Nancy Drew’s first 4 novels and The Little Engine That Could are now public domain. Can’t wait for the crossover slasher flick

Baby Universe (PS1 / Sony Computer Entertainment / 1997)

technology is approaching the optimum ratio of one entire package manage per package

The only valid reason to install 98 plus

A recent Windows 11 update removed by desktop background to display the rotating Microsoft™ approved photos. I've been too lazy to fix it, but it recently gave me this image while I was working in WSL Maybe this is a sign to fully jump over...

Given the current price of ram, maybe we should all get into artisan hand-weaved core-memory again

The past week the subscription button on youtube has been broken, and now they moved where it is so that the shorts button on the side bar is where the old button was so I keep clicking it by accident I'm sure this is entirely an accident and not some scheme to artificially inflate some metrics...

The GR-524 nixie tube is an extremely rare symbol tube made by Rodan-Okaya of Japan. The tube shows the days of the week in abbreviated Kanji. nixies.us/bwg_gallery/gr…

At a HardOff I caught a glimpse of an oldschool Japanese mechanical typewriter. The Nippon Type PanWriter types in 3 colours and somehow impacts one of the over 2300 glyphs onto the paper after the user manually slides over the rows & columns and presses down to type it. (Zoom in for the details)

I liked complicated systems and in hs I had to pick mechanics or computers and I picked computers I’m still proud of my first year mechanics course where we tore down and inventoried a lawn mower engine. We were graded on how long it ran after assembly and ours was the only one that didn’t stop.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle! (Nice try, coppers!)

“Book” arrived!

I ordered a FireWire architecture book which for some reason is out of print now so had to settle with a used copy from Amazon. Apparently whoever keyed this into the database simply titled the book as "Book" so now I have these omninous messages in my inbox.

*evil villain laugh* 🫷👁️👁️🫸

G'AIME by Tassei Denki. Lightgun game peripheral/console that allows you to use a #lightgun on non-CRT TVs. So beamers too. Only downside is that it only comes with 4 games and it doesn't seem it will allow expansions. The guns use a camera and "AI". Real AI or just so they put it on the box? #namco

Some good news, even if a bit boring! An anon with an early P1 game was nice enough to dump their memory card dongle. Their decrypted dongle, mine and mame all match. The date range these dumps cover makes me fairly confident that there is only one konami dongle with the possible exception of...

Smoke test ✅

do you think you would be better or worse at surviving outdoors than someone 3000 years ago? For me I think better because I watched a lot of youtube where a guy pretends to live outside

Big 🧵time! Lets talk about my new friend, the Konami Python. It's kinda the odd duck of the family. The middle child between the Konami Viper and the Konami Python 2. The system was a short lived platform.

Big 🧵time! Lets talk about my new friend, the Konami Python. It's kinda the odd duck of the family. The middle child between the Konami Viper and the Konami Python 2. The system was a short lived platform.

You know you’re deep in the trenches when cross compiling a Linux kernel is the path of least resistance

Gotta keep Windows Threat Protection on its toes. 🔍🕵️

Found a local retailer that was fire selling FireWire cables. They all were only 25 cents each but I bought these ones because of the dogs on it

Lookout football-fields, a new standard of measurement just dropped: mini-DIN

In a sick twist of fate my period-correct FireWire cables are bad and I have to jiggle them the right way to avoid resetting the FireWire bus. Back to waiting for more cables 🫠🫠🫠

When analyzing FireWire packets on a blue and white powermac G3, make sure you use period correct transparent FireWire cables

Anyway, long story short I think it’s finally in a workable position, so I’ll be speeding and driving without a seatbelt in cross country Canada while I wait for more FireWire cables to arrive

I’m never buying a computer from an era before usb boot again. The number of dvd-r coasters I’ve produced is embarrassing Weirdly nostalgic though to start an operating system install and then sleeping to check on the install in the morning because it’s already been two hours and I’m tired

Oh yeah, now we’re gaming. The multiple hard-crashes I’ve experienced are authentic to my computer lab memories, gotta love Mac OS 9

Lots of room for activities in here

The beast has arrived and is now taking up the majority of my desk space

I'm sorry for judging you firewire, I wasn't aware of your power. Twisted pair differentials in individually shielded shrouds inside a shielded cable. I've seen VGA cables with worse cross-sections

Nobody prepared me for how much a mini-firewire cable looks like a USB cable that was stepped on. This gives me the same feeling nails on a chalk board does, what the hell. Also my new cable I ordered arrived with rust, probably required certified spelunkers to locate my order in the warehouse.

A perplexingly relevant question: Anyone know of someone in the Toronto area looking to part ways with a Power Macintosh G3 blue and white? The FireWire interface in that can operate against the spec, and with the right Linux driver it can dump all traffic. Lots of FireWire research ahead of me.

I might be up to some Konami python 1 related shenanigans. Should be fun 🕵️

I legitimately thought this was some bizarre Wikipedia vandalism and not an actual video game:

This is how people worked before the invention of coffee shops with wifi

While everyone is talking about the FCC leaking the iPhone schematics, we should remember a much more important schematic leak: 🔥The V.Smile Motion🔥 The full schematic is entertainingly listed next to a signed confidentiality document requesting the schematic stay confidential...

First time I've ever seen a readme like this. I, uh... appreciate the honesty I guess?

Today's mood. No I will not elaborate.

DoDonPachi DaiOuJou DX Reco.ver (大往生DX-ﾚｺver.-) was preserved by Yuuku! Only sold on December 30, 2007, this is a score competition variant of DoDonPachi DaiOuJou DX. Given how it was only available for one day, this may be one of the rarest i-mode games preserved so far.

All those years of D.A.R.E. and nobody warned me about the gateway drug known as a RJ45 crimper

Blade Runner would be a very different movie if the Voight-Kampff test was just aquatic emoji trivia

Me irl after completing my latest hyper fixation

Until this week, it's been impossible to play the games of the 1993 Pioneer LaserActive without one of the vanishingly rare, disintegrating consoles. Here's the story of the guy who's been trying to fix that for years -- and all the hardware and software he had to build to make it possible.

Slightly diminish a band: They likely are not giants

Amazing things keep happening in Ares. If you haven’t used it yet you should give it a try!

⭕️ ⭕️ ⭕️ ⭕️🗿 get gradiused idiot

Just read a marketing page that combined physical with digital into “phygital” I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more repulsive word in my life?