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Assignment: Calculate the package overhead.

Come on, the last time I played Starfort was more than 30 years ago. There is certainly someone else with a good score here.

I admit I only know this "wasssupp??!" from Scary Movie - now I know the background. Somewhat. About that song I mentioned, here is a video. Just to give you an idea of that piece of culture...

This really reminds me of a notorious party song from German Mickie Krause (one of those beach party hits that you can only endure drunken): Geh' mal Bier hol'n Du wirst schon wieder hässlich ("Go get some more beer - you're getting ugly again...")

Not ripped off, this looks like cleanly cut with a knife or scissors. This alone should earn him some really bad karma. 🤬

This is an interesting point with the TIPI. Have a look here: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/devices/bus/ti99/peb/tipi.cpp lines 280 ff. and 465 ff. Notice the role of the member m_connected: If there is no active connection, sending is ignored. The problem is that I don't actually terminate the connection in MAME, it is the Raspberry side which receives the RESET command. Line 270 shows that I send "RESET", nothing else (no explicit closing of the connection). I don't have the TIPI here, will have to check next Friday, but this is what I can imagine. I think that on the bottomline, this can only be fixed when the Raspberry side can be configured not to break up the connection on RESET.

If you run the emulation with -oslog (or -log), do you see some message like "giving up" related to the TIPI client?

Just to remind (anyone), you can safely use the SCSI emulation in MAME *and* use TIMT3 to format the SCSI drive and to copy stuff on it. Also, the new boot ROMs are available so you can boot from SCSI. Of course, you would probably not have found that issue if you had done that.

Second try: 65750. The counter seems to use more than 16 bit.

When I see these line demos, is there nobody who could imagine writing a Qix game for the Geneve? 🙂

For easier use in MAME, here is an image. As it seems, the demos run in GPL mode. It would have been nice if you included a LIMI 2 at some times between the loops so that you can stop the demo and try another one ... but apart from that, really nice. Thanks! stringart.dsk Edit: The LIMI 2 thing seems to apply for FST or GDEMO only, the rest obviously does allow a stop.

Good old Firefox also loads without warning.

First entry at 11230.

I'm planning for the Aug 2, 2027 eclipse in Egypt. Imagine the black sun above the Karnak temple in Luxor! And it will be 6 min 21 secs long. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnenfinsternis_vom_2._August_2027 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_2,_2027

I was in Saarland in 1999, south of Saarbrücken, when shortly before the eclipse, a think cloud layer came up and obscured everything for several hours. People north of Saarbrücken were more lucky; those clouds opened for them at the same time. I waited for that eclipse since I was a small boy and read about the eclipse in one of those scientific books for kids (titled "Was ist was" (lit. "what is what")). I could only heal this trauma by traveling to the 2006 eclipse in Turkey, and well, it worked out, I was instantly cured. 🙂 Some pictures from that event can be seen here: https://www.mizapf.de/de/astro/sonne/sofi06 (in case you wonder: "Sonnenfinsternis" (short SoFi) literally means "sun darkness", even in scientific context)