> changed the build to meson
That's mildly irksome. I've also wanted to investigate fenrir (a Python-based terminal screen-reader, https://github.com/chrys87/fenrir/ ) so maybe I should give that another go.
> Interactive fiction
Frotz worked great under YASR last I checked, but there are several Z-machine interpreters you can poke at. FWIW, the only game that has ever made me sob was LASH, an interactive fiction game that feels superficial on the surface until you get into it.
> Jellyfin
Can't really help there having not used it.
> mpc/shoutcast
Not sure about shoutcast, but I've use mpd/mpc (it has a number of front-ends, including GUI, TUI, web, command-line, and API, so you should have options. I don't use it much because I quickly get bored with my personal music collection, so I tend to use pianobar(1) for streaming, or listen to podcasts (which I do using castget(1) to fetch them to a queue, and then batch-upload to my phone where I listen to them with VLC)
> Fediverse
The toot(1) client is pretty good when last I tested it for the #OldComputerChallenge
> what caused your initial search
I've had a long-standing interest in accessibility. I suppose the underlying factor is exactly what you're experiencing—the potential loss of one of my senses. So I'm conversational in ASL for similar reasons that I've gotten familiar with blind/visually-impaired tech solutions. If one of those senses go, I'm not starting from square zero.
An #oldcomputerchallenge would be to go through the process of writing a program/game for an 8-bit micro without any other tools.
It would probably look like--
- a reference manual
- the micro setup itself
- paper and pens
I think that would be a lot of fun!
I've done similarly for @solene's #OldComputerChallenge running on old underpowered (by today's standards, but mindblowingly powerful several decades ago) hardware.
Hah, it also was used for one of @solene's #OldComputerChallenge tips, limiting modern machines to reduced amounts of RAM in pursuit of the old-computer restrictions ☺
Old Computer Challenge
So a few weeks back, prompted by the hosting provider for MysticDungeonClub no longer supporting FreeBSD so I need to move rather post-haste, I bought a new domain, with the ~worst~ BEST name I've ever come up with, I fear that I have now peaked and nothing will ever top this:
A hole for cybering in, as one does. It's like Mel's Hole but even more deep and mysterious.
In the Cyberhole, I intend to put a bunch of services and objects, mostly very retro, like a Gopher hole (which I have tested). That'll be like the cool kids' version of a .plan file for me.
Over on MDC, I have a bunch of retro "console" minigames, but they're using an old framework I made that's pretty heavyweight, node and a database in the back-end. I can't reasonably code those in anything except a giant pile of ass JavaScript.
So conveniently OldComputerChallenge comes along, asking us to use old computers. I use old computers all the time, but mostly in virtualized form supported by other people, emulators like Atari800MacX and remake machines like the SpecNext and HyperMegaTech Super Pocket Atari. We all know I don't like Other Peoples' Code, so I need to solve that problem by supporting myself.
For the week, I'm working on making TinyBasicWeb which will put a bare minimum TinyBASIC in a web page, client-side (there will be back-end support for the "disk operating system", likely in the form of a CGI script). I think it's a doable thing in the week, I've done very similar scale projects in less time. Right now I have a terminal in "memo pad" mode that I can cursor around and draw in, and tonight I'm working on input routines.
The more interesting longer-term part is that I'll end up with a MUCH lighter-weight console for putting up my minigames, and it's super easy to wire this to talk over the network, so I can put something like Chez Scheme on the back end.
Further Cyberhole news as I dig it deeper.
I think 75% of my computing needs could be fulfilled by a Raspberry Pi Zero (original).
I'd really like to test that, though. :D
I need to find a cheap old monitor and set up an #OldComputerChallenge with it. :D
I mean, it's "only" ten years old, but it's a ten year old super-low-end computer. ;)
ARM'd and dangerous: kzimmermann takes on the #OldComputerChallenge 2025 with nothing but a Raspberry Pi Model B.
https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/old_computer_challenge_2025.html
Yes, it's late - but it's done. Sorry for the delay, I was having too much fun learning #NetBSD, I guess :D
#oldcomputers #occ25 #runbsd #oldcomputerchallenge2025 #100DaysToOffload
Discussion of USENET on IRC #oldcomputerchallenge got me to thinking about my state of mind circa millennium, say '95-05.
I was spending a LOT of time on USENET, on a couple accounts. ICB, IRC, AOL, ICQ all scroll & beep.
I'd hacked my Linux desktop into something really peculiar, was running mostly Enlightenment (previously IceWM, WindowMaker, briefly KDE but ha ha that shit could go in a dumpster). Everything was automated, floating windows around me.
Warm cozy shell.
#cyberpunk #gits
Tim Chase
'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_
mdhughes
R.L. Dane 
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Klaus Zimmermann 
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thedæmon (Clay Ayers) [he / him]
wyatt