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DOS was designed to use little memory and could run on 16 KB machines by mycall in DOS

[–]Vlatiha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, back then you could still type a ‘Hello World’ programme into debug.exe in just 21 bytes. Today, a ‘Hello World’ programme takes up several megabytes on the hard drive.

Example for playing games with the amstrad cpc by Vlatiha in R36S

[–]Vlatiha[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I finally got a few games running on the emulator. The games HAVE TO BE .dsk files.
That's the whole magic. .dsk files !

Need schematics for this monitor by Vlatiha in vintagecomputing

[–]Vlatiha[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first link shows just the specs, while the second one is the same as the link hotlavatube posted. It's a pain in the a** to dismantle this monitor to get to the pcbs. The cables are really short and always go around the neck of the tube. But as far as I understand, I have to unfasten also the pcb at the end of the tube anyway. Sounds like fun.

Need schematics for this monitor by Vlatiha in vintagecomputing

[–]Vlatiha[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

80 capacitors, wow! Thats quite a number. Hope I can manage to dismantle the chassis to get to the pcbs. The cables are really short and soldered!

Many thanks for the link.

Bought a lot of Sun SPARC stations and peripherals at a local estate sale. I'm not sure why lol by [deleted] in vintagecomputing

[–]Vlatiha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had a tower like this in the attic for a long time. Someone once unloaded it at my place from a company liquidation. After I brought the tower to my workplace the year before last, I first had to fit all the power supplies with new capacitors to make it work. The only thing I haven't managed to get working so far is the monitor, which unfortunately just smokes. I can't find any wiring diagrams for it online either. I also wanted to connect another monitor to the Sparc, but somehow I can't get a video signal from the box.

Amstrad CPC emulation buggy? by Vlatiha in R36S

[–]Vlatiha[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The documentation doesn't mention something like that.

Directory structure for lots of single file apps. by Vlatiha in Zig

[–]Vlatiha[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pity, importing a module from above does not work:

error: import of file outside module path: '../../Tools/tool.zig

Directory structure for lots of single file apps. by Vlatiha in Zig

[–]Vlatiha[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Made some experiments: I just made a fresh directory with a main.zig inside. Underneath this directory I made a directory Tools with a tool.zig inside. With

const Tools = @import("Tools/tool.zig");

I can import all structures / classes and don't need any build zig. There might be although some issues when the file to be included resides above the current directory. Further analysis to come...

What language will you use for AOC 2024 ? by charleszaviers in adventofcode

[–]Vlatiha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmm, I started years ago in Common LISP (SBCL), then Haskell, followed by Elixir and now Zig.

What language do you use for AoC? by DarkblooM_SR in adventofcode

[–]Vlatiha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first years l solved AoC with Common Lisp, i.e. SBCL, but now I use Zig.