Brandon Hockle

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Here is where friend Starkwether lies: Nobody laughs, nobody cries. Where he goes, how he fares? Nobody knows, nobody cares...
Do you remember when gaming was all about instant gratification? Me neither. Hot Saturday night playing Starfield on Xbone.
“The Musk-ADL flap feels like an inflection point for those of us who still have Twitter/X accounts. Is it time to delete them?” asks @msifry. https://open.substack.com/pub/theconnector/p/is-it-finally-time-to-quit-twitterx?r=1g77q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Is it Finally Time to Quit Twitter/X?

Elon Musk is turning the platform into a haven for hate, but does that mean we should quit instead of fighting?

The Connector

Because I'm only seeing other #Jews posting about this, non-Jews I need you to be aware that for the past month or two there has been a wave of bomb threats and swattings at #synagogues all across the US. They usually do it when services are being livestreamed. I haven't seen a single non-Jew talking about this. High holidays are coming up in a few weeks, which is when most attacks happen against our #communities. We're worried, and we need #people to know what's happening to us.

#usa #america #antisemites #fyi #psa #ausgov #politas #alert

https://jewsagainstfascism.com/

Jews Against Fascism

unapologetic jewish antifascism

Jews Against Fascism
And of course the maestro @savetz has an video interview with OSC archived on this very subject : https://youtu.be/mWFZ84u11Wo Since no part of #atari history escapes their watchful eye.
Orson Scott Card interview — Atari computers & computer games

YouTube
My son and I were hacking around on the #8bit #atari and I was trying to remember the memory locations to PEEK and read the keyboard quickly. I found this great article and look who wrote it ! The #scifi author of Ender's Game: Orson Scott Card. Crazy! https://www.atariarchives.org/c3ba/page004.php
Compute!'s Third Book of Atari - Reading the Keyboard Codes

Apple, Atari, and Commodore, oh my! Explore a deluxe home vintage computer den

Brian Green re-lives the 1980s with dozens of fully operational vintage PCs at home.

Ars Technica
We found a barn filled with computers, we saved them all!
Last year September we went to the south of Belgium to rescue a huge collection of computers. Mr. Jef Masschelein was collecting computers since the early 80s. Unfortunately, at the age of 74 he passed away and left his barn behind which was filled with computers. Of course we created a YouTube video of this once in a lifetime chance for a museum.
The video can be found at https://youtu.be/f8TiqdUZLXo
#Youtube #video #barnfind
Biggest computer barnfind ever! A Belgium barn filled with old computers. We saved them all!!

YouTube

This weekend's unexpected obsession blog post:

Hand-drawn maps of Zork.

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2023/02/a-treasury-of-zork-maps.html

#InteractiveFiction #Zork #Maps

A treasury of Zork maps

Yesterday a Reddit link started going around the IF circles: "Wait," I thought, "haven't I seen that map before?" No, I had not. But I so...

SimCity v1.1 (unpreserved, I mean it was probably cracked back in the day but the only other copy of this exact version that I could find online was uncracked and thus nonfunctional, E7 bitstream)

https://archive.org/details/SimCity_v11_4amMacCrack

#macintosh #retrocomputing

SimCity v1.1 (4am crack) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

SimCity is a 1989 simulation game written by Will Wright, Robert A. Strobel, and Brett G. Durrett, and distributed by Maxis. This is version 1.1. It...

Internet Archive