Sunday, June 26, 2022

Overbite Palm 0.2

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Overbite Palm 0.2, the Gopher client for classic Palm devices, is now available ( see it running on real hardware ). This update includes Sh...
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Saturday, June 11, 2022

prior-art-dept.: ProleText, encoding HTML before Markdown (and a modern reimplementation)

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Steven P. Spackman allegedly once observed that "flat text is just never what you want." Which, I guess, is true: half the histor...
Monday, May 30, 2022

So long, home T1 line; hello, hacking the T1 router

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Floodgap has had a T1 line since I moved into this house in 2011. I'm one of those weirdos who runs my own hardware and prefers to av...
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Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Gopher on the Palm Pilot and the pitfalls of PalmOS connectivity

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To start, an apology for 18 years of tardiness. In 2004 I was working on a gopher client for my Palm m505, written in Lua using the new ho...
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Sunday, April 10, 2022

Tonight we're gonna log on like it's 1979 (Telenet, Dialcom and The Source)

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Teletypes may have killed a lot of forests by emitting every line to hard copy instead of a screen, but there's something to be said f...
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Monday, March 28, 2022

prior-art-dept.: 5 letter words (Jim Butterfield's Jotto)

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I mentioned the Wordle craze, including the extant ports to the Commodore 64, in our KIMdle sorta-Wordle for the KIM-1 . But the Commodore ...
Friday, March 25, 2022

xa 2.3.13 and dxa 0.1.5

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I've updated xa , André Fachat's venerable 6502 cross-assembler, to version 2.3.13, but also dxa , its companion disassembler based ...
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