the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

...disappointingly the main resource for information and updates on the CX16 project appears to be a facebook group and well. we don't have an account there and certainly don't want one

the guy who's heading the project has posted a few videos explaining it on his youtube channel though ("the 8-bit guy")

coding in C or Python or what-have-you is fine and all but being able to poke directly at memory and see results immediately sounds really good? an entire computer system simple enough for a single person to understand how every part of it works, which is an alien concept to us, who were born in 1994 and thus missed the era of the C64 and other 8-bit machines

just found out about the commander x16, which is a project to make an 8-bit computer close to the commodore 64 but made with all modern parts (so it doesn't rely on used or new-old-stock components), for hopefully less than $100, and I have to say we would enjoy playing with one of those

something that lets you work close to the hardware sounds fun in a way that modern computers... aren't

it occurs to me that @monorail is tons of people all on her own, given her size

a documentary going into detail about US agriculture: cornography

random thought: designing one's own custom keyboard layout would be an interesting exercise

sorry for not streaming for weeks! probably will try to do one tomorrow

Thinking about trying to get back to streaming now that end of semester stuff has cooled down

(this is not something we're considering doing, just something we're curious how much it'd cost today)

I wonder how expensive it would be to get a top-of-the-line windows 98 computer put together out of used parts today, something that would have been extremely high-end in 2001

thought: can you grow a bonsai saguaro?

i guess you might want one now if you have some fancy surround sound setup or something but other than that every motherboard has integrated audio hardware and modern CPUs are more than capable of doing all the FM synth, wavetable synth, and direct sample playback you could need

remember back when sound cards mattered?

"Isn't that obsolete?"
"Obsolutely!"

i appreciate that the person who named SCSI is on the record as intending for it to be pronounced "sexy" but everyone calls it scuzzy instead

pangolins are cute

frustum is a delightfully strange word.

kinda want to make a breadboard computer but that's really expensive and we don't have room for it

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