Gregory's Server
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we need a trash developers conference, where people give excited presentations about running useful, exciting new software on computers they found in the trash.
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sharing some progress on implementing a deck of playing cards for #uxn http://plastic-idolatry.com/erik/media/deck-demo.mp4 this video is just me moving and flipping cards around but still feels pretty compelling.
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Devine Lu Linvega
@d6 omg that's very cool. It's crazy how this is going in leaps and bounds between each video. 
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drew some 8x16 card tiles for future #uxn games. i'll probably start with a free form card-moving rom. ultimately i'd like to write roms for tarot and solitaire.
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so the #uxn mandelbrot demo has had a bug for awhile. today i found the bug and fixed it!
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major milestone achieved! the emulation is accurate enough that i can edit term.tal in emacs running in determ!
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(i did actually work on determ on february 17-18 but am late with the write-ups for those days.)
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another day, another progress report: http://plastic-idolatry.com/erik/2023/funaday/14.html as an aside i have to mention how fun it is to be working with #uxn. i really appreciate the community around it and the general ethos. a great mix of do-it-yourself ethos collaborative energy and goodwill.
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another slow but steady update for today: http://plastic-idolatry.com/erik/2023/funaday/11.html i'm cleaning up the code a bit and knocking out some old TODOs.
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kind of tempted to write a #uxn post called "that programming thing you care about probably doesn't matter"
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not such a flashy update today, but i dove back into writing C for unix. in particular i'm trying to enable uxn to create a pty and fork a subprocess directly. that would remove the need for a "wrapper" which sets things up, and would enable uxn roms to run other programs (at least on unix).
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some great progress on determ for #funaday. fixed some crucial bugs, updated the site, and took some screenshots! 
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so i made a #FunAday page for my project -- which is hacking on my #uxn terminal emulator every day in february: http://plastic-idolatry.com/erik/2023/funaday/ the page is still a bit sparse but there's more to come.
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not a ton of progress to report but a small update -- more of this is drawn from actual data as opposed to hard coded instructions. making good backgrounds using only the same 4 colors will likely be a bit challenging.
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probably preaching to the choir about this but it's really frustrating to come back to old game projects and find out they don't work anymore. #uxn isn't a perfect target for my games but at least it's a manageable one that is unlikely to rot away into nothingness.
Devine Lu Linvega
@d6 I know the feels :'( When I look at all the iOS and Unity projects that have all turned to dust due to API changes, it must amount to thousands of hours lost to crafting these little worlds that will never be visited again. And when I see the incredible rate at which our Electron apps are degrading now, I feel like this whole bunch is about to join the rest at any moment.
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awhile ago I prototyped a gaming aid that uses a thermal printer to generate stuff (hirelings, NPCs, weather, foods/drinks/potions, monsters, events, maps, mazes, puzzles, etc). The output can be filed away for later reference. I built it because I don’t like using computers/screens at the table. during COVID this device wasn’t useful but I’m thinking of picking it back up, refining it, and posting a build guide. if you play tabletop RPGs does this appeal to you? 12
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@d6 the future we're all headed to in late stage capitalism? why not start practicing
@d6 follow @trashrobot for more on this exact subject, he has a whole book / self replicating wiki / hardware setup to proselytize
@d6 For about 2/3 of my PhD work, the computer I used at home was what I called "my zero-cost computer". It was a frankenputer from various discarded bits. Before it was finished, I gave in and paid $25 for a CD drive because while I *could* load Slackware from floppies, it seemed easier to load RedHat from a CD. Later, I also paid for a Cyrix 5x86 to upgrade the processor.
I replaced it when a bearing in the hard drive went, and the read/write head left a nice gouge in one of the platters.