peron 2 months ago • 100%
The argentine super-classic: Super Menem! On the Amber CRT monitor.
peron 3 months ago • 100%
Your loop is under control!
peron 5 months ago • 100%
DOS disk interface is quite mundante. It was dependant on BIOS recognition, and its not compatible with 32 GB disk at all. An 120MB or 250MB HDD was the usual MS-DOS disk sold during the 6.22 era. The firsts GB disk ware common by 1996. By the way, 2GB is the max recognizable partition size. Use fdisk to create a Master Boot Record, and a 2GB partition, and try it. I tried it with ease with old 1 GB and 512MB Compact Flash cards, but I must say CF has almost direct compatibility with IDE. SD cards require an adapter controller (you seems to have one of those, tho).
peron 5 months ago • 100%
Star Wars March for the Atari!
1 GRAPHICS 2+16
2 ? #6;"STAR WARS THEME"
3 ? #6;"BY JOHN WILLIAMS"
4 REM ARR. BY AARON NESS
5 REM FROM ACE NEWSLETTER, VOL.2,NO.3, MARCH 1981
8 FOR W=1 TO 500:NEXT W
9 GRAPHICS 0
10 READ S,N0,N1,N2,N3
20 IF N0=-1 THEN END
25 ? S;"|";N0;"|";N1;"|";N2;"|";N3
30 SOUND 0,N0,10,4:SOUND 1,N1,10,4
35 SOUND 2,N2,10,4:SOUND 3,N3,10,4
40 FOR X=1 TO S*150:NEXT X:GOTO 10
100 DATA .3,108,0,0,0
101 DATA 0,0,0,0,0
102 DATA .3,108,0,0,0
104 DATA 0,0,0,0,0
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peron 8 months ago • 100%
That used to be true in my country too. For some bureaucratic issues, fax was legal-binding. For example, for public health/social pharmaceutical deliveries, it acted as a valid receipt, it was "official". I noted fax used to improve delivery times, reducing errors.
Also there was that psychological effect of paper.
On the Health&Edu sector, most of the secretaries were young girls and they loved to be written something after the official receipt was delivered (the first page in the call). I would write them something as a personal sidenote, and they will do the office work like a charm. Low-rank bureaucrats love to be addressed. These "Social skills" were not used on the official first page of course, but it worked! It saved me lots of headache and phone-drama.
peron 8 months ago • 100%
Fax is vintage tech since at least a decade, but it was useful.
My first contact with them was not on a fax machine, but using a Sportster Winmodem/fax. Faxing was possible using a Windows 3.1 computer, using QuickLink II software.
Later on, I got this "marvelous" Panasonic KX-FT38 fax machine, with its markings in Spanish of course. A noble 300dpi device, with 20min digital recorder for voice and data (delayed thermal printing was possible). Also has an automatic cutting blade. 14.4 kilobauds of pure faxing power!
It was so nice I even didn't care to remove its tacky stickers.
I used it daily. Somewhat people REPLIED to fax transmissions, as it served to speed response time on bureaucratic nonsense. Secretaries did their thing when they got a fax with their names handwritten on them. IDKW but it worked.
Yeah, my fax has broken. I'm broken.
peron 9 months ago • 100%
I loved the Plan9 bootcamp. Every time I learn a bit more about the shared system. Although drawterm is quite slow, its small footprint brings joy. It has graphical capabilities too.
peron 12 months ago • 100%
There is this funny cop show, "You're under arrest". (Taiho Shichauzo) It got into animation media on the mid 90s, but its based on a 80s manga.
