hometown 4.6.9+hometown-1.3.0Troublemaker
Oh, you got your emulator running with a few games to play? That's cute.
Andrew Warkentin has made a VM that has over 1,700 operating systems on it that you select from a launcher. One Thousand Seven Hundred Plus.
Aww, your emulator takes a couple gigs. His takes 174 of them.
I'm being poked to perhaps post a bit more on Mastodon (and this is my primary non-work Mastodon). So I will take that advice to heart and get cracking.
I always try to appreciate the good things in life, and the 85,000 CD-ROMs that people have uploaded to Internet Archive are one of those good things.
https://archive.org/details/cd-roms?and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22collection%22
It's from this collection we get DISCMASTER.
Manuals Plus: The Wrap-Up
For the first time in probably half a year, the emulated items "in queue" is now empty - everything's verified as functioning and living off in either final or holding collections for many different machines and so on.
Time for you all to upload more!
For the effective transfer of 1980s to 1990s stored computer information, you just can't beat CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs. I'm doing a 200-disc read and that's just gigabytes slipping into the archives with almost zero effort.
Monday, and it's time to go through the new uploads of emulations with my quality-control scripts to make sure people uploaded working emulations. If you didn't know the Internet Archive emulates in the browser, now you do. 270,000 emulated titles and counting.
https://archive.org/search?query=emulator%3A*&sort=-downloads
So, I went a little ham on this one, and I entered an auction, got into a bidding war, and now I'm on the hook for about $3,520.
https://www.juliensauctions.com/en/items/2192429/friars-club-friars-club-media-archive
I'm passing the hat around if people want to help throw a few bucks at me for archivebossing a bit too close to the sun.
Everything in this gets digitized.
paypal:jason@textifles.com venmo:@textfiles@digipres.club
The 10,000 spam items I'm removing are wating in line for the Archive system to move the 400,000 manuals that have been uploaded into their rightful place.
Shaking the tree tonight (Tuesday) as I got a chance to get a really nice reel to reel tape player which I can use to transfer the hundreds of reel tapes I have waiting. I am at about $550 and the item is at $1049. If anyone wants to throw at this, it's @textfiles@digipres.club on venmo and jason@textfiles.com on paypal.
New article out! Super in-depth, very furious manifesto. I get batted around. Join in the fun! Looks like it was a lot of work.
https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-will-remember-us-when-the-servers-go-dark/
In before close of the day. Thanks to everyone, who threw money at me a $4,100 hit for doing an overenthusiastic bid on some Friar's Club recordings got whittled down to about $563, which is more than doable for me. That's including everything. I'll livestream and share the results.
Flash silent auction to cover some bills. GET LAMP coin number 3124 from the original production. Mail coin@textfiles.com and the winner at noon Friday gets the coin.
I've been really cleaning up the office and as of that I am doing a Big Spring mail out to permanent storage and I will also be having a spring cleaning auction next week. Just lots of stuff of mine that probably could use a better home. Stay tuned
I had it pointed out to me that my Patreon didn't have a way to sign up under $25/episode, which was quite a flex, even if unintended. I have now added tiers below that for people to join if they like.
Here's a good example of straight stupid: The "Teraleak", which claims it's a massive leak of Apple testflight data.
... it's an Archive Team project from 9 years ago. They announced they were shutting down and Archive Team downloaded everything before it disappeared.
Now places are reporting it as an Apple Leak or something. It's a fucking crawl. A CRAWL, people. How far we have fallen.
Hey, coming in a bit late to the party, but if you get over to the ROMchip Journal stream at https://www.twitch.tv/romchipJournal they are a few thousand short of the "keep the lights on" level ($7k) and if they hit $10k, the editor of this journal gets hit in the face with a pie.
Streaming on twitch.tv most weekdays:
Why would you watch me archiving to dance music? I don't know, you're weird.
