Notices by Hisham (hisham_hm@mastodon.social)

@dosnostalgic my body is an Apple II whose disk drive makes a funny noise when booting and sometimes it stops halfway through with a beep and ?I/O ERROR. Then I try again and it boots all the way to the HELLO program. I should look into this, but hey, maybe it will boot right away next time!

@dosnostalgic wow, those sprites are a bit too familiar 😆

@dosnostalgic @dmbaturin I remember a day in fourth grade here in Brazil when students were asked to bring a Bible from home to school for an activity. I didn't have one, so I just watched amused as the teacher asked the students to look things up and they couldn't agree on stuff because their versions were so different.

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YES — I finally found an almost-ultimate version of CANYON.MID played with live instruments — (it would have been the ultimate version if it had live drums!)

[yes, I've seen the Smash Brothers version already — would have loved to see that live, but their arrangement is not my cup of tea]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iFIHzvgPbs

@dosnostalgic "Your crime is time
And it's 18 and Life to go!"

I've always been a bit skeptical about people saying that getting into Mastodon is hard.

Then I've watched as my non-techie sister tried to get into Mastodon on her own using her phone and the official mobile app.

It was NOT a smooth experience, including UX issues and downright bugs. Ultimately I had to help her and both of us had a hard time picking a suitable instance, but finally succeeded.

I took some notes of the overall process, but not sure what to do with them.

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@fribbledom @xssfox Good Lua code does look lunatic!

@dosnostalgic I played a ton of Mario 35 during the pandemic, but those were exceptional circumstances AND it was based on a game I played when I was 12!

@dosnostalgic I never knew that SID chip on PC was ever a thing! Did any well-known games support it? Curious to check if there's any SID arrangements out there for any game soundtracks that I'd recognize

@dosnostalgic fair enough! long gone are the days when going from OS version x to version x+1 was an upgrade 😆

@dosnostalgic I think Windows and macOS users still relate to "upgrade my system, at least twice a day" only it's undesired OS upgrade popups now

@dosnostalgic and it looks like there is not a single video of this game on YouTube!?...

@dosnostalgic I'm still processing the fact that whoever tracked this MIDI file back in the day thought it was a good idea to start it with a single sustained 7-second high note. Even if the original song starts like this, they must have known that without any articulation it would just sound like a track was stuck...

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