StarPeak<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> Meetup <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@cbase" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cbase</span></a></span><br>Freitag, 04.04. ab 19 Uhr<br>in der c-base, Rungestraße 20, 10179 Berlin</p><p>Offener <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a> Stammtisch</p><p>Bei einem Getränk reden wir über Themen von <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Zuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zuse</span></a> bis <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a>, egal ob <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> oder <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a>-<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP11</span></a> - Hauptsache alte Rechner</p>
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Wolfgang Stiefmaier pdp-8/ɣ. Nein, kein verspäteter Aprilscherz. Dahinter verbirgt sich eine emulierte PDP-8, gesehen am 24C3 (2007). <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/onepicaday?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onepicaday</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/vintagecomputing?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintagecomputing</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/retrocomputing?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/dec?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dec</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/pdp8?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pdp8</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/24c3?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#24c3</a>
iotar<p>Everything else has FTPed over to the Minitel/PiDP8i evening stereo without any trouble apart from Floral Shoppe. A problem with the Japanese characters? I've moved a tonne of City Pop over without any issues.</p><p>Finally moved it physically with a USB drive. We might have expected this from Vektroid.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/vaporwave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaporwave</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MacintoshPlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MacintoshPlus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FloralShoppe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FloralShoppe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/vektroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vektroid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/minitel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>minitel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/pidp8i" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pidp8i</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/pdp8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pdp8</span></a></p>
iotar<p>Makes no difference to how it looks, but I upgraded the microSD that the PiDP8/i runs on from 32GB to 256GB, which gives it some decent storage capacity in its main role as the evening stereo system.</p><p>FTPing music from my main desk PC seems to work pretty well. It's almost like a feasible solution.<br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/minitel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>minitel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/pdp8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pdp8</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/pidp8i" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pidp8i</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MusicForLeisure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MusicForLeisure</span></a></p>
StarPeak<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> Meetup <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@cbase" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cbase</span></a></span><br>Freitag, 07.03. ab 19 Uhr<br>in der c-base, Rungestraße 20, 10179 Berlin</p><p>Offener <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a> Stammtisch</p><p>Bei einem Getränk reden wir über Themen von <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Zuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zuse</span></a> bis <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a>, egal ob <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> oder <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a>-<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP11</span></a> - Hauptsache alte Rechner</p>
iotar<p>Okay, the Minitel 1 is connecting to the PiDP8-i as a terminal. That wasn't something I was expecting to figure out before lunchtime.<br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/pdp8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pdp8</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/pidp8i" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pidp8i</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/raspberrypi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>raspberrypi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/minitel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>minitel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
wohali<p>Some TSS8 <a href="https://timeloop.cafe/tags/pdp8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pdp8</span></a> sources have been found!</p><p><a href="https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/dectapes-and-linctapes-a-pile-of.1251772/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forum.vcfed.org/index.php?thre</span><span class="invisible">ads/dectapes-and-linctapes-a-pile-of.1251772/</span></a></p>
