tired: it's always DNS inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight

Little progress done with NeWS port on BSD and Linux. 32 bit color has been hacked into in a crude way, and glyph rendering is almost fixed (although some glyphs don't render). Also wrote a very WIP wrapper for libinput (and the Linux/Wayland event model is very unfriendly towards this software).

I didn't know that Kubota Graphics put the DORÉ graphic library out in the wild. ftp.funet.fi/pub/graphics/packages/dore

Today a SPARCstation 10 arrived. After some fighting with the CD drive, I installed SunOS 4.1.4 and NeWS 1.1. Probably this is the first time after years that it runs on Sun hardware. The next step would be making it run on a Sun-3 (emulated or hardware).

The NeWS lore is a rabbit hole: as it wasn't enough a company called Schlumberger developed a tool called "LISPscript", which could either generate Common LISP-PS glue code or compile LISP to PS. They also had an OOP library for CL called "HyperClass". (Pics from the NeWS book and papers).

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With the keyboard working, now many other things work, including the GoodNeWS environment and the PSIBER

After fighting with QEMU, I finally managed to compile the sources of UniPress Emacs 2.20. It's really cool to see it working, but I can't type yet due to the keyboard issue that breaks nearly all the NeWS applications.

"Eppur si muove"

New addition to the Emacs collection: UniPress Emacs V2.20 from 1989.

Learnt about JXL art yesterday because of a DEF CON challenge. I made these fiddling with parameters on this site: jxl-art.surma.technology

Font unpacking is done. Now I'll have to investigate why the colormap is wrong, why the text rendering is broken (which also is needed for the cursor).

I love security

Getting closer. I expected a segfault, but instead it's starting to come to life

The psychopath showed its true essence once and for all. Don't worry, he'll get the right punishment someday. As partisans used to say, "oggi si smura"...

"Wish you a merry X-Mess and happy NeWS year"

"You will be visited by three spirits" The three spirits (and a leg):

In a dumpster of Uni (secured just by a lock) there are various systems with an Asus Rampage IV Extreme, and various NVidia Titan SLI. They used to cost a lot, but whoever gets rid of stuff like this never bothers to ask students if they want it instead. Dumpster diving is a moral duty.

Feliz Navi!

I've been looking for important machines in my University. The department of physics has definitely cool pieces

From the SIGGRAPH 1988 "Screen PostScript" panel proceedings. I'd like to know the origin of this wallpaper and if that koala can be considered the NeWS "mascotte". I guess the original file is lost to the sands of time...

Ho comprato un cavo video per il mio ThinkPad X200T dagli Stati Uniti. Questa è la scatola con cui è arrivato...

The main problem is the copyright: after 30 years did it expire or someone (Oracle, Morisawa, SCO, Xerox) still owns the right? Will they enforce it? There is also RBuss, which was a clone from Robert Kroeger and Josh Siegel, the code is safe but incomplete.

Some of my infamous NeWS 1.1 screenshots, running demos from the NeWS tape. The next step is to try and compile from source at least on SunOS and getting the keyboard to work (the reason why I use the SunView terminal). The ideal would be getting the REF tree, which should be the more portable one.

Fiddling around with Ultrix inside GXemul

Ed eccomi anche qui. I social di Zucc ed X mi danno l'impressione di una barca che affonda, e il Fediverse non ha fatto breccia sugli "utenti comuni". Non so cosa aspettarmi da questa piattaforma, ma mi aspetto di vedere più amici e gente che conosco. Si vedrà sul lungo periodo.