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04:20
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SketchCow |
DFJustin: Lord_Nigh: - "@jasonscott: I think I have the ROMs for an unpreserved OS for the KIM-1. Who at the MESS team would be a person to whom I could send the physical ROMs and expect to get them back?" |
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04:22
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Lord_Nigh |
unpreserved... kim-1? |
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04:22
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Lord_Nigh |
yech, i hope its not on MIOT chips |
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04:22
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Lord_Nigh |
the original kim-1 os is, and those are somewhat bitchy to dump |
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04:23
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Lord_Nigh |
also theres an undumped kim-1 ROM i have had here on a piece of foam for about 3 years now |
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04:23
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Lord_Nigh |
it requires 6502 Phi2 signal to even read out, plus weird voltages |
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04:23
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Lord_Nigh |
i'm sort of afraid to mess with it since i don't want to fry it |
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04:24
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Lord_Nigh |
miot == rriot == mos6530 |
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04:24
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Lord_Nigh |
i.e. pretty much a 6532 RIOT chip, plus mask rom, in one package |
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04:25
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Lord_Nigh |
the ROM i have is some other mos65xx package, for a phi2-aware mask rom, i think 2KB |
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04:29
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Lord_Nigh |
i would maybe talk to kevtris about this |
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04:29
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SketchCow |
I can connect you with this guy. |
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04:34
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Lord_Nigh |
ok. brizzo would also be a good choice for dumping stuff |
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04:36
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Lord_Nigh |
wait, is this dude peter jennings? |
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04:37
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Lord_Nigh |
http://www.benlo.com/microchess/ |
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04:37
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Lord_Nigh |
that guy |
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04:37
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Lord_Nigh |
i know peter jennings has a prototype/limited release commodore micro chess set which is a 6502 and two miots in a funky case |
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04:37
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Lord_Nigh |
maybe a couple thousand made at most, most are long gone |
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04:38
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Lord_Nigh |
his iirc has one blown up miot chip and doesn't work |
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04:38
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Lord_Nigh |
i was going to ask him if we could try decapping it |
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04:38
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Lord_Nigh |
someone makes a miot replacement daughterboard which has a riot, an eprom and a pal on it |
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04:38
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Lord_Nigh |
people have used them to repair kim-1s before |
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04:41
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Lord_Nigh |
i've corresponded with peter jennings before, he ported francois jalbert's FFTMORSE to a dos DTMF decoder which ran on a 286 |
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04:41
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Lord_Nigh |
does an 8-bit fft, cute stuff |
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04:41
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Lord_Nigh |
he was able to dig up the source code to the dtmf thing |
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04:41
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Lord_Nigh |
but i have had no luck contacting francois jalbert |
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04:41
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Lord_Nigh |
same francois jalbert who made JeMTeX back in the day |
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04:42
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Lord_Nigh |
the problem is a much more famous musician with the same exact name graduated from the same university has he did like 5 years later |
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04:42
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SketchCow |
32,222 Points and 9,358,878 Views of the Internet Archive MS-DOS Games Collection Imgur Post |
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04:42
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SketchCow |
That's crazy |
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04:42
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Lord_Nigh |
and poisons the hell out of google results |
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04:44
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Lord_Nigh |
SketchCow: hmm, i have a cd which was given to people who sent in registration cards to creative labs for sound blaster 16, has full dos cd version of pinball dreams on it |
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04:44
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Lord_Nigh |
its a mixed data/audio cd so a bit bitchy to image |
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04:45
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Lord_Nigh |
http://www.benlo.com/microchess/KimM.jpg <- ooh that marantz superscope cassette deck. *drool* |
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04:45
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Lord_Nigh |
i have one, which needs... work. |
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04:45
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Lord_Nigh |
no schematic available either |
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04:45
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Lord_Nigh |
i have the schematic supplement for it, but that applies to models after a serial number after the one i have |
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04:46
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Lord_Nigh |
c-105 i think |
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04:47
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Lord_Nigh |
i suspect if i replaced all the capacitors in it it would probably work much better |
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04:47
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Lord_Nigh |
i degaussed the heads already, made zero difference |
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04:48
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Lord_Nigh |
SketchCow: back on topic, so this kim-1 board, you have my email, right? |
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04:56
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SketchCow |
I do. |
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04:56
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SketchCow |
I should connect you with him. |
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04:56
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SketchCow |
I'll do it. |
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05:28
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Lord_Nigh |
cool |
