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  Your eyes do not deceive you! The cat's out of the bag: I've been collaborating with the @BlueSCSI@hachyderm.io project to make the enclosure and front panel originally designed for PicoIDE common to both! I collabed with @nulleric@mastodon.social on code and @gutbomb@bitbang.social did the 3D design. https://jcm-1.com/product/bluescsi-ultra-front-panel-module/

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  Dimming the screen for the screen saver on #PicoIDE was boring so I added flying toasters as an option. Sprites borrowed from the PicoPOST project

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  @philnelson@xoxo.zone wow, this is incredible

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  I went to Seattle for #vcfpnw last weekend and it was pretty great! A thread of pictures (read the alt text for extra commentary detail, btw!), starting with a visit to the Interim Computer Museum

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  I’ll be in Seattle next weekend for #VCFPNW but I’d like to hit some other nerdy places like: - Connections Museum - RE-PC - Ada’s Technical Books & Cafe (which sadly will close in a few months) Any other suggestions?

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  #VCFPNW is next weekend! I’ll be there and can’t wait!

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  #PicoGUS can now emulate both a CDROM drive and Sound Blaster in parallel, smoothly playing both CD audio and SB sound effects simultaneously. Still a lot of polish to do before a new firmware release but I'm excited!! This is MechWarrior 2 with bin/cue stored on a USB stick plugged into the PicoGUS

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  The latest PicoGUS firmware update was a huge fail - lots of breakage everywhere. I rushed its release, and it shows. I'm really starved for time between helping the kids with homework most nights, work on getting PicoIDE to full production, and a demanding day job. I wonder what has to give.

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  I was bummed the 74XX YouTube channel hadn't uploaded in a while but today was blessed with this amazing video that starts with finding some Wild Gunman film reels and ends with an amazing recreation of the original game. Probably my favorite low sub channel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOfqnomGPkM

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  In 1994 when I was in 8th grade I was talking to a friend about careers. He said he wanted to get into computer engineering instead of computer science because computers would learn to program themselves sooner than they’ll be able to design themselves. I’ve been thinking about that a lot recently.

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  At #RMRRF (BIG 3D printing festival this weekend in Loveland, CO) I caught Zack Freedman (Voidstar Lab)'s talk about creating Gridfinity and it was amazing: the central tenet is creating something so free that it no longer needs you. It made me think a lot about the future of my own projects.

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  Took an absolutely lovely road trip today to pick up a rare Roland CM-32L that was on Marketplace. I was stretching the range of my 1st gen Leaf but taking the back roads meant prettier views and fewer kWh

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  Picked up shiny #PicoIDE stickers at Sticker Giant!

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  @kkarhan @rasteri Yeah, I love having the option of "real hardware" when it's possible. In fact despite making device emulators I like using vintage hardware whenever possible 😅

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  The PicoGUS in SB16 mode works in Windows XP

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  Sorry, had to pull the release. Definite breaking issues with this one. Apologies for rushing this one!

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  Over the past few days I've released some beta firmwares for PicoGUS to address the issues in the v4.1.0 release. This one is basically a release candidate; if it's all good I'll release it as final in a couple days. https://github.com/polpo/picogus/releases/tag/v4.1.1-beta.1

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  #PicoGUS can now emulate Sound Blaster 16 with the newly released firmware v4.0.0! Other changes include CD-ROM speed and reliability improvements, GUS mode improvements, and more. Check the full changelog and download the release at https://github.com/polpo/picogus/releases/tag/v4.0.0

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  @BigBadBiologist is currently streaming a board repair through a Power Macintosh 6200 and period-appropriate cameras. Love it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQW32BTHOls

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  Stumbled through installing HP-UX on a BlueSCSI on this HP 68040 UNIX workstation. I was pretty frustrated it’d only use the serial console but replacing the NVRAM coin cell battery made itremember it had a graphics card installed

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  Less than 24 hours after launching on Crowd Supply, PicoIDE has doubled its goal. I’m overwhelmed (in a good way) by the response! Thank you so much to everyone that has backed the project so far. https://www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics/picoide

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  I got my DOS PC on #GlobalTalk so I’m going around printing greetings to people’s printers from Deluxe Paint!

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  LGR has a video out covering my #PicoIDE project and the ZuluIDE. We are officially in a awesome new era of drive emulators! https://youtu.be/td6QdOnMvnk

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  Friend to Macintoshes everywhere @mac84tv has put the PicoIDE through a gauntlet of vintage IDE-equipped Macs (and a couple PCs for good measure)! See how it fared: https://youtu.be/e00F8KIFc6A

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  Best print I’ve gotten on #GlobalTalk so far this year #meowmeowmeow

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  Just because I’m deep in getting #PicoIDE into production doesn’t mean that #PicoGUS is standing still. Delphius and wbcbz7 are in the middle of implementing some pretty awesome things (and on the original RP2040 hardware)! Keep your eyes peeled 👀

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  When I said #PicoGUS wasn’t being left behind, I wasnt joking! This is a regular ol’ PicoGUS being a Sound Blaster 16, detected and working in Windows 98:

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  getting serious... it's panel time #PicoIDE

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  As the #PicoIDE campaign on Crowd Supply enters its final hours (https://www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics/picoide), @ctrlaltrees has come out with a fantastic video all about the PicoIDE! And wow it looks good in that baby AT case. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG_t0Ti3_rY

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  $300k with 9 hours to go! 😵‍💫#PicoIDE https://www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics/picoide