Mr Robot

Mr Robot

@atari8bit.net

Liberal buzzkill. Self educated Morlock. IT professional for 40+ years. Into old computers, retro gaming systems and emulation, graphic design, 3d modeling, electronics, woodwork and cooking. Jay Miner Fanboy, Hufflepuff. 🇬🇧 https://atari8bit.net

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If I rename Jade Empire.iso to Jade Empire.xiso macOS will helpfully rename it to Jade Empire.xiso.iso and turn on 'hide extensions' for that file for me. Thanks Apple! That's exactly what I wanted to happen /s

Now I just have to right click on the file, select Get Info from the popup menu, find the full filename field and change it there. Don't forget to uncheck the Hide Extensions checkbox while you are in there or you'll be going back in again when you notice.

My first July 4th as an American citizen. Mixed feelings today. The 250th anniversary should have made my first Independence Day as an American an amazing experience.

I noticed that there is almost no footage of the Iran conflict. The newest I could find, is back in March. That stands in stark contrast to the coverage the Afghanistan and Iraq wars got almost daily. Where's all the footage of bombs flying through windows and armored vehicles exploding?

Reddit getting heavy handed with bans. I got a 1 week sub ban for suggesting the servicemen not getting a vaccine after kegsbreath removed the requirement was natural selection. Then I got a 3 day site ban for suggesting the best way for a Tesla owner to fix that problem was to burn their swasticar.

Ban over. Posted a comment on a Reddit post about a Cybertruck being stuck on a beach... "You got a swasticar, you are on your own, maybe leon cares..." 7 day ban.

Seven day ban over, this was in my inbox this morning Thanks for submitting an appeal. We reviewed your request and gave the following a second look: After reviewing, the Reddit admin team found that the content wasn’t in violation of Reddit’s rules. Thanks for nothing!

OMG! I'm getting a C64 Ultimate for my birthday! Should never have been named as Basic Beige... Should be Classic Beige. None of the silly RGB stuff Thank you @ikkleart.com ❤️

Struggling to get @stinkyox.bsky.social's Polybius running on my AYN Thor in GameHub. It's a pretty amazing bit of software and most of the indie Steam games I've tried so far run out of the box. Still lots of parameters to tweak so it's not game over yet. Heres a pic of BallisticNG as eye candy.

Winner winner! Gamenative is coming along very well, just added GOG support, looks like it's kicking Gamehub-lite's ass in the compatibility stakes as well

Ever wanted to jailbreak your Kindle to read other ebook formats but couldn't because your Kindle was running the latest firmware? Now is the time. A new jailbreak is out and it works perfectly on current Kindles. Go to kindlemodding.org and follow the very simple step by step before they patch it!

I caved. I just spent $65 on a mousemat. I don't even use a mouse! It was $44 but the tariffs and shipping pushed the price up to $65. I did a custom design for it. The media on the right side will all be actual size when printed. I can now retire my old smaller one.

Is it just me or is it really hard to keep up with all the conversations in all the channels in all the servers in discord? I'm new and still at the watch and learn phase of using it and it's like a never ending stream of messages!

If you use a frontend to launch emulators and you use MAME, you may not have realized that there are some games playable in MAME that don't need any roms to run. These games are early TTL games that don't have any chips in them. There are four of them working, Pong, Pong Doubles, Rebound & Breakout.

You can launch these games from the MAME menu or the command line but if you use a frontend or retroarch they won't be appearing in your game lists because there isn't a rom file so you may not even realize they are there.

Haven't refreshed my MAME ROM's since 271, just grabbing a 280 set. Such a waste of bandwidth, I delete most of them after downloading. I suppose I should just grab the ones I want but it's so much easier to grab them all and cull after.

AI: "draw a pencil sketch of the head and shoulders of Sir Clive Sinclair looking from right to left" Result: Patrick Stewart playing Sir Clive Sinclair...

AI Prompt "draw a photorealistic image of a commodore amiga 1200 computer viewed from directly overhead". Image output... Thanks GPT5! I think my limited art skills aren't under any threat yet.

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I have a tremendous idea: SaaP Software as a Product Instead of paying every month, you just buy it once and then you just kind of keep it Who's with me