mos_8502 :verified: 🇨🇦

Retrocomputing Maker and Designer in Ontario, Canada. I make stuff without promising a delivery date. I don't do crowdfunding, but I do gratefully accept Patreon and Ko-Fi support for what I do. 

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2026-05-07 17:33:43 UTC

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Ah, here he is, Neil B Breeden II. He made this:
https://studio8502.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/534/491/049/083/446/original/c3b27b7f2e745d5f.png

2026-05-07 17:32:13 UTC

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There's this dude I see on Facebook sometimes, I can't recall his name. He used Claude to make command line applications for CP/M. Most recently he made a full screen hex editor. Honestly I'm impressed. I tried Claude and it was horrible to use with the web interface. Maybe it's better when integrated into an IDE?

2026-05-07 16:39:15 UTC

Lessons learned:<li>Nothing but demo-scene level graphics will be good enough for Lemon64</li><li>Coding a game is the easy bit, because most problems have solutions you can just look up; the problem is having a good idea for a fun game. Bad ideas are a dime a dozen.</li><li>Some people get big mad about paywalling a game in beta, even if the amount is literal pocket change.</li><li>Getting lost in the weeds worrying about running out of ideas is not productive.</li>

2026-05-04 15:56:05 UTC

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I'm so happy you enjoy it!

2026-05-04 15:48:55 UTC

Gridlocker beta 2 is out!
Features:<li>"Warning" colour flash at the top of the playfield when blocks get too tall</li><li>"M" key starts/stops music</li><li>Added adjustable difficulty levels</li><li>"End" blocks are now more common</li><li>Bug fixes and performance improvements</li><li>Free demo/shareware version</li>
https://studio8502.itch.io/gridlocker

2026-05-04 15:03:53 UTC

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Pining for the days of bedroom coders making money for their work, while malding about someone actually doing it today in the here and now, is certainly A Choice™.

2026-05-04 14:46:36 UTC

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The computer I would design if I wanted to piss off as many people as possible.

2026-05-04 13:25:38 UTC

“Frankly pathetic”. I’d be insulted if this guy weren’t a known transphobe and right wing nut job.
You tell me: is Gridlocker worth the price or not?
https://studio8502.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/516/528/978/429/706/original/c9e6a892e3903b58.jpeg

2026-04-10 17:48:45 UTC

Now if I can just find a decent deal on a 35mm prime lens…

2026-04-08 21:12:15 UTC

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Former houseguest took about two grand worth of my shit on his way out the door.

2026-04-08 21:09:47 UTC

I may have to sell some things. I don’t want to. But I’m flat fucking broke, my shit has been stolen, and I have a powerful need to eat sometime this month.

2025-03-10 01:23:53 UTC

Linux users only: How many monitors does your primary Linux machine have?

2024-09-16 21:36:33 UTC

“If you took a capybara, and taught it to walk upright like a man, made it wear dusty old black jeans and a ratty tee shirt, had it carry around a coffee cup and a chip on its shoulder, it wouldn’t look anything like him, but everyone who knew him would say it felt like him.”

2024-07-10 04:13:06 UTC

Nobody hates computers as much as someone who loves computers.

2024-06-22 21:01:12 UTC

Best terminal emulation standard and character set for a neo-retro computer:

2024-06-13 19:15:22 UTC

And now I know how Sentinel 65X can support optional HDMI output. I can modify the board layout to make this thing wire-free to install.
https://electron-shepherd.com/collections/all/products/electronanalog

2024-05-22 03:19:08 UTC

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So more like this, taking advantage of track-to-track teardrops to get the transition between widths?
https://studio8502.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/482/577/832/824/272/original/d10c3824934e7103.png

2024-05-15 00:12:14 UTC

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Bye, cuntface.

2024-05-14 23:45:12 UTC

I will say it again. The left abandoning the language of morality to the right is *why* we have right-wing religious zealots claiming the moral high ground -- the moralized perspective, even twisted as theirs is, is more attractive to an average human than a logical one, even when the moralized one is demonstrably false, misleading, and dangerous.
We do not support LGTBQA+ rights because it is politically useful, or because it's fair, or because it's just. We do it because it is *morally correct* to do so.
We do not support UBI for logical or practical reasons, even though those are essentially correct, we do it because it is *morally correct* for all people to enjoy a dignified minimum standard of living.
It is also useful, if it matters to you, that framing these practical policies in moral terms frees you to paint your opponents as immoral by definition -- and that, too, appeals to the human psyche.

2024-05-11 05:11:14 UTC

I need to try this one. Dune3D is a 3D modeling program that looks neat.
https://github.com/dune3d/dune3d
https://studio8502.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/420/728/821/807/610/original/2d734f05367901c0.png

2024-05-01 02:05:46 UTC

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Yeah. I moved to FreeBSD a while ago everywhere but my main MacBook Pro and my retro systems.

2024-05-01 02:02:56 UTC

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Neat.
See, I have this thing where I have no *particular* love for Xorg specifically, I just have no desire to throw away the entire X protocol. Wayland is a fine go-between for the programs and hardware, but I just don't like combining the window manager with the display server and the hardware all in one, it's anti-Unix.

2024-05-01 01:28:31 UTC

Help me out: Let's say I wanted to build a desktop that used *only* X11 applications, but still used Wayland to actually talk to the hardware -- a full XWayland setup. I know how to do that, but what I don't know is which compositor is most suited to that use case -- the XWayland server running in a rootful mode, filling the whole screen, with no other Wayland clients running.
So which compositor fits that model best?