Robin @ 8-Bit Show And Tell

Programmer, gamer, collector of retro computers and video games, making 8-bit Youtube videos, games with @P1XLgames, nerd music with @BedfordLvlExp

[Robin @ 8-Bit Show And Tell @8BitShowAndTell]

Clearly the best! Not even close.

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@shimmeringpath1 Thanks, I missed seeing a video from you this week! Hope you're doing well.

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New video! Happy Halloween.

https://t.co/RvjgivHAkf

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@granitepenguin I wonder if it was riffing on the idea of the topiary animals attacking in the novel. Both ideas would have seemed goofy in the film, I think. The hedge maze was a much better solution.

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The mid-'90s began May 1993. Science doesn't care what you think.

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Collecting never ends. First you try to get all the Atarisoft C64 cartridges, loose. Then you try to get them all boxed. Then you find out there are one-line and two-line Ms. Pac-Man box title variations!

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Doing some unrelated research and found this 1971 newsclipping about The Consumers Association of Thunder Bay. Back when you had to put on your best hat or fix your hair to go complain about things, instead of lying around at home in your pyjamas.

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Just found this photo of my Commodore 64 from the '80s. I've brightened it enough to figure out what was on the monitor: Monty Plays Scrabble. Must have been a particularly epic score for Dad and he tried taking a pic with the flash on. Oops.

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Everyone’s seen the 205.5 maze 1-liner. But I just noticed that in the lowercase/uppercase character set you also get a kind of maze, with teensy tiny paths, if you use 222.5. Hopefully you can see it in the photos. #C64

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@mrdoornbos PET and HAL some very interesting connections, and that's one of them! :)

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ADAM - an early (1985) auto repair shop management system is one of the most contrived acronyms I've run into: "the" AutomateD repAir service Managment system.

That's even worse than HAL 9000 supposedly standing for "Heuristic ALgorithmic".

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I'm also a fan of the use of quotes around "The". And no, this has nothing to do with Coleco's ADAM. It's a multi-terminal system.

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@mrdoornbos I am VERY glad the HAL 9000 typeface is accurate. There are so many HAL things out there that get it totally wrong.

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I'm genuinely surprised that Elon hasn't made a Grok device that fits inside a HAL 9000 replica. This is one of my favorite things on my shelf, and you can easily fit an ESP32 with a speaker and microphone in it. HAL/Grok would be SOOO much cooler than Alexa.

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In case it's not clear, if an obituary says someone died (tragically) in their "1st year" then that means they were age 0. In their "2nd year" they are aged 1. It's always off by one.

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I'm noticing that obituaries frequently have off-by-one errors. They'll say someone died, for example, "in their 93rd year", which means aged 92, when they were actually 93. Or even if the obituary is correct, it will then get interpreted as being aged 93 by a reader.

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There it goes again, correct answer on the second try. But I have no idea why it thinks my definition is "66 pressable keys" as I said no such thing.

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Yesterday Chad was telling me that the Commodore 64 doesn't have a 66-key keyboard (it does!), and today it's misidentifying countries. For my purposes, it's pretty much always wrong, at least at first, until I ask "are you sure?".

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@MrFroggyKitten Thanks, it's fun when multiple interests intersect like this :)

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New video about whether the Commodore 64's SID is capable of playing microtonal music, such as the bassline from Angine de Poitrine's song "Sarniezz". Music theory and BASIC POKEing abound!

https://t.co/G371pBh4Zs