Two female cops and many funny characters, and great vehicle chases.
peron 12 months ago • 100%
10 : CLEAR : PAUSE “Mini Moon Age Calculator “
20 : W=694098 : X=29.53 : Z=365.25 : JN=2460202.6 : REM Julian date for last moon on 25/9/2023 at 2:39am
30 : INPUT “DAY:” ; D , “MONTH:” ; M , “YEAR:” ; Y
40 : IF M<=2 LET Y=Y-1 : M=M+12
50 : A=INT(Y/100) : B=INT(A/4) : C=2-A+B : E=INT(Z * (Y+4716))
60 : F=INT(30.6001 * (M+1)) : JD=C+D+E+F-1524.5 : DS=JD-JN
70 : S=(DS/X-INT(DS/X)) * X : S=INT(S+.5)
80 : PRINT “Age of Moon “ ; USING “###.# “ ; S ; “_days” : END
Stay SHARP!
peron 1 year ago • 100%
I made some .cow files anyone may like.
gaucho_hacker.cow:
$the_cow = <<"EOC";
$thoughts
$thoughts _________
| | ________
____|________|____ ~ | \\
//// _____) ~ || \\_____
_| (o)(o) ~ ~ || \\
(o \\| ~ || \\
| (..) ~ ~ || \\
| /||||\\ ~ || |
| \\ \\\\ ~ ~ | |
/| -----_\\\\__ ~ |___________----|--+
/ \\__/_ ) ( ______ ~____ ====== wwwww8
/ +___ (/| )______||_--\\\\--+ - 8
/ +--- +- \\/ /________|wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww8
|________---____/
EOC
peron.cow
$the_cow = <<"EOC";
$thoughts
$thoughts ,_____._____
,_. /-_---------_\\
/ | || || /\\
/ < \\|.__. .__.|/ | l
| / |E==< E==<| n J |
| / G| | | |D \\ |
| | \\| , q_p , |J _|__/_
==== | /._____.\\ | |\\__/|
| | ( \\___J ) | |
| | ( =.___- = ) / /
| | (.__-___,) / /
\\ |____----+ |________/ /
\\ \\ \\/ _/ /
\\_____ \\ / / ______/
EOC
17oct.cow
$the_cow = <<"EOC";
$thoughts
$thoughts _______
\\o/ \\ peron \\ ---------
------+ \\------- | C G T |
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peron 1 year ago • 100%
Darthmouth GRAFIX.BAS!
100 DEF FNF(X)=SIN(X)
105 DEF FNG(X)=LOG(X)/LOG(10)
110 DEF FNR(X)=INT(X+.5)
120 DEF FNX(X)=INT(100*X+.5)/100
130 READ A,B,S
140 READ C,D,N
150 IF N<=50 THEN 180
160 PRINT "ONLY 50 SUBDIVISIONS"
170 STOP
175 :
180 H=(D-C)/N
190 PRINT ""Y-AXIS FROM ";C;" TO ";D;
195 PRINT " IN INCREMENTS OF ";H
200 PRINT
210 PRINT TAB(8);"'";
220 FOR I=1 TO N-1
230 PRINT "-";
240 NEXT I
250 PRINT "'"
255 :
260 FOR X=A TO B STEP S
270 Y=FNF(X)
272 Y1=8+FNR((Y-C)/H)
274 Y=FNG(X)
276 Y2=8+FNR((Y-C)/H)
278 PRINT FNX(X);
280 IF Y2
peron 1 year ago • 100%
This a Sharp BASIC suffler for the 40 spanish card deck, for truco and other games.
10:REM BARAJADOR MAZO DE 40 CARTAS ESPANOLAS,SHARP PC-1360
20:WAIT 0: CLS : CLEAR
30:DIM A$(41)*20,S$(0)*32,P$(0)*65
40:C=0:S$(0)="Basto Espada Oro Copas"
50:P$(0)="As Dos Tres CuatroCincoSeis SieteSota CaballoRey"
60:FOR S=1 TO 4
70:FOR N=1 TO 10
80:C=C+1
90:A$(C)= MID$ (P$(0),(N*5)-4,5)+" de "+ MID$ (S$(0),(S*8)-5,0)
100:NEXT N: NEXT S
110:FOR C=41 TO 2 STEP - 1:A= RND (40)+1:A$(C)=A$(A):A$(A)=A$(C-1): NEXT C: BEEP 1: WAIT
120:FOR C=1 TO 40: PRINT SRT$ (C);":";A$(C): NEXT C
peron 1 year ago • 100%
Today Euclid would be programming in BASIC.
peron 1 year ago • 100%
My BMI has been nicely calculated in your BASIC dialect!
peron 1 year ago • 66%
1 REM TEST YOUR INPUT AND THEN
10 PRINT "DO YOU EAT YOUR BOUGHS??"
20 INPUT X
30 IF X="YES" THEN PRINT "YOU PIG!.": END
40 IF X="NO" THEN PRINT "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR TO TRY?"
50 END
You are a BASIC *removed*, so type-in and *share* your BASIC listings here. Any and all BASIC dialects are welcome.
