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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 17/04/2026

I should probably update my OS.

Bash command prompt showing a linux system with an uptime of 368 days

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Ferg @fergojisan.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I'm starting my Extra Life 2025 stream in a few minutes. Please donate if you can, or share the link and come and join us in the chat www.youtube.com/live/34uUk5q...

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Extra Life 2025, part one

Hello! I'm sorry you haven't heard much from me this year. I still wanted to do Extra Life but I did not promote it as much as I could have. I will be doing ...

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8-bit Relics @8bit-relics.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

In case you don't know, I've been working in a new Atari 8-bit emulator (well, a new UI for Atari800 to be precise). Despite the version 1.0.4, it is still a work in progress but already usable! github.com/pedgarcia/fu...

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GitHub - pedgarcia/fujisan: Cross-platform Atari 8-bit Emulator based on Atari800

Cross-platform Atari 8-bit Emulator based on Atari800 - pedgarcia/fujisan

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 17/08/2025

Thought you were about to grind the rail, which is extra impressive on a road bike.

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 08/08/2025

The holy grail of Atari 8-bits at VCF West. The San Lorenzo Computer Club brought three 1450XLD computers to the show. First time I've ever seen with one, let alone three. I even got the V: device to output some phonemes from its built-in speech chip.

3 prototype Atari 1450XLD computers on a table, each with a monitor attached. The leftmost has cutouts where the floppy drives were mounted, the middle has hacked 1050 drives in place of the original bezel, and the rightmost has drives mounted in the original bezel.

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 19/07/2025

I want to say "I told you so." I should say "now do you understand?"

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 18/07/2025

I am not enjoying all the capitulation.

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INIT HELLO @init-hello.org · 01/05/2025

Registration for INIT HELLO is now open through June 30! Capacity is limited, so register soon! init-hello.org/2025/05/regi...

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Registration is Open - INIT HELLO

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 18/03/2025

I remember finding this as a kid! I think it was pressing up and down on the joystick at the same time would get you to levitate & scroll up into the game code.

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 18/03/2025

www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAt... That's it. That's the... uh... skeet.

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 10/01/2025

Thanks, I was using mpv on linux but VLC on win. Any recommendations for Android? mpv-android is what's available on f-droid.

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 10/01/2025

I was super impressed with how readable the FFmpeg source code is. It's the biggest project that I've been able to dive into and (sorta, kinda) understand.

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 27/12/2024

"First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price."

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LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

“My wife complains that open office will never print on Tuesdays” A bizarre sentence; which kicked off one of the most interesting bug hunts in Ubuntu’s history. It all starts with some goofy pattern matching.

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 18/12/2024

Another great video of yours. :) The debugger has a lot of C64 tools that I hope have equivalents for the Atari, but if not... I am familiar with the internals of the atari800 emulator, so maybe I can help bring feature parity for the Atari.

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 18/12/2024

Yes, Atari 8-bit with a minor in Apple ][+. I have been out of the retro scene for a couple of years, but am slowly returning. 6502 assembly never seems to leave my head completely, so I am excited to check out the Retro Debugger.

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 16/12/2024

Thanks for producing this video. It pushed me over the edge to finally install (and try to figure out) Ghidra -- a hot mess of a program, but it seems to be the de facto free alternative to IDA Pro. I can only imagine how much time it took you to become that adept where you can write extensions!

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LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Ever wondered why ~ represents the home directory on unix systems? It’s an artifact of a very particular keyboard. The Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminal was quite popular in the 1970s, and happens to have a HOME key that is also a tilde. Notice anything else?

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 07/12/2024

#atari8bitbot 10 GRAPHICS 8:COLOR 1 15 ? " PEEK(20) PEEK(53770)" 20 S=160/256 30 X1=0 40 P=20 50 GOSUB 1000 60 X1=160 70 P=53770 80 GOSUB 1000 90 END 1000 FOR I=1 TO 100 1010 X=PEEK(P)*S 1020 Y=PEEK(P)*S 1030 PLOT X+X1,Y 1040 NEXT I 1050 RETURN

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 06/12/2024

I hope to get back to the podcast in the new year. In the meantime, this is a surprisingly optimistic take from a formerly imprisoned Russian opposition leader. I need optimism as we head into 4 years of the stupidest people in power in the US. www.vox.com/world-politi...

