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It reads more like a prompt than a useful README.

All I had was Doom II over IPX.

I used X11 on some 8-bit framebuffers back in the day, and I remember the palette changing depending on which window was in the foreground. The foreground window would have proper colour, and the background ones would generally have crazy clashing colours.

> projects like 808s and Heartbreak and Tha Carter III

Or 22, A Million by Bon Iver.

It's a compact sedan (or a compact hatchback, depending on the model) from Toyota, which in Canada at least, makes it an "entry-level" new car.

That same year, IBM released the 3-board PGA which did 640x480x256.

90ºN is definitely in the arctic.

What did it use for expansion slots? I've seen pictures of the motherboard, but can't really identify what goes where. I don't see any 8-bit ISA slots (which makes sense, as it has a 16-bit bus), and I don't see 16-bit ISA slots (which makes sense because IBM didn't invent that standard until a year later! Also 16-bit ISA would have too many address lines for this thing.)

I never knew about this poem. It's a factual observation of that era of computing.

To this day, people getting into retro computing are disappointed by the Tandy 2000 and other non-PC compatible MS-DOS machines. (I get it, having passed up on an AT&T 6300. But if you wanted to give me a DEC Rainbow or Zenith Z-100 I wouldn't say no).

What? You can use your provincial health care card in any other province. My mom made an urgent care visit while in BC, showed her Alberta health care card, and got the usual service with no extra paperwork or costs. (Behind the scenes, BC would have billed Alberta for this visit)

I say this as a Canadian who wishes nothing but failure for the US's military misadventures: Iran is a totally different situation. The inability for the US navy to effectively project power thousands of miles from the US says nothing about its ability to wage a land war close to home.

If only there was a way for the government to represent the will of the people.

Which performance? It looks like there are a few.

He's actually coming to my city on his current tour, but I'll be out of town on a work trip...

I learned about this (great) album from a Flash cartoon on Newgrounds.

They're from England, and who gives a shit.

This title normalizer is crap.

Typically you can use the -- arg to indicate that everything to the right should not be interpreted as a switch.

> Ukraine never had nuclear weapons. Russia is the sole legal successor of the USSR and these were all Russian nukes on Ukrainian territory.

Structuring the breakup so that the nukes are Russia's is not really different than Ukraine giving up the nukes on its territory.

Where did they draw the line? Obviously not all USSR assets are now Russian assets, as Ukraine still has (or had) its own stockpile of Soviet era weapons, and other things like Soviet era airfields.

You definitely need to be female to give birth, regardless of whatever gender identity label you give yourself (e.g. "man" or "non binary").

I should clarify that what I mean is that it's very useful for buying and selling. Where I live, at least, it's more active than Kijiji or Craigslist ever were.

FB Marketplace is great.

What games do you play? Are there multiple ones going on?

It is crazy to me that you not only have that many friends free to visit at the same time, but also that they're all interested in PC gaming. All while having kids (or at least you do).

I was at a LAN party a few months ago, but it was with a retro PC club more than a group of friends (altough I am friends with a couple of those guys). Someone setup Netware and had a dashboard connected to a big screen showing machines connected over IPX. Worked great for games like Doom II. But I can't imagine wanting to do that more than like, once a year. I'm more of a small group of friends + board games person.

I guess the silver lining is that China will most certainly implement a similar program now.

Or Japan, or Canada, or Argentina, or Brazil, or Chile, or...

It would be nice if Apple provided documentation, not even code.

Love it.

I wonder if they could have made the disk support work better by producing an interposer board to turn the (much simpler) Apple Disk II drive into a 1541, rather than butchering a 1541 to go the opposite way.

Adrian Black found that the 1541-compatible Enhancer 2000 was essentially that, right down to having a pin-compatible Disk II style interface internally. He tried using a real Disk II with the Enhancer's logic board, and had some success using it as a C64 drive: https://youtu.be/zGm5Jvo571g?t=5780

Reminds me of New Topographics, but not mostly in black and white.

> saves you 260 watts/hr.

It saves you 260 watts, continuously.

> a SCOTUS that's stacked with Trumpist ideologues.

It's majority conservative, but that's not the same thing as what you're claiming here.

It has 3 members appointed by Trump, but even that doesn't make them Trumpist ideologues.

> The Xbox broke into the mainstream by being able to connect four of them together to have 16 people playing games together under one roof

tbh I never knew about that. I always assumed it was Halo that drove those early sales.