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Huayra GNU Linux is a Debian based distro, with MATE desktop. ![](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/c1f72109-a363-4f19-b6dd-63f931cfff5c.png)
peron 1 year ago • 100%
Loved this series back in the late 80s!
In a dystopic and cyberepunkish Tokyo, IA robots are getting rogue. Perhaps that pesky technological GENOM corporation has something to do with the issue.
Bubblegum Crysis (1987) Dir. Katsuhito Akiyama
Awesome aesthetics and mechanical design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbqlEUu3sSY
Great chases and music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9_zfJ153q8
Charismatic characters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKlxIAa5Tsg
In my country several pirated episodes were distributed with adhoc subtitles and spanish dubbling. Sadly the original series was never finished, but it inspired a complete anime series under the same premise.
peron 1 year ago • 100%
KL Toad-2
Lovely boards carry 36 bits!
peron 1 year ago • 100%
Some views on the CCK show: https://toobnix.org/w/1uxufYdM1oHvF1y96wnU5n
peron 1 year ago • 100%
I really enjoyed Cuba, its a lovely country if you know what to expect. Tourism has grown there.
When I went there several years ago, a three months before Castro passing,
At the time cubans were using a bimonetary system, exerting differential prices for foreigners purchasing on the islands. So I had to changed Euros for their ECU currency on an official cuban rate (something like 1.2ECU per Euro, I don't recall exactly but was something like that).
I bought the cigars on the legal circuit, so I spent something about 20-25 converted € for each individual Behike Cohiba cigar. I negotiated a price tag for the Cohiba wooden box with 24 habanos, something like 270€. That came as a surprise, as they usually overprice in 320€ their official cigar tags and are able to negotiate/bargain on ECUs. I bargain a little, perhaps 5-10% and they didn't have an issue with that. Some latin american countries works on price bargain, others don't, so I didn't want to push it.
I'm not like a cigar Che, but perhaps was nice business, as there was a 120€ regular box there, with 20 julietas. There were also long a short versions of the cigars, I prefer short burns because the others scared me a little! Not for a starter I would say!
The first time I tried it seemed great for the first two centimeters and a half, and then the taste exploded, those are not consistent cigars I you know what I mean. They have a great part in the middle and you must smoke them for several good minutes to get to the astounding part. I was learning! With the Julieta that was not so sharp changes in the power of the cigar, it was more even. It was a mild experience compared to the Behike. I was told that even I didn't choose the most powerful Cohibas, as there are stronger ones. I didn't want that, since I'm not a smoker.
By the way, those are like 50€ each in some countries in Europe, IDK if you can purchase directly from Cuba in the United States, but you can get them "as a gift" from third parties.
The US Dollar was illegal there, it was prohibited and supposedly has zero purchasing power. Most cubans didn't want to have nothing to do with the american currency. At the time I was told to not try to convert it to Euro in Cuba, but encouraged to do it in any other third country. Supposedly if you present US dollars voluntarily at the Cuban exchange windows, they have to grab the bills "and proceded as required by the national bank of cuba", as informed by a large sign. But they don't "rob" the bills from you, you have to voluntarily pass them thru the window, and supposedly they say thanks to you! (I didn't wanted to try that of course, but I doubt the would destroy the bills!)
