Reciprocating Bill

You forgot the container ship.

No need for blind faith... Sunday's on the phone to Monday Tuesday's on the phone to me

That cartoon appeared in the New Yorker, but I first saw it at the Chautauqua in New York, where Bob Mankoff, retired cartoon editor of the New Yorker, presented.* What's cool is that the cartoon was released with no caption and a contest ensued. "It sort of makes you stop and think, doesn't it" was the winner. * on the same stage where Salman Rushdie was assaulted a year later. Makes you stop and think.

I replaced my PEB fan. If I'm feeling nostalgic I run the Kirby.

Wycove Forth 2.0 was designed to run from a cassette if necessary, although hard to imagine how useable that would be. An E/A, MiniMemory or Extended Basic module and 32K are also required. The error in your screenshot is the error TurboForth gives when it can't find a Blocks file.

I wrote two chapters of Compute's TI Collection, Volume Two - "TI Memory Organization" and "The Heart of the TI-99/4A: The TMS9900 Microprocessor." IIRC they paid a few hundred dollars per chapter, plus a trickle of tiny royalty checks. Compute! imposed some ham handed (IMHO) edits and insertions on my original sparkling prose - but then all writers hate their editors. (Plus I own a copy of "16-Bit Microprocessor Systems.")

On real hardware (F18a and 16-bit console) I much prefer the G version, as the F version displays all manner of screen initialization during the transitions. There are minor glitches in G: - Text to Graphics: sometimes briefly displays a single horizontal line during transition - Text to Graphics2: clean transition, but leaves a cursor-like block on upper right hand corner of screen - Text to Text80: a brief full screen white flash during transition - Text to Split and Split2: clean - Graphics to Text: sometimes briefly displays a single horizontal line during transition - Graphics to Graphics2: clean, but leaves a cursor in upper right corner - Graphics to Split and Split 2: clean Also - the key-repeat starts too quickly for me. I have to be careful not to shoot out a row of characters.

The book cover conveys that learning Forth is very hard.

I've been testing Classic99 on my M2 Mac using Crossover/Wine. Via my wifi network I'm attempting to point the Classic99 DSK4 at my TIPI volume (and to my ASSEM directory on TIPI). TIPI mounts on my Mac desktop and I can move files to and from PI and Mac. In Classic99 I've pointed DSK4 to the directory /volumes/TIPI\ASSEM\. If I choose DISK/DSK4/Open DSK4 the ASSEM directory on the PI is displayed by Classic99. However: using E/A, any attempt to open a file (either to edit a source or load and run an object) on that volume results in "I/0 ERROR CODE 7." If I drag those same files onto the local DSK2 folder in the Classic99 folder they work fine (a tolerable workaround). So, am I missing something vis the directory I've entered? I also have an HP laptop that successfully points to TIPI vis the path \\tipi\TIPI\ASSEM\, but using the same path results in the amazingly uninformative WINE error, "General Failure" on the Mac.

There are two styles of mod in that photo. The top has diodes, and appears to be a one chip 8-bit mod. The bottom does not, and appears a close match to the MainByte 16-bit mod. For reference, my mod (photo above) followed MainByte instructions and diagrams (right down to the colors).

My rats had an eye for color.

Also referenced in this Ars Technica article. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/02/after-14-5m-judgments-console-hacker-paid-nintendo-25-a-month-from-prison/ Convicted console hacker says he paid Nintendo $25 a month from prison | Ars Technica.webloc

I see that the version of XB 2.9 makes a BIG difference with this task. E.g. version 2.920240104 is more than 10x faster than 2.920220317. So, we need to be specific about which versions are involved when making these comparisons.

From the documentation: "To be able to use the Final Grom you need to rename the two files: XB29GEM_G.BIN should be XB29GEMG.BIN, XB29GEM_8.BIN should be XB29GEMC.BIN"