Clay Cowgill @Arcade

@jeffqchen Yeah, AMD parts back then were generally printed and not laser marked. Definitely suspicious. (I swear, anything from China that’s laser marked at this point is probably remarked at minimum if not outright fake…)

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a month ago

@nexta_tv The year is 2026. A robot in a clown wig kicks a Chinese child to the tune of a 1978 German reggae/disco band made up of Jamaican and Aruban musicians singing about a Russian mystic in 1916… annnnnd that’s enough internet for today.

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a month ago

@theliamnissan

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a month ago

@davepl1968 I’ve never used ours— Roombas do a good job! I *am* tempted to pull wires or something through the tubing just to put it to use though. 😅

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Clay Cowgill @Arcade

2 months ago

Depending on what you’re wanting it *for*— Travis already suggested NES games— but if you wanted something lower density/older silicon process Atari 2600 carts would be good as well. Later ones used COB, but older 2Kbyte carts were DIP (Dodge-Em, Football, Night Driver, etc. probably ~$2 plus shipping on eBay if you search a bit.)

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3 months ago

@peterjhasson Happy to hear everything is going well for The Sims!

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3 months ago

This might fall under ‘abstractions’, but I noticed as the years went by that fewer software people had a deep understanding of what the system hardware architecture was that was running their code. (I once interviewed a senior firmware engineer from a BIG US corp that couldn’t tell me what the CPU was that their code was running on in an embedded system— “it’s C”.) How fast is code executing from flash vs. RAM? Do different regions of RAM have different performance? Do you have cache? How much/what type? What are the cache thresholds that cause a performance hit? What instructions are particularly slow, which features are fast, etc.

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Clay Cowgill @Arcade

3 months ago

@Dream_Library_ Thanks for sharing that— I’d never heard about it here in the USA before. Here’s an Imsai I’ve recently acquired to restore! (Sorry about the glare, it’s bright outside today.) 😆

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3 months ago

@hiromuxsou @Kasekisai_T How much added sugar is there per serving in Japanese mixes? In the US, pancake mixes usually have anywhere from 3-9 grams added sugar per serving. (More general-purpose baking mixes like "Bisquick" only have 2 grams, while something like a box cake mix might have 18-20g.)