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by ecliptik 3d ago
I do this for porting things to DOS. Was swapping a CF card back and forth between a 486 PC and my laptop that was running Claude and it was extremely tedious and required me to physically be at the system. Automated it entirely by giving
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by ecliptik 13d ago
I'm doing something similar for DOS SDL ports. Repo isn't public yet, but idea is to have a repo with a knowledge base, skills and patches agents can use when porting to avoid having to bootstrap everything from scratch.
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by ecliptik 16d ago
It's dumb, but whenever I see something representing the planets, I always count them. Occasionally you come across places that still include Pluto. Most recent example I found was the Swatch MoonSwatch Collection [1], which includes t
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by ecliptik 20d ago
I knew of GPG key signing parties, but never anything at this scale or impact. Might try booting the "Signing Computer Operating System Image Release coen-2.0.1" ISO in a VM and checking it out.
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet (1992)(gutenberg.org)
2 points by ecliptik 1mo ago|0 comments
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by ecliptik 1mo ago
Onigiri [1] - https://github.com/ecliptik/onigiri A calorie tracker for iPhone/Watch/iPad, no subscriptions, no ads, integrates with Apple Health and fully open source. Includes optional AI features, either u
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by ecliptik 1mo ago
That's great they replaced it under warranty. I thought I broke the IDE connector once on the motherboard when re-connecting the cable because a pin was missing. The Gateway support rep calmed me down on the phone and that's how I
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by ecliptik 1mo ago
I've am working my way through benchmarking it on a few different CPUS [1]. A Pentium Overdrive 83MHz gets around 30fps, and the 486DX2-66MHz around 20fps. Because the 50MHz will use a bus speed to 25MHz I am expecting it to be 10-15fp
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by ecliptik 1mo ago
The hippie copy mentioned was the ad my dad bought our first PC from. He was coming back from a business trip and asked the company computer guy to help him choose one for our family. We ended up with the 486DX2-50MHz "Integrated VESA
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How the Sony Walkman Failed to Destroy Civilization(tokyoweekender.com)
6 points by ecliptik 1mo ago|0 comments
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by ecliptik 2mo ago
Google Buzz [1] along with Wave you both were too soon for this world. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz
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by ecliptik 2mo ago
I have a PicoGUS and have had a lot of fun futzing around with Claude and porting Cave Story to DOS [1] the last couple of months after SDL announced DOS support. Originally I was just using it as a Soundblaster, but in the last few weeks a
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Zombie 'who owns Unix?' lawsuit comes alive again(theregister.com)
5 points by ecliptik 2mo ago|3 comments
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Tokyo Tower of Babel: The 10km High Tower Japan Almost Built(tokyoweekender.com)
3 points by ecliptik 4mo ago|0 comments
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by ecliptik 4mo ago
Semi-related, since SDL added support for DOS a few weeks ago I've worked with Claude to port Cave Story to DOS [1]. On a Pentium 75 it can get 30fps and with decoupling the frame timer it plays at the same speed as the original. The p
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by ecliptik 4mo ago
Not all of California, but San Diego has Measure A[1] on the upcoming primary to tax non-primary homes. 1. https://www.kpbs.org/news/politics/2026/04/20/2026-primary-e...
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by ecliptik 4mo ago
The Verge has an on-going series Where's the Trump Phone? [1] with updates every week. They even managed to get an interview with one of the execs a few months back. 1. https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/843498/
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by ecliptik 4mo ago
My favorite Nullsoft software that came out the end of this era was WASTE [1]. Peer-to-peer (back when P2P was all the rage), encrypted, decentralized private networks. Group of friends and I used it post-college as a way to share files and
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The Arpanet Reconstruction Project(obsolescence.dev)
2 points by ecliptik 5mo ago|0 comments
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by ecliptik 5mo ago
This update broke my workflow! I use Netatalk [1] with AFP to share files between my Macintosh 512ke and MacBook via AppleTalk. Look, my setup works for me. Just add an option to re-enable AFP [2]. 1. https://github.com/Neta
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by ecliptik 5mo ago
One of my favorite authors and highly recommend his short stories [1] and the "ambiguous apocalypse" trilogy - The Drowned World, The Burning World, and The Crystal World. As one of collections intros said, Ballard is science fict
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The Pandaverse(theremingoat.com)
1 points by ecliptik 5mo ago|0 comments
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Netfind (1991)(info.cern.ch)
3 points by ecliptik 5mo ago|0 comments
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by ecliptik 5mo ago
Absolutely fantastic. As someone who just spent the last month vibe coding System 6 apps and reading through Apple HIG docs I love the look of the IDE.
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Exploring the Power of the Internet Gopher (1993)(archive.org)
4 points by ecliptik 5mo ago|0 comments
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Limiting Not Just Screen Time, but Screen Space(noemamag.com)
2 points by ecliptik 6mo ago|0 comments
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by ecliptik 6mo ago
If you're running forgejo you can setup mirrors [1]. Mine syncs a few repos to github to make them public, and planning to add Codeberg in as well ala POSSE [2]. 1. https://forgejo.org/docs/next/user/repo
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Why Everyone's Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026(gardinerbryant.com)
5 points by ecliptik 6mo ago|0 comments
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How the Midwest Became the Place to Move(theatlantic.com)
7 points by ecliptik 6mo ago|2 comments
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by ecliptik 6mo ago
Fluxbox has tabs and is a stacking window manager. - https://fluxbox.org/features/

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