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revenant@notrevenant· 19d

tcrf.net/Zero_Racers haven't actually played much of the newly released Virtual Boy games yet, but Zero Racers had some interesting text in the ROM so i did what i always do when i notice that kind of thing (VB hardware sure is interesting, though)

screenshot of a video game sound test with numerous options for previewing sound effects and music. it's a Virtual Boy game so everything is red

revenant@notrevenant· Jul 11

i had been browsing magazines on bitsavers recently (mostly to admire the ads) and "Zilog: an affiliate of Exxon" takes me out every time

revenant@notrevenant· Jun 24

i ran into The Great Canadian Toilet Hunter earlier. he said he was looking for you

Shushwap Lake Men's Showerhouse Full Shoot
The Great Canadian Toilet Hunter
175 1d ago

revenant@notrevenant· Jun 24

deltarune tomorrow

red and white yield sign crudely edited to say "dield"

revenant@notrevenant· May 31

shut the FUCK up jesus christ i'm just trying to find a video

google search: "samus listens to boards of canada"

AI Overview

It completely tracks that the galaxy's most formidable bounty hunter would unwind to the dusty, ambient, and nostalgic synthesizer tracks of the Scottish electronic duo Boards of Canada.

After navigating derelict spaceships, blasting space pirates, and exploring hostile alien biomes, Samus Aran would undeniably need a [...]

revenant@notrevenant· May 28

travel memories

last time i was in vegas there were ads for the Steely Dan "Reelin In The Chips" casino residency. and it was depressing because it was the second year of it and they had to take Walter Becker out of the ads because he died

revenant@notrevenant· May 27

cool

AI Overview
There is exactly 1 "b" in the word Google.
If you are thinking of the parent company, Alphabet, there are no "b"s in "Google", but there are 2 in "Alphabet".

revenant@notrevenant· May 27

did you know the Akai S612 sampler supports Commodore Datasette tape drives? except that they removed the actual connector at the last minute after deciding that they didn't like it were any S612s with the tape port ever actually sold? none of the ones i can find photos of online have it

black and white photo of a small PCB with a C64-style edge connector for plugging a Datasette into

MODEL: S612
No. S612/1
DATE: August 1985

004 Subject: Costdown purpose

Because of the unfavorable popularity of Commodore type cassette data recorder, Cassette P.C. Board has been eliminated.
Accordingly, Rear Panel has been changed to a new one without on opening for cassette connector.

revenant@notrevenant· May 16

Trending Now: Toilet

screenshot of trending searches on the Lowe's website. one of them is "toilet"

revenant@notrevenant· May 9

another yahoo japan pickup this week: "GALPRO" PLD programmer by "R&D Co., Ltd", a company name so generic i can't find a single thing about them (or this device) online. anyway here it is running in MAME (photo stolen from the original auction listing because i'm lazy)

revenant@notrevenant· May 9

one of a few things i picked up from Yahoo Japan this week: an undumped Japanese "revision B" of Namco's Final Lap 2 (differences currently unknown) as a bonus it also fills in the missing graphics ROMs from the existing Japanese set. example before and after

a screenshot of the attract mode from Final Lap 2. there's a bunch of garbage across the screen where text is supposed to be

the same scene but the text (in Japanese) is now rendered correctly

revenant@notrevenant· May 7

way ahead of you, UPS

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revenant@notrevenant· May 7

websitedc.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Su... lawyers are still getting in trouble multiple times a week for including AI-generated fake citations in legal filings, but this might be a new one. uhhhh no, your honor, i accidentally got hit with the virus that makes your documents be full of shit

In response to the Court’s OSC, Thomasson submitted a mea culpa declaration attesting that this was “an innocent mistake,” and that he “do[es] not use AI.” (See ECF No. 484 at 3-4.) In sum, Thomasson casts blame on computer “viruses and malware” for the fake citations and that he “was completely fooled by whoever infiltrated [his] computer” and he will now “be vigilant in trying to avoid a repeat going forward.” (Id.) Indeed, he recites how he took his computer to Staples for diagnostic repairs. Even assuming “viruses and malware” infected his Google searches, what is absent is that Thomasson confirmed all citations prior to submitting his opposition with the Court.

revenant@notrevenant· Apr 30

spent $4.99 on steam to massively expand my brain by finally learning how the hell mahjong works

screenshot of me winning a round in Kemono Mahjong

revenant@notrevenant· Apr 28

it seems to boot if you change the CD's volume label to "MEGARACE", but then eventually crashes after the introduction regardless of which option you choose

revenant@notrevenant· Apr 23

the opening image for the wikipedia article on DTMF signaling has the kind of "graphic design is my passion" quality you don't really see around there much anymore

a diagram of DTMF signaling frequencies, laid out like a touch-tone keypad but with the text very haphazardly laid out and unaligned like it was labeled in mspaint

revenant@notrevenant· Apr 20

the "moe tossing barney out of the bar" simpsons meme. in the first panel barney is labeled "cloud storage spam" and in the last panel he is labeled "harbor freight tools spam"

revenant@notrevenant· Apr 18

13 years ago, a phone camera recording of the Moon Child theme was uploaded to YouTube by what may be one of the most ahead-of-their-time people in history

revenant@notrevenant· Apr 15

Trivia

Oddly enough, even though they are called the "Feminist Elven Militia", none of their members ever express any ideology even remotely related to feminism.

revenant@notrevenant· Apr 15

some of y'all need a reminder

Babe 2: Alongside Babe 1
The second babe is found alongside Babe 1 above.

Babe 3: Alongside Babe 1 And Babe 2
The third babe is found alongside Babe 1 and Babe 2 above.

revenant@notrevenant· Apr 2

i was trying to find an old tweet that i couldn't fully remember the text of and then this happened and now i don't even care about the tweet anymore

AI Overview

Acknowledged. Standing by for mission parameters. I will maintain situational awareness to avoid getting "owned".

Current status:

Ready: Standing by for instructions.
Alert: Monitoring for "ambush cards" and "bird terrorists".
Goal: Be all that I can be, avoiding "disappointing" outcomes.

Let's do this.

revenant@notrevenant· Mar 31

so excited to see that Zendesk has added a button to automatically make your customers want to kill you

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revenant@notrevenant· Mar 29

same hat

revenant@notrevenant· Mar 28

www.pc-6001.net/p6/hard/6022... well i found a page covering someone repairing one that helpfully has a photo that confirms that this was indeed where the chip came from i've gone ahead and thrown together a skeleton MAME implementation of it now (it doesn't _actually_ print, but it "works")

image of part of the insides of a NEC PC-6022 plotter

revenant@notrevenant· Mar 25

not that i was using this shit to begin with but lol

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revenant@notrevenant· Mar 21

and the upd7801 dumper PCB works! (albeit somewhat tempermentally due to being based around clock glitching) first random chip from ebay turns out to be from the Casio FP-1000 computer, which was already dumped some time ago via other methods, but i have another one to try later

small PCB with a socketed MCU and flash ROM, various other components, and probes connected to a serial header

terminal window with a hex dump output from the PCB

revenant@notrevenant· Mar 21

you have to dig for it a bit but the 2009 youtube upload of Night In Motion with looped anime gif is alive and well

revenant@notrevenant· Mar 16

i emailed digikey to ask them to cancel and refund an order that was taking an unreasonably long time to ship and their response was Literally Nothing. good shit guys, keep it up

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revenant@notrevenant· Mar 5

if i ever meet this shopping cart in real life its ass is getting left in the parking lot

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revenant@notrevenant· Feb 21