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  1. There's an ARM64 build of Altirra? That's cool for anyone planning to run Windows on ARM. As for myself though; I'm not planning on running Windows on ARM (or much of anything else actually). Anyhow, when I saw bfollowell's request for a Pi version, I automatically was thinking "oh oh, that would be a Linux version." Yes, I have tried to lobby for a Linux version at least once (perhaps twice) before. The short version is Avery isn't the least bit interested at this time or for the foreseeable future. The good news is that it does run under Wine within Linux for those who use x86 hardware.
  2. How does that phrase go? "Shoulda' coulda' woulda'."
  3. And still you managed to pull it off! I'm very highly impressed with your programming knowledge and skill anyway, so maybe that isn't saying much. But Mr. Chu's ARC for Linux, Universal Extractor, and perhaps others somewhere also manage to handle the old ARCs despite documentation shortcomings. I figure Igor Pavlov (7Zip) and others just don't care enough to bother with the fringe obsolete variants of the format as you say, but I'll bet that like you, they could make it happen if they set to it.
  4. Certainly not everyone dropped it. As I said, there are utilities which claim to support the format, and almost completely do; just not quite. Your argument should mean that they offer no support for it. Could it be that they feel it is good enough because almost everyone only uses less antiquated revisions anyway? I don't claim to know the answer, but fear of SEA et al doesn't fit real well from where I sit; but maybe.
  5. Glad I could help. The head scratcher for me is, why the hell otherwise top notch software like 7Zip etc., not properly handle the full ARC specification.
  6. Okay I remember now what I used to use on Windows to deal with ARC files; specifically older style ARC files like are used with Atari 8-bit computers. See this post on AA from some time ago for more detail. The program is called Universal Extractor and you can get it here.
  7. I would suggest maybe you get VGA cables and cut them up to desired length (discarding the ends). The VGA spec these days does assign a function to all 15 pins, so presumably recent production cables (or at least ones designed to be able to support recent VGA standards) should have you covered. They are designed to take a certain amount of flexing, usually well shielded, plentiful and relatively inexpensive.
  8. Indeed it does. When I looked at it I thought I saw around a half inch diameter. That would have been a bit fatter than an Atari SIO cable but I thought it still might work. 3/4" is pretty thick though. Darn it.
  9. Here is a source for high quality cable at about six and a half bucks a foot. It's got 3 more conductors than you are after, but I doubt you will find anything with 13 (other than peeling ribbon cable and rolling it). You can just opt to leave 3 conductors unused. It is of course stranded and uses EDPM rubber jacket, which is way nicer than than anything Atari ever sold.
  10. Peazip has an ARC capability, but I don't remember if handles .ARCs in the old format that Atari ARC utilities use. I've been using Linux for a wghile now, and just use the ARC command available for Linux by Howardd Chu.
  11. Maybe it was more for the benefit of the rest of us. The 1st picture in #16 looks like it might be perfect for you though.
  12. If you need to get that close to read something, it's probably good that you can't read shit.
  13. Yeah I agree. To the many of the great unwashed masses at that time, both machines were seen essentially as equivalents, yet the price was notably higher for the Atari. I think that, more than any other factor is what made the C64 gain dominance in market share. And then, the more popular a platform gets, the more that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Because a bigger user base begets more software (and hardware add-ons) development, which then in turn begets even larger user base. I think Atari should have stopped reducing the quality once they developed the original XLs. Those were still put together far better than CBM stuff. Atari should have actually advertised more, and presented that difference. A lot of people will a bit pay more if there is good reason to.
  14. Right, looks like they stuck with the inch standard for the screws even for units destined for countries which only use metric based sizes. Here in the U.S. we use some of each depending on what you're dealing with. I wish it was just one standard (preferably metric). That being said, both inch based and metric based hardware is readily available here in the States. I wonder how much it would cost for a private individual to mail some to wherever it is that you are. Interestingly with our inch system, there actually numbers assigned to the sizes, up to size 10, then it goes to 0.25" or 1/4" size. So the size is number 6, with 32 threads per inch pitch, and 3/8" long. What kind of head would it need? EDIT: OMG, wood screws used!?!? That probably mucked things up for the holes they were used in.
  15. I think it has an excellent flavor completely despite the fact that it's on the leaner side. It is also a very tender cut. I think the biggest reason it is more expensive is because there is relatively little of it provided by each animal butchered. So even if demand were the same or even a bit less than for say, Rib-eye, it would command a substantially higher price based on that smaller supply alone. Speaking of Rib-eye, I like that quite a bit as well. In fact I like a good top sirloin a fair amount too. Liver I don't like, but all the rest of the steak and roast cuts (round, bottom sirloin, etc.) I do like at least some.
  16. And make at least rudimentary attempt to RTFM first. That would be appreciated. I don't think anyone will rip you for it if you don't but... it's appreciated just the same.
  17. Here is an updated Python 3 version of the program. Should run on any platform which has Python 3 installed: #!/usr/bin/env python3 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Name: archimedes.py # Purpose: implement the Archimedes' spiral prgoram in Python 3.x # # Author: fujidude for just the Python version, original code # Charles Bachand, pub. Antic magazine, issue 7, pp.60-61. # # Created: 2018-10-29 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- # import necessary modules import tkinter import math def end(): rootwin.destroy() rootwin = tkinter.Tk() # main (root) application window based on Tkinter rootwin.wm_title("Archimedes' Spiral") quitBtn = tkinter.Button(rootwin, text="Exit", command=end) quitBtn.pack(side="bottom") graphzone = tkinter.Canvas(rootwin, width=320, height=192, bg="lightblue") graphzone.pack() XP = 144 XR = 4.71238905 XF = XR / XP for ZI in range(-64, 65): ZT = ZI * 2.25 ZS = ZT * ZT XL = int(math.sqrt(20736 - ZS) + 0.5) for XI in range(0 - XL, XL+1): XT = math.sqrt(XI * XI + ZS) * XF YY = (math.sin(XT) + math.sin(XT * 3) * 0.4) * 56 X1 = XI + ZI + 160 Y1 = 90 - YY + ZI graphzone.create_oval(X1, Y1, X1, Y1, fill="white") graphzone.create_line(X1, Y1+1, X1, 191, fill="white") rootwin.mainloop() And then here is a screenshot of it after run:
  18. I have no idea specifically, but generally I would suggest not trying to setup Wine yourself if you have the "Play on Linux" package available. If you have access to that package (I use Debian/Ubuntu/Mint so don't know if your distro does) I would uninstall Wine and the install PoL and use it to install Wine. I have no idea if that will do anything for your issue, but PoL makes the normally touchy process of getting Wine installed and configured right pretty easy. Plus it lets you easily manage more than 1 version of Wine if you need to.
  19. I really don't have the space anymore anyway even if it all could magically reappear in working order. And like Keatah said, I too find the virtual experience to be superior now and also it is really convenient too.
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