Chris Carter @C_Carter_CMAS@qoto.org

Ok, non-nerds, feel free to stop reading.

If you:

telnet mapscii.me

Not only will you see a cool ASCII art map of the world, you can scroll around with a mouse and zoom in. It's astoundingly cool ASCII art.

Alien Invasion (my Space Invaders clone for the Commodore VIC-20) is featured in 8-Bit Show And Tell's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjSbEY3Pev8 (at around 4:00) #retrocomputing #vic20 #PenultimateCart #SpaceInvaders

I built a small reading circuit with some comparators. LM393 work well at 3.3V and are easy to source. I will try to connect an #Arduino soon to decode the flow of data. #punchedtape.

@kairyssdal I looked it up, and a woman is in her prime at ages 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89 and 97.

My mother got her MSc. more than 50 years ago. She was a sort of a pioneer as she run climate models on computers. I remember we had #punchedcards (that were unfortunately lost in a flood many years ago). She has found a #punchedtape a few weeks ago. I remember back when I was a kid I wanted to build a system to read it. It may become an interesting project… #vintagecomputing

I wrote a game called Silk Dust, it is a #textadventure that runs on many vintage computers (C64, Spectrum 48k, Apple ][ and similar). The free digital download is available here: https://darwinne.itch.io/silk-dust I am currently writing an original soundtrack for it: https://soundcloud.com/user-375194295/sets/silk-dust-soundtrack Poly.play is currently distributing a physical version. I will not put a link directly, but you will find it if you are interested.

Among the other things, I maintain since 2005 a website dedicated to the Olivetti M20, a very interesting machine based on the Zilog Z8001 that appeared on the market just a few months after the IBM 5150. I just updated the website adding a manual describing a Z80 emulator program that allowed to run the CP/M-80 on this machine: http://www.z80ne.com/m20/index.php?argument=sections/manuals/manuals.inc