Michael Doornbos – Page 8 – Is it time to fly yet?

Did @somacdivad’s weekly code challenge in BASIC this week. Because, uh, science or something. It’s a “peculiar English dialect in which the numbers of letters in successive words follow the digits of the number π.” Pretty fun. #commodore

Does your holiday travel go bag have the proper emergency supplies? Mine does. #Nintendo

Knot untangler

Nice, new Floppy Emu firmware has graphics now. #appleiie

Working on a code challenge from @shieladixon. Part 1 is total permutations 1 to 9 as fast as I can manage on a #Commodore. Here’s an NTSC C64 doing it without printing in 48 seconds. Part 2 is a little harder, have to give it a think.

A little silliness while waiting for backups to finish. Happy Friday! #commodore

Christmas tree farm day. You know the day when the animals wonder why we’re bring a tree into the house. Crazy hoomans.

I get asked a lot about how to do the “off screen” images on the SwissMicros calculators. The short short version is crop your photo to 400×240 and run this little Python. Then just copy it over usb to the offimg folder.

I need to pay attention to details more. I meant to buy 10 SN74LVC245A’s and bought 100. If you need me, I’ll be looking around the shop for a couple dozen more things to level shift :)

Everyone uses @JuliaLanguage to create data statement sets to do calculations on vintage BASIC machines right? I can’t think of a better use for modern computers than the assist for their elders. Happy Monday!