@polpo@chaos.social

· 3mo ago

Your eyes do not deceive you! The cat's out of the bag: I've been collaborating with the @BlueSCSI@hachyderm.io project to make the enclosure and front panel originally designed for PicoIDE common to both! I collabed with @nulleric@mastodon.social on code and @gutbomb@bitbang.social did the 3D design. https://jcm-1.com/product/bluescsi-ultra-front-panel-module/

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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By popular request, bouncing DVD logo mode

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

#PicoGUS can now emulate Sound Blaster 16 with the newly released firmware v4.0.0! Other changes include CD-ROM speed and reliability improvements, GUS mode improvements, and more. Check the full changelog and download the release at https://github.com/polpo/picogus/releases/tag/v4.0.0

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

@BigBadBiologist@bitbang.social is currently streaming a board repair through a Power Macintosh 6200 and period-appropriate cameras. Love it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQW32BTHOls

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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The ICM has a Thinking Machines CM-2!! And even more amazing stuff! And most of it is working in some fashion!

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Picked up shiny #PicoIDE stickers at Sticker Giant!

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Took an absolutely lovely road trip today to pick up a rare Roland CM-32L that was on Marketplace. I was stretching the range of my 1st gen Leaf but taking the back roads meant prettier views and fewer kWh

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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I then went up to Snoqualmie Falls, which was also ridiculously pretty. If it looks familiar, it’s the site of the fictional Great Northern Hotel from Twin Peaks

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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The next day I took a break from the VCF show and visited the Connections Museum. What a place!! I’ve watched their YouTube channel for a while.

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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I then went back the the VCF event and got up to some Unix shenanigans on @adriansdigitalbasement.com’s Plexus P/20 and after the show watched a Commodore SX-64 get worked on in the hotel lobby.

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

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The PicoGUS in SB16 mode works in Windows XP

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

#VCFPNW is next weekend! I’ll be there and can’t wait!

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

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I’m using this Apple/Farallon card, with a PhoneNet adapter hacked and connected to the DE-9 port

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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The next morning on the way to the airport I stopped at Re-PC’s Kent location. They had a lot of great stuff, old and new! Prices a bit high but relatively fair.

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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Day one at the VCF event. It was crowded!

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

The latest PicoGUS firmware update was a huge fail - lots of breakage everywhere. I rushed its release, and it shows. I'm really starved for time between helping the kids with homework most nights, work on getting PicoIDE to full production, and a demanding day job. I wonder what has to give.

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

In 1994 when I was in 8th grade I was talking to a friend about careers. He said he wanted to get into computer engineering instead of computer science because computers would learn to program themselves sooner than they’ll be able to design themselves. I’ve been thinking about that a lot recently.

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

Stumbled through installing HP-UX on a BlueSCSI on this HP 68040 UNIX workstation. I was pretty frustrated it’d only use the serial console but replacing the NVRAM coin cell battery made itremember it had a graphics card installed

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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And one more very nice view: from the train platform on the way to the airport. What a great trip! I hope to visit again!

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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I also went to Ada’s Technical Books, Pink Gorilla Games, and drove around some neighborhoods with ridiculously pretty views (it was sunny with clear skies the whole time I was there, BTW)

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Boosted by @kkarhan@jorts.horse

Over the past few days I've released some beta firmwares for PicoGUS to address the issues in the v4.1.0 release. This one is basically a release candidate; if it's all good I'll release it as final in a couple days. https://github.com/polpo/picogus/releases/tag/v4.1.1-beta.1

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

At #RMRRF (BIG 3D printing festival this weekend in Loveland, CO) I caught Zack Freedman (Voidstar Lab)'s talk about creating Gridfinity and it was amazing: the central tenet is creating something so free that it no longer needs you. It made me think a lot about the future of my own projects.

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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Sorry, had to pull the release. Definite breaking issues with this one. Apologies for rushing this one!

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

I’ll be in Seattle next weekend for #VCFPNW but I’d like to hit some other nerdy places like:
- Connections Museum
- RE-PC
- Ada’s Technical Books & Cafe (which sadly will close in a few months)

Any other suggestions?

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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Credit to @gloriouscow@oldbytes.space for the initial inspiration for both of these screensaver modes

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

I was bummed the 74XX YouTube channel hadn't uploaded in a while but today was blessed with this amazing video that starts with finding some Wild Gunman film reels and ends with an amazing recreation of the original game. Probably my favorite low sub channel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOfqnomGPkM

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

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@DosFox yeah, they didn’t change it at all, just slapped a sticker on it 😄

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

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@paulrickards actually I just realized it also has a couple PALs so those will have to be reverse engineered

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space I thiiiiiink LVGL has enough capability to port the pipes screensaver and will actually fit 🤔

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

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@DosFox yep, Apple stopped selling it but Farallon picked it up.

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@TomGwozdz@oldbytes.space I haven’t mathematically proven if it will or not…

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Ian Scott @polpo@chaos.social

· 3mo ago

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@makelog@mastodon.social Unfortunately PicoIDE lacks the hardware to be a host and read other drives. Fortunately there’s another open source project that can, the ATAboy: https://github.com/redruM0381/ATAboy It can’t dump images directly with but it shows up as a mass storage device. You can then use tools like dd to make an image from the drive.

GitHub

GitHub - redruM0381/ATAboy: ATAboy is a user-friendly bridge that allows legacy CHS only style IDE (PATA) hard drives to be connected to a modern computer as a standard USB Mass Storage device.

ATAboy is a user-friendly bridge that allows legacy CHS only style IDE (PATA) hard drives to be connected to a modern computer as a standard USB Mass Storage device. - redruM0381/ATAboy

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