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- 23 days
They can take my Speak and Spell when they pry it from my cold, dead h. a. n. d.
- anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish22 days
Read the letters in that voice. I should look for one of those chips again to play with.
Yeah I also would’ve noped the fuck out of here as fast as possible, and however possible if I could.
- prettybunnys@piefed.socialEnglish23 days
Looks like the chess game we had on our old “ibm compatible”
- 22 days
That screenshot is specifically from the Atari 2600. You can tell because sprites that are next to each other are offset by one vertical pixel, which was a common effect used to help with hardware limitations.
- bss03@infosec.pubEnglish22 days
IIRC, the 2600 didn’t have a graphics processor. So, you had to “chase the ray” with CPU instructions, which made for some interesting limitations.
- 22 days
It has the TIA, which is as close to a picture processor (and also audio synthesizer) as you can get, but due to the 128 bytes of RAM, there was not enough RAM to form a framebuffer, hence the need to race the beam.
- bss03@infosec.pubEnglish22 days
Thanks for the clarification. I was too young to program the 2600. I started programming on PC-compatible.
22 daysCleary they value more than the mere material currency of this realm.
The woe of mortals is a shared delicacy, some other mortals appreciate it as well.
Fear is a form of appreciation.
Jokes aside, I don’t get the “furby = evil” things. Much like clowns, or Taco Bell giving people diarrhea (present bullshit excluded). Memes gonna meme I guess.
I think it comes from them triggering in the middle of the night, and maybe distortion when the battery gets low.
Did you ever have a furby?
As agameanonymous says… there are many… unsettling quirks about having one long term.
I had one.
Woukdn’t stop fucking yammering, clattering its beak, clicking its eyes.
Took it outside, doused it in fire accelerant, burned it till it stopped making noises.
- farmgineer@nord.pubEnglish22 days
Teddy Ruxpin just moves the mouth in response to sound. There’s no AI going on there (at least in the original ones).
You’ll take my Teddy Ruxpin from my cold dead toddler hands
- 23 days
Without the Farmer says See N Say we’d never have this great Soundgarden intro.
- 22 days
That song fucking rules. Thank you for reminding me of it’s existence. RIP Chris
If you time travel and take out the ENIAC, you likely deprive the US of working nuclear weapons during WW2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
ENIAC was designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army’s Ballistic Research Laboratory (which later became a part of the Army Research Laboratory).[7][8] However, its first program was a study of the feasibility of the thermonuclear weapon.[9][10]
… choose wisely.
Can you predict what would have happened, then?
…are you sure?
While I’m back there, I’ll kill Hitler’s abusive step-father so he grows up without trauma. Er… Aside from seeing his father killed by a time traveler.
- 21 days
Literally just came home from the theatre lol. I got the wrong message from it cause now I want a Smarty Pants.
- TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish21 days
I think the message was actually
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Moderation is good, actually. And that we need to make real connections with people, and not just “online” friends.
