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Older versions of Dban were available as a bootable floppy image.
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lobsterminator posted:Pretty much all professional games and applications were machine language. I only say this because I used to get it wrong and was corrected: all machines use machine language, it’s all they understand. But (almost) no human codes in machine language (after things like the Altair and Southwest PC in which you did). Humans almost exclusively code in Assembly language at that low level, which is one to one with machine language but has mnemonics to make it way easier than literally remembering numbers and bit patterns. The written assembly would then be “assembled or converted” into machine language using an assembler program
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Jun 21, 2023 16:41
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flavor.flv posted:drat, I could actually really use one of those. I'd love to get this puppy going again Nice marmot.
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namlosh posted:But (almost) no human codes in machine language (after things like the Altair and Southwest PC in which you did). Humans almost exclusively code in Assembly language at that low level, which is one to one with machine language but has mnemonics to make it way easier than literally remembering numbers and bit patterns. The written assembly would then be “assembled or converted” into machine language using an assembler program Machines of that area usually came with a machine language monitor, disassembler, maybe a mini-assembler, but full-blown macro assemblers didn't come about until a few years later and were often out of reach of amateur programmers. To the earlier point though, commercial software often did use them due to the amount of code involved.
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Jun 21, 2023 16:58
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ExcessBLarg! posted:For 8-bit micros it was a combination of both. To be honest, something like the 6502 didn't have that many instructions and folks would remember the opcodes for common ones anyways. The main benefit of an assembler isn't so much the instruction-to-opcode translation anyways, but being able to use address labels for things like branches/jumps and having the assembler (or linker) compute the actual address for you. Nice… thx!
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Jun 21, 2023 17:18
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namlosh posted:Nice… thx! Yeah in many early machine language books the process was often that you wrote assembly on paper and transcribed it to machine code yourself and entered the hexes into the computer. This book for example shows the hexes always alongside the assembly. Assemblers became more of a thing in later 8-bit years and 16-bit computers. http://www.atarimania.com/documents/6502%20Machine%20Code%20for%20Humans.pdf
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lobsterminator posted:Yeah in many early machine language books the process was often that you wrote assembly on paper and transcribed it to machine code yourself and entered the hexes into the computer. This book for example shows the hexes always alongside the assembly. Assemblers became more of a thing in later 8-bit years and 16-bit computers. I while back I found myself doing something a little similar. For a fun diversion, I wrote a Chip8 'emulator' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8). I also wrote some programs for it, but since I couldn't be bothered to create any tooling, I used a spreadsheet. One column contained the mnemonic symbols expressing the program, another column contained their machine code analogues, another column held memory addresses, and I shuffled cells around as I hand-assembled each given program.
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Jun 21, 2023 17:57
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old porn got thrown out  
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Jun 22, 2023 14:34
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There is definitely a subreddit thats super mad about that right now
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Jun 22, 2023 14:43
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So am i tbh, that poo poo belongs in a museum by "museum" i mean "several cardboard boxes in my closet"
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Jun 22, 2023 14:53
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LifeSunDeath posted:old porn got thrown out I worked at a video rental store in the 90s, and those transparent tape boxes are giving me serious flashbacks. My entire day revolved around sorting and carrying tapes in boxes just like that, in huge numbers.
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Jun 22, 2023 16:21
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LifeSunDeath posted:old porn got thrown out NO!!!!!!! I EMPLORE the thread and greater forum if you have vintage porn in Laserdisc format, please let me know before you frisbee them!!!!!!!
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Jun 22, 2023 17:47
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Humphreys posted:NO!!!!!!! Do you want one of these? https://www.ebay.com/itm/203992239884 Thats not mine, but I have the exact same one and no use for it
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Jun 22, 2023 18:38
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Beve Stuscemi posted:Do you want one of these? https://www.ebay.com/itm/203992239884 How long til Goons manage to fill Humphreys house with random AV poo poo? I say we find out. Sorry Humphreys!
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Jun 22, 2023 18:58
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LifeSunDeath posted:old porn got thrown out Send them bitches to the Internet Archive at once
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Jun 22, 2023 19:45
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Beve Stuscemi posted:Do you want one of these? https://www.ebay.com/itm/203992239884 How am I supposed to jack off to tree frogs?
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Jun 22, 2023 19:53
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Cojawfee posted:How am I supposed to jack off to tree frogs? you've been on the internet for at least 17 years and you haven't figured that out yet what have you been doing
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Jun 22, 2023 19:55
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Negostrike posted:Send them bitches to the Internet Archive at once not my pictures thank god, I worked at blockbuster in my youth, I would probably cry if I had to manage that many tapes/cases again.
