egri-nagy
egrinagy@mathstodon.xyz
<p>Programmer, mathematician, philosopher, violinist, circumstantial Go teacher, father of two. Hungarian-born Australian lost in the land of rice paddies. Enjoys putting out some solar panels and watching the amp meter.</p><p>Professor of <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mathematics</span></a> at Akita International University (retired <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>software</span></a> engineer really).</p><p>First computer <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/C64" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>C64</span></a>, then <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>amiga</span></a>, hence <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/retroc
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Preparing for the workshop https://liveprog.org/ A day before I started to see how to enable changing the past when doing time travel in the live programming environment. But it required replacing the underlying data structure. So, I decided against it. Who would be that silly to do a complete rewrite just before the talk? Then, family was watching baseball, so in the evening I did it anyway. Happy handcoding good vibe! When understanding is ripe, things fall into place easily.
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I recreated the demo computer setup by #lft (aka #lftkryo) using a #rp2350 microcontroller. For long time, it did not work. The VSync wire was connected to the wrong pin. Kids quickly pointed out that there is no sound (they like the music track of the demo). Yes, I still need to get some capacitors. Fun fact: the power consumption is so low that the battery pack does not sense it as a load, so it switches off after some time. #demoscene #retrocomputing Here is the original video... https...