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07:31
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SketchCow |
http://archive.org/details/Vintage_Operating_Systems_Archive is officially done and officially off the hook |
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09:22
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db48x |
is gparted really vintage? |
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09:28
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SketchCow |
No idea |
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09:28
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SketchCow |
What is it? |
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09:28
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SketchCow |
I don't even know, I just shoved it in there. |
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09:28
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SketchCow |
Also note some of the stuff is, you know, Windows 10 |
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09:29
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db48x |
a linux livecd from 2013 with gparted on it, for editing your partition tables |
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09:29
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SketchCow |
\_(.)_/� |
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09:29
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db48x |
I suppose it's close enough :) |
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09:29
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SketchCow |
I am slamming everything up into the archive |
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09:30
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SketchCow |
And I suspect a lot might need finesse after going up |
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09:31
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SketchCow |
I've certainly got a really intense amount of uploading and compression and work going on FOS |
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09:31
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SketchCow |
stuff is going very very slow |
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09:33
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SketchCow |
Frankly, with the massive burst of interest in the MSDOS thing, I really wish we had the ability to remove the mute button |
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09:33
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SketchCow |
It just confuses people |
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09:33
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SketchCow |
It just highlights how we have nobody in engineering assigned to the IA UI |
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09:34
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* |
db48x nods |
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09:35
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SketchCow |
It bothers me, but this month is not focused on negativity |
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09:35
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SketchCow |
It's focused on clearing out a lot of to-dos |
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09:35
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db48x |
:) |
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09:35
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SketchCow |
I cancelled a lot of things, and walked away from a bunch of stuff |
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09:35
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SketchCow |
I have no beard right now! (Shaved) |
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09:35
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SketchCow |
And stuff is going out of my room out to shipping container, or mail. |
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09:36
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SketchCow |
My expectation is to have FOS rather on the empty side by Friday |
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09:36
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SketchCow |
And then I'm going after the software to clean that thing up |
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09:41
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SketchCow |
I took the /0 drive on FOS from 88% to 46% |
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09:41
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SketchCow |
The next "Old Software" collection going up is 600gb :) |
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09:42
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SketchCow |
adding: Adobe CreativeSuite/2012 - CS6 Master Collection/Adobe CS6 Master Collection.bin (deflated 0%) |
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09:42
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SketchCow |
adding: Adobe CreativeSuite/2012 - CS6 Master Collection/Setup.exe (deflated 20%) |
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09:42
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SketchCow |
adding: Adobe CreativeSuite/2012 - CS6 Master Collection/install.txt (deflated 34%) |
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09:42
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SketchCow |
adding: Adobe CreativeSuite/2012 - CS6 Master Collection for mac/ (stored 0%) |
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09:42
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SketchCow |
.....aaaaand it's a doozy |
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09:50
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SketchCow |
Also, this happened! |
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09:50
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SketchCow |
Checking 74669d51ea5f58e9a8a8d5fb3ca2f1db (Take 1 - Back.dsk) |
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09:50
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SketchCow |
Checking 30d3f778b043e8123d63ef4775f642f2 (Take 1 - Front.dsk) |
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09:50
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SketchCow |
Checking 1ba820df17b1796bb458a0ecc7acb5b7 (Take 1 Data Disk (Sniper III - The Ultimatum).dsk) |
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09:50
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SketchCow |
Checking 03b4842c0354f9099cbd7934641f2429 (TheTerminator(Take1Movie).dsk) |
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09:50
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SketchCow |
Checking 962b42e8a8b1cc64872dc5cd27b1391b (take1_beyond_wolf.dsk) |
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09:50
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SketchCow |
Beyond_Beyond_Wolfenstein_1 962b42e8a8b1cc64872dc5cd27b1391b 66edcb20ed52dc42888ff2132cd967f0cc4e13e6 Beyond_Beyond_Wolfenstein_1.dsk |
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09:50
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SketchCow |
Checking a7f081ab04830b4c05146ed5737a708e (take1_beyond_wolf2.dsk) |
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09:50
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SketchCow |
Beyond_Beyond_Wolfenstein_2 a7f081ab04830b4c05146ed5737a708e 6c8db13d0d35bfa30ccaae29d3df666c2b36d880 Beyond_Beyond_Wolfenstein_2.dsk |
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09:50
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SketchCow |
Checking 37ce74830c89b29ef10dc134332b90bb (take_one_library_s1.dsk) |
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09:50
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SketchCow |
Checking c776447459fd9ed5e40b5543777aa00f (take_one_library_s2.dsk) |
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09:50
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SketchCow |
In the middle there... new batch of Apple II disks and it let me know which ones were already in the system |
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10:24
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db48x |
nice |
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15:42
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bai |