Space Hobo<p>I have a slightly absurd <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> project for the <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a> that I find kind of fun because it forces me to find new and novel data structures and algorithms for things. You can't Just Use A Hash Table on a system with 12-bit values, 8k of core, and no multiply. It's hilarious finding algorithms that say "this structure is good for space-constrained systems, because the main table only takes up 64kB of RAM" and realising how over spec that is.</p><p>So I was digging through disco-era algorithms and data representations, mostly. Lots of neat stuff, some overlooked gems (I have a cool variable-length four-bit text representation that I found via wikibooks). But text processing is still pretty memory-hungry, with some huge tree structures necessary for the heavy lifting, so I'm mostly building abbreviation tables and such via python scripts.</p><p>But then I found LCP arrays, which I had missed for some reason. I mean, not "some reason" but that they were actually published after my university algorithms books were written! They're not like SUPER new, but most of the work on them was done by bioinformatics nerds in the early 2000s, so I didn't really notice them until now.</p><p>They're super neat! You just create a suffix array by sorting indices into your string lexicographically (from index to the end), then you go down that in order and compare each substring to the one before it and record the length of the largest common prefix in that. Bingo! Two arrays the size of your working string, and you can do all sorts of queries on them in linear time to find valuable repeated sequences for compression tools like LZ77 or an abbreviation tool.</p><p>It really *feels* like a 1970s algorithm, but back then they were all doing this in like O(N*log(N)) via dynamic programming techniques. I may still bubble sort just to save code size...</p>
StarPeak<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> Meetup <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@cbase" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cbase</span></a></span><br>Freitag, 07.02. ab 19 Uhr<br>in der c-base, Rungestraße 20, 10179 Berlin</p><p>Offener <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a> Stammtisch</p><p>Bei einem Getränk reden wir über Themen von <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Zuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zuse</span></a> bis <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a>, egal ob <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> oder <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a>-<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP11</span></a> - Hauptsache alte Rechner</p>
pfriedmaA number of years ago, I did some fun vector art minimal wallpapers featuring retro hardware. I haven't posted them in a while, so please enjoy this TI SR-51, a PDP8-e, a trio of IBM 2401 drives, and a VAX11/780. <br><br>Please feel free to use and share these freely (though please also provide attribution if you do!)<br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://pfedi.pfriedma.org/tag/retrocomputing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retroComputing</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pfedi.pfriedma.org/tag/minimalistart" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#minimalistArt</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pfedi.pfriedma.org/tag/vectorart" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vectorArt</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pfedi.pfriedma.org/tag/vax" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VAX</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pfedi.pfriedma.org/tag/tapedrive" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TapeDrive</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pfedi.pfriedma.org/tag/texasinstruments" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TexasInstruments</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pfedi.pfriedma.org/tag/dec" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DEC</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pfedi.pfriedma.org/tag/digitalequipmentcorporation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalEquipmentCorporation</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pfedi.pfriedma.org/tag/pdp8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PDP8</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pfedi.pfriedma.org/tag/ibm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IBM</a>
Tim Riemann<p>Ein PDP-8 Emulator auf dem <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Z80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Z80</span></a> für <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SymbOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SymbOS</span></a> und das auf dem <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Amstrad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amstrad</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPC</span></a>. Sehr cool 😁! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retro</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pdp8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pdp8</span></a> <a href="https://youtu.be/0FEoEv5Kpes?si=oLAgXEjYUJ-deCbX" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/0FEoEv5Kpes?si=oLAgXE</span><span class="invisible">jYUJ-deCbX</span></a></p>
StarPeak<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> Meetup <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@cbase" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cbase</span></a></span><br>Freitag, 03.01. ab 19 Uhr<br>in der c-base, Rungestraße 20, 10179 Berlin</p><p>Offener <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a> Stammtisch</p><p>Bei einem Getränk reden wir über Themen von <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Zuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zuse</span></a> bis <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a>, egal ob <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> oder <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a>-<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP11</span></a> - Hauptsache alte Rechner</p>
Space Hobo<p>Jason did the edit, so I wasn't sure how much would go into this, but it seems that all my rambling about <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/pdp8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pdp8</span></a> and <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/pdp12" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pdp12</span></a> hacking stayed in, and there's a link to the video I did for <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://teh.entar.net/@tastytronic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tastytronic</span></a></span> last year in the show notes. Also my <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/awk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>awk</span></a> implementation of the Cloak of Darkness game. </p><p>Loads of <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> and <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a> chatter throughout: Scott even called on folks to start targeting the 16kB-RAM platforms of the 1970s again!</p>
