| --- Log opened Sun Jan 16 00:00:01 2022 |
| 00:29 | | test [Degi@Nightstar-1ui5ce.pool.telefonica.de] has joined #code |
| 00:29 | | test [Degi@Nightstar-1ui5ce.pool.telefonica.de] has quit [Connection closed] |
| 00:53 | | catalyst_ [catalyst@Nightstar-ejd4sd.cable.virginm.net] has quit [Connection closed] |
| 00:53 | | catalyst [catalyst@Nightstar-ejd4sd.cable.virginm.net] has joined #code |
| 01:16 | | gnolam_ [quassel@Nightstar-j9ajs0.priv.bahnhof.se] has quit [Connection reset by peer] |
| 01:22 | | SmithKurosaki [uid215460@Nightstar-e2nmdb.irccloud.com] has joined #code |
| 01:47 | | gizmore|2 [kvirc@Nightstar-2l7qkg.dip0.t-ipconnect.de] has joined #code |
| 01:49 | | gizmore [kvirc@Nightstar-auijlc.dip0.t-ipconnect.de] has quit [Ping timeout: 121 seconds] |
| 04:41 | | Degi [Degi@Nightstar-1ui5ce.pool.telefonica.de] has quit [Ping timeout: 121 seconds] |
| 04:41 | | Degi [Degi@Nightstar-8vqnln.pool.telefonica.de] has joined #code |
| 08:19 | | * McMartin gets his first TRS-80 article out |
| 08:31 | | SmithKurosaki [uid215460@Nightstar-e2nmdb.irccloud.com] has quit [[NS] Quit: Connection closed for inactivity] |
| 11:11 | | Emmy [Emmy@Nightstar-l49opt.fixed.kpn.net] has joined #code |
| 11:41 | | Kindamoody[zZz] is now known as Kindamoody |
| 14:25 | | Vornicus [Vorn@ServerAdministrator.Nightstar.Net] has joined #code |
| 14:25 | | mode/#code [+qo Vornicus Vornicus] by ChanServ |
| 14:37 | | Kindamoody is now known as Kindamoody|afk |
| 15:12 | | tripflag [ed@Nightstar-7pe1df.clients.your-server.de] has quit [[NS] Quit: ZNC - http://znc.in] |
| 16:41 | | Vorntastic [uid293981@Nightstar-phvupn.irccloud.com] has quit [[NS] Quit: Connection closed for inactivity] |
| 19:44 | | Kindamoody|afk is now known as Kindamoody |
| 20:23 | < Alek> | oh wow, my first computer! |
| 20:23 | < Alek> | was a Model 3 |
| 20:24 | <&McMartin> | Cool |
| 20:25 | <&McMartin> | You may enjoy the *next* article I have coming |
| 20:25 | <&McMartin> | Because it turns out that there is One Madman still out there who's gotten the Model 3 to do things it was absolutely not supposed to be able to do |
| 20:25 | <&McMartin> | It's a *similar* technique to some of the advanced sub raster programming tech on the C64, but not identical |
| 20:26 | <&McMartin> | http://48k.ca/breakthrough.html |
| 20:26 | <&McMartin> | 4x increased vertical graphics resolution |
| 20:26 | < Alek> | neat! |
| 20:30 | <&McMartin> | Apparently with a no-chip hardware mod you could get that out of a Model 1, too |
| 20:30 | < Alek> | fond memory: finding somewhere in a book or magazine and entering a BASIC program (which I wish I could remember) for a snow screensaver, randomly turning all pixels from off to on (somehow it checked whether the randomly picked pixels were already on and picked again if so), then once all were on randomly turning them off until all done, wash, rinse, repeat. For a BASIC program doing all that |
| 20:30 | < Alek> | it was rather fast, too. |
| 20:30 | <&McMartin> | ... and apparently this work was done in, like, 2019 |
| 20:32 | <&McMartin> | My test program for getting the Model 3 to do something was to draw a little stripy pattern on the screen and then do a rapid rotation of the screen memory in that area |
| 20:32 | <&McMartin> | Potential photosensitivity/scrolling pattern warning: https://bumbershootsoft.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/nyoom.gif |
| 20:33 | <&McMartin> | Despite its graphics being basically a text mode the TRS BASIC had a pretty good interface to setting individual pixels in the 128x48 screen |
| 20:33 | <&McMartin> | The ZX81 ended up using a similar scheme a few years later |
| 20:33 | < Alek> | not-so-fond memory: it came with a disk of administrative programs, one was labeled 50HZ, there was no documentation, I was ignorant and tried out everything I came across to learn. tried running the program. it PERMANENTLY changed the machine from 60hz mode to 50hz. my best guess is it was programmed to burn out some specific locations on the system boards. |
| 20:39 | <&ToxicFrog> | Oh wow, that is extremely cool |
| 20:39 | <&ToxicFrog> | (although I have no personal experience with the TRS-80; my first exposure to it was someone trash talking it in The Wizardry Compiled) |
| 20:41 | < Alek> | great books, I still have the set. |
| 20:43 | <&ToxicFrog> | Same, although I read them digitally these days |
| 20:43 | <&ToxicFrog> | I think my copy of Compiled is held together with tape, my dad and I both read them to death. |
| 20:44 | <&ToxicFrog> | (I originally read them out of order -- starting with Consulted, IIRC -- and in retrospect I'm kind of glad, because I think Wizard's Bane is the weakest of the five) |
| 20:57 | <&McMartin> | I do love that the podcast about TRS-80 stuff advertised on the mainr esource site I found is called "Trash Talk" |
| 20:58 | <&McMartin> | It also pleases me that the Tandy Leather Company is still sort of in existence |
| 20:58 | <&McMartin> | (They merged with another one) |
| 23:24 | | Kindamoody is now known as Kindamoody[zZz] |
| 23:33 | | Emmy [Emmy@Nightstar-l49opt.fixed.kpn.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 121 seconds] |
| 23:52 | | Kizor_ is now known as Kizor |
| 23:57 | | catalyst_ [catalyst@Nightstar-ejd4sd.cable.virginm.net] has joined #code |
| 23:57 | | catalyst [catalyst@Nightstar-ejd4sd.cable.virginm.net] has quit [Connection closed] |
| --- Log closed Mon Jan 17 00:00:02 2022 |