying.

It would be nice to see more uptake of CSS’ prefers-reduced-motion. It’s perfect for this exact issue.

Personally I don’t have a problem with scroll linked transitions but the user should have the choice.

It’s just a neat hack. It doesn’t matter how well the bear is riding a bicycle, the fact it is riding one at all is enough.

Someone just finished reading Neal Stephenson’s Anathem...

Interesting that OP ignored ca65 and went to NASM for the second assemble option especially since they were already using cc65.

Nice use of High Level Assembly with the macros!

Later on assemblers like Merlin and ORCA/M added the ability to assemble source files as separate objects which were then linked.

Earlier assemblers (and the later ones!) also typically supported a capability to reference another source file from another which lets a large assembly chain itself without needing to have the whole thing in memory at once.

At runtime, you could use overlays to essentially load in program modules in and out of RAM dynamically so you'd be surprised at the (relative) sophistication of some software packages back then!

Music for Spaceports is really awesome! Love the Brian Eno reference. If you had the ability to have different timbres I think it could be even better.

Thanks for sharing!