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I was only just saying to a relative that Catcher in the Rye has been made obsolete by LiveJournal.

Let's not forget jottit.com. Aaron's website to make notes. It was useful back in the day.

I tried to submit my website to Gigablast, but apparently it costs 25 cents.

This doesn't make any sense to me for a search engine.

I wanted to add my site to Gigablast, but it said it would cost 25 cents. How is this a good thing?

Fair enough. I was definitely searching comments (not stories), but I might not have filtered by Date, hence the lack of recent results.

My meaning was just that I saw it sometimes referenced on HN, but I haven't seen it mentioned for a while now. Hence my search and results showing 8 years since.

I guess what I should be doing is looking at the Alexa ranking of Wolfram Alpha.

I had Ultima 6 for the Atari ST. Running off floppies was kind of slow. My friend's Atari ST machine had 4MB of memory. So I set up a 3MB RAM disk. And installed the game to 'hard disk' with the RAM disk as the hard disk. Then all I had to do was format some floppies to really high density. The entire U6 installation fitted on (I think) 2 floppies. I also used a rapid file copy program.

I copied the files to RAM disk, played the game, saved the game, quit the game, and saved the files back to floppies.

Just thought it would interest someone.

I ordered 2 books from Amazon last week. An email said 'delivered' but nothing in the letterbox or outside the house. A chat to a friendly neighbour revealed he had a parcel put in between his dustbins. I went to my bins and there were the books. Not pleased at this, I expect a sane experience.

XP had no modern browser... Until now!

    http://www.mypal-browser.org

This project is important because Firefox stopped working on XP 4 years ago - and you can't do things like captchas without a modern browser.

I use an Epoc32 emulator on my PC so I can do Agenda on that, and it beeps me my reminders.

I got sick of buying Psion 5's and 5MX's because they always broke in 6 months.

I had an Amiga 1200 and got it working with a VGA monitor soldered onto the connector (like a VGA adapter on Ebay now) and a setup VGA file in Workbench 3. It looked great in 640x480, no chunkiness. So it is possible.

I once emailed Bob Yannes in 1998 about the C64 SID chip. I mentioned my soft synth (SoftSID) and the Elektron Sidstation. But all he was bothered about was his Ensoniq Fizmo. I'd love to get my hands on one of those now.

I told him of the bad review in Future Music. He was a bit annoyed but explained what they had missed in the review.

A nice guy.

Don't forget JWZ of Netscape fame.

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/

Good article, I enjoyed it.

Can anyone get the latest Firefox working on XP?

Sounds oddly like Russ Hanneman from TV show Silicon Valley. Wonder if they got the story from this.

Guy throws away stick with hundred million on it and goes to the tip to find it.

"That's not a thumb drive, that's a thumb! Put it back!"

I worked with Ted a few years from 2001 and though we kind of stopped working together, I knew him! So I do know him personally. He's a great guy though intolerant of nonsense.

Seen him live in Leeds in 1998. Sat in the cubicle he vacated when he left the place at a Rephlex gig he didn't play at in 2001 (At the Leeds Brudenell Social Club). And I played live at the same venue as a previous Rephlex gig in Edinburgh (the University) in 2001.

Well Usenet provider Giganews has 10 years of Usenet, but I don't know if they kept it from 1990 or... just threw it away.

I remember running Ultima 6 and installing - using the hard disk option - to a RAM disk. My friend had a 4MB RAM expansion. I was basically having a 2MB hard disk in RAM!

I'd load the whole of U6 from 4 floppy disks, then fire it up and play, and when done, I'd save my position and copy it all back to the 4 floppy disks!

What helped were 2 things:

    *Utility to format disks to high capacity
    *Fast shareware disk copy utility

I just want to buy a phone with this on. Is this possible? I don't want the hassle of finding a phone on Ebay and installing some bundle of software. I just want to plug and play.

The secretive Hacker Conference is for people featured in the book Hackers. Ted Nelson is one person who I know, who is in it.

UT Zoo is indexed on my usenet site: http://www.dejadejadeja.com/

About 5 years ago, I got a 1541 drive and an XA1541 plugged in the parallel port. The purpose was to 'rip' some disks (last used in 1997) I found in my mother's loft.

Most notably, I found an old story I thought was lost, and a trove of insane Boulderdash caves/levels I wrote with a friend - in the Boulderdash level editor - in about 1993.

I'm amazed that the disks survived. But finding the lost story - and some letters from high school - was great.

Find instructions here:

http://decompiler.org/doc_c64_disks.htm

They shut down Half.com not so long ago having bought it in 2001 or so for $300 million. There goes a good marketplace for books & CDs. Bad move!

I know Ted Nelson of Xanadu.

For the record, in 2005 I told him about Million Dollar Homepage, and he was angry that someone could get rich off such a stupid idea when so many others fail.

Don't forget Pete Shelley's XL1 which ran on a Spectrum from a vinyl record.

Don't forget my 1980's Usenet search engine: http://www.dejadejadeja.com/

Also I downloaded all Usenet from 2003-2013 (800GB of stuff) and Archive.org have that now (I sent it to them on a 1TB drive).

If you can speed up your brain by a factor of 10, you could read a book 10 times faster.

This is relevant because you might be reading only 1 human-sized book, but you can read 10 times as many!

I haven't done any work on 65C816. Just 6502 so far.

It should be possible to make a 'CPU module' for the decompiler which takes into account the features of the 65C816 (such as 16-bit registers).

About interrupt calls... If it finds such a call, all it has to do is look at the call's input registers (assuming they are in registers) and output the call with the 'logical' contents of the registers.

The x86 code is basically 32-bit Windows. I haven't got a 16-bit compiler. However, it should work for 16-bit. The key thing is that you can write specialised modules for each CPU, and the rest (loops, variables) are standardised.

On the business side... Basically, my 6502 decompiler works the best so I thought I could sell that. And as for x86, there are issues to do with structs & arrays, that I haven't had time to figure out.

As for the decompiler software, I plan to finish the x86 and ARM decompilers and sell them for a reasonable price (say, $150 for all CPUs, not just one). As noted, arrays & structs are a problem.

As for 'release code', anyone can write a CPU module, but I need to document it first.

Thanks for your comments.