One thing I've learned is that Inside Macintosh is just the primer. It may look like all you need - it lists all the Toolbox functions and how they work, and walks you through how things ought to fit together!
But in reality to make anything beyond TeachText you need to read: every Technote, every Q&A, skim every relevant sample code, every Snippet, and also read every issue of develop.
Then you can start to approach being able to attempt to do something!
Enthusiast ‘lands’ on the Moon using Hardware from the 1980s — ZX Spectrum Home Computer with 3.5 MHz CPU and 48KB of Memory Power Kerbal Space Flight.
Mere weeks after successfully using a ZX Spectrum to fly a simulated spacecraft, space enthusiast and YouTuber [Scott Manley] have successfully “landed” on the moon using the home computer from the 1980s. Of course, [Scott] didn’t have an actual lunar lander with him, so he used the 2015 spaceflight simulator Kerbal Space Program, using a ZX Spectrum to control the spacecraft.
⁉️For those who are unfamiliar with the Spectrum, it’s a home computer built by UK company Sinclair Research, released in 1982.⁉️
#zxspectrum #kerbal #space #moon #landing #simulation #retrocomputing #media #tech #news
Is this one of those "Soundblaster or 100% compatible" devices the cool kids are always talking about?
I find a form of active de-computing is one of the best ways to cope with the current exceeding world pain exhaustion & LLM brain drain around, i.e. doing more things offline, with your hands/body, being more present in your world, getting into crafts/materials, creating/fixing/mending things and sharing your lessons learned with others (in that sense quite in the spirit of open source culture).
To some this is may be just another form of entitled escapism, though I see it as active skill building and learning by doing, connecting with people who're still finding and creating (not just) beauty in the physical world, preserving/expanding older skills, methods & techniques, showing how to actively & creatively navigate, work with and improvise with the hard limitations imposed by chosen materials/resources, processes, situations or environments, and a form of creation which doesn't rely on exabytes of harvested data and other planet-scale resource guzzling infrastructure to realize one's ideas.
(Aside: I also think this is very much part of the appeal of "classic" [non-LLM based] generative/algorithmic design & art approaches, but also #RetroComputing and #FantasyConsoles...)
Anyhow, I think this stunning ceramics project/sculpture/vase is a great example...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6LJzTaQJx4
Of course, my generative artist/designer/programmer mind immediately goes into deconstruction mode, imagining how I'd approach something like this in code form (e.g. via volumetric modeling) and also how to manifest it physically (3d clay printing or maybe paper craft with a cricut[1]). I don't doubt that one day soonish a robot arm will be able to perform or exceed this kind of finesse, but I also think, this kind of automation just like with LLMs, is never the point of making art with your hands, other than making a point that it's now possible to have a machine create such detailed simulacra. It's the same one way road to Uncanny Valley as chasing 3D realism in game dev, with ever more resources required for ever diminishing returns... Maybe that in itself will become a useful measure/marker and status symbol for the trillionaire class.
Building open worlds of endless unspoiled forests made of ultra high-res scans in UE5, whilst the world is burning down though climate change and war. Always be chasing the end of the road, instead of enjoying the journey, the act itself. Only valuing final results without ever appreciating (or even caring about) the process to get there. Pure consumption...
Isn't it interesting, all the thoughts a "simple" ceramics sculpture can trigger?
#WeekendWriting #Craft #Art #ArtMaking #Ceramics #LearningByDoing
Easter is a movable feast. But how is the date of Easter Sunday calculated? #RetroComputing #BASIC #PicoMZ
Finished working on yet another #Commodore #Amiga 500. This one had a broken audio jack and needed a new keyboard membrane. All fixed and now it's in perfect working order.
Not doing anything about the yellowing, as that is just a spare machine.
I recently acquired and restored a rare Tektronix 8002A microprocessor lab. This thing contains no less than 4 microprocessors: Signetics 2650, Motorola 6800, Intel 8080 and Zilog Z80! It can run programs for each one of these processors. Its 8" floppy drives are missing, but the drives of my Signetics TWIN work on this beauty too. It's fully operational, and can program 2704/2708 eproms too.
Doom On A BBC Micro - YouTube
🩵 Let's show some love for the awesome Commodore 64 Ultimate
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HP van Braam
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Tim Holyoake
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Everything C64 