HP van Braam

MPU-401AT + MT-32 playing #sierra's Thexder II (badly)

Testing my capture setup and video editing rig. I'm pretty happy with it!

#retrocomputing #rolandMt32 #mpu401

The exact moment software went downhill was when #mozilla changed away from this.

#retrocomputing

My current thinking is that in order to make a resolution independent UI toolkit one must first have a resolution independent drawing library?

The things I've found on that were algorithms based on device independent pixels.

Is that still actually the state of the art?

My primary design constraint is that I want the scaling to be zero cost when there's no actual scaling happening.

Can anyone point me to some good books/posts on the subject?

#programming #uidesign #hidpi

There is a silver lining to the whole #python #chardet debacle. If it is legal to throw a pile of code at an LLM, and tell it to write a new version of that code that is not a derivative then that gives us a lot of options too.

GPL compatible #ZFS? no problem! #ReactOS from the leaked NT/2k sources? No problem!

Maybe this is a golden age for the collapse of proprietary software after all. If they can do an end run around the #GPL we can do an end run around the #EULA.

#opensource

Today I learned several important lessons:

* #AIX 5.1 with 64MB of RAM is miserable
* My 43P-140 has 64MB of RAM
* Memory from a #sun Ultra 10 works great in a 43P-140
* AIX 5.1 with 576MB is quite plesant.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

#retrocomputing #unix