Tom Greene

Seems like a good time to mention I am on Mastodon @txgx42@mastodon.social

I invented a machine that turns the Moon into a sovereign CyptoBong. Here’s a diagram And it uses 2,000,000 H100 GPUs, all powered by water!

I too would like to publicly announce something that cannot and never will be built. Is that how it works

@benjedwards I also quite like the fact that I have only had perhaps 2 bulbs fail in the past 5 years out. Incandescents always seemed to burn out at the least convenient moment.

Thanks to LED bulbs, household lighting has gone from being my 2nd or 3rd largest electricity expense to what seems almost negligible. I feel like I don't stop and appreciate that as much as I should One of the great advances in our lifetimes. I switched over to LEDs in 2013

@benjedwards Looks like it's running subLogic's Flight Simulator II

Looks like fun to me (Apple IIc in a 1987 Storehouse furniture catalog)

@Sierra_OffLine I am in northern NJ and some of the street lights were coming on here earlier.

@LadyAiluros You can get replacements for the rubber button parts for a couple bucks. console5.com/store/nes-repl…

NerdHerd: Does anyone have any experience repairing NES controllers? My nephew wants to play OG SMB and I have squishy A buttons on both of my controllers, so I need to look into that.

Total Replay v5 has been released! See the official announcement over on Mastodon @a2_4am/110385350133192338" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.social/@a2_4am/110385…

@LadyAiluros It sounds like your FTP client may be transferring the files in text mode, which ruins them. Try to see if the file sizes are different on the sending and receiving sides, that's usually a good clue that text mode is the problem.

So in good news I did get the 486 to pull files off the Mac Pro via FTP. The bad news is none of them work, the .zip files can’t be decompressed and the .exe files throw errors and won’t run. They run fine in DOSBox. Packet loss? Network strangeness? Ugh.

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TMBG people of twitter—let’s see some ticket stubs for recent times or long ago! Break ‘em out!

@antoine_vignau @callapple Here I fixed it for you... mspaint style😆

Art Green announces initial version of LUA for the Apple IIgs --callapple.org/programming/ar…

@xotmatrix @OlivierGuinart My family played it a bunch when I was a kid and then I guess we somehow forgot about it? I don't think I ever knew anyone else who played it though. Might have to go buy a copy now.

@OlivierGuinart It's distributed by a major board game company here in the US but I've only known one person who owned it. I really love it.

I simply love this French protest sign that riffs on the card game Mille Bornes. theguardian.com/world/2023/mar…

@xotmatrix Looks pretty nice, I will have to give it a try. I have been using Hex Workshop forever but it hasn't been updated in years.

Wow, the expansive feature set of ImHex is very impressive. I've not yet tried this open-source hex editor but I certainly will. hackaday.com/2023/01/10/imh…

@TubeTimeUS The matching drive for these is the Memorex 651. I suspect they were most commonly used with Vydec word processors, but also used by a few other systems like the Incoterm SPD and Wang 2200 (though I think Wang later switched to the standard style 8" disks)

so what system needed 32 (hard) sectors on a disk? i...have no idea. there's not much information on the internet. do you know?

hey so i have a really weird 8 inch floppy disk. 🧵 actually it's not the one in the background here (normal 3.5" disk for scale). it's--even weirder!

@xotmatrix The way he kept saying "the old-school style" made me feel ancient.

By no means universal, this is an interesting look at how time was tracked in early D&D, especially with regard to disconnected sessions intertwining in the same environment. "How A Forgotten D&D Rule Shaped the Entire Old-School Gaming Culture" youtube.com/watch?v=8cn9zH…

I use an ad blocker which usually hides ads on twitter, but today they are showing up... as if I needed another reason to stop using twitter entirely.

"Something" went wrong indeed

Came across this picture of my desk at my job in the year 2000.... I believe this photo was taken using a Silicon Graphics IndyCam