Recent content by commodorejohn

Which would be nice, if it actually listened to you. My work PC never reboots during off hours, even when I expressly tell it to reboot during off hours, and keeps pestering me during the workday to reboot for the updates it didn't reboot for during off hours.

Yeah, unless you're looking for specific historic versions with which to build x piece of old software, it's not hard to find these things just out there on the Internet. vbcc is a good choice for a self-hosting 68k C compiler; as far as Forth goes, there are about as many different Forths as...

Declaring interest! EDIT: sorry, I was confusing this with the 16C. I'll let other folks give this one a home :)

Nekochan used to be the SGI community hub (and to a significant extent the happenin' place for other vintage *nix workstations,) but it vanished into the aether a couple years back. The IRIX Network was created as a replacement; it's not as active as Nekochan was, but there's still folks around...

It's funny - I remember when the first film was announced and people were talking about how the fact that J.J. Abrams turned Star Trek into a witless, paint-by-numbers Star Wars knockoff proved that he'd be the perfect choice for the real deal, and then we got...a witless, paint-by-numbers Star...

Sending PM.

It's because they know that many thousands of people will buy it sight-unseen, and then shell out God knows how much in in-game purchases to get back the content that used to just be part of the game. And as long as people keep supporting this behavior, they'll keep getting worse and worse about...

Welcome aboard!

10 isn't good for normies who want their computer to just work, either - the constant updates not only get in the way at the most inopportune times, they rejigger things they have no business touching, change out old stable drivers for questionable new ones or just remove them altogether (I've...

At least until people finally break out the torches and pitchforks, Windows 11 isn't coming - according to MS, this is the Forever Version where they're just going to keep futzing with it until the end of time.

Windows 10 was absolutely the thing that got me to finally grit my teeth and make the jump to Linux. I had a bit of hope that, after getting the entire world mad at them with 8, and the first thing making the rounds about the new version being that they'd given in and put the proper Start menu...

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Man, I need to give Union another go. I used to not enjoy latter-day Yes as much as the classic stuff, but once I hit Keystudio it started clicking more for me...

Whoa. Jealous!

Welcome aboard :) The 6809 is definitely a pretty comfortable architecture to learn on, for an 8-bitter.