stevekemp

Same here, and pretty much the same as I've always done with partners. One account for me, one account for them, and one shared account from which "shared" bills come from - be it rent …

And yet it was only last week we started hearing of Oracle sending nastygrams to Java users: https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/10/fortune_200_oracle_ja... As covered …

A few years ago I bought a "retroshield", which is the same kinda idea: http://www.8bitforce.com/projects/retroshield/ There were (are?) boards for driving a Z80, …

It looks like dang has a page despite having no slug on his profile page: https://dang.at.hn/ https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang Unless of course he added it, …

The author writes "CP/M 2.2 had no mechanism for resizing files", but that is not exactly true. CP/M had a submit-command, which would read a text-file containing a list of command…

I've been an Emacs user for 20+ years and had never stumbled across that game, thanks for highlighting it! I found the CPU, the Key (guarded by the bear) and made it into the house. Was a fun di…

And here's the sketch referenced in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E …

I wrote a BASIC interpreter in golang a few years back, and somehow the child really fell in love with the classic "guess the number" game: https://github.com/skx/gobasi…

Thanks for the feedback - there's a disjoined comment in the README on portability that points to the golang package x/term, and a single open bug report that says "fix it". So I h…

I switch watches every few days, so my typical routine is either to wind yesterday's watch and trust it kept time, or to go to my watch box and pickout a new one to wear - setting the time/d…

I collect (mechanical) watches, and my collection is split between Swiss and Russian. The article really does sell things rightly, at their peak Russian watches were rugged, beautiful, and utterly re…

I integrate RSS into my daily email flow - I don't track too many different sites, so I just let emails build up in an "Automated.RSS" folder until I want to read them. Having feeds sen…

Golang binaries embed the version of the compiler into them, and can easily add git revision information too. That's a nice feature for adding "foo -version", or similar, to show the us…

From "The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien" we see what he agreed with his publishers: "Stanley & I have agreed on our policy : Art or Cash. Either very profitable terms indeed; or absol…

I live in Finland, which has two official languages - Finnish & Swedish. Google maps, on Android, decided that all street names are only Swedish when giving directions, and doesn't show Finni…

I wrote something similar to that, in golang: https://github.com/skx/runme Given fenced codeblocks in markdown files you can either list, or execute them. Surprisingly useful, e…

The code looks good, there seems to be some surprises with files that use "#include <stdio.h>" or similar. The include-lines are the ones the errors refer to - but since those files c…

I downloaded it thanks to your comment, from this site: http://www.cpm.z80.de/develop.htm Worked first time to create a simple "Hello World" program, but many of the include…

Yeah I'm doing things the hard way, for sure! But the project grew little by little, and I'm enjoying the process. (And it has to be said one of the reasons I'm interested is because I…

I haven't gotten round to trying the Hi-Tech compiler yet, primarily because it won't run under my emulator. I just added a couple of missing syscalls but the only output I see is "Out…

I've recently been working on a CP/M emulator, and having a lot of fun working with the Aztec C compiler referenced in the list. It's strange to go back to old-school function definitio…

A while back I wrote a game in assembly, for CP/M. Since I have a single-board Z80-based computer on which I can run it. I later ported the game to the ZX Spectrum, because that was a fun challe…

Funny story, I was named "Steven" and yet I've been called Steve my whole life, at my preference. Recently I went through the process of changing my name legally, because I'd falle…

Similar story here, my parents bought a Spectrum for the family and in my case I had to start reading the manuals as the casette-player we had didn't allow loading any games, and of course in the…

I've been working on a CP/M emulator for the past few weeks, and it reached a point where I can play ZORK 1, 2 & 3, along with the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - so I've sp…

Mummies were also used to make paint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown