I write about the past, present, and future of technology across three sites. imapenguin.com explores retro computing and programming fundamentals, milkcrunch.com covers modern software development and engineering culture, and evadot.com examines commercial spaceflight and the new space movement.
Posts
- More than one person called me out for using Python to make my Commodore screen grid. Assembly is easy enough, but I already had my SuperExpander out for another project. I had both it and SIMON's BASIC in the 80s, so I'm calling it "fair to use" as it's authentic to my childhood
- I’m jaded with 2023 technology at work today. Time to revisit the 80s.
- Visualizing the season's progressing, nerd style.
- So I'm to understand that everyone doesn't write Python programs to generate 40x25 sheets to lay out vintage computer screen ideas on Tuesday nights. Apparently just me. Okay then. ;-)
- Hi res 10 Print style render inspired by @8BitShowAndTell this morning. Takes a lot of Mississippi’s to finish the whole screen.
- Looking through my photos and noticed this strange nighttime glitch shot of the Adler Planetarium from a boat in the harbor. Trying to figure out how this happened but it’s kinda neat.
- I want to use a PET to explain simple shift ciphers. The challenge is comparing the current and standard English distribution with only 40x25 characters. Two graphs on the screen would be better. Giving it another think because I'm not happy with this.
- I’m thinking maybe a PET theme for August. Haven’t had the MiniPET out in a while so I’ll start with that.
- There’s a view I don’t get often.
- Second Great Lake this summer.
- Happy
- There’s a lunch provided at the conference but I have science data to gather.
- I’ve reached that part of my career where I’m supposed to write my own FORTH which is what FORTH is best at.
- Not a city boy at heart, but Chicago is nice to look at during the night.
- Studying 8-bit FORTH for a couple weeks mainly to look at problems differently
- Finally repaired my beloved Sharp 9300(from High School) so it’s in today’s episode of stupid races between old computery things. Fibonacci to 35 and the VIC-20 still wins. Good effort though.
- I use cartridge port expanders quite a bit. I don’t have much use past 2 ports on either the Commodore 64 or VIC-20. I kinda want to see if I can devise a memory map setup on the VIC-20 to use all 5 slots. For science.
- This HP-45 Emulator is freaking amazing.
- Found this in a box. I wonder what it is a backup of. Don’t have a drive to read it anyway.
- Happy Monday