stevengoodwin

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by stevengoodwin 11mo ago
Worked second time for me (on Mint) The first time it barfed was because there was a space in the filename, and the QB64 editor didn't handle it. Running on the command line, with quotes around the name, was flawless.
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by stevengoodwin 1y ago
This is a really nice, and very compact, way of demonstrating the terminal in action. I used it to show off my 2002 version of ASCII pacman game, since no one's going to bother compiling it, and it'll eventually end up with bitrot
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by stevengoodwin 2y ago
The third iteration of the PC strategy game, Grand Prix Manager, was meant to be in isometric. Instead of clicking on the "Designer" button, and going to a graphical database indicating how you'd proportional the designers wo
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by stevengoodwin 2y ago
Buzzers and batteries count as electronics, imo. The experiment, as per title, is a version _without_
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Ask HN: How would you build a buzz-wire game, without electronics?
1 points by stevengoodwin 2y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: An SSEM (Manchester Baby) emulator written in 100 lines of JavaScript(github.com)
5 points by stevengoodwin 3y ago|1 comments
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by stevengoodwin 3y ago
Handy if you want to see the basics of how an emulator works, but only have the time to read 100 lines of code.
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by stevengoodwin 3y ago
It has - but I conscientiously recheck my threads for new insight! :) Will email you when I know everything that I have!
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by stevengoodwin 3y ago
Given I'm UK-based, postage might be a bit steep. Let me see how much stuff _isn't_ still out there. FWIW, on most other systems I'm contactable via @marquisdegeek
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by stevengoodwin 3y ago
OP here: Primarily to read them offline. These messages were usually part of usenet, or in emails lists, or held on (remote) servces like Mono at Imperial. You could read them on the HP-UX systems, via a dumb terminal, which were connected
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Ask HN: What to do with text from old, unarchived, online forums?
131 points by stevengoodwin 3y ago|108 comments
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by stevengoodwin 3y ago
Thank you - and you're welcome! :)
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by stevengoodwin 3y ago
No - it came from the line of code that everyone liked to type into computers at the local shop: 10 PRINT "My mate is an idiot "; 20 GOTO 10 I suspect they were inspired from the same events.
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by stevengoodwin 3y ago
[Book author here] If you have questions about the contents of the book, it's inception, etc, then feel free to ask. (I also spoke about the book at the computer museum in Cambridge, so this video might give you some background: https
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Show HN: Emulator for the Manchester Baby(em.ulat.es)
1 points by stevengoodwin 3y ago|0 comments
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by stevengoodwin 3y ago
Now that it's almost complete, I feel happy in releasing the solve and renderer code that many might consider a cheat. https://github.com/MarquisdeGeek/HumanShader
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by stevengoodwin 4y ago
For my personal account of FOSDEMs past, including beer, food vans, beer, and talks then I've written a diary that might be an amusing read: https://marquisdegeek.com/words_fosdem Might not help decide whether to take
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by stevengoodwin 4y ago
I've been experimenting with AI and other algorithms to expand and enhance my original leitmotif compositions. So I wrote the linked soundscape as backing for “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe. Can any HN readers spot which parts are comp
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by stevengoodwin 4y ago
Hear it here, being used to symbolise the drifting into an infinite sleep: https://steevonhypothesis.bandcamp.com/track/the-dream-song
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Ask HN: The Sinclair Spectrum is 40 – do you have one?
3 points by stevengoodwin 4y ago|4 comments
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Show HN: Writing a film score with one monophonic synthesizer
3 points by stevengoodwin 5y ago|1 comments
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Writing a film score with one monophonic synthesizer
1 points by stevengoodwin 5y ago|0 comments
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by stevengoodwin 5y ago
Care to elaborate on their meaning, for the less informed?
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Ask HN: What numbers do you associate with old computers?
3 points by stevengoodwin 5y ago|16 comments