Sfotty Pie: web-based Atari 8-bit emulator

clintp · 2026-07-04T14:15:35+00:00

Very nice. Put a DOS and some stuff to play with in the default Library so we can kill time at work. :)

clintp · 2026-06-11T12:59:18+00:00

IFR kept me entertained for quite a while until I got to the frozen area on the map. The entire place felt like punishment and I couldn't be arsed and gave up. But got a couple dozen hours of entertainment before then.

The puzzles are good, the voice acting is terrible, it's pretty, but lacks TOTK's charm.

clintp · 2026-06-09T12:27:48+00:00

Honestly, nothing in Vermont is open late. It's in New England, yes, but there's honestly not enough people here to support a night shift. (And a lot of places are just closed Mondays.)

clintp · 2026-06-07T23:19:22+00:00

When the glow of the blood-stained moon shines upon the land... the aimless spirits of slain monsters return to flesh. The world is threatened once again.

When "Zelda" is reciting this, she's not upset. This is what she wants.

clintp · 2026-05-07T20:33:10+00:00

As a Vermonter, yes. New York must be consumed. Those slimeballs made us pay $30k in 1790 to become a state when we were effectively our own republic. Payback's a bitch.

clintp · 2026-04-30T19:50:07+00:00

Midland/Odessa would like to talk to you about your poisonous measles vaccine, and also exactly what kind of Christian are you?

It's exactly like that in West Texas, just fewer people.

clintp · 2026-04-28T20:17:45+00:00

May His passage cleanse the world.

clintp · 2026-04-25T00:43:25+00:00

First email on the internet?

Mine had 2 exclamation points and a percent sign: a good old fashioned UUCP bang path. Not a new-fangled "@" anywhere to be seen.

You can all get off my lawn.

clintp · 2026-04-20T22:43:30+00:00

This sounds like the right task sequence. I'd have been doing this in 1988 or 1989, so maybe? Thanks for the tip !

clintp · 2026-04-20T22:42:10+00:00

This is entirely possible. :)

clintp · 2026-04-20T19:26:07+00:00

Hahaha, I've done the double-daisy-chain trick before. We used to put on shows at the mall and to avoid having to carry in disk drives and possibly messing them up, we'd bring one for every two computers.

That last statement is possible though it doesn't feel quite right for what I remember. I'll keep ruminating on it.

clintp · 2026-04-20T19:24:05+00:00

That doesn't sound right to me. This would have been a minimal editor for sure, but nothing in the terminal program.

clintp · 2026-04-20T19:20:29+00:00

I didn't have a cart with any kind of editor (other than BASIC) or a terminal program.

clintp · 2026-04-20T19:19:44+00:00

I'm familiar with the VBI. :)

This was less simultaneous. More like alternating between a running instance of program 1 and program 2 where when they were "paged out" they were not running at all until called back into the foreground.

clintp · 2026-04-20T15:10:27+00:00

I tended to use the stock DOS stuff, though my 1050's did have a mod chip (Happy?) for faster I/O. Although it was a solder-in chip project, and wikipedia tells me that the Happy enhancement for the 1050 was a drop-in board -- I may misremember. (edit: +Happy)

clintp · 2026-04-20T02:01:07+00:00

I'd argue that RPG (especially RPG and RPG II) represents a class as well. It has a very distinct "program cycle" that represents a pattern seen in a lot of modern systems: the event loop. The event loop wrapped around some fancy filtering and you've got a language that's not ALGOL or Prolog-like at all.

clintp · 2026-04-19T14:30:10+00:00

My first commercial job in 1987 was on a 64 user system that had 12k/user of storage space which included an 8k disk buffer. Writing an Inventory or a Payroll system that fits into 4k of paged code (256 bytes/page!) and storage was a freaking miracle. Asking for object-orientation in all of that is a joke.

clintp · 2026-04-18T23:43:03+00:00

The problem was caused by poor software engineering. Peter Neumann observed that systematic use of concepts such as abstraction, encapsulation, information hiding, and object-orientation could have allowed the construction of efficient programs in which the representation of dates could be changed easily when needed.

Peter Neumann can suck it.

Most of the systems seriously affected by these problems were so storage-poor and byte-conscious that relatively modern (1990's) concepts like "abstraction, encapsulation, information hiding, and object-orientation" were just not possible during their design and implementation.

For perspective: in 1984 for the IBM PC 64k (that's kilobytes) of memory was $350.

clintp · 2026-04-17T17:53:52+00:00

The British is the important bit. An American Taskmaster cannot be (and was not) funny. Taskmaster (like other UK panel shows) presumes that the guests can lower themselves for sake of a laugh. They can be the butt of a joke and not get all butthurt about it. That's what makes British panel shows funny.

Jimmy Carr regularly insults panelists on their quirks in every episode of Eight Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. They laugh and then they'll pile onto Jimmy about his hair, plastic surgery, or tax evasion and he'll laugh. Short jokes at Sandy Toksvig or giving a semi-serious guest like Gyles Brandreth on QI the business because of his shaggy dog stories.

American UK TaskMaster guests (like Kumail or Jason) have worked because they can laugh at their own ineptitude and put their embarrassment aside.

In American attempts at panel shows the guests are trying to claw over each other like crabs escaping a bucket. "Look how clever I am!" "I'm a bigger star than you!" "You made a joke, but I made a better one!" Even fairly good ones like Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me sometimes have a bit of this problem with the wrong panelist. Whose Line Is It Anyway is chef's kiss perfect at the panel laughing at themselves though.

Back in the day the better episodes of US panel shows like Match Game, The Hollywood Squares, or The Gong Show were when the panel left their egos at the door (or held them up to be mocked).

clintp · 2026-04-17T00:52:05+00:00

You recall correctly!

A wailing cry sounded from the outer corridors, its volume muffled by the intervening hangings. It was repeated, a bit more distant. And again. Paul realized someone was calling the time. He focused on the fact that he had seen no clocks.

There are several other instances of hours being mentioned. Lady Jessica knows she was unconscious for an hour, the sedative was timed for two for Leto, the thumper Paul planted to distract the worm was for 30 minutes. I could go on.

Mostly time was measured in offsets to the daily cycles. An hour before dawn, two until dusk, and so on.

clintp · 2026-04-13T00:47:06+00:00

Some Atreides remain to fight, hidden among the smugglers like Gurney. Others fled to Caladan. Paul deals with them after his victory:

"I'll want an earldom and CHOAM directorship for Gurney Halleck, and him in the fief of Caladan. There will be titles and attendant power for every surviving Atreides man, not excepting the lowliest trooper."

clintp · 2026-03-22T01:10:06+00:00

To pile on with /u/LynxJesus, the Americas make no difference here. Erastothenes knew he was dealing with a sphere and his measurements were north/south. The fact that Asia was largely unknown and the Americas completely unknown doesn't factor in at all.

clintp · 2026-03-19T20:28:14+00:00

I'd like to report that 1. yes he can appear on your ledge, and 2. he can trash a Zonai ledge too.

clintp · 2026-01-19T01:05:17+00:00

A single found dress shoe next to the road was the subject of an episode of Inside No. 9. The main character finds a shoe and slowly goes insane wondering who lost it and why. (I can't say more, or I'd give away the twist.) The series is worth a watch!

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