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Indie developer in love with *nix systems and the old skool way of doing things. No cloud and AI hype, no BS, just tools that respect the user. Love meeting folks with a passion for the early days of computing, the #UNIX way, low-level programming & hardware tinkering

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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

Atari Computers playlist

PeerTube
Is anybody using java (OpenJDK) with the -XX:AllocateHeapAt option on FreeBSD?

I'd be interested in knowing a bit more about how you're using it, and if it important to have this feature available on ZFS. It is not supported on ZFS today.

See this post on the freebsd-java mailing list for more details:
#^https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-java/2025-June/003112.html

#FreeBSD #OpenJDK #ZFS
The java Command

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

Please boost for reach. Thanks 🙂

The real thing
Emulator
Both
Poll ends at .

I was flipping through an old computer magazine and came across this. A picture of Richard Garriot (Lord British) with the Ultima IV box and map.

#ultima #UltimaIV #LordBritish #retrocomputing #retrogaming #rpg

Claude Shannon and John McCarthy predict LLMs in 1956

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

Please boost for reach. Thanks 🙂

The real thing
Emulator
Both
Poll ends at .

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. :)

🇬🇧I can't recommend the EU-funded DNS service #DNS4EU because access is logged. When you override warnings to access "harmful websites" they even log your IP address. https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/the-eu-challenges-google-and-cloudflare-with-its-very-own-dns-resolver-that-can-filter-dangerous-traffic

There are government-free services that do not log: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/dns

Update: I understand now the IP address is kept for 24 hours to prevent the confirmation prompt from showing again.