#archiveteam-bs 2012-09-08,Sat

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00:03 🔗 chronomex I have a philosophical question for you all
00:03 🔗 chronomex I'm writing an emulator for a computer of which one instance was ever produced
00:03 🔗 chronomex the patent says that the instructions are 18 bits long
00:03 🔗 chronomex the manual for operators says that they are 19 bits
00:03 🔗 chronomex what do I do?!?
00:04 🔗 BlueMax why would a set of instructions be an odd number of bits
00:05 🔗 chronomex the memory is arranged in bit-planes, and there's no reason to have any particular number
00:05 🔗 chronomex it's harvard-architecture
00:06 🔗 BlueMax Isn't it possible to figure it out by doing the emulator, or are you sorta limited by the fact you can't test with the one working model
00:06 🔗 chronomex the one working model was decommissioned in 1965 or so
00:07 🔗 chronomex the two sources are irreconcilable
00:07 🔗 chronomex the patent is about a year older, so it's possible they added another bit
00:07 🔗 chronomex though strange
00:07 🔗 DrainLbry you add an emulated dipswitch of course.
00:08 🔗 Zebranky I like the cut of your jib.
00:08 🔗 DrainLbry whoa now, why you looking at my jib.
00:08 🔗 BlueMax He meant your stub
00:09 🔗 DrainLbry don't you dare try to interface with it.
00:09 🔗 Zebranky Your jib is private? Fine then.
00:09 🔗 DrainLbry yeah no one touches my repository.
00:10 🔗 DrainLbry and /scene. penis jokes over.
00:10 🔗 DrainLbry apparently i got promoted to "cool enough to be an op" by idling here for weeks on end. excellent.
00:12 🔗 BlueMax I've been idling for months and don't get it :|
00:14 🔗 DrainLbry I'm thinking the defining moment might have been I touched Sketchcow's fez at hope9, and my wishes came true
00:14 🔗 BlueMax I'll never get to touch his magnificent beard :(
00:16 🔗 DrainLbry So I've been making myself way too busy for weeks, what's up with all you magnificent bastards? What large Internet conglomarate company are we hating this week and wgeting the shit out of?
00:17 🔗 DrainLbry or: what the hell's happened in the last 6 weeks interesting?
00:17 🔗 godane i'm now missing 2 issues of Apple Magazine
00:18 🔗 godane it looks like those were never released
00:18 🔗 godane *wore
00:19 🔗 godane the 2012.09.07 issue at least came out on the pirate channels
01:08 🔗 godane i'm removing old.cranchgear.com urls in my techcrunch image grab
01:09 🔗 godane it takes forever retrying to get it
01:09 🔗 godane but nothing it there from what i can tell
01:35 🔗 DrainLbry I curbpicked a pink disney TV that has the little mermaid as the volume up/down animation, I swear to god ...
01:37 🔗 DrainLbry damn though, I am totally missing the awesome remote and the External Heart speakers for the top though ... http://www.genistra.com/blog/2010/01/14/memorex-disney-princess-crt-tv/
02:01 🔗 DrainLbry can anyone hardware guys ELI5 why a Nintendo RF Adapter wouldn't be working with two Timex Sinclairs with RF Out? RCA-Plug into Sinclair, Coax end into Televison tuned to correct channel
02:02 🔗 DrainLbry Power supply output measured with multimeter and is putting out correct voltage
02:03 🔗 DrainLbry is the RF Switch for a Nintendo expecting a Component video instead of an RF Video IN? I'm quite new to the hardware side of things ..
02:03 🔗 DrainLbry pretty sure I just answered myself there ...
07:09 🔗 DFJustin DrainLbry: iirc because the nintendo rf adapter auto-switches between antenna and the console, there's something where the old systems don't put out enough voltage to trigger the switch or some such
07:09 🔗 DFJustin what you wanna do is just connect it directly with an RCA cable and a simple RCA->coax adapter
07:10 🔗 DFJustin or if you have one of the old school manual switches somewhere
07:11 🔗 DFJustin this fella http://www.atari2600.com/ccp7/ecom-prodshow/Direct-Connect-Coax-Adapter-PROD6238.html
07:11 🔗 DFJustin picture quality is way better than the old crap switches
09:36 🔗 Coderjoe save some money: http://www.ramelectronics.net/product.aspx?zpid=1641
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