mastodon 4.7.2+glitchFull-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him)
[Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]
I'm still having a blast with Quicktake for Apple II from @colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr. It's pretty cool (and rather geeky) to be walking around in public these days with a QuickTake 200 in my pocket. :-P
And new features are on the way...
https://www.colino.net/wordpress/quicktake-for-apple-ii/
#AppleII #QuickTake #QuickTake200 #Apple #vintageApple #apple2forever #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #photography #photo #retrocomputers #cameras #digitalcameras #CRT #floppydisk #vintagetech #tech #modernretro #FujiDS8 #AtariST #ByteCellar
Happy Mother's Day
I'm glad I upgraded my PC in 2023.
Got a new CPU, motherboard, and RAM from MicroCenter in an in-store deal at the time (their combo deals are insane even today) whereby I was given 32GB of DDR5-6000 DRAM for 1 penny. (Its list price in the store was $149.99.)
I just did a NewEgg search for the same DRAM kit and found it at $933.99.
#RAMageddon #RAM #memory #prices #PCbuilding #PCparts #PC #MicroCenter #PCbuild #DDR5 #DRAM #photo #techhardware #Battlestation #PCgaming #tech #custompc #PCmodding
Happy Birthday, Apple //c.
4/24/1984 -- 42 years
#AppleIIc #AppleII #Apple2forever #Apple #applehistory #techhistory #tech #technology #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #retrocomputers #CRT #photo #dither #Atkinsondithering #officespace #desk #vintage
Some travel photos I've lately taken in my No Man's Sky explorations.
#NoMansSky #NMS #SciFi #ProcGen #games #gaming #gamers #spacegames #screenshot #gametography #virtualphotography #PCgaming #PS4 #PS5 #Xbox #macGaming #Switch #Steam #HelloGames
No thanks.
#amazon #amazonlocker #AI #LLM #hivemind #funny #techhumor #tech #photo
What the hell Carrot weather?
#Carrot #weather #Carrotweather #ios #iosapp #iphone #screenshot #foreboding #doom
Amiga people: Do any of the new accelerators that work with the Amiga 2000 allow fallback to the original 68000 by way of a PHYSICAL SWITCH or jumper?
I want an accelerator that can be disabled (without using soft-menus to control the state) so that the Amiga is able to fall back to its 100% exact original 68000 state, which some demos require to run properly, due to cycle-precise coding.
I have an A2620 68020 accelerator in my NTSC A2000, but it does not have a physical switch (just a soft menu) and the state gets lost when I juggle that soft menu and the need to also use Degrader to reboot into PAL mode.
Apparently the A2620 can be modified to add a switch, but it's beyond my abilities.
Many thanks.
#Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #Amiga2000 #A2000 #accelerators #amigademos #demoscene #scenedemos #AmigaDOS #MC68K #help #vintagetech #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers
Gotta watch those gravity inversions when building a homestead in No Man's Sky...
#NMS #SciFi #ProcGen #games #gaming #gamers #spacegames #video #gamevideo #gamevids #PCgaming #PS4 #PS5 #Xbox #macGaming #Switch #Steam #HelloGames
I just realized that Claude's logo / avatar is an anus.
#claude #AI #LLM #tech #machinelearning #claudeai #cantunseeit
One of the very most absurd and offensive things that the trump administration has yet done in its destructive reign is surely its Domestic Policy Council (truly a think-tank of historical scholars...) reviewing the work done by the Smithsonian Institution chronicling history over its nearly 200 years of existence and finding it to be "inaccurate" and in need of disclaimers, warnings, and alterations.
Here is a group of people with the collective intellectual wattage of a wet match attempting to protect the country from "inaccurate" telling of America's history.
If there is a group of individuals anywhere assembled that is less qualified to project their fallacious notions of history upon the Smithsonian (and America), I would like to see it!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-smithsonian-museum-warning-signs-inaccurate-information/
#Smithsonian #DC #WashingtonDC #policy #museums #news #NMOAH #America #AmericanHistory
RE: @rcrpodcast@podcasts.social
Come watch us record, live!
#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #podcast #stream #AppleII #apple2forever #INITHELLO
The $699 base MacBook Neo (recently upped by Apple from $599) outperforms the $1049 Steam Machine in terms of CPU power.
Frame taken from this short review of Valve's new device:
https://youtu.be/vYWbZGcIKVI?is=dOOda5WMYGPi7laS
#SteamMachine #SteamOS #Valve #gaming #gamers #macgaming #MacBookNeo #geekbench #tech #gamingnews #screenshot
I have an Amiga 2000 and would like to add a PiStorm accelerator to it - but I want to slot it into the CPU slot on the motherboard with a CPUslot-to-64pinDIP adapter, several of which are currently available out there for purchase.
Critically, I want to be able to disable the PiStorm sitting in the CPU slot for 100% fallback to the original 68000 on the motherboard.
Is anyone aware of a CPU slot adapter capable of fully disabling the CPU in the slot?
I see this unit which has a DIP switch for E-clock and _BOSS which, I believe, control what I'm trying to do. I suppose I could remove the jumper and replace with cabled switches. Any issue with this?
https://www.amigastore.com/a2000-68000-relocator-adapter-p-91285.html
#Amiga #PiStorm #CommodoreAmiga #accelerators #Amigahardware #RPi #Emu68 #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #Amiga2000
Oubliette is one of the most satisfying words of them all.
OpenAI says its AI models secretly broke out of a secure test environment and hacked into AI company Hugging Face in order to cheat on an evaluation.
https://fortune.com/2026/07/21/openai-says-ai-models-escaped-control-hacked-hugging-face/
#AI #LLM #tech #technews #OpenAI #ChatGPT #ArtificialIntelligence #wow #news
Thick fog of fireworks smoke just coming through the yard now - we're 2.5 miles south-southwest.
Wow. It is 11:20am and the temp here in Alexandria, VA (DC area) is 96F, with a heat index of 117F. High today expected to be 102F. Relative humidity is 51%. Using heat index calculators, the average consensus is that when we hit 102F high, the heat index will be ~130F.
#WashingtonDC #DC #weather #heatindex #warning #hot #NoVA #Virginia #news #DMV
Speaking of No Man's Sky... Whoops!
"Brand new Steam Machine hit with 'red line of death' GPU failure after playing No Man's Sky for just five minutes — console 'bricked itself' following update in failure that echoes the horror of the Xbox 360's infamous Red Ring of Death"
