Apparently some GitHub profiles have been backed up on archive.org! No images, but still useful to see what's changed over the years...
Via @luigithirty@twitter.com - apparently the Jaguar decides whether to boot a cartridge based on the presence of the magic number 0x03d0dead. 🤣 https://twitter.com/LuigiThirty/status/1012051159861907456
https://digipres.club/media/3L1ULT453Kb2-8Dt_98
This looks interesting: Rockefeller Archive Center just released Aurora, an open source intake tool to validate and virus check incoming accessions.
Both of those builds were released exclusively as pack-ins with particular hardware. There was also a retail release, which is dated October 1994, but it has no differences except for slightly tweaked credits. So, mystery solved!
The filesize gave me a hint right off the bat - the September 1994 build is 160MB bigger than the May 1994 build. Turns out the September build has an educational slideshow feature, which pairs photos from the encyclopedia with recorded narration.
https://digipres.club/media/IkLuMMsWeMxN--XfSec https://digipres.club/media/XQxOBkQWTa2C7fO9brU
I spent a little time trying to figure out a completely pointless mystery: what's the difference between the three versions of Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia for Sega CD? The internet acknowledged multiple builds but no one seemed to have dug in.
If you find yourself in DC over the summer and are going museum hopping be sure to check out the Trevor Paglen Sites Unseen exhibit at the Smithsonian:
https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/paglen
The exhibit includes surprisingly beautiful photos and and videos of surveillance sites from around the world -- as well as images intercepted from drones, generated by machine learning algorithms & more.
Here's the talk he gave at the opening last night (skip the breathless intro):
at last this chinese app is teaching me how to say things that i would be likely to say in real life
This is inspired by finding out a disc was misauthored with files in the wrong order, and on a real 1-speed drive the seek times break some very timing-dependent streaming operations!
Sometimes I have to remind myself that CD-ROM emulators that don't simulate physical factors like seek time might not accurately represent how a disc would behave on real hardware...
GLAM friends! A friend let me know that there’s an opening for a records management job at the Vancouver company she works for. https://jobs.teck.com/job/Vancouver-Records-and-Information-Management-Analyst-BC/481097000/
This is the rosetta stone I needed to prepare an encoding mapping of the original Saturn version script - *and* the differences in the header and other portions of the script are extra clues I need to decode the structural properties of the format.
I made a very nice Lunar discovery! It turns out the iOS version has *two* Japanese scripts - not two identical copies of the same one. One is identical to the Saturn version, but the other has been transcribed from its custom encoding into UTF-8. It still uses the same file format as the Saturn version otherwise.
https://digipres.club/media/b_ScV9zgH_kB-8uoFdg
I don't think I ever posted this here. Awhile back I wrote up the PCM sound container format used by Lunar: Eternal Blue, and the lessons I learned from studying old file formats. http://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2016/01/27/elegance/
Does anyone have suggestions on good ways to label CD-Rs in 2018? CD-R cases don’t come with little paper labels anymore, but I don’t trust CD markers to not damage the discs.
I don't think I ever posted this here. Awhile back I wrote up the PCM sound container format used by Lunar: Eternal Blue, and the lessons I learned from studying old file formats. http://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2016/01/27/elegance/
Koha 18.05 is out, and it’s ...big. https://koha-community.org/koha-18-05-released/
(The machine name, *Emilia, is taken from Christine Love's game Digital. My current naming scheme is Christine Love game AIs and machinery, and my new hardware from the past ~2 years all follows that.)
I really love having a machine running Classic that I can remote desktop into. It's been extremely valuable for running classic Mac software - and since it's a PowerMac G5, it's faster than any machine shipped with OS 9.
I've been using some 68k Mac-only software recently for studying some obsolete file formats, and it's surprisingly convenient and blazing fast this way. I'm finding it more convenient than an emulator.
https://digipres.club/media/OqUzagCdjm1NB6TFmXI https://digipres.club/media/BMpxU5uDA4RlEQlIoEI