you cancelled the beard?! |
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16:01
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SketchCow |
For now |
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16:18
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SketchCow |
22G OLD_SOFTWARE_0.zip |
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16:18
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SketchCow |
36G OLD_SOFTWARE_A.zip |
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16:18
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SketchCow |
4.7G OLD_SOFTWARE_B.zip |
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16:18
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SketchCow |
1.8G OLD_SOFTWARE_C.zip |
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16:18
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SketchCow |
227M OLD_SOFTWARE_D.zip |
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16:18
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SketchCow |
971M OLD_SOFTWARE_E.zip |
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16:19
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SketchCow |
1.2G OLD_SOFTWARE_F.zip |
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16:19
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SketchCow |
7.0M OLD_SOFTWARE_G.zip |
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16:19
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SketchCow |
107M OLD_SOFTWARE_H.zip |
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16:19
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SketchCow |
176M OLD_SOFTWARE_I.zip |
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16:19
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SketchCow |
18M OLD_SOFTWARE_J.zip |
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16:19
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SketchCow |
1.2G OLD_SOFTWARE_K.zip |
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16:19
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SketchCow |
244M OLD_SOFTWARE_L.zip |
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16:19
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SketchCow |
Some rather large archives indeed. |
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16:21
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bai |
that's a lot of floppies |
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16:22
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bai |
A and 0 were either popular letters back then, or the guy who made this archive got burnt out quickly and started phoning it in with B and onwards |
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16:23
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SketchCow |
It's the Adobe stuff. |
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16:24
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bai |
oh, makes sense for it to be so bloated then :P |
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16:27
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SketchCow |
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_apple_workbench?&sort=-publicdate also getting huge (Apple II Software) |
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16:27
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SketchCow |
Now that I wrote that hasher I'm just dumping things in by the billions |
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16:27
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SketchCow |
Screenshotter's going but obviously taking some time. |
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16:29
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bai |
the lonely one, not the expensive ones, right? |
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16:30
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SketchCow |
Right |
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16:30
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SketchCow |
I simply lack the funds for the others. |
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16:31
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SketchCow |
I do know I intend to get all the screenshot items of amiga, I just need to think about how to do it orderly. |
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16:32
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SketchCow |
I can't set them dark and undark programatically. |
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16:32
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SketchCow |
We tried that, it fails without some horrifying tricks. |
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16:34
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DFJustin |
what about noindex |
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16:34
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SketchCow |
That's an option, it's just when you multiply it by 14,000 items it gets tricky |
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16:36
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SketchCow |
I've written our dev who does these things to see if I can make it happen. |
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17:08
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SketchCow |
I've got 9 streams of software and data going up right now. :) |
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17:08
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SketchCow |
FOS is.... not happy. But emptying |
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17:15
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SketchCow |
I had a collection of 1,500 GOG.COM games. That's been finally uploaded into the archive. |
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17:22
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SketchCow |
Don't live or die on the number, but it looks like if I just leave everything uploading, over 1tb of material will go in with the new batch |
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17:23
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SketchCow |
So operation "Just dump all of this old crap into the archive" is a success |
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17:24
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SketchCow |
I just spoke to Jake the Dev. He's going to write me a dark/undark calling script. |
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17:24
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SketchCow |
This will allow me to generate the list of 14,000 items, and go through them darking and then undarking, pulling screenshots. |
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17:31
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godane |
cool |
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18:27
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SketchCow |
So, doing this work, I found out... |
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18:27
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SketchCow |
https://archive.org/search.php?query=emulator%3Asae%2A |
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18:27
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SketchCow |
People are uploading their own amiga-emulation-ready items |
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18:42
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SketchCow |
.. |
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18:42
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SketchCow |
So, great news. |
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18:42
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SketchCow |
Jake wrote the script, and I just ran a test of the script, and it works. |
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18:43
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SketchCow |
http://fos.textfiles.com/AMIGA/AMIGA/SCREENHOUSE/ |
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18:54
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SketchCow |
It's begun! 500 at a time. |
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SketchCow |
Also, as expected, this is going to take a long time. Rest of the day at least. |
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