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"Grey is just closely spaced black/white lines" is an interesting problem to have; grey on the Apple II is always closely spaced lines, but the usual expectation is your TV will process…

It's as much simulated gambling as Balatro is

Congrats on the 10 year anniversary, though honestly I think having tried your new 2048 I'll go back to the classic build. It might just be the hours I've poured into the original but it fee…

This is an interesting take; I've often seen the opposition to English as a creole trying to stress that English is a "real" language as opposed to the true creoles, which are as you sa…

The article is quite interesting, but I have to say I don't understand why Yiddish being a Slavic language would suddenly mean that all European Jews are Iranian; the Slavic languages aren't…

This is the mod I used; pretty good but I had to dig into the AtariAge forum for the right configuration for my 2600jr https://thebrewingacademy.com/products/tba-ultimate-atari-vi…

Don't undersell things-- I would say the 2600rgb is a much higher quality source than a composite mod! I'm still pretty happy with the S-Video mod I did on my personal 2600, but even that&#x…

Apple's been buying technology from others since Applesoft BASIC replaced Woz's Integer BASIC on the original Apple II, not sure why you just noticed now

It's interesting; growing up we had a 'great room' type large room setup, and we artificially divided it into a dining room and living room with furniture because doing without a dining…

Probably is worth a check; I usually default to assuming that a good brand capacitor without any evident signs of corrosion, leakage or swelling is probably fine, but this is very old and also a hig…

Admins: I initially published the blog post at the linked URL, but then realized I had gotten the slug wrong, and had to move it. It redirects so it's not a huge deal, but is it possible to have …

The wooden Electones like that one are much harder to move than plastic ones like the ME-50, that's for sure!

Not sure why everyone is desperate in these replies to eliminate the setback; seems like a perfectly good outcome to have a wide sidewalk in an area that is likely to have a lot of pedestrian traffic.

This is irrelevant for external memory, however, because it only has an 8-bit data bus.

I've definitely noticed as a blogger many sites are so brazen stealing content that they'll even hotlink to my images, so I can find their copying in my server logs. Very annoying.

The thing that blows my mind about the SNES is that even its onboard RAM can't be accessed at the nominal 3.58MHz clock; the system slows down for that. Always confused me why the SNES was so pal…

In 99% of settings I am a big fan of auto-formatting as well, though there are definitely cases where I feel you're better off on your own-- the big example that comes to mind is assembly coding,…

Agreed here. Though the bezels have been reduced quite a bit, a similarly bezel-reduced 11" would be amazingly compact and useful in my book.

Very nice work! Definitely looks way better than the contemporary NES attempts at doing it (thinking of MMC1 Ultima Exodus here)

The difference between the British Indian Ocean Territory and say, American Samoa is that, as far as the BIOT government is concerned, there is no permanent population there. Obviously the US military…

I had a Palm Centro back in those days; you could install anything you wanted on it, and as far as I know the WinMo devices were the same. The situation you describe was the case for "dumbphones&…

I'd like to see more discussion of the safety impact; I know the article makes the point that fire deaths per capita are lower in Europe, which lacks the requirement, but it also notes that US ho…

A big advantage Airbus has is their more modern designs are full fly-by-wire, so they're able to more practically compensate for the handling characteristics in software. As far as I know (not a …

> But I think they were the first to kill their king „in the name of the people“ (1649) I suppose Tarquinius Superbus was exiled instead of executed, but 509 BC (in the traditional chronology, anyw…

I mean, it seems pretty normal to have restrictions on cars for driving schools above and beyond that cars on the road. I remember I couldn't use my parents car for the driving tests, because it …

I admit I'm only going off of Wikipedia, but that claims (in the "Old Norse" article) that extant writings from that period used thorn exclusively, and again the use of thorn and eth as…