I negotiated with some locals and they bought regular local products and services at their rate (food and some services like internet connection). That was not exactly "legal" but they appreciate the difference, and the law enforcement didn't give too much thought about that at the time.
peron 1 year ago • 100%
Indeed. Today a new event is held in one of the main venues in Buenos Aires, the CCK: https://fediverse.tv/w/o2UJYefRythdscFy9YS8bj
peron 1 year ago • 100%
~crazyjane colgó otro del nuevo realizado en el CCK https://fediverse.tv/w/o2UJYefRythdscFy9YS8bj
peron 1 year ago • 100%
You may follow the live twich https://twitch.tv/cybercirujas
peron 1 year ago • 100%
Today is the new event, at one of the main cultural venues of Argentina, the Néstor Kirchner Cultural Center at Buenos Aires.
peron 1 year ago • 100%
I had several Montecristos in La Habana, Cuba. By the way I don't smoke, it was my first trip to smokeland. I didn't became an addict, so I kept Habanos as my only experience. I bought a box as a gift. I also tasted another brand known as Romeo y Julieta.
peron 1 year ago • 100%
New encounter!
Tecnology +Art + Games
Cybercirujas invites you to experiment and play with retrocomputers and consoles. Videogames of all the areas, argentine arcades, alternative control games. Live chiptune music. Text-art. An oportunity to thing about recycling computers and technology.
peron 1 year ago • 100%
My first own modem was a US Robotics Sportster Winmodem 28.8Kbps. It did have fax capabilities. But the first modem I used I think it was a Accura modem.
peron 1 year ago • 100%
It is possible to display ANSI art.
peron 1 year ago • 100%
You can load your monospaced fonts on Cool-Retro-Term. Naked UNIX!
peron 1 year ago • 100%
Such pretty machines! The C64 was my first computer. I still remember it fondly.
I got mine 2nd hand with its manuals and several BASIC books in spanish. A diskette drive called 1741 was presented to me for free. At first it got no software or knowledge at all, so I got playing writing "x" on the TV and erasing those. The "x" were soldiers. ASCII games could be fun, they require very few memory, but lots of human imagination...
Then I would program BASIC games (a dice game from a large C64 book). After that a very long sound-making program called DEMOSON. It required saving it in the diskette, it took so long to write and correct errores.
Once I learned about its routines, I used those to write my first own game: it was a Russian Roulette simulator! It included a gunshot sound from DEMOSON, some randomized routines for the revolver chamber, and even red flashing screen and a loud scream for effect. Not bad!
It was better than play russian roulette with a real gun for sure.
Then I got COMMANDO, a C64 run and gun game, with great music. With SPACEBAR you throw hand grenades. It's the first diskette game I can remember. But it was so much better than my BASIC game. :D
peron 1 year ago • 100%
Hi @SDF, I'm peron, a SDF user from #Argentina.
I'm an individual interested in historical operating systems, synthesizers, anonymity-respecting communities and cooperative electronic communication environments.
I certainly enjoy login into public machines, and meeting new friendly people. SDF provides a nice suite of free-access federated services, including its Mastodon instances, PixelFed and now Lemmy. Greetings to all my friends and kind people on the Telematic Fortress.
If anyone is interested in knowing a bit more about me, you can check this pseudoanonymous bio webpage. http://peron.sdf.org/whoami/
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peron 1 year ago • 100%
I loved Nadia, the Secret of Blue Water, but it's almost unknown here. There was a game based on the universe, a FM Towns marvel.
It is a 1992 japanese adventure game. Includes full talkie digitized audio, and synthesized music. It was sold on 2 CD-ROM XA discs.
::: spoiler spoiler You control the young french inventor Jean and his friend, pretty adventurer Nadia, while fight the NeoAtlantean crews in the Nautilus submarine. Fun!
:::
peron 1 year ago • 100%
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peron 1 year ago • 100%
Although the BASIC-8 is a limited dialect, I can speak it, even after all these years. No doubt the Processor can interpret it!
The work of David Ahl is good enough to support the PDP-8 with a small cheery BASIC dialect who could work on the 4KWord of the PDP-8. Love for the awesome PiDP-8!
Next time I would try his port of HAMURABI if I can source it. Its the BASIC version of the FOCAL game playing as a Sumerian king.
peron 1 year ago • 100%
##The Cyber Surgeons Club in Argentina
On May 20, we were at El club del Cybercirujeo (spanish for "Cyber.-trashing Club"), a meeting/performance/showup at the Techeles Cultural Center, Alsina 1748, City of Buenos Aires, #Argentina.
