Steven Hugg

@W6KME@mastodon.radio @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Herb’s Christmas Album is on heavy rotation around here every December. Much to the chagrin of others.

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange @kevbob@xoxo.zone Looking further it could have been a 206. The headphones had a coiled cable. Don’t know why I remember Yamaha branding. All I know is it played a mean Taxi theme.

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange @kevbob@xoxo.zone Ha, I did the same in middle school when we were supposed to be practicing scales with our headphones. They had a room full of Fender Rhodes-like student pianos but I seem to recall Yamaha branding.

Infocom's Z-machine was introduced to the world in the July 1980 Creative Computing article "How to Fit a Large Program into a Small Machine" by Marc Blank and Stu Galley. The term "interactive fiction" hadn't been coined yet, so they called the genre "CFS" (Computerized Fantasy Simulation). Despite basically inventing the form, they didn't make fetch happen. https://mud.co.uk/richard/htflpism.htm

Angelsoft/Mindscape published a series of text adventures written in Pascal -- Turbo Pascal 3.0 for PC, UCSD Pascal for the Apple ][. Several were licensed from popular books or films. Supposedly they were written with a proprietary authoring system called ASG, but there is scant info online about it. https://retro365.blog/2019/06/10/bits-from-my-personal-collection-angelsoft-interactive-fiction/

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange @kevbob@xoxo.zone Sorta looked like that, similar greenish color, but had a quarter inch headphone jack right in front. This would have been 1986 or so. They were fun, nice action.

@adam_chal "Would you like me to draw a diagram of the biological pathways affected by radiation?"

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt now it's just Clippy and best friend, drunk fightin' octopus

@jerry@infosec.exchange Sad... UF develops some yummy varieties like Tasti-Lee which I haven't been seeing in stores.

@geekysteven Decker-unit must run REGEDIT.EXE to meet the creator

"It is a Gameboy Advance from a parallel universe where RISC-V existed in 2001... written in synthesisable Verilog 2005, and is intended to fit onto an iCE40-HX8k FPGA." https://github.com/Wren6991/RISCBoy

Dialog is an #interactivefiction language inspired by Prolog which compiles to efficient Z-machine version 5 code (for #8bit platforms) and lets you enter statements during debugging. https://dialog-if.github.io/manual/dialog/1c03-dev/intro.html

@EricCarroll@mastodon.acm.org did Santa visit already? or is that from Krampus?

@dosnostalgic@mastodon.social I think I had that one!

@jbrownesq@mastodon.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org If there is an afterlife I fear the Aiwa I gave to a thrift store will say “Why did you abandon me? I had a center speaker and an equalizer.”