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CW: food
@kelbot mmmm cinnamon rolls.
Makes me long for a similar #Dutch treat, the #ZeeuwseBolus: https://www.thedutchtable.com/2011/01/zeeuwse-bolus.html
The stickier on the outside, the better!
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@kelbot if you like #pinball games, I can recommend #RevengeOfTheGator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_of_the_%27Gator
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CW: Pocket Computers
@kelbot @rgegriff
I had my eye on the Astro Slide (what a name) but opted for the less expensive #UnihertzTitan which has been my daily driver for the past few weeks. I do love the hardware keyboard. I don't like that it runs Android by default (like Planet Computer's hardware.) I'm still on the fence about going back to a smartphone, but I try to lock it down where I can (side load apps, chroot jails, firewalls, no login to google, etc.) -
CW: Pocket Computers
@kelbot @rgegriff
Planet Computers has the Gemini, which I still use and got at a discount since I helped crowdfund (wifi version.) There is also the Cosmo Communicator, which is currently 25% off but still expensive.https://store.planetcom.co.uk/
And there is the new Astro Slide, which is even moar pricey and not yet released.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/astro-slide-5g-transformer#/
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@kelbot if you like card games, I can also recommend Solitaire Royale by #GameArts for the #MSX.
A completely different game, but perhaps also suitable for the OGO (if it can run an MSX emulator) would be The Witch's Revenge, which is a dice-roller adventure game in the style of #RuneMaster. Gameplay footage by Jorf (starts at 14:24)
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CW: re: tight constraints breeding creativity
@kelbot I personally wouldn't mind seeing some more #MSX2 games instead of the steady flow of #MSX1 games.
The #MSXdev competition has done a great job at breathing back life into the first generation of the #MSX standard, at least when it comes to #games, but perhaps it's time for later revisions to be put a bit more into the spotlight instead.
Having said that, I don't think it's the responsibility of MSXdev to organise that. If they want to keep their scope limited, I can completely understand that, especially since it would add quite a bit of complexity to the judging process.
Instead, people are free to organise another competition, contribute to existing multi-platform ones, or just release outside of any compo.
The MSX scene has had MSX2 or more free-form competitions in the past, usually running concurrently, and I guess that the low participation count is being attributed to MSXdev overshadowing them. Something that perhaps is not quite fair to state.
Anyway, I welcome any event that brings some more attention to the system from my childhood, even though I don't actively use it anymore myself.
Disclaimer:
While I am not directly involved in MSXdev, I am somewhat part of the #MSXResourceCenter at msx.org (I edit news posts, do some moderating, take part in staff discussions, and occasionally contribute original content too), which took over organising MSXdev since this year's edition. -
CW: re: tight constraints breeding creativity
@kelbot I personally wouldn't mind seeing some more #MSX2 games instead of the steady flow of #MSX1 games.
The #MSXdev competition has done a great job at breathing back life into the first generation of the #MSX standard, at least when it comes to #games, but perhaps it's time for later revisions to be put a bit more into the spotlight instead.
Having said that, I don't think it's the responsibility of MSXdev to organise that. If they want to keep their scope limited, I can completely understand that, especially since it would add quite a bit of complexity to the judging process.
Instead, people are free to organise another competition, contribute to existing multi-platform ones, or just release outside of any compo.
The MSX scene has had MSX2 or more free-form competitions in the past, usually running concurrently, and I guess that the low participation count is being attributed to MSXdev overshadowing them. Something that perhaps is not quite fair to state.
Anyway, I welcome any event that brings some more attention to the system from my childhood, even though I don't actively use it anymore myself.
Disclaimer:
While I am not directly involved in MSXdev, I am somewhat part of the #MSXResourceCenter at msx.org (I edit news posts, do some moderating, take part in staff discussions, and occasionally contribute original content too), which took over organising MSXdev since this year's edition. -
CW: re: tight constraints breeding creativity
@kelbot tight constraints is also a discussion point that keeps coming up with each iteration of the #MSXdev competition btw; just see the comments on the 2021 edition's announcement: https://www.msx.org/news/challenges/en/msxdev21-is-on
You have one side arguing the constraints should be as tight as possible to force contestants to focus on the gameplay and clever tricks so a game actually gets finished, and the other side who says it should also be open for later generations of #MSX, such as #MSX2, more RAM, and perhaps even audio and graphics extensions such as #OPL4 and #V9990 and also judged as such.
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@kelbot the #TMobileG1, also known as the #HTCDream and the #EraG1, was indeed the first commercially released #Android #smartphone, and featured a clickable #trackball: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Dream
While I didn't have one, I do miss the slide-out screen that revealed a physical keyboard, and part out of also missed the additional buttons, and especially that they are physical ones rather than virtual.
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@kelbot I'm probably better off using the #AsciiDocs as basis, and manually convert it to a #gmi file for the couple of posts I'd feel like sharing via #Gemini.
