// #eevblog — 2019-09-12
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
00:22:07 Quit: T3sl4 ([email protected]) EOF from client
00:25:58 Join: T3sl4 ([email protected]) to #EEVblog
00:26:00 Mode: (by ChanOP) +o T3sl4
01:16:32 Join: steve30 ([email protected]) to #EEVblog
02:27:33 Join: Nothing\ ([email protected]) to #EEVblog
02:27:46 <Nothing\> man, i think i found the coolest roguelike ever, definitely the most unique
02:27:53 <Nothing\> it's called roquebit
02:28:39 <Nothing\> the premise is your a bit inside computer memory that's become sentient and you have to escape by XORing your byte with other bytes carefully so as not to XOR yourself into a 0
02:28:58 <Nothing\> and you get bits of machine code to run programs to get around certain puzzles
02:29:37 <Nothing\> like if you need to get around an obstacle you can use a MOV type program to "teleport" yourself from memory into a register and then back out to another memory location
02:30:14 <Nothing\> or later on you can go inside the programs and hack them by altering various values in them to do your bidding
02:30:36 <Nothing\> and it's all laid out in ascii like a roguelike in terms of the gui
02:31:25 <Nothing\> it's a shame this game isn'tmore popular, but since as even i got stuck a bit , ican see somebody with no CS experience being confused to all hell
02:32:52 <Nothing\> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I8Vlv9L9VM
02:35:18 <Nothing\> dammit, what's the command to open a new server tab in xchat
02:36:04 Quit: Nothing\ ([email protected]) Quit: Leaving
05:25:45 <rust_collector> I think nothing still have not tried to ctrl+F9
06:36:30 <Halcyon> *yawn*
06:36:34 <Halcyon> One more day
06:40:26 <rust_collector> probably
06:49:09 <rust_collector> you should move to somewhere where it is still yesterday.
07:31:47 <steve30> hi Halcyon
11:52:08 <coppice> rust_collector: its not hard to find places that are decades in the past
11:56:24 <EEVBlog> New EEVBlog Tweet: HELP: does the schematic for the IBM PCjr keyboard exist? Is not in the tech ref manual or the service manual.
12:08:15 Join: ThunderSqueak ([email protected]) to #EEVblog
12:08:16 Mode: (by ChanOP) +o ThunderSqueak
12:52:30 Quit: ThunderSqueak ([email protected]) Quit: Leaving
13:45:16 Quit: coppice ([email protected]) Ping timeout: 121 seconds
13:46:11 Join: coppice ([email protected]) to #EEVblog
13:56:04 Quit: coppice ([email protected]) Ping timeout: 121 seconds
15:19:44 Join: ThunderSqueak ([email protected]) to #EEVblog
15:19:44 Mode: (by ChanOP) +o ThunderSqueak
16:32:57 Quit: ThunderSqueak ([email protected]) Quit: Leaving
16:57:31 Quit: arekm ([email protected]) Quit: leaving
16:57:37 Join: arekm ([email protected]) to #EEVblog
17:31:38 * DogWomble peers in
17:38:13 <EEVBlog> New EEVBlog Tweet: A most excellent adventure repair video coming your way tomorrow. https://t.co/gC1htbhmAZ
19:30:10 <Halcyon> Hey steve30
19:44:35 <K> hello
20:01:48 <EEVBlog> New EEVBlog Tweet: I'm convinced that Banggood have an infinite supply of employees to spam creators with review opportunities. Unless Paula is the same person as Chelsea, and Linda, and Leona, and Silvia, and Miffy, and...
20:03:37 <Ampera> Hi Halcyon
20:46:02 <Halcyon> Hey Ampera
20:46:07 <Halcyon> I'm packing your box
20:46:08 <Halcyon> :-)
20:46:16 <Halcyon> Really stuffing it tight
20:52:57 <Halcyon> I only found two 18GB SCSI drives, is there anything else you wanted?
21:17:24 Join: coppice ([email protected]) to #EEVblog
21:33:20 <Ampera> Hi Halcyon
21:33:23 <Ampera> still there?
21:33:27 <Halcyon> Herro
21:33:29 <Halcyon> Yup
21:33:38 <Halcyon> I your box is about 3/4 full
21:33:40 <Ampera> if you got diskette drive those would be nice, but if you can't fit it, it's not a problem.
