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Computern war gestern auch nicht anders. Nur quietschevielfältiger. DE & EN
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Wir sind am 3. Oktober mit einem Atari ST samt Farb-Röhren-Monitor und Joystick, ausgestattet mit Giana Sisters, Bubble Ghost, Oxyd und anderen packenden Spielen am Start.
Am Gamecube läuft das originale „Sendung mit der Maus“-Spiel!
Wo? CCCFr e.V., Adlerstr. 12a, Freiburg - Grether-Gelände
Wann? 3. Oktober, ab 12.30 Uhr @cccfr@chaos.social
TashTalk USB - ein Adapter von Mini DIN8 LocalTalk für Knubbelmacs nach USB-C.
Mit TailTalk kann man Dateien zu System 3.3 bis 7 übertragen, ohne dass auf dem 68k-System etwas spezielles installiert sein muss - Bordmittel reichen. Auf der anderen Seite dann Linux, später vtl. macOS und Windows.
EDIT-INSERT: Rolf war so nett und hat die HP abgeholt! Danke an euch alle fürs teilen und Hilfe anbieten!
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Wir probieren’s nochmals :)
Wir möchten einen schönen (Desktop-)Computer der frühen 80er Jahre aus Augsburg vor dem Schrott retten, bräuchten dafür aber etwas Hilfe vor Ort.
Wer möchte in Augsburg einen Computer mit Festplatte und 12“ Grünmonitor abholen, und uns (gegen aufgerundete Kostenerstattung) zusenden nach Freiburg?
Wir könnten HP-BASIC 5.1 darauf ausführen, oder gar HP-UX 2.0.
Ruhm und Ehre wären euch sicher. Und sinnloser Elektroschrott vermieden.
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@losttourist@social.chatty.monster Sadly no ISO layouts, only ANSI/American style. I would be tempted otherwise …
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And with proper software support, you can get ~880 KB out of usable space with a FAT12 file system on 3.5“ DD disks (1 MB raw capacity):
• Hyperformat on the ST pioneered this (Claus Brod, Jürgen Stessun)
• Bitte ein Bit (Uland Täffner)
• FCopy Pro (Martin Backschat)
• FDFORMAT.EXE (Christoph H. Hochstätter)
Which software did you use back then and now to increase the efficiency of your diskette media?
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@kalleboo@bitbang.social @paulrickards@mastodon.social I wish they would have named or upgraded the first digits of the macOS version number only when significant additions were made. Like, when they added Spotlight. Or Time Machine. Or 64 Bit.
But not for “the app that’s bundled with the OS got some improvements in a special section” …
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@flexion@oldbytes.space naaaah, just sell the colors as ”desert dystopian theme“. Dark theme is so 2000‘s!
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@fluidlogic@oldbytes.space @freedosproject@fosstodon.org And … https://blog.discourse.org/2025/11/the-death-of-community-memory/ - a chat is not documentation nor archive.
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@BigBadBiologist@bitbang.social Well it sure has electrons in it, right? They did not promise that you could observe+count these with it …
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@GamesMissed „Helpdesk here, how can I help?“
”The system showed an error and I clicked the other button, but nothing happened. What now?“
”Which other button?“
”There has been only one“
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@Gammitin We can hear that picture.
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@MsMadLemon@mastodon.social Kickstart 1.3 a lot, but also 2.x and 3.x.
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@everythingalsocan@techhub.social Yes, indeed: VGA Copy 5.3’s documentation states that VGAREAD.EXE is used under DOS to work with “special format” disks, like 1.72 MB 3.5“ HD, or 820 KB 3.5“ DD.
This seems equivalent to FDREAD.EXE from »FDFORMAT«.
https://archive.org/details/vgacp530
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@everythingalsocan@techhub.social Now I need to hunt a VGA Copy 5 to check whether there’s a TSR supplied, to allow MS-DOS to read the “special” formats. Like FDFORMAT has one.
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@sverx@mastodon.gamedev.place I assume some logic behind the “4D”, and that this media set is rather old (unfortunately no date on it).
In the early 80ies, there were …
• 40-track-3.5“ drives
• Single-sided
Like the Epson SMD-110, with 67.5 tpi. That’s either 82 KB (FM) on a 3.5“ disk, or 164 KB (MFM).
If you now double both the tracks (40 to 80), and go from FM to MFM (doubling again), you end up from 1D to 4D. Or, what we nowadays call a “normal” 3.5“ DS/DD disk drive, with ~720 KBytes.
In the attached image, the SMD-110 is to the very right. A “normal” 3.5“ DD drive is to the left, an Epson SMD-140.
(And yes, the SMD-110 is not vaporware, we have a working one in the club)
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@dymaxion (Now) Elderly women co-invented the internet. Invented higher level languages. Wrote the software to go to the moon. And …
Don‘t assume old people can not do something. They may have invented the stuff you‘re working with.
And whether they had or raised children doesn‘t matter, again, when talking about technical achievements.
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@fluidlogic@oldbytes.space @freedosproject@fosstodon.org Discord … it’d be cool if it’d be something non-tracking & free, not with long EULAs and tracking … that will tomorrow sell my data to a random AI company. It will keep some people on distance.
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@fastmail@mastodon.social @ajnn@snabelen.no Tcl, too!
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@csara@vmst.io Uberspace.
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@kenshirriff Engelbart invented the mouse, a 2nd, most probably independent, time, again, after the Telefunken RKS 100-86 “Rollkugel-Steuerung”
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@Gammitin If one would only know what to put into the second 64 bit PCI slot, after the first one is filled with a SCSI RAID card …
FDDI? ATM?
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@ipaschke Probably the (movable) memory (management)? A Mac SE should be a tad faster or same CPU speed as an Amiga 1000
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@ipaschke There are plenty of “non-wild” memory expansions for the Atari ST to get beyond the 4 MB barrier: Storm ST, MonSTer, Magnum ST, PAK+FRAK, TwiSTEr.
You can still buy Storm ST, MonSTer and TwiSTEr.
Each of them offer at least 8 MB of contiguous memory, on top of the ST’s original amount. Some also include an accelerator.
#twister #atarist
https://wiki.newtosworld.de/ (bottom section)
OK, I thought our Motorola STS-S16 SCSI terminalserver (read: SCSI to multiple RS232) is cool. But I’m holding your beer … @splorp@mastodon.social
*Slightly* inspired by HP’s coolers for PA-RISC 9000 machines? :) @Gammitin@mastodon.social
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@aeble@mastodon.eble.name @masek@infosec.exchange Any good off-the-shelf-/out-of-repo systems that allow local copies to be kept? Something like Tweet Nest.
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@mbbrutman@mastodon.sdf.org UUCP address? Bang routing notation?
GMail is sooo lame :)
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@everythingalsocan@techhub.social Which concrete format(s) did you use? Has MS-DOS/DR-DOS/Windows/OS/2 been able to use these?
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@everythingalsocan@techhub.social When I tried VGA Copy 6, I couldn’t find an option to do a “plain” formatting of disks - only copying & formatting at the same time.