StarPeak<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> Meetup <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@cbase" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cbase</span></a></span><br>Freitag, 06.12. ab 19 Uhr<br>in der c-base, Rungestraße 20, 10179 Berlin</p><p>Offener <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a> Stammtisch</p><p>Bei einem Getränk reden wir über Themen von <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Zuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zuse</span></a> bis <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a>, egal ob <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> oder <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a>-<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP11</span></a> - Hauptsache alte Rechner</p>
Space Hobo<p>Dear <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a> enthusiasts, do any of you have a neglected <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/PiDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PiDP8</span></a> that you no longer use? Was it a fun lockdown toy that you no longer interact with? Are you within postal distance of <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>London</span></a>? If so, get in touch: I'm working on a project in PAL assembler and would love to have the front switches and lights, but not enough to order and assemble the thing.</p><p>I can replace the <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/SBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SBC</span></a> inside, if you already scavenged it for something else! I just wonder if anyone has one taking up space that they'd rather use for something else these days.</p>
Space Hobo<p>Okay, I've got a page (128 words) of <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a> code that will generate a truncated Soundex hash of any ASCII or 6-bit TEXT string.</p><p>Since I have only 12 bits to store it, and the consonant classifiers are from 1-6, that takes 3 bits per digit. I'm using 5 bits to store the initial, so I get two digits plus a final bit just to distinguish if there was a third digit or not.</p><p>I coded this up in awk first to test it, with a giant `switch` statement (only in gawk, alas) mapping letters to digits. But in PAL assembler for the PDP-8, I decided instead to make a table like so:</p><p>```<br>ALPHBT, 2170; /CBA@<br> 2173; /GFED<br> 2277; /KJIH<br> 7554; /ONML<br> 2621; /SRQP<br> 7173; /WVUT<br> 0272; /[ZYX<br> 0000; /_^]\<br>```</p><p>Basically the characters in this section of the character set are there in reverse order. The top three bits of the 5-bit char values indicate which word of this table to load in, and the last two indicate how many times to shift right by 3 before masking off the 3 least-significant bits. So the letter D is `04`, which means we get word `1` and shift it `0` times before pulling out the octal digit `3` (which is correct!)</p><p>Most of the code is tests for various bit patterns to see if we need to keep shifting or if we care (is it even a letter? Is it a vowel? Is it the same digit we saw last time? `H` and `W` are special cases...)</p>
Space Hobo<p>EDIT: I am not looking to set up TreeSitter on neovim. I have that working fine, but only for bog standard 2024 syntax like awk or C or Makefiles. I want a *new* syntax definition for an old assembler that targets 12-bit minicomputers from the 1960s.</p><p>Hey, are there any <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/NeoVim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeoVim</span></a> nerds here who can help folks with slightly older versions? I have a goal of "don't make my vi installation a full-time job" and I'm doing a lot of <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a> assembly in PAL. I can supply a <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/Kate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kate</span></a> syntax file that does well enough (I use it for <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/pandoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandoc</span></a>), but I need a <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/TreeSitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TreeSitter</span></a> syntax wotsit that I can just Install without having to upgrade NeoVim or TreeSitter past what's in Debian (this is non-negotiable: anything else has always become a full-time job for me).</p><p>All the TreeSitter tutorials say to use an init command that doesn't exist in my copy, and I lost patience right then. The architecture makes it seem like this is only a pain for setting up a new project, but I don't have the attention to devote to this. I'd also like it if PAL8 syntax made it into whatever mainstream syntax repositories TS grabs from.</p>
Space Hobo<p>TFW think you have an output bug running your <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a> PAL code under <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/OpenSIMH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSIMH</span></a>, and then it turns out you just did a `HLT` right after printing the final character, and the emulator had stopped EVERYTHING before the pretend teletype had finished printing.</p><p>```<br>DONE, TSF<br> JMP .-1 /WAIT FOR TELETYPE READY<br> HLT<br>```</p><p>FIIIINE.</p>
Space Hobo<p>I've been tinkering with ways to squeeze slightly more modern <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/InteractiveFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InteractiveFiction</span></a> onto a <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a> over the past year or two. I was playing with the dictionary from the <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/Hibernated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hibernated</span></a> 1 Director's Cut, which has about 650 entries, and managed to come up with a system that distinguishes all but 55 of those uniquely, and those 55 are lumped into 16 buckets. </p><p> Not a bad collision rate, especially given the side-effects of my scheme are less surprising to human players than some other approaches!</p><p>The only drawback is that it can't distinguish the diagonal directions well, but with careful command choices and some workarounds in special cases we can avoid this and still have a fairly plush-feeling vocabulary. Now I just need to work on the rest of it to see if it was worth the brainwave!</p>
Diane Bruce<p>Found this in an old pile of papers. I didn't realise I still had this!</p><p><a href="https://bsd.network/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/Classiccomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Classiccomputing</span></a></p>
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