Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 29/09/2026Most of the keys, even most of the function keys, are the same... but there's enough of a diff that there shold be a specific keyboard map used when "-machine tandy" is used. 100
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 28/09/2026Then, on a hunch, I looked up the Tandy 1000 SX service manual archive.org/details/Tand... and checked the keyboard codes (what values are sent to the computer when you press a given key). It turns out some of these (cf. the function keys!) differ from what e.g. Linux uses github.com/torvalds/lin... 100
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 28/09/2026A problem I've noticed is that pressing F12 doesn't seem to be detected in-game. At first, I thought this was because F12 is used as a "host key" (does special things with other keys in Dosbox-X), but it's still a no even after explicitly changing it... 101
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 27/09/2026 hxtxxmas .zip from www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog... $ flatpak run com.dosbox_x.DOSBox-X -machine tandy -set cputype=8086 -set cycles=400 -c "mount d /home/conrad/Games/Tandy/" -c "D:" -c "cd Xmas1987" -c "XMAS" 000
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 27/09/2026From page 3 of the 1984 Radio Shack computer catalogue www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c19... "Trained experts are on hand to help you." Apparently so! ;D 000
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 26/09/2026From page 17 of the 1986 Radio Shack computer catalogue www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c19... 000
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 25/09/2026On a (dark) tangent, that reminded me of this comic, from 2009. Source in alt text. 000
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 22/09/2026OMG LOL she looks like she wants to make a coat out of puppies too. bsky.app/profile/conr... 000
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 15/09/2026You know how some Republicans just can't stop talking about gay people, and denouncing their "sinful" lifestyle, and talking in detail about the frequent S-E-X they have? Yeah. Same thing, but about a Muslim guy. 000
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 15/09/2026"The Panasonic Q is a [Japanese] hybrid version of the GameCube with a standard DVD player, developed by Panasonic in a strategic alliance with Nintendo... Its stainless steel case is completely revised with a DVD-sized front-loading tray, [and] a backlit LCD screen with playback controls" 000
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 15/09/2026LOL my son picked up a used Panasonic Toughbook CF-31 Mk. 6, and right now he's using it as a Panasonic Q to play Pikmin 1 ;) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameCube 1145
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 14/09/2026Known working: $ ./bin2video -s 16 -b 1 -c 3 -f 30 -e -i ../1K.7z -o 1K.mp4 Test: $ ./bin2video -s 16 -b 1 -c 1 -f 30 -e -i ../1K.7z -o 1K.mp4 110
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 11/09/2026Pikmin 1 "The Happy End" video (transcoded from the H4M file on the Gamecube disk by my son :) 000
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 07/09/2026How long until DHH starts working for Microsoft? 🤔 BTW, interesting that MS now makes over 2x from Office, compared to Windows itself; it would be a tempting target if MS is worried about lost revenue that they can't get from 365... 000
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 07/09/2026Yes, flat earthers, because we live on a planet a that's only a couple hundred feet wide 🙄 1280
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 04/09/2026I remember when Audacity looked like this; version 4 is a major UI improvement! 000
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 28/08/2026Dutch Elm Disease in Saskatoon www.ckom.com/2026/08/25/n... Well this sucks; I drove over to Carleton- you can see the infected trees dying. 010
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 27/08/2026#Ubuntu #Linux 26.04.1 (Resolute Raccoon) release imminent! 100
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 27/08/2026Wow, I haven't seen a tattoo of corporate marketing that pathetic since the Zune guy. arstechnica.com/information-... (ICYMI the Zune was Microsoft's lame iPad knockoff two decades ago) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zune 010
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 23/08/2026Yeah, i raised my eyebrow at that too. But I think it's just missing an Oxford comma en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_... Either that or this 'Maple MAGA' guy is so far right that anyone left of Hitler is too 'liberal' for his liking 😒 000
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 22/08/2026My circa 2021 ThinkPad running Ubuntu (not known to be the most svelte Linux, ne?) 26.04, on a fresh bootup idles at... ~1.4 GB RAM :) bsky.app/profile/conr... 110
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 22/08/2026😭 Literally this old tweet being made real in the US right now... 05916
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 21/08/2026I don't have a fancy mouse to test with, but I just got back to my Ubuntu (26.04) system; double clicking the downloaded DEB opens it with App Center. Seems to run :) 200
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 20/08/2026And when you're all done, just shutdown and you can reboot back into your regular OS like nothing happened (unless you nuked it by selecting install... if so, then welcome to Linux! ;) 010
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 20/08/2026I'm getting a bunch of likes on that, so thought I'd take some pics of what booting from the thumb drive looks like. I don't run Windows, but vids like youtu.be/v51G7F17sw8 show process of making the drive in Windows with Rufus (pretty straightforward) Just select it on boot (F12 on my ThinkPad) 110
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 14/08/2026by @babycakesbbz.bsky.social on www.instagram.com/reel/DZgBMzu... 090
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 13/08/2026Say @jmkorhonen.fi I just noted something interesting... bsky.app/profile/conr... Also if you click on some of them, note the flag. 121
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 12/08/2026Not just these days; cf. this vid made when Vista was new (~2007) bsky.app/profile/conr... 000
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 11/08/2026I see where the problem starts... so this GEL is only accurate to 233? Need to look at documentation to figure out why :/ 100
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 11/08/2026I wrote a short little GEL script for finding the fractions, expecting to find more like 16/113, which have big gaps to the next. But instead, i found that from the 338th to 339th one, it's 3x, then 2x to *at least* a billion (i told it to stop there)... 100
Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 10/08/2026I am continuing work on the fractional approximation of pi that I was playing with 5 years ago x.com/ConradKnauer... Brute force confirmed the numbers i found then are increasingly accurate approximations of pi-3... Also 1/7 is actually the start point. 100