Oh well, for now I'll turn off the gemini server again till I have something I'm satisfied with. :)
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@kelbot while not an update to #TUILauncher itself, you might find these two #shellScript examples to get the volume, and increase the volume, of your snapcast instances, useful: https://github.com/FiXato/tui_launcher/issues/3#issuecomment-750695731
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@kelbot perhaps use #scrobbler: https://github.com/hawx/mpd-scrobbler
And once it's on last.fm or throbble, you can probably just query or scrape the info from there?
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@kelbot I always found #Brogue quite accessible too: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/
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CW: Videogames
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maybe #PuzzleQuest is a decent compromise got you? -
CW: Videogames
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maybe #PuzzleQuest is a decent compromise got you? -
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I remember the early days of #dialupInternet for me: connecting, syncing email, opening a bunch of #forum threads (mostly on #Renderosity art site) and other sites, and submitting replies I had prepared beforehand to ones I'd opened the previous time. -
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@kelbot something tells me these #DutchPancakes have their origin more in #German than #Dutch cuisine, and has something to do with conflation of #Deutsch (German for 'German') with 'Dutch' (English for 'Nederlands', i.e. the language spoken in the Netherlands), probably due to their shared origin.
(#PennsylvaniaDutch for example are of German origin rather than Dutch)
That probably explains why your pancakes looked so unfamiliar to me. :)
I guess they are similar to https://www.mcall.com/entertainment/mc-food-dutch-baby-20180313-story.html ?
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@kelbot @bitsofbas well, there is #dsk2rom which can convert #DSK images to #ROM, but I'm not sure how well it works with #Snatcher or #SDSnatcher: https://www.msx.org/news/software/en/dsk2rom-080
To run DSK images on #fMSX, you'd have to use the -diska (and -diskb) argument(s): https://fms.komkon.org/fMSX/fMSX.html#LABJ
Not sure how this would work on the #ODroidGO, as I have no experience with that. :)
I'm also not sure if that version of the emulator needs the MSX (Disk) BIOS ROM files?
Perhaps check: https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?t=31927
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@kelbot @bitsofbas well, there is #dsk2rom which can convert #DSK images to #ROM, but I'm not sure how well it works with #Snatcher or #SDSnatcher: https://www.msx.org/news/software/en/dsk2rom-080
To run DSK images on #fMSX, you'd have to use the -diska (and -diskb) argument(s): https://fms.komkon.org/fMSX/fMSX.html#LABJ
Not sure how this would work on the #ODroidGO, as I have no experience with that. :)
I'm also not sure if that version of the emulator needs the MSX (Disk) BIOS ROM files?
Perhaps check: https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?t=31927
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@kelbot @djsundog It feels like we're about 80% of the way to me being able to me being able to replace my #zinestation with a hacked down pi 3 + the existing 9.7" waveshare or the 6" inkplate + a terminal emulator that'll support the screen + a mechanical keyboard.
If I can come up with a decent system for also enabling HDMI out, an okay looking case, and a simple way to make the headphone out a little cleaner, then ... I mean, that's it. Right? The perfect machine to replace my omnibook?
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@kelbot I start the stream in a script at startup In a single line:
vlc --qt-start-minimized v4l2:///dev/video0:width=720:height=480 --sout '#transcode{vcodec=theo,acodec=mpga,vb=800, ab=128}:standard{access=http,mux=ogg,dst=:8080}' -
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be careful of that #choiceOverload where you end up not playing anything on it because there's too much to chose from. -
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the music (and commentary) for #RockNRollRacing is great too btw (though I prefer the SNES version over the MegaDrive's).
It's by #SiliconAndSynapse, now better known as #BlizzardEntertainment. :) -
@kelbot
my phone has a protective walletcover, and a tempered glass screen protector (which has saved its actual screen more than a few times).
My tablet has a flip cover. No screen protector though, as affordable fitting ones were difficult to find.
My #NDSLite only has plastic screen protectors. If I were to actually take it out and about more, I might have gotten it some kind of case too. -
CW: Video games
@kelbot
and those machines are a lot bulkier, and thus more expensive, to ship than a simple #PSP!
If you do ever get one, your best bet is probably a #Yamaha #CX5MII that was (I think) designed for your local market (https://www.msx.org/wiki/Yamaha_CX5MII), though that would be just an #MSX1.
If you'd want an #MSX2 or higher, which I'd recommend, you'd probably be best off shopping in #Japan, as their power system is closer to the #USA's, and in the case of the #turboR, the only market released. -
CW: Video games
@kelbot
and I guess again we come to the intercontinental shipping, plus the fact that the machines were never released in the USA (apart from the odd Yamaha I guess). In the Netherlands I once picked up a #Pioneer #Palcom #PX7 #MSX with digitizer tablet for about 35 Euro for a friend, and myself bought a set of 2 or 3 #Philips #NMS8250 #MSX2 machines for about 50 EUR (iirc). Since those were designed for a 220-240V power grid, you'd also need a step-down (?) converter.