Thomas Adam

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I maintain/contribute to various projects such as: got, fvwm, tmux, x11cp

User/Contributor/Developer of {Free,Net,Open}BSD as well as Linux.

Avid cryptic crossword solver, especially the Guardian cryptics.

I'm the person behind the cryptic crossword clues on: https://zirk.us/@LearnCrypticCrosswords

From England, United Kingdom

Websitehttps://xteddy.org
Gemini Capsulegemini.xteddy.org
Window Managerfvwm3
X11CPhttps://x11cp.org
@mms Yep. ;). That's correct.

#fvwm #fvwm3 #wayland

Let's play spot the difference!

One, both, or none of two screenshots are from fvwm3.

Can you guess which?

If not, could you maybe guess is one of the screenshots is based on wayland? ;)

In all seriousness, I'm trying to emulate the fvwm/mwm look in #hikari -- and I think the results are impressive, especially if you can't tell which image is from which #wm.

@claudiom Good luck! Let us know how it goes with screenshots, please!

Got my A/UX installation and update discs ready for this weekend to get A/UX installed on the Macintosh Quadra 650. I already have the disk images from which to boot off as well as other disk images for updates to perform post-3.1-update. Gonna create those on the StarMax. πŸ’Ύ 🍎

Not sure if this is compatible with #MARCHintosh, but it will be on a 68K Mac and System 7.1 is used to get that one there, so maybe? β€‹

#aux #unix #macintosh #mac #apple

#mutualaidrequest #mutualaid

I don't suppose that I have any #bsd #unix #foss #infosec friends out there willing to signal boost, by chance? β€‹ β€‹

https://bsd.network/@brynet/114458997143046937

@markmoxon Gosh, thank you, Mark. It probably is -- although from memory it felt as though prohibiting "*LIST" was more of a deliberate action than not.

Either way, you've given me enough to consider. I shall look forward to reading your articles nonetheless!

Thanks again!

@thomasadam Lots of disc games switch to the tape filing system after loading from floppy, so they can reuse the memory that would otherwise be used by the disc filing system. That would mean any *LOAD commands would then try loading from tape, which would appear to break if you were expecting it to load something from disc - not sure if that’s what you mean?

Glad you like the writing!

@markmoxon I shall, Thank you.

One of the curios for me, is I recall certain programs back in the day, somehow, scrambling the "*L" command -- whereby it would just throw a hissy-fit.

I presume his was done through some assembly instruction, but I was never sure how...

Any thoughts?

Thanks again for all your writing, I'm really enjoying it so far.

@thomasadam Well, to be fair, this is pretty niche stuff and my Mastodon posts are fairly quiet affairs these days, so it's not that surprising if it slips under the radar. πŸ™‚

I hope you enjoy the project, it's another labour of love!

@markmoxon Wow -- Why didn't I know about the sooner? Thanks for sharing! I'll be reading this as well!