SID IC replacement on the c64
https://fedi.video/videos/watch/64d14e22-cb6c-4848-9b9a-c743587521a9
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A magnificent & brilliant Electro IC engineer a sublime specialist in micro engineering created a post stamp sized Atari computer incredible feat of micro Engineering on an FPGA level
He created a 6502 from scratch
The Atari Computing systems which existed in the Era of the C64 C128 Amiga were brilliant machines to use when you wanted 8bit sound & MIDI control in one hardware solution
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/381202-the-new-extraordinary-a8-clone-platform/
This gorgeous photograph was just presented to me by my weather program
Of course the credits go to the photographer who was a Lucky enough to capture this beautiful moment in sunset 🌇. The name is in the image
Weather is also natively given to us in the Fediverse by @admin who often adds countries by the week; jump to see if yours is in The Matrix already. Many are included and the work is a lot to do, yet @stefano does this for us all in his free time.
Technology we could rely on in the last century.
It started with Winchester Drives then the MFM & the RLL drives, which needed manual parking & low level formatting.
Later it became the three and a half inch Magneto mechanical hard drive.
On my Amiga computers the Fujitsu HDDs spin* at a dizzying 10.000 RPM!
The Fujitsu is an Ultra Wide 68 pins SCSI HDD, with a transfer speed so high my Amiga never had to wait for data from the drive.
Now to find my 9600 bps MNP5 Fax external modem, so I can go on the internet in 1998 using my 16550AF serial UART
This is a specimen of the Program Logic Array revision 1
When I soldered these Integrated Circuits in the Commodore 64 they came unprogrammed and a seasoned Hardware technician programmed them for me.
Libre Office Suit is extensively tested by the Quality Assurance team - After tests minimum version updates are done
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/01/31/libreoffice-qa-team-fixing-a-bug-in-three-days/
🖋️ #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #freeBSD #Linux #POSIX #FOSS #OfficeSuite #LibreOffice #win64 #MacOS
LibreOffice QA Team: Fixing a bug in three days - The Document Foundation Blog
LibreOffice is used by 200 million people around the world. Every major release goes through extensive testing, with Alpha, Beta and Release Candidate versions – and there are regular monthly minor updates to fix issues too. The QA Team analyses bug reports from users, and here’s an example of how quickly they work when everything […]
Libre Office has achieve a phenomenal amount of downloads. Foss for the win
🖋️ #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #freeBSD #Linux #POSIX #FOSS #OfficeSuite #LibreOffice #win64 #MacOS
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/01/30/400-million-downloads-and-counting/
400 million downloads, and counting... - The Document Foundation Blog
The histogram says it all. First, rapid growth between 2011 and 2014 to 30 million downloads, despite the fierce hostility of the project created to kill LibreOffice. Then a few years of stagnation, at a time when it seemed that desktop office suites were destined to die, and fashion was driving users to the cloud. […]