anthk's comments

On: La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993 (session replay)

[anthk]

ZX +3? If not, he was brave...

[fipar → anthk]

I don't remember the specifics but I can confirm he was brave :)

I know a local company at some point had a disk-drive-like interface to better use tapes (HiLow Datadrive) so maybe he had that, because saving work to cassette the way I saved things to cassette in the 80s would have been painful (not that it wasn't painful in the 80s of course!)

My recollection is it was basically the same computer he had since the 80s. I always have trouble identifying a specific sinclair version because I had clones (tk-90x, then tk-95).

On: Infidel goes wild

[anthk]

Inform6 it's really easy, it's like the perfect OOP language to teach text adventures to older Elementary kids.

On: Infidel goes wild

[anthk]

Inform7 targeting the Z8 machine or Glulx it's far superior to any LLM crap.

On: Make Tmux the OS

[anthk]

Compared to W98SE, the actual OS for home users (almost no one used ME), Windows XP was a godsend.

On: Butterflies use optical illusions to dodge predators

[anthk]

This is Micheal Levin-level mind blowing. His theory can be shortened to "there's intelligence in really small discrete parts of Biological entities".

[teekert → anthk]

Trait forms by chance, trait confers advantage, next generation has more individuals with trait. No intelligence needed to climb mount improbably, just massive parallel trial and error and selection.

[suddenlybananas → anthk]

How is that different from just saying "evolutionary adaptive changes can seem clever".

On: Tcl/Tk 9.1

[anthk]

Lisp a la Unix way.

On: On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted

[anthk]

Nvi2 it's almost POSIX vi+iconv, thus, Unicode support. Good enough for me.

On: Video CDs Break Windows Explorer

[anthk]

You can use WinCDEmu to mount the bin/cue image in a libre way.

On VCD's, IDK about Windows, but by extracting the DAT file under Unix you could just get the MPEG stream as if it were a file.

On: Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?

[anthk]

I'd happily run ITS on that.

On: Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini

[anthk]

A dual CPU board with a late 1GHZ Pentium III and a good video card might run it at lowest settings.

[pjmlp → anthk]

That isn't the hardware being discussed here.