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"The 6809 saw some success, especially in arcade machines, but it did not steamroll the world the way the 6502 and Z80 did."
Could have mentioned the use of the 6809 in the Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer and the Dragon in the UK. Using the TRS-80 tag on something not using a Z-80 never made sense.
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Taught myself Java in 1997 and was able have it do the heavy lifting over the years. Have "kicked the tires" on a lot technologies over the years for side-projects evidenced by the menagerie of repositories on my GitHub.
Old one.
Coleco known for the ColecoVision home video game system and the Coleco Adam home computer started out as the "Connecticut Leather Company" in 1932. The business supplied leather and "shoe findings" (the supplies and paraphernalia of a shoe repair shop) to shoe repairers.
An exercise in simulating sports fandom on a map. To do things like simulate expansion and relocation of franchises.
The idea of turning this into a simulation game is a possibility hence "warz" in the name.
It is a bunch of Jupyter notebooks being served by Voila. The "Blank.ipynb" one is more interactive but the ergonomics need work.
It is running free tier hosting so it could swamped if enough people use it simultaneously:
https://sportwarzsim-production.up.railway.app/
https://github.com/daltontf/SportWarzSim
There are instructions to run locally via Docker in the README.md
A idea like this has been on the back of my mind but more like forming a taxonomy of embellishments and dramatic license. Figure out which ones are somewhat necessary and which ones are "bad". Particularly bad would be those that villainize a real person which role in the actual event was more benign. Coach Dan Devine in "Rudy" and boxer Max Baer Sr. in "Cinderella Man" come to mind.
Paging Steve Austin:
Otherwise it is just a Strawman argument
Saturn V rocket
I've internally thought of a similar metaphor. Previous generations didn't have to conscientious of food intake. Food options were more limited, there wasn't as much processed/calorie-dense food, work was more manual in nature and people likely walked greater distances. My dad who grew up during the Depression in the U.S. weighed 140 pounds in his '20s, but hit 280 in his '40s. That generation was kind of blindsided by the affect of this.
Likewise, my generation is dealing with an explosion of easy to consume streams of information and entertainment and we are kind of blindsided by that I have to conscientious of spending too much time consuming online information with Reddit being my biggest vice.
I was just thinking about something where I could design web based workflows that could use online services to perform transformations on items dragged into a dropped and perhaps the output would be downloadable.
Maybe this exists elsewhere, but is is free?. It is still a thought and I haven't dig deep to see what exists, but Flyde seems kind of close.
I did a tiny bit in the late '90s at Mastercard. Wrote my share of TACL macros before that.
When I first saw the "99 Bottles of Beer" site, I was working for a company the was using the POSIX-layer OSS and C. I was able to "drop down" into Guardian and re-learn enough to contribute: https://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-tandem-tal-437.html
I guess the original TAL is not making a comeback:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_Application_Langua...
Was it run by Andy Griffith?
"- The world isn't getting worse"
Bad stuff has always happened, but when something bad happens now, more people are made aware of it.
For example, when I was in high school in the the early '80s there was a shooting at a high school in my Midwestern US city. A kid brought a gun to school and shot two kids who said something about his brother. The shooter then turned the gun on himself. One of the other kids died too.
This was big news locally, I don't remember national TV coverage of it. There was no internet so if someone was 500 miles away, they never knew about it. It didn't spur a national debate about gun control, kid's mental health or school safety.
Sounds similar to a case where I am from:
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/02/25/turns-out-it-was-actuall...
The "hacking" was decrypting social security numbers from BASE64.
The ironic thing with increase in GDP is that life becomes almost too easy. In the past the difficulty of life didn't require a person to have use as much willpower.
Easier life with things like plentiful food and entertainment options requires willpower to not over-indulge. A factory worker or subsistence farmer didn't have force themselves to exercise or worry about spending to much time watching TV. They had to work to not starve.
It would be just be cool just to have a HD footage of satellite orbiting Mars or Venus.
"cats have been dominating the airwaves from the beginning of broadcast video."
Maybe the Kzinti will think we are long lost relatives after receiving them.
https://github.com/daltontf/clipzoomfx
I wrote it to be able to extract exceptional plays from footage of my daughter's volleyball teams and be able to zoom in on each clip. Pretty much a minimal viable product.
Williams Electronics used the 6809 in Defender, Robotron, Joust and Sinistar. It was more expensive. Tandy chose it for the TRS-80 Color Computer and sacrificed dedicated sound generation hardware for it to keep costs down.
The book "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", is handy is you are Bugs Bunny and your are cornered by pack a dogs in New York. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XFFqbr27Vc&t=148s )
The imagery of the football players at the buffet brings back memories of my team going to the breakfast buffets at Shoney's the morning of Saturday games at noon. We didn't need lunch and the food was down before game time.
The idea of silicon based life reminds of this old B-movie:
Inko would be interesting (https://inko-lang.org/)
Every time I see a project ending with "FX", my first thought is that it must be implemented using JavaFX.
I read this book, https://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Men-Odyssey-Astronauts-Journey... and Apollo 8's accomplishments were way under-rated.
Confirmation dialogs "Are you sure you want to cancel xxxx" with "Ok" and "Cancel" buttons. The "Cancel" button cancels the cancel and always gives me pause.
I suspect that my wisdom teeth that did not warrant removal may be contributing to my tinnitus in my left ear.
Anyone get relief from wisdom teeth removal?
I had very similar idea about 13 years and it festered for years due to lack of time and fact it was originally implemented in Scala + Swing.
The concept is similar user must write code to solve problems involving a "rover" on a grid.
I took some time to make a ScalaJS + HTML version recently, but it still in perpetual alpha-alpha status. The language I invented is minimal and a bit esoteric. Not really a teaching language. It very primitive compared to Elara.
The fact that the most common denominator for publishing an application to reach the maximum user base is a web application is kind of a depressing one to developers. We know that to reach a maximum user base that we need to ship using bloated tech.
If an application that emulates a calculator was just now a new idea it would likely be first developed as a web application those would be an order of magnitude larger that it needs to be. It would use much more memory and cpu than a native version. You do get some things that could be a value like screen reader capabilities. It would show up in app stores but would be implemented in Electron.
In the "olden days" of the 1990's such an concept would likely been done in VB6 and distributed as an .exe since that the user base of Windows desktop users was the most significant. That resources consumes by the executable would be "nit" on today's devices.
Even though from a business perspective shipping bloated apps makes sense, developers are aware of the bloat and it bothers us.