21:33:46 <Ampera> *diskette drives
21:33:47 <Halcyon> JJust 3.5 "
21:33:48 <Halcyon> ?
21:33:50 <Ampera> aye
21:33:56 <Halcyon> What colour bezel?
21:34:00 <Ampera> sure
21:34:14 <Halcyon> White, beige, other beige, grey, black?
21:34:16 <Ampera> IDE and FDD cables if you have any, those are the main things I'm low on for my old computers
21:34:25 <Ampera> not grey, not bleached white
21:34:28 <Ampera> black or beige
21:34:29 <Halcyon> 40 or 80 pin IDE?
21:34:38 <Ampera> 80 pin preferrably, but 40 pin works as well
21:34:49 <Halcyon> I have two tubs full of both
21:35:03 <Ampera> go right ahead, all of mine are either broken or in computers
21:35:17 <Halcyon> Do you prefer one over the other of 50/50 ?
21:35:26 <Ampera> 80
21:35:34 <Halcyon> Too easy
21:35:44 <Ampera> since an 80 pin can do anything a 40 pin can. but not the other way around
21:35:52 <Halcyon> This is true
21:36:11 <Ampera> though I forget exactly what is different, is it that 80 pin is for CS machines?
21:36:18 <Halcyon> CS ?
21:36:23 <Ampera> cable select
21:36:34 <Halcyon> I have *never* used Cable Select
21:36:39 <Halcyon> On either cable type
21:37:12 <Halcyon> All 80 pin is really is every second conductor has a N/C conductor between it to reduce noise/crosstalk, so it's techically capable of faster speeds
21:37:34 <Ampera> yeah just looked that one up
21:37:36 <Halcyon> 133Mhz rings a bell ?
21:37:39 <Ampera> but 80 pins are also CS only
21:37:48 <Halcyon> Bollocks
21:37:51 <Ampera> it says 66MT/s or higher
21:37:55 <Ampera> no I mean only CS works on those
21:38:00 <Ampera> not on 40 pins
21:38:04 <Halcyon> Oh right yes
21:38:05 <Ampera> you can still do manual jumpering on 80 pins
21:38:08 <Halcyon> If you choose to use it
21:38:16 <Halcyon> I have honestly never, ever used it
21:38:23 <Halcyon> It's easier just to set the jumper
21:38:23 <Ampera> this being said, my 486's VL IDE card is really strange
21:38:39 <Ampera> the hard drives work fine, but for ATAPI, since the BIOS can't handle it, it gets weird
21:38:46 <Ampera> it will actually change its mind as to what does and does not work
21:38:47 <Halcyon> Hmm
21:38:58 <Halcyon> So apart from cables/FDDs, anything else?
21:39:22 <Ampera> Can't think of anything that I'd particularly need. If you want to throw something in as a surprise I won't say no :P
21:39:35 <Halcyon> Do you need any I/O cards?
21:39:53 <Ampera> lol, got any more Etherlink's?
21:39:55 <Halcyon> And no, you can't have my Voodoo II
21:40:05 <Halcyon> Yeh should do, Ill check my box
21:40:10 <Halcyon> I'll be back in about 20... Mark just got home
21:40:13 <Ampera> network cards
21:40:19 <Ampera> alright, I'll prolly be in class
21:57:12 <Ampera> I am in class
21:57:36 <Ampera> I spent all last night trying to print a stupid 2 page essay I got assigned the day before due for today.
21:57:58 <Ampera> The printer was having some issues printing, there was toner stuck on the LED strip and it took ages for my dad to fix it
21:58:15 <Ampera> it still has a big black line on the left of it, idk why that happened, shit toner maybe
21:59:24 <Ampera> all the while I was trying to print it on my dot matrix printer, which requires centronics
22:00:13 <Ampera> but my desktop PC doesn't have a centronics header, my centronics PCI card doesn't work right, and my XP machine doesn't have centronics on the IO ports
22:00:36 <Ampera> so I had to use my Pentium Pro, and put up a roundabout way of getting a PDF over that could be read by adobe acrobat 5
22:03:14 <Halcyon> OK Cables and FDDs packed, still got room
22:03:18 <Halcyon> Do you like tea?
22:10:52 <Halcyon> I also still have room in the box for any other kinds of snacks. I'm kind of using a combination of bubble wrap and snacks to pad the fragile stuff
Search this day's buffer: