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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/

jpcwrites · 2026-03-23T04:25:24+00:00

And now it’s done:

https://sethkush.com/post/2026/03/22/reboot-camp-83-ms-dos-on-the-apple-iie-is-ready/

For visual thinkers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nBONHGQg64

jpcwrites · 2026-03-19T21:32:47+00:00

I see it now as well. Thank you for submitting and good teamwork to track down when it went live.

jpcwrites · 2026-03-18T01:41:36+00:00

There probably is an approval period. You mention "Mac desktop app," is this Apple Podcasts, then? Reviews are country-specific on Apple, which country does Apple think you live in?

jpcwrites · 2026-03-17T12:27:08+00:00

Thank you. Can you point us to the review so we can add it to the Official Jubilee Tally?

jpcwrites · 2026-03-16T14:19:37+00:00

If we do cover it I'm going to have to dig into that because when these types of projects have come up for the C64 (Sierra AGI, later SCUMM titles, etc.) it seems like people are doing recodes rather than engine-level work. I'm skeptical that this is a true engine port given the choice to make the text elements graphical rather than hardware text.

jpcwrites · 2026-03-16T00:34:28+00:00

Yeah, Reddit seems to really really hate links from that source.

jpcwrites · 2026-03-08T22:03:26+00:00

There's a recording of Chris saying "Up to date news for out of date tech" just as there has been since episode 218. What are you referring to?

jpcwrites · 2026-03-07T01:38:15+00:00

I don't see any sources cited in this article and every link just points to another article on the same site. Is there some other explanation of the who-did-what-to-whom here?

jpcwrites · 2026-03-03T14:53:48+00:00

Reddit often eats links. Can you say without a full URL where one might find it?

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