Vlado VinceHard to imagine a better Balkan Pride than the one that starts with riding the Olimpik train on the Una railroad in Bosnia before celebrating at the 25th Zagreb Pride 🏳️🌈
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Gardening, liberal, Linux, (retro) Mac, canoes, boats, molecular biology, beer, anti-brexit, European, comics, atheist. Work at MacVector. Live just outside of Cambridge, UK.
Ahh. I just needed to remove the video card with the funky 13w3 connector! Works fine now.
Latest retro acquisition - Picked up a Sun Ultra10. Was reasonably cheap but also very local to pickup! Had to remove the NVRAM chip uncover the battery connectors and solder in a new battery holder. But nicely documented online and a 30 min job! I cannot get video out yet but I’m sure that's a matter of time.
vga256this morning I came across this ad in a July 1989 issue of Compute magazine and it immediately brought me back to the summer of 89.
i was 12, and I worked an entire summer as a grocery store clerk for $3 / hr, cleaning toilets and stocking shelves just so I could buy Space Quest III at my local Radio Shack. i spent an entire month’s earnings on it. my father - a carpenter by trade - was absolutely shocked that anyone would drop that kind of dough on a computer game 😅
it paid off in the long run. SQ3 shaped my sense of humour towards the dark and scatological, and became the game i’d invite friends over to play just so they could watch the hilarious roger wilco death sequences.
i wrote the entire unabridged story of how I blew all of my summer job earnings on SQ3 in my book, Mages & Modems:
https://tomotama.itch.io/mages-modems
thank you to every one of you who took the time to read it. it has been an absolute joy hearing from you, and the memories it evoked in your own lives. i hope we get more memoirs about computing from everyday people.
Stephen Borrill@fergycool My wife sent me this from the Histon and Impington Community Orchard people on Facebook
Everybody I've asked in the village has affected trees. But I've asked friends on the other side of #cambridge and their trees are affected too! #askFedi #gardening #Garden
All our apple trees (and ones in neighbouring gardens) appear to be undergoing what I can gather is an ermine moth infestation. From what I can gather this can result in complete defoliation of the tree, but supposedly will not really affect the health of the tree. Might affect the crop for our Village Apple Pressing Day in September though.
Any tips to minimise the effect on the apple crop?
George Monbiot
If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail.
If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.
after years of digging and research, i finally found the toolkit that was used to make MS multimedia software Encarta, Dinosaurs and Dangerous Creatures.
when i fell in love with these programs, i imagined they were built with a rich multimedia authoring environment/IDE like Macromedia Director. e.g. dragging and dropping images, sounds, text and video onto a stage, animating it with keyframes, and then scripting it for interaction.
the toolkit used was, as it turns out, a very roughly hewn collection of individual programs. there was no IDE. all of the content was written in RTF files, which were then compiled with links to external resources like wavs and avi's.
i cannot imagine what a nightmare this was for the MS Home teams to work with. there is no drag and drop of any kind, no object linking and embedding (OLÉ!), nor animation editor. this is a dog's breakfast of individual programs written by different people.
i'm frankly amazed that the MS Homes teams put together such well-designed programs *despite* how painful this toolkit is to use
the one thing i can say in its favour is that it has one badass tetricube logo for cover art :D
huge thank you to @david_rysk and @philpem for archiving this extremely obscure piece of software
https://archive.org/details/microsoft-multimedia-viewer-2.0-rips-20210921-1.7z