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Jun 22, 2023 19:58
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The world isn't gonna end because someone threw away 100 jizz-stained VHS tapes of Monster Jugs Party Volume 17
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Jun 22, 2023 20:03
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Sweevo posted:The world isn't gonna end because someone threw away 100 jizz-stained VHS tapes of Monster Jugs Party Volume 17 How do you know?
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Jun 22, 2023 20:43
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Lollin @ laserdisc porn. CAV deluxe pressings so you can freezeframe and finely scrub. With bonus features
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Jun 22, 2023 20:52
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lobsterminator posted:Yeah in many early machine language books the process was often that you wrote assembly on paper and transcribed it to machine code yourself and entered the hexes into the computer. This book for example shows the hexes always alongside the assembly. Assemblers became more of a thing in later 8-bit years and 16-bit computers. One time I wrote a text adventure whose parser was written in assembly. When I submitted it, the editors liked the game, but said that the didn't publish stuff written in assembly. Because most of their readers wouldn't have an assembler. I converted the parser into a bunch of DATA statements and a loop to POKE it all into memory—which made the listing a loving nightmare to enter by hand—and they accepted it.
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I tried to do one of those in our school computer lab on a C64 and the teacher shut it off before I could save it, because she thought it had been left on by mistake. It was probably riddled with typos and wouldn't have run anyway, but 
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SubG posted:One time I wrote a text adventure whose parser was written in assembly. When I submitted it, the editors liked the game, but said that the didn't publish stuff written in assembly. Because most of their readers wouldn't have an assembler. Anyways the same trick was often used on Apple II to have a BASIC program include an assembly routine without needing to have a separate listing for it.
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Jun 22, 2023 22:22
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Which platform? Was there no commonly available machine language monitor?
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Data Graham posted:Lollin @ laserdisc porn. CAV deluxe pressings so you can freezeframe and finely scrub. With bonus features The con: You have to get up half way to flip to the other side unless you have a fancy player. The pro: You can hang disc two off ya dick when swapping to the second disc. Beve Stuscemi posted:Do you want one of these? https://www.ebay.com/itm/203992239884 Probably too expensive to ship from overseas to be honest. I have a dealer here that feeds my drug addiction that probably has it.
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Jun 23, 2023 05:25
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CRD's latest on Phonenix Hyperspace is an hour plus deep dive into madness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5M0TwnkWUM e: If you've read their blog post on the same it's still worth watching 
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Jun 23, 2023 13:02
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Jesu Christo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1OEZ42yf_4
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an actual frog posted:CRD's latest on Phonenix Hyperspace is an hour plus deep dive into madness. https://gekk.info/articles/hyperspace.htm if you don't feel like watching a long video
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Jun 25, 2023 16:41
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Pham Nuwen posted:https://gekk.info/articles/hyperspace.htm if you don't feel like watching a long video That site has some nice stuff that hasn't made it into videos yet:  boot sequence "improvements"
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Jun 25, 2023 17:56
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Pham Nuwen posted:https://gekk.info/articles/hyperspace.htm if you don't feel like watching a long video Though I will say that if you have the time and attention span, CRD is always an entertaining watch. He is accomplished in the art of foreshadowing, which is a rare quality in these sorts of videos, IMO.
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Jun 25, 2023 19:29
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If you're not watching CRD's videos, you're doing yourself a disservice. He's not padding his videos, they are jam packed with information.
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Jun 25, 2023 20:07
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I have ADHD but CRD videos I can always get through. Granted I am usually mopping the floor or feeding a baby at the same time but still
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Jun 25, 2023 20:16
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I don’t see anything wrong with keeping multiple systems in RAM and just pointing the everything to different virtual memory addresses. I guess the proper solution is just virtualization.
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CRD’s videos rule and I’m glad he gets to do them as his full time job now, he deserves it way more than a lot of ‘content creators’
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Jun 25, 2023 22:11
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Every one of his videos is “ugh, I’m not watching an hour long video about this” and then you watch an hour long video about that.
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Jun 25, 2023 22:17
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Pham Nuwen posted:https://gekk.info/articles/hyperspace.htm if you don't feel like watching a long video this is completely nuts and only got more so the more I read thank you, I had no idea anything like this ever existed, holy poo poo
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Jun 25, 2023 22:30
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Cathode Ray Dude is like Technology Connections for people who never cared about any electronics without screens Said in a good way mind Also his name is extremely cool yet I can never remember it. Something like Corwin. Corbin. Corbin Dallas Mooltipass
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Jun 26, 2023 00:21
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He loves dropping it occasionally… it’s Gravis, right? Like the gamepad lol
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They go by Gravis.
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