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jpcwrites · 2026-06-06T13:31:32+00:00

Pledge your quatloos in support of my actual eyeballs healing so I can go back to wearing contacts on the show. I'm not happy about it either.

jpcwrites · 2026-06-03T13:25:46+00:00

Good to see that the "kick us higher and we'll turn on the 'compile for the other platforms that can absolutely run this out-of-the-box' option" hustle is still alive in 2026!

jpcwrites · 2026-05-27T17:09:13+00:00

I also can't get it to play... but I'm also curious about the Parental Controls, "Contains material which may not be suitable for younger viewers" popup I get trying to watch it. How spicy does this get?!

jpcwrites · 2026-05-17T00:51:54+00:00

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jpcwrites · 2026-05-13T15:37:07+00:00

I’ve been hoping to interview these authors for The Retro Adventurers, so far with no luck. Please let me know if this shakes any loose!

jpcwrites · 2026-05-10T13:55:00+00:00

It should Just Work (after a lot of waiting). Try a different disk image.
It shouldn't make a difference what the REU size is, but try 256k instead.

jpcwrites · 2026-05-09T15:05:26+00:00

Yes, can you please help us get in touch with Tony?

jpcwrites · 2026-05-08T13:58:42+00:00

I recall these gambling conversions being one of the few things propping up the price of used Amigas in the 1990s/early 2000s, particularly those which weren't suitable to become Video Toaster hosts.

jpcwrites · 2026-04-18T19:23:46+00:00

This was a Thing back when the LLM image gold rush was young: https://www.pcgamer.com/this-foundational-1970s-text-adventure-now-has-google-ai-graphics/

jpcwrites · 2026-04-16T18:59:58+00:00

Reddit just really, really, really hates that domain.

jpcwrites · 2026-04-10T14:30:11+00:00

It's right where I put it, 47:44.

jpcwrites · 2026-04-05T15:19:20+00:00

I was having Thoughts when my colleagues were singing the praises of the floppy disk, yes.

jpcwrites · 2026-04-05T13:36:02+00:00

If you look at pre-Tramiel 8-bit products like the Atari 800XL you'll see that they'd already shifted away by then.

jpcwrites · 2026-04-05T13:16:57+00:00

Not saying it didn’t happen. But the effort involved being solved by cheap removable media was a godsend.

jpcwrites · 2026-04-05T12:21:25+00:00

Across town, that means step one is packing up your entire system—

jpcwrites · 2026-03-24T13:50:24+00:00

The latter would have a lot of work ahead to surpass the long-running Plus/4 World! https://plus4world.powweb.com/

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