Misty @misty@digipres.club
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The Recompiler hiatus is over! https://recompilermag.com/2020/01/18/the-recompiler-in-2020-and-beyond/
k8s is pronounced “kates”
Huh - Arknights is the first app I’ve seen so far that uses “sign in with Apple”.
Success! We're now running from a much larger disk. I still have maintenance to do later but it shouldn't be very user-visible.
In approximately 15-30 minutes, I'll be taking digipres.club down for a brief migration in order to get us some more storage. If all goes well, you won't even notice that anything happened.
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I'm looking for anyone who'd be willing to be interviewed or have a chat about their experiences of using technology in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s as part of a #DigiPres project to document the growth and change in that time.
Please drop me a reply or DM if you're interested.
Who am I looking for? Software people, gamers, enthusiasts, fellow nerds... anyone who used and/or loved technology around the start of the PC boom and birth of the WWW around the world.
@amsomniac I’ve been using DiscImageCreator: https://github.com/saramibreak/DiscImageCreator
It only works with Plextor drives, but that’s because it’s able to do a low-level rip that also captures a lot of metadata about the process.
@hugh Wow!! Why didn’t we just ask them
@petrichor Sorry again about that! Back up, will try to avoid this happening again.
@noiob I’ve never seen those! That’s conceptually ridiculous and also I love it.
Something I irrationally miss about older media: being able to tell how much data is there just by looking at it.
I can look at the bottom of a CD or the top of a record and see how much is on it; an SD card is just an SD card. Bytes don’t weigh a thing.
@the_real_mkb Haha, it does, doesn’t it?
@gatewave Already in the submission queue!
@gatewave Nope! There are file-rips taken from installed copies of the game, but no one’s done an actual true rip of the disc itself until now.
@ajroach42 It’s so lovely…
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I want this aesthetic as a PC case.
My co-workers say that buying an old receiver and modding it in to a PC case is a bad idea.
It actually finished! It took in the region of 72-80 hours total.
For those wondering about the infamous disc - here it is. You can see the security ring, the bastard himself, clearly visible just outside of the inner ring. The region on either side of that ligher-coloured ring contains valid data in a single data track.
@petrichor Thanks! Looks like they have a contact link for enabling this, so I’ll reach out.
@petrichor I’m not familiar! Is there a good place to read up?
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