Notices by Ian Scott :apple_inc: 🐙 (polpo@bitbang.social)

Anyone else have a pile of these microSD to SD card adapters that they don’t need but can’t bring themselves to throw them away?

This made me curious if there’s any difference between the generic and name brand adapters so I opened some. The generic one is a bit more cost reduced (less plastic, less metal) but seems to have the same rough idea behind the design. Generic on left, Sandisk on right

Today I built up a Greaseweazle (https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle) box with a HD 5.25"/3.5" combo drive and DD 5.25" drive so I can write just about any floppy that I care about. It takes 12V from a barrel jack and uses a little buck converter to get the 5V.

@shyra I found myself needing to use its cousin more often

@ActionRetro as one does

I needed to create a breakout board for debugging and doing bus captures on the Sharp #X68000. It has to stick out of the card slot so it's longer than a normal board. Hence, longcat

Want a glitter PicoGUS Inside case badge sticker? Come see me in a week at VCF Midwest and get one!

@foone at the university I worked at in the early 2000s, employees would chat with each other with WinPopup over the windows network on campus. It was pretty neat

Happy Pride! Semi related, here is the giant Ikea rainbow pride bag that I’ve used to take all PicoGUS orders over to the post office.

In my abundant free time, I want to make a phone app optimized for taking photo or video of CRTs, with quick access to shutter speeds of 1/25, 1/29.97, 1/30, 1/50, 1/59.94, and 1/60 of a second. I've tried so many camera apps with manual settings and each one has annoyances or too many settings.

I love 3D printing 🥰

@foone and @h0ffman get shoutouts for inspiration in the article. And big thanks to @ishotjr for editing and sheperding my way, and @inversephase for making the all important social connection. 😁 #PicoGUS #demoscene

And I gotta say they did a great job making it look good in print. #PicoGUS #demoscene

For the latest issue of Make Magazine, I wrote a feature article about #PicoGUS! The online version of the article is now up. Come read about my beginnings as a teenage #demoscene fan, how I was introduced to the GUS and how I decided to make an emulator for it so many years later. https://makezine.com/article/technology/computers-mobile/democratizing-the-demoscene-picogus-brings-the-90s-tracker-sound-to-the-masses/

Hey. Do you want to order a #PicoGUS? Like RIGHT NOW? Joe's Computer Museum now has them in stock! https://jcm-1.com/product/picogus-v2/

@ActionRetro you are definitely keeping up with the Commodore. but the question is, is the Commodore keeping up with you?

The "Book386" (a Hand386 in the Book8088 case) that I've long wanted was just released (called the Pocket 386)! https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805356267711.html

This is a big one! After being teased for a long time, #PicoGUS now supports Sound Blaster 2.0! https://github.com/polpo/picogus/releases/tag/v1.2.0

Some people have wondered why the #PicoGUS is as tall as it is and here’s why: to fit big boi wavetable cards like this one. It’s also why there are holes for mounting standoffs.

Coming soon to #PicoGUS: Sound Blaster support. Massive thanks to yyzkevin for writing and contributing the SB DSP and mixing code! Now you'll be able to play Doom with FM synth + SB sound effects, or play earlier SB games that don't support the GUS.