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  1. Playing Silk Dust (darwinne.itch.io/silk-dust) on the Delta. Given that it is open source, I modified it so it doesn't need to be split into multiple parts, plus it works in 80 columns mode.

    There is a certain pleasure in playing a game you hacked around with, typing on a keyboard you designed, connected to a computer you recovered from a 40y old magazine, reconstructed, hacked and improved upon.

    Plus, it's a great adventure.
    #interactivefiction #apple2 #homebrewcomputer

  2. Playing Silk Dust (darwinne.itch.io/silk-dust) on the Delta. Given that it is open source, I modified it so it doesn't need to be split into multiple parts, plus it works in 80 columns mode.

    There is a certain pleasure in playing a game you hacked around with, typing on a keyboard you designed, connected to a computer you recovered from a 40y old magazine, reconstructed, hacked and improved upon.

    Plus, it's a great adventure.
    #interactivefiction #apple2 #homebrewcomputer

  3. Old school DRAMs have a lot of timing requirements. I’ve been validating output from the #CPCZERO sequencer prototype against them - and everything checks out 🙂

    Comments in my notes are where the timings depend on other components, such as the multiplexers.

    #mos6502 #Homebrewcomputer #amstrad

  4. Old school DRAMs have a lot of timing requirements. I’ve been validating output from the #CPCZERO sequencer prototype against them - and everything checks out 🙂

    Comments in my notes are where the timings depend on other components, such as the multiplexers.

    #mos6502 #Homebrewcomputer #amstrad

  5. Time to toggle off the Zodiac project while I wait for a couple missing parts to show up. Moved over to my Cyberspace-1 home brew 6502 project. Remaining parts showed up for that yesterday so had a Zen solder party to get this one ready for bring-up tomorrow. If this works, I can continue design work for the CPU card, memory card and Video/IO card. Loosely based on the HBC-56 homebrew computer by a GitHub user called visrealm. #homebrewcomputer #6502CPU

  6. Time to toggle off the Zodiac project while I wait for a couple missing parts to show up. Moved over to my Cyberspace-1 home brew 6502 project. Remaining parts showed up for that yesterday so had a Zen solder party to get this one ready for bring-up tomorrow. If this works, I can continue design work for the CPU card, memory card and Video/IO card. Loosely based on the HBC-56 homebrew computer by a GitHub user called visrealm. #homebrewcomputer #6502CPU

  7. CW: UNFAIR ALGORITHMS (IN GAMES AND REAL LIFE!)

    UNFAIR ALGORITHMS
    (IN GAMES AND REAL LIFE!)

    - PART 1

    Oh the realisation having played all these unfair games and I DON'T MEAN HARD, I MEAN PROPORTIONATELY CHEATING ACCORDING TO MY WINNING!!

    Sad reality. Unacceptable.
    Bit like banking making debt and calling it 'money'.

    Mario Kart I realise is my skill but powerups and other things proportionately not in my control... so love the game but leave it. I think overall I realised games are manipulation also!!

    I remember many times I didn't do much wrong but came last or 'suddenly' taken out in a combo or even thought I saw a blatant dodge by computer players (hard to say without seeing code right?). Definitely something 🐟

    (check my next post for recorded cheating by CPU!!!)

    Kind of sad - I think I realised a few times but couldn't name it... so I won simply by brute-forcing my time in order to win against by chances hoping the code would 'let me win' like a gambling machine... just to win an unfair game. Eh I guess it's a game but imagine unfair carnival games that kids pay for and adults!

    CARNIVAL CHEATS (REAL LIFE!)
    yewtu.be/watch?v=tk_ZlWJ3qJI

    yewtu.be/watch?v=iyG0p3iK3IA

    People probably took this and applied it to life. Wouldn't be surprised at all - it's the 90's remember so not surprising if more modern people realised they can make things look fair and for people to try endlessly while paying too!!
    airline tickets etc do same thing more you look at it or more you go to another partner site... dirty tricks, money involved not just mario coins!)
    Even supermarkets can see when you buy 10 to up the price the next day...

    Imagine how advanced these games were and clever to make it hard the closer to 1st place you were and effectively a way of knocking you down to replay the game! Knock down your skill with the other CPU players who are able to gang up and shoot more effective things at you, at the same time as you have less effective defensive shells...

    Other games welcome - here's my list of cheaters for now:

    Mario Kart
    Street Fighter (computer does moves quicker like Flashkick by not charging the move at all - how cheap / underhand!)

    Other related videos:

    Music + SF2 Intro
    qoto.org/@freeschool/108795320

    Childhood memories at the Arcades in the 90's (playing Street Fighter) by Alex Valle (long-time master)
    qoto.org/@freeschool/108769595

    Pictured: Mario Karts Algorithm explained- The closer your to 1st place, the less useful powerups you get :(

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