phooky @phooky@octodon.social
Hardware, hackerspaces, retrocomputing, sketching and occasional weird tasks. Personal toots @phooky
Today's challenge: battle the beagle bone black lvds bits to produce acceptable video timing for this CRT.
https://mastodon.social/media/F5AtQENqs15tuTuAtV0
Assembling the warp core
followup: files were not actually removed, of course; they were only deleted from interlnk's FAT cache
(you can use this trick to copy hidden files, though)
hey everyone so i just found this thumbdrive labelled "s.n. bitcoin wallet" and i'm not sure what it's for so i'm just gonna to offer it for free to the first person who can get the US single payer health care
I love that Brooklyn has a medieval sports district. There's fencing, and archery, and axe throwing (attached to a bar, of course). And let's not forget CrossFit and rock climbing. I think shuffleboard is over there, too.
This keyboard made me think of @huertanix
https://www.recycledgoods.com/universal-computer-systems-ansi-terminal-keyboard-dcs-948/
"Wish" by majic 12 (1993) on a MDT 9100-T.
Has anyone done any critical analysis of the history of demoscene?
So it turns out deleting a read-only file from a ramdisk in MS-DOS 6 is almost impossible locally, but can be done over interlnk thanks to what appears to be a bug in DOS
hooray i think
tired: waiting for nmap to finish scanning your local network
wired: launching nmap and then dashing off to the restroom to poop
Hacking the DMX controller above the clouds.
The key was finding a line in the flash filesystem's autoexec that dropped into maintenance mode if it finds a certain file on the ramdisk. However, the flash is read-only. So how do we get the file to the ramdisk after a reboot? And there's the fun twist-- as long as power is maintained, the ramdisk *persists across reboots*! Not at all what we'd expect from a modern system but completely sensible for the time. So touch the file, reboot, and there we go.
thanks for everyone who contributed to this moment of mirroring a 4MB flash volume over a 9600b serial cable to interlink running on dosbox
https://octodon.social/media/JHJIsteZcoVaPp1GhXo
thanks to everyone for your help-- found a copy!
Does anyone:
* know about the old Microsoft interlink (interlnk/intersrv) protocol in detail,
* have a copy of interlnk/intersrv.exe,
* have a backup of the defunct ftp.microsoft.com ftp site, or
* have an archive of Dr. Dobb's Journal covering 1996?
Asking for a friend who is me
#retrocomputing #interlink
MDT-9100T boot sequence, bad focus
https://youtu.be/x1vu4JWC5-U
holy shit they're invisible
https://octodon.social/media/Y1eggypJr2mDS-FKyPM
