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timixretroplays

@timixretroplays@digipres.club

Aussie gamer making new memories from the old. He/him. Writing from Ngunnawal/Ngambri land.

I built a giant Gravis GamePad and am working on USB adapters for old controllers. I beta-tested Secret Agent HD and UnDune2. I once made Toshiba mad at me over copyright. I post mostly #retrogaming, #3dprinting and #arduino stuff here.

Projects:
#Plasbeams
#Thrixels
#CGAPrints
#SerialStinger
#SimpleBreakouts
#SolderingStation
#GravisGamePad

https://justmytoots.com/@timixretroplays@digipres.club

Dieses Profil is von einem föderierten Server und möglicherweise unvollständig. Auf der Original-Instanz anzeigen

foone , an Random Englisch
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I wonder what the most computing power anyone has put into a keyboard is?

timixretroplays ,
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@foone excluding projects that use general-purpose stuff like raspberry pis, my serious guess at an answer to this question is one of Art Lebedev's OLED button keyboards

timixretroplays , an Random Englisch
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I needed a FAT-formatted flash drive to scan stuff to and this was the closest option to hand. That's normal, right?

timixretroplays OP ,
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@foone phew, thanks

timixretroplays OP ,
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@vxo "fashionable though it may be, please do not wear the backup media outside of the office"

timixretroplays , an Random Englisch
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It's Friday night, it's cold outside and I'm still working on that whole social life thing, so here's a long rambly thread about the 15-pin PC gameport and its historical significance, because it's something I want to practice writing about at length (if anyone was silly enough to give me a PhD for something, it'd be for this nonsense).

Feel free to mute this thread if that's not your thing - or if it is, bookmark it for later, or prepare to be en-knowledge-ified!

#retrocomputing #retrogaming

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Due to absolutely contrived and unavoidable reasons that could be any conceptual macguffin, it is completely mandatory for you to change your last name.

What's the coolest you'd pick?

timixretroplays ,
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@NanoRaptor to fit this account's theme, it would have to be Sidewinder as IMHO that's the coolest word ever used in conjunction with a gaming controller, but it'd be shouted over the cacophany of people yelling "Thrustmaster!"

timixretroplays ,
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@foone @NanoRaptor I shall combine the two via hyphenation and become Timothy Sidewinder-Thrustmaster, Manette de Jeux and Dark Prince of the Gameport Era

foone , an Random Englisch
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I've been trying to google/amazon this and having basically no results, so I'm asking here in case anyone knows:

I need graph paper. Specifically I need LARGE graph paper. Like, not an A4 sheet, I need A1-A0 (24/33" or 33x46").
4x4 per inch, or 5x5 per inch grid spaces. I basically need a graph paper with a TON of squares, and I'm not finding it.

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@foone does it absolutely have to be one contiguous sheet, or could it be made up from individual tiles of smaller ones? Is this for some kind of planning purpose or do they need to be seamless for aesthetics? Thinking of the approach I took with my 3d printed pixels, I'd probably experiment with printing a ton of gridded pages in A4 while heading to the shops for foamboard and a decent guillotine - that way you could also precisely set/control the size of each square.

foone , an Random Englisch
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I think this is what my next keyboard is gonna look like.

timixretroplays ,
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@foone I could play Commander Keen with this

foone , an Random Englisch
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Back when I was a kid I had an idea to generate a randomized alphabet and then program my computer to only use that font, then I'd slowly learn to read it.
Then no one could read text over my shoulder!

I never did it, but in the era of MS Recall, maybe I should bring it back.

timixretroplays ,
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@foone time to dig out the Standard Galactic Alphabet font

NanoRaptor , an Random Englisch
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One of the smallest floppies.

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@foone @NanoRaptor more technology should be named for its ancestral heritage. USB is now the High-speed Gameport Interface

foone , an Random Englisch
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Here's something cool I never realized existed:

PCBs distributed through magazines!

From Radio Electronics (June 1987):

https://archive.org/details/radio_electronics_1987-06/page/n68/

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@foone @vxo best easter egg hunt

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Having one of those fun days at work where I have to ask "hey, is the edison cylinder phonograph supposed to be on?"

timixretroplays ,
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@foone are you being spied on from the 1800s again?

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Here's an interesting "keyboard" for sale on aliexpress: It's a deconstructed keyboard matrix!
You can just plug in arcade buttons or whatever to each pair of pins.

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@foone ok, I kind of want to buy this and make an arcade cabinet but for text adventures with it

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