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My inspiration at learning TurboPascal and writing my first little games was this game! How cool. Very fun to see it again! Thanks.

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Nice! I was learning Pascal waay back at school. And this is my first game that I'm dabbing into game dev with, as well. What a small world. :)

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If you liked the Living Computer Museum then you may be interested in the https://icm.museum/ Interim Computer Museum.


If you're ever close to Bonn, Germany, check Out the Artihmeum[0]. It starts at the top floor with the oldest "computers" and gets more modern as you walk down. They even have an original Enigma encryption machine.

You can interact with some of them, but not all.

0. https://www.arithmeum.uni-bonn.de/


You're underselling it. The bottom floor has vintage hand-cranked calculators that you're allowed to compute with!


What a wild world. I also just got a kinesis keyboard, and pay for keybr.com but i have the freestyle2 the one that is split down the middle. I've made it to X but would really like to get my speed up on the number keys and function keys too. Good luck!


Can anyone help clarify what license this is released under? The original was AGPL if the rewrite is permissively licensed that would be pretty cool.


It looks like it's MIT: https://github.com/chrieke/prettymapp/blob/main/setup.py#L15...


It’s MIT but based on an AGPL project? Hmm. Something is fishy.


Probably just an honest mistake. But they should definitely look into fixing that.


The original is AGPL, and the new one is MIT. I wonder if that's even legal?

I'm not sure if this is really a rewrite, or simply an adaptation. I don't think the license could have changed, be advised.


Why would that be "pretty cool"?


I use an app called Cinch but there are a few third party apps that do it. I wish I could run GNOME on my macOS


Why not educate the people in need about the tons of other free email services that exist? Outlook, tutanota, protonmail, yahoo, gmx, fastmail, zoho theres plenty more but you get the idea.

The only way to win is to not play the game.


I think it'd be wonderful if any project with a social presence would consider mastodon. Even when it's just a bot that parrots what the twitter account says it is nice to not have to use twitter.


The EU is on Mastodon now. It makes a lot of sense for them not be reliant on commercial organizations in other jurisdictions for getting the word out.

This won't mean they'll stop using Twitter -- just that it gives them an alternataive.


They have/had a blog where they publish decisions like "batch of wood recalled for good reason" which outlets would sensationalise as "Grandnephew of Hitler banned toothpicks since adults are too dumb".


It would be nice if people stopped saying "On Mastodon" and said "On ActivityPub" instead -- there are a number of ActivityPub servers and I really hope Mastodon as a name doesn't eclipse the fact that it's just an instance of an ActivityPub server.


I usually hear it referred to as the "fediverse", which seems catchier and solves the concern you have.


Fediverse also has the advantage that it refers to the community rather than the specific protocol. When mastodon spoke the ostatus protocol with gnusocial that was also fediverse.


I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Mastodon, is in fact, ActivityPub/Mastodon, or as I've recently taken to calling it, ActivityPub plus Mastodon.

;-)


Saying "On ActivityPub" instead of "On Mastodon" is likely a very good way to prevent any sort of mass adoption.


Mastodon is the name that has traction, being pedantic about this will just confuse users and reduce adoption.


Is this a joke? ActivityPub is a protocol isn't it? People are "on twitter", not "on http"


It's more like recommending a blog that's 'on Google Reader' vs. 'on RSS' (has an RSS feed). Or Matt Levine's 'Gmail newsletter' is popular around here.


I've tried mastadon, I've read some of the code, I've read the specs. I was really excited about it but then I started using it and its just not up to the bar of mainstream user expectations.

The bar has risen for social media sites since 2000. Its not enough to slap some SPA code together, get a basic working data model with CRUD functionality, and toss it into the ether. People aren't excited by a working toot (like) button.


> People aren't excited by a working toot (like) button.

Doesn't seem like you've used it very much if you believe the toot button is a like button.


You're right a proper definition of a toot is:

"Posts are called "toots" instead of "tweets", as is the case on Twitter."

I mixed up a like button with a tweet-like object. Either way i'll say it again, people aren't excited by the ability to create basic posts anymore.


I’ve never used mastodon, but it’s hard to take your judgements at any value when it seems like you haven’t either.


>People aren't excited by a working toot (like) button. They seem pretty excited by this on Twitter. You haven't explained what you think are "mainstream user expectations".


> The bar has risen for social media sites since 2000.

It has?


I think this is a good solution for businesses that are starting to outgrow their home garages. Here's my feedback:

When I read this post and looked at the site I thought you were offering a turnkey drop shipping solution service. I also had the impression that you offered warehousing and other logistical services.

I know this is not the case, but it took me several minutes to figure out what exactly was happening.


Wouldn't this be more of an open source Ebay then, if the logistic components, which make up much of Amazon's value, are not there?


There’s also gopher and Gemini hosting.


Heck ya! :-)


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