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  1. romanaOne

    Microsoft releases the source code for MS-DOS v4.0 on GitHub

    My first DOS was 3.something and I think it was burned into the BIOS ROM of the shitty Tandy-1000 286 my clueless-about-computers parents bought me around 1990. Somehow, even after upgrading to an already-obsolete 386 in 1992, I missed DOS 4: the cheap-ass $800 Wang EXEC 386 I got came with DOS...
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    Do you celebrate Halloween in your country?

    Here in the Peoples' Republic Of Florida, it seems like the lower classes really get into costumes and spend crazy money on outdoor ornaments that will soon be in a landfill or rot in place. I'm not sure about the wealthier classes as no one else is allowed into their pristine gated enclaves. It...
  3. romanaOne

    Favourite Book?

    Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. Combines the best of hard science fiction and space opera in yet another treatment of the Fermi Paradox. (See Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter if you want more Fermi Paradox written by authors who understand physics beyond 8th grade.) Most space...
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    Hacking Hardware failed to init eMMC error, then works fine?!

    I've never messed with the internals of my unpatched v1 switch. I rebooted to payload (hekate) to update Hekate/Atm for the 16.0.1 FW and I got this funny error about being unable to init eMMC. Hekate wouldn't even read the eMMC in the Console Info tab. I just shrugged copied the new Hekate and...
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    Anybody else find Mercari sellers are idiots and time-wasters?

    I don't understand what an ass-pull is, exactly. I did some, err, development work 20 years ago. In those days, clueless (sometimes with good intentions, sometimes not) people from rich countries thought if you just bring in computers, everything will be great. Nevermind the fact that there is...
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    Anybody else find Mercari sellers are idiots and time-wasters?

    Yeah, I noticed that they were from Japan. I first noticed them a few years ago when I was hunting for a cheap, dead OLPC for my junk collection after reading that book about what a total clusterfuck OLPC was. Most dead OLPCs aren't really broken but suffering from a firmware bug where they...
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    Anybody else find Mercari sellers are idiots and time-wasters?

    Have you ever bought something on Mercari, only to find the seller doesn't respond and you have to wait a few days for your money to come out of escrow? This happens to me over and over on Mercari and I'm just about fed up completely with that crap store. I suspect what happens is : 1. Mercari...
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    Tutorial How to spot a fake Sandisk card

    This isn't a lot of help for online purchasing: I recently bought a fake 512GB Sandisk card on eBay where the seller had used a real package for the picture. The price was reasonable but not exceptionally low. It failed completely after writing just a few GB of data. Maybe if there were real...
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    Translation Clannad for PS Vita English fan translation released

    I am disappointed. For a few seconds, I thought the Irish folk band had finally been ported to the Playstation. Abbatars could only be an improvements, since they weren't much to look at in their youth...
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    Hacking Gaming Astroneer sinking vehicles bug: how to easily retrieve?

    Astroneer has a super-annoying bug where your tractor/tralier or buggy vehicle suddenly disappears into the ground when you're not looking. I totally loved this game until my large tractor and trailer loaded with loot sank deep in Sylva while I was away on Glacio harvesting hematite. I tried...
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    Review Animal Crossing New Horizons and No Man's Sky are really the same game; sorry no tag for satire

    Don't let all the spacey treknobabble mumbo-jumbo fool you! These games have a lot in common. Your Base is like your house in AC: decorate it and can customize it with things you buy and craft. In NMS, you fly to aleatoric planets while in AC you fly to aleatoric islands. You can customize your...
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    Feedback Gaming (Q:) Which is the {Best} or {Better} 1stPokemon Game to choose from these for switch console???

    I think Pokemon lost its way somewhere after gen 3. (GBA). Too much with the gimmicky minigames, dual screen BS, and 3D BS, nothing really compelling. I spend more time playing ROM hacks like Prism, Crystal Clear, Liquid Crystal, and Sovereign of the Skies (If it ever gets finished....) than new...
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    Lakka linux reboot-to-payload configuration options

    I was wondering why the retries=100 thing. Now I get why. I got L4T ubuntu working. Wow. Unity is a completely bizarre choice of DE. Some sort of netbook-era homage to Mac OS 9. (I've heard about Unity making a comeback over at distrowatch news....) Aesthetics aside, Unity seems to break a...
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    Lakka linux reboot-to-payload configuration options

    Ok, I just dd'd the L4T image to a USB stick, set the Switch on the dock, rebooted to payload...and I the Nyx gui is not visible on the external monitor?! How can I select Launch etc. if the switch is in the dock? Is there some setting I missed somewhere to make the external screen come on? I...
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    Lakka linux reboot-to-payload configuration options

    I didn't know standby worked: old forum posts complain a lot about it not working. Is there a way to customize the retroarch menu, like to add Suspend? What is the command to suspend to RAM, systemctl suspend? I try to avoid pressing power, vol buttons if I can avoid it because it will be a...
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    Lakka linux reboot-to-payload configuration options

    In the Lakka GUI, there is a "Reboot" choice on the menu which reboots to Lakka unless you hold down VOL - to make it reboot to Hekate. Is there a configuration file buried someplace where I can change this behavior? ie. Make "Reboot" send you back to Hekate w/o the need to hold down any...
  17. romanaOne

    How are people finding car boot sales, yard sales, thrift shops, charity shops and such for games these days?

    Goodwill auctions (and other auction sellers claiming to help little kids, animals, Jesus, etc.) are often questionable quality: typically disingenuously saying things are "untested" or "tested to power on," and not taking returns. I imagine the person listing doesn't know much about stuff...
  18. romanaOne

    Homebrew WIP OpenMW for Switch

    The rebuilt version works: https://gbatemp.net/download/openmw-v2-recompile.37102/
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    Homebrew WIP OpenMW for Switch

    Has anyone else tested this on FW 15.0.1? Does it need to be relinked against newer libs? It dies on me with "An error has occurred...". No log files are written so I don't think the problem is ini files or missing game data.
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    Misc What Mp3 player to buy

    I thought so, too, at first. I got a couple just out of curiosity. That's also why I started off by saying "If you want a new hobby..." But the funny thing is about a year ago I started to use minidisc more than iPods because I don't find the battery dead after a busy week (when I forget about...
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