My 1988 copy of *The AWK Programming Language* was in the mail today. It's a good book! If you're into UNIX in general, and the history of UNIX and retro computing in particular, this is a recommendation!

After the usual tutorial introduction it does not only go into every detail of awk, but it shows how to build a relational database, implement "little languages", such as a model assembler, offers various implementations of desktop calculators and even a version of *make* written in AWK. #unix

#AtariST and #Atari 8-bit users, here is a playlist of videos on PeerTube about these computers:

 https://fedi.video/w/p/u7E2A1QSFkQETNkVAhS6DH

- If you're on a phone, scroll first two video titles at the bottom to see rest of the playlist.

- If you're on a computer, choose a video from the playlist on the right.

- If you're watching embedded, click ⏭️ or ⏮️ to see next or previous videos in the playlist.

cc @atarist

#Atari #AtariST #Atari8Bit #Atari400 #Atari800 #8Bit #RetroComputing #PeerTube

Question for the #retrocomputing community
What do you prefer for your retrocomputing and why?

Please boost for reach. Thanks 🙂

Back in 1986 / '87, when I personally was still in Kindergarten, Two Guy from Andromeda created a fantastic graphic adventure game called "Space Quest". It became an instant hit and spawned several sequels.

Here's the original "Space Quest - Chapter I - The Sarien Encounter", Version 1.2 for Commodore Amiga. Including full KryoFlux streams, CT RAW and ADF disk images. Have fun!

https://archive.org/details/sq1_amiga

#RetroGaming #RetroGames #Amiga #SierraOnline #SpaceQuest #GraphicAdventure #CopyProtection #KryoFlux #FloppyDisk

#TIL that #Magit has a function to generate a shell command that runs an uncustomized #Emacs with only Magit loaded and it will already put it in clipboard. The interactive function is called `magit-emacs-Q-command`.

This is so cool and very handy for testing the issues apart from the user's config and to report a bug easily. I wish this was a built-in function in Emacs that get the the package we want to debug and it already handles the dependencies and etc. Anyways, very handy function. :)