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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 06:01:01 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   Interlaced C source files:
   Instead of 80 column lines, each line is only 40 characters and contains every other letter. The next line is also 40 letters and contains the other letters.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 06:03:39 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     This would solve no problems and make a significant number of things worse

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 06:11:02 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     It's specialized for source for 16bit computers where the firmware is split across two eeproms, where high/low bytes are on different chips

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 06:25:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     oooh: specialized editor that types on two lines as you type. So you type "Hello world!" and get:

     Hlowrd
     el ol!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 06:36:25 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • the Lobdegg

     @thelobdegg good ol' reliable comic sans

   • the Lobdegg (thelobdegg@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 06:36:26 JST the Lobdegg

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     @foone
     Are you going all out by avoiding a monospace font?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 06:38:30 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it's only 80 characters in north america and japan. in europe they use PAL, which is 70 characters

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 20:55:15 JST vxo

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     @foone imagine what fresh hell happens when it starts reading back with the wrong field order like when NTSC Has A Real One

     https://slugbug.bandcamp.com/track/bars-tone

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 04:51:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     interlaced C is defined to be 7-bit, so 8-bit computers save interlaced C files with the high bit set for the second line. This makes them tricky to edit, but you get used to it.
     "hello" is "Φσ∞∞∩", for example

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 04:54:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     this is for interoperability. see, which line goes first depends on the endianness of your PC.
     odd-first is for big endian PCs, even-first for little.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 04:56:22 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     and if you are on a 7bit machine and don't know if the source is from a BE or LE machine?

     just compile it both ways! whichever one produces fewer errors is probably correct.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 04:57:39 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     also I can't really use the term "BE" anymore now that I've been hanging out with a bunch of TF fetishists on tumblr. that's... not what it means over there.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 04:58:43 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     anyway, homework assignment: develop an interlaced C program that compiles in both big endian and little endian mode.