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The Miracle of the Andes – Revisited

theguardian.com
2 points·by thoughtbag·3 ปีที่แล้ว·1 comments

Tenebra – a neat puzzle game for the BBC Micro

bbcmicro.co.uk
2 points·by thoughtbag·3 ปีที่แล้ว·1 comments

Archimedes Live – run early ARM software in the browser

archi.medes.live
1 points·by thoughtbag·3 ปีที่แล้ว·2 comments

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thoughtbag
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
In 1972, Nando Parrado was travelling with family and friends when his plane went down in the mountains.
thoughtbag
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
"Tenebra is an atmospheric puzzle game with rogue-like aesthetics. Guide the hapless protagonist to the exit. Poor guy is afraid of darkness and refuses to walk in the dark areas."
thoughtbag
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
He's been right more times that I can count. Abrasive guy for sure, but he has decided not to suffer idiots. And he does what he does for himself; we are lucky beneficiaries.

Agree wrt your arguments; it's also why I write this in a browser in a VM that is not used for anything else than this sort of thing, and periodically I will roll back to a recent snap shot with a clean browser.

(I do not use Qubes, but I do like their work.)
thoughtbag
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I know what Theo says about (x86) virtualization[1], but I think it's still useful to virtually separate your random browsing the web from things like health and banking, or where you keep your ssh keys (if you don't use a Yubikey or similar to keep it off your laptop) -- or other secrets.

You can be a victim of a random drive-by, you don't have to be a person on a "list".

[1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119318909016582
thoughtbag
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Since ycombinator failed to parse the URL correctly, here it is in all its glory; https://archi.medes.live/
thoughtbag
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Archimedes Live is a project by Paul Stone which allows anyone to try out an emulated Acorn Archimedes computer in their web browser. The Archimedes, first released in 1987, was Acorn's 32-bit successor to the BBC Micro. Acorn also created the ARM2 processor at the heart of the Archimedes - the ancestor of the ARM chips that power billions of smartphones, computers and other devices around the world today.

The emulator itself is a WebAssembly port of Sarah Walker's excellent Arculator Archimedes emulator.
thoughtbag
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Sure; M1 Max, 64GB RAM running Ventura 13.2.1 (and Parallels Pro 18).
thoughtbag
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I can tell you now that 2022 was the year of Linux on the desktop with Apple+Parallels! :)

I have a mini datacenter on my desk right now with 5 Debian machines running, 1 Windows 10, 1 OpenBSD machine as gateway for the others. No lag.

Just now I fired up YouTube on 3 of these Debian machines in Firefox as well as one in the Windows 10 VM. All running full screen 1080p videos (a wide second display with 3 VM's, the main display showing the Windows VM). No lag.

Also, I have _never_ heard the fan on this thing. Unsure if it has one! :)

The CPU/GPU combo is of course great, but it's the 400GB/s memory bandwidth that makes all the difference I think.

([edit] oh, and the battery life is nuts.)