I typed "WQV-3" into the search bar on Sendico, and forgot to turn off the auto translation. It showed me results for "申し訳ありませんが、それについてはお力になれません。" roughly meaning "I'm sorry, but I can't help you with that." We're truly living in the future.

Found multiple unused crystal-growing kits in my boxes of Stuff™ while looking for some USB-serial cables I started looking for 3 days ago. Finally found the cables but I am so tired and annoyed that I think I'll treat myself to some crystal-growing.

Write 1 to NMI enable All ok Write 1 to NMI enable again CPU loses it and starts executing garbage and hitting trap instructions that don't even exist in the program ???

TIL tenor still has some relatively ancient code somewhere returning json with a dead imgur link, a link to their old riffsy domain, and also the string "4 of your friends are using GIF Keyboard. Send a GIF back: $‍URL". What have I stumbled into here

Man social media just sucks as a whole doesn't it

Gboard seems to have started actively ignoring decisive inputs and I can't tell if that's because it's garbage (15 year old codebase flavor) or garbage ("the AI knows what you meant to press" flavor)

Thing acquired

Sarah Andersen

There is a crow. You should pay more attention.

Think I figured out what the hell tripped the aliexpress security issue and it's mostly their fault for the shared alibaba login system being dumb...

Looks like Klipy has already scraped a couple of my gifs from tenor *and* there are people reuploading them manually(?) with all the same tags and everything... Guess I'm signing up there. If my gifs are gonna be on there regardless then we'll do it properly.

So I FINALLY figured out how the Casio Loopy's Magical Shop frame grabber addon is actually accessed from the game code. I couldn't figure out where it mapped into memory. Turns out... It reconfigures the cart detect pin as bus request so it can take over the bus and WRITE THE DATA IN RAM ITSELF.

Why did my PC just loudly beep "TS" at me in morse code, what the.

So my aliexpress account is just completely screwed it seems, all orders getting blocked for "security concerns". I'm at home, no VPN, not using coupons, tried ordering different items, different payment method, relogged, tried the app... Nope. I now have 25 violations for "Trading irregularities".

Woken up by thunder so loud/close that my first instinct was to go unplug every device I own

Looking at spinning LED toys on aliexpress because I wanna take one apart, I saw a fan that plays music... It's bitcrushed crazy frog. Why

oh my god what have they done

Remembering a toy I took apart once that used a standard looking 3v motor except the shaft had a wire running through it, soldered to basically a slip ring on the back. That was incredibly neat and I wish there were more things like that.

Opened up my old Santa Clip+ to check for spicy pillows given it was right next to the subject of yesterday's events. The pillow is not spicy and still has a charge even. I can't remember the last time I charged (or used) this. Also still has my bad apple lua script on it I guess.

So is it normal to say things like "I shouldn't be laughing this hard" in an online context while sitting in silence with a blank expression irl, or am I just cooked?

I know it was Sunday and all but seeing an eBay order be undelivered at the international hub yesterday and scheduled for redelivery today is kinda funny

Oh alright then, guess I'm not using that today

Doing deep-dive testing on the Loopy's internal IRQ signals. IRQ0, 1, 2 and NMI are connected to the VDP. IRQ0 is a pretty flexible raster interrupt, IRQ1 is effectively vsync/hsync, NMI is fixed vsync... I cannot figure out what IRQ2 is. But it's definitely connected.

Let's shove the NMI signal into the video output and see what happens (maybe green wasn't the best choice of wire color...)

Poking more mystery registers in the Loopy. This one shifts the video sync pulses slightly. Not in any useful manner, so I think it's just something they put in the VDP to fine-tune it during development. Rather than removing the register they just hardcoded the best alignment in the BIOS boot.

thumb injured, bring out the definitely-medical-grade cyanoacrylate

i guess he will

AliExpress bangers strikes again (flashing lights warning)

Making a toaster that is literally just a torment nexus terminal and having the audacity to name your brand "Revolution" is actually insane

I keep seeing ads for things like "Why juggle [4 or 5 industry-standard tools] when you can automate it with [slop]! Just stop using the purpose-built tools, seriously, they're terrible and obsolete! [slop] can do it all! Using your brain is obsolete, even! Let [slop] just do your whole job!"

Finding out a random gimmick account I stumbled upon and followed recently is run by Neil Cicierega was kinda a jumpscare ngl

"two pixels per byte, leftmost first" What do you mean first? How am I supposed to know which nybble is the "first" one? Which idiot wrote this? oh wait it was me these are my own docs

Tonight on Kasami's Random Casio Loopy BS: Did you know the Loopy can be turned into a PAL console just by changing a few small components? No PAL units were officially sold, but it hints that Casio had plans to release the Loopy at least outside Japan, possibly worldwide.

The top two concern me but, looking past whatever that could be, it's once again *really* trying to make sure I hear about Artemis II. It did this yesterday too. Why is this happening

Time to figure out how to use a led and phototransistor pointed at a <1mm spot to make a toy-grade barcode reader thingy that Texas Instruments pulled off in the 80s. Nobody's posted a teardown of the thing and they're now worth like $150 on ebay.

Sorta big discovery about the Casio Loopy controller port. When normal matrix scan is disabled, turns out you get parallel 6bit output via a previously unknown register, combined with normal 8bit input. Potentially un-latched i.e. as fast as the CPU can access it. What wild addons could this allow?

Bought a dying hard drive, hard drive is indeed dying. My financial decisions continue to be very good /s

I have a very strong hunch the Casio Loopy made its public debut at Tokyo Toy Show 1995. As of yet, however, no material from Casio's booth has ever surfaced online to 100% prove this theory. I'm certain there must be evidence out there to prove this one way or another! 🩷🩵

Oh, oh cool. Thanks discord. Mysterious leaf icon in the top corner without a tooltip, I clicked it while rather tired and in a dark room, got flashbanged by a fake mmo thing (?) that turns 95% of the screen white on the title screen.

Trying to clean up my Loopy register names in my docs, not sure which way works best... Global names: VDP_XX INPUT_XX PRINT_XX ... Few global structs: VDP.XX INPUT.XX ... One global struct, mmio prefixed: VDP.XX VDP.INPUT_XX ... One global struct, everything prefixed: VDP.GFX_XX VDP.INPUT_XX ...

Tempted to try reverse engineer the TI Speak & Learn talking book thingy just from barcode scans since I don't think I'm gonna be able to justify spending like $150 on an original wand unit...

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I am the fool who buys the used hard drives on ebay

Yes this was for April fools. I haven't made any game content beyond what's in the video but might do more in the future idk. I've added some more details on how I did it in the video description (will gladly elaborate on the technical stuff if anyone is interested)

I've been working on something

About to go to bed but there's a mysterious smell in the house. Similar to the leaky capacitor slightly-fishy smell but definitely not bad enough to be actual bad fish, not that there'd be any. Thought it was in my room from when I almost started an electrical fire earlier but it's worse downstairs.

Thinking about when I was young and misheard paradise city as parallel city in the song and, without further context, my kid brain concluded this guy sings about living in a terrible-ugly-bad city that is like the evil twin of an otherwise identical city just down the road. And I didn't question it

Trying to make a trailer video thing and the only thing I could think of for a layout ended up looking like that meme format with a big black border and text below with a serif font... and I just wrote "shjdfsdkfgh" there

You ever just double your caffeine intake and program a whole dialog animation system in 2 hours for a throwaway joke

"The Casio Loopy can't do that" yeah watch me