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He thought he would die in Putin’s gulag. Now he has a message for the world.

Leading Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza tells Vox the world needs to start preparing now for Putin’s fall.

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 05/12/2024

404Media does such good work. I fear for their continued existence, probably destined to be sued (like Media Matters) in the eastern district of Texas by some right wing billionaires.

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 02/12/2024

I keep The Guardian as my primary news site also... Buuuut, I think them as having a left of center bias, certainly in their editorials. It's concerning that factual reporting can be considered left leaning in this day and age.

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

This week's interview! Mary Eisenhart was editor of MicroTimes, a free, advertising-supported magazine in California. The first issue was May 1984, and Mary remained at the magazine until 1998, producing more than 180 issues. They're available on Internet Archive now. youtu.be/oysXRGhQf0s

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Mary Eisenhart, MicroTimes magazine editor — interview

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 28/11/2024

Definitely reminds me of the AppleWin debugger color scheme. :)

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 28/11/2024

Looks great! Nothing like an ambitious project to be able to understand a new language. Source code anywhere yet? It would be fun to play around with.

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xot @xot.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Yes! I built a new emulator in C# with the MonoGame/XNA library. I don't think it's too bad for my first C# project. It's very similar to my first emulator but now it has many parts I could not realize originally. Much more is needed but I haven't been able to work on it for about six months.

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 28/11/2024

@xot.bsky.social Where are you with your emulation projects? It looks like you may have moved on to C#?

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 28/11/2024

This feels like the bird-site of old.

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 26/11/2024

I hadn't posted to twitter in several years, finally got around to deleting it today. I'm looking forward to some schadenfreude as they try to turn ex-twitter into the "everything app". Like, who's going to trust them with their bank account?

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 23/11/2024

It was an interesting article, but even as it was refreshing to hear from women in the industry, it felt like the undercurrent of sexism was in every question, answer, and editorial decision.

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 23/11/2024

There's a lengthy sidebar in the middle that talks about myths related to women video game players. It ends the way the article should have ended, talking about the need for more young girls to be introduced to computers.

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 23/11/2024

The article ends talking with Sue Currier, who believes many women are reluctant to send in their programs to be evaluated. She said "I maintain women can do anything they want", but then sidesteps the pervasive sexism & puts the fault back on women by saying "Sometimes we're our own worst enemies."

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 23/11/2024

Dona Bailey, the co-author of Centipede, left Atari due to "fraternity burnout". She said "after a while, I just wasn't comfortable, and I think it reflected in my work". She continued, "maybe women are discouraged by the male domination in this business."

The final page of the article, two columns in the top half of the page.

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 23/11/2024

Roberta Williams (probably the best known woman programmer of the time) is quoted with baked-in sexism, stating "women are better than men at writing and verbal communication" and "men usually excel at math and logic". Writing an adventure game is "easier for women to do".

Article continues, with pictures of Susan Forner and Dona Bailey (the author of Centipede).

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 23/11/2024

She also talks with some men. The eponymous owner of Dave Nutting Associates calls the women who work for him "girls" and throws around a bunch of stereotypes, e.g. "women are better at creating imagery" and "they have more of a sense of feeling and color than men do".

The article continues with a picture of Roberta Williams and a sidebar about myths of women arcade game players.

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 23/11/2024

She interviewed 15 women in the technical side of the video game industry. The article is filled with quotes, like this more hopeful one from Susan Forner: "It's getting to the point where it doesn't matter whether you're a woman, but how many programming languages you know."

Text continues, with images of Sue Currier and Janice Hendricks

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 23/11/2024

The author described her love for video games beginning with Pac-Man, and how "by the time Ms. Pac-Man came along, women had all but liberated one of the last bastions of male privacy -- the arcade."

First page of 5 page article titled "Welcome to the Club" by Anne Krueger. There's an image of a Pac-person superimposed on a ♀ glyph

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Rob/Player/Missile @playermissile.com · 23/11/2024

I remember reading this for one of my episodes (playermissile.com/podcast/ep03...), there was an article on women in the video game industry. 🧵 (Thanks to @decafjedi.bsky.social for the thread that prompted me to look back at this article.)

Cover of Video Games Magazine, March 1983, with various scan line renders of video game characters in a court room, with a Pac person as the judge

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