Taking advantage of the participation of ~crazyjane and ~deadguy in the organization and ~arnica who was also present, we enjoyed the arrival of ~ffuentes from Chile to Argentina. The event found us ~peron, ~jota and ~thaiel in forms that can be described as pseudophysical.
For me it's a great pleasure to meet them all in person, which adds to the gathering of previous days! Althought we met in the data networks for a couple of years now (including on the SDF), this encounter makes me very happy, of course.
The event is carried out for the benefit of the cyber-trasher masses. These involves a network of organized communities framed in the recycling and development of computer equipment. They restore computers to their original design specifications, but also apply updates and modifications to give them new practicality.
The union of the power of knowledge and the mind while focused on a great task allows them to modernize the bowels of the hardware.
How the hackers do it
New and more powerful memory chips beef up machines that previously could only be described as zombies. Through the implantation of seasoned electronic brains extracted from mechanical corpses, and perhaps using hearts whose format is a new solid state drive, our delusional cyber-surgeons can breathe new life into them.
Undoubtly this needs a new soul, and not just any: the Cyber-surgeons install strongly ideologized operating systems under the banner of Free Software. These multipurpose programs are generally derivatives of the GNU Project added to Linux-type kernels: they can thus be copied, manipulated and extended freely without any imposition thanks to the licenses that specifically allow and guarantee it. So it becomes possible to revive the unearthed machines as if they were a tamed Frankenstein capable of serving the People.
The hardware could be considered important, but we must give it the dimension that it really has: that of being a malleable tool for joint work aimed at the Liberation of men, which must be superior.
The hacker show
Thus we find a lightning setup that revolves around several booths of Arduino devices to draw, mixing modern hardware with handmade controllers. Those are hacks involving levers and buttons from old unserviceable arcade machines. Some devices mutate to generate sound or interact with cell phone cameras or cathode ray tube television sets, as the screens illuminate with games. An almost fossilized Commodore 64s is revived thanks to its electronic DNA. Originally it was assembled in the 80s by the suburban Drean washing machine factory.
Some videos: https://toobnix.org/videos/embed/ab6b213a-53d4-4358-8a14-64bee1b6e17a?start=25s
Another video: https://toobnix.org/w/irCwpgpuSjkGMzrom1NHRK
In the #retrocomputing PC equipment area, several DOS games were made available to the public. Several old gaming PC were used, including a remarkable PC AT clones with a 12-inch amber monochrome monitor - a present from the Argentine computer past.
In addition to being able to enjoy the classics Arkanoid, BlockOut or Prince of Persia, we tagged it by leaving a message from the hackers of texto-plano.xyz (our public UNIX community in Spanish) among the source code in the AUTOEXEC.BAT.
As often happens, the true social network is friendship, and the Club is engendered by its mutants, who appear in dozens of colors, of all ages and genders.
Children shall have the Right and Duty to have fun in a healthy way, without privative licenses of any kind clouding their existence. That is why at their side there was what was boldly described as "the end of the world's largest cybercafe with recycled Linux". Some twelve notebooks with Huayra GNU/Linux ran an Unreal-derived FPS to make such a boast. There were frenzied laser and rocket firefights, arbitrated by a router recovered from a trash bin and improved with OpenWRT, producing a wired local area network without any appreciable delay. Not bad for these little machines. None of the tech-savvy thinks those suffer from lack of power.
https://toobnix.org/w/7HZBsqu13uNcddpBGBpYSn
Where there is a need, there is a right.
At the end we met a lot of people from the data network scene, and then the interactive music show are launched. Live and loud chiptune music by a lineup of maestros of the genre like Mambo Rivas, Cinematronic, Coke n Aspirin and some another in charge of speakers and video walls.
I left listening to the most wonderful music, which for me is synthesized with Free Software.
~perón
A organized community of computer hackers in the DEEP DEEP South América.
peron 1 year ago • 100%
Enjoy the awesome challenges!
peron 1 year ago • 100%
Hello SDF Lemmy! This is peron!
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