chrisbtoo

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[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago

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[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I dread to think how much energy and effort is wasted shipping these items back and forth when someone buys something online and then returns it.

It's worse than that — a lot of returned stuff ends up in landfill because it's not worth the cost of re-stocking it.

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That was great. I'm really digging the modern demos on ancient hardware.

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I really liked that.

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Nice! Just looked you guys up on Pouet, and although I definitely remember the name from back then I don't really recall having seen any of the demos unfortunately.

This is most of my crap FWIW. A few mediocre sample demos of my own in there :D

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

From the video it's running on a CPC 6128 — IIRC (40 years ago, now) the original 1984 model, the 464, was 64kB RAM and a tape deck (which is what I had) and then the 664 came out the next year with 64kB and a built in 3" disc drive, and then the 6128 was almost straight after with 128kB RAM and disc drive.

Otherwise there wasn't really any notable difference in the internals — 4MHz Z80 that was effectively slowed down by the video hardware.

Cool demo! I tried a few things like this but I was 12 or 13 at the time and upgraded to an Atari ST in ~1987 so never really got that deep into it. Had to teach myself Z80 assembly and figure out how to program the video memory first, and information was kind of hard to come by back then :D

Edit: just noticed your username... were you an ST kid too?

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

That's pretty sweet for a Speccy.

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Great race today! Grats to both Marquez brothers and also great job to team VR46!

Hopefully Bez is OK after that early wipe.

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago (5 children)

The country next to mine keeps threatening to invade.

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

True, there's a long time left for upsets to happen.

I've only been watching the last couple of seasons so I never saw him at his historical peak... maybe I'm a little too excited to see him winning again :D

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Agreed!

Not the first time I've read through one of these scam-baiting articles and I'm sure it won't be the last. It's quite fascinating how they work.

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