You can get even more phosphor effects (like in a dark room) with the "hot rendering" option in the context menu of the emulated screen. :-)
Preconfigured shortcut: masswerk.at/pet/?prg=vor...
Another way to control the game is by joystick emulation (cursor keys & space). To toggle this on/off, use the the CAPS-LOCK key.
(I.e.: caps-lock active: cursor keys and space control joystick input, off: normal keyboard input. There's also an Icon for this, which should give feedback.)
A.I. companies addressing potential investors
Well, according to their own word, now they are really, most scaringly, unspeakably dangerous! 😀
One of the few things that still keep surprising and never let you down is the variety of failure modes of Bluesky these days. ❤️
The top part is from the PET game "Vortex" by Magic Carpet Software, 1982.
Play it here in (online) emulation: masswerk.at/pet/?prg=vor...
(For details and downloads, see masswerk.at/pet/prgs.)
2309 The strict conditions for legitimate defense by military force require rigorous consideration. The gravity of such a decision makes it subject to rigorous conditions of moral legitimacy. At one and the same time: • the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain; • all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective; • there must be serious prospects of success; • the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. The power of modem means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition. These are the traditional elements enumerated in what is called the "just war" doctrine.
Mr. Mike Johnson is correct: there is a so-called doctrine of "just war", catechism #2309.
Quite impressively, the current is-it-a-war-is-it-an-operation-nobody-knows-but-it-has-to-be-something fails to check any of the four preconditions, which must apply all at once.
#irony
How was this even possible, given the wheel was only patented in May 2001?
Compare:
www.newscientist.com/article/dn96...
(Spoiler: the patent was withdrawn in 2014.)
And a more modest example, sans lamp:
Before Bluesky: the gossip bench.
"America, Colby [Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby] and his colleagues told the cardinal, has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side."
(Apparently, this already happened in January, BTW.)
When you think it couldn't get more weird…
"officials in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See."
(via Hacker News)
www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-pentag...
In other news, Trump has finally formulated a clear objective for his war: "Well, the thing…if I had the choice what I like to do: take the oil, because it is there for the taking it."
Taking him by his words, do other nations want to chime in in the "the taking it"? Apparently, it's free…
Trump announces crimes against humanity: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will".
Moreover, he claims "Complete and Total Regime Change".
edition.cnn.com/2026/04/07/w...
Sketches of the moon in various phases by Galileo. (Source: Wikipedia)
Trigger warning (gendered celestial object):
Sensitive persons may want to avoid the news in the next few days or weeks: the Moon has pronouns. While in most Western languages a she, in German, the Moon is identified as a he.
In other news, FIFA should be dispanded immediately for awarding this it's-war-because-I-didn't-like-Obama's-signature guy a peace price.
Nicht zu vergessen: der Titan von Griffen!
It looks like confidence comes at the cost of consistent white space? 😀
"They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
It's the careless Tom & Daisy times.
Claymation characters Wallace (a human) and Gromit (a dog) on the moon with their rocket in the background.
If Artemis is the first manned mission to the Moon in 50+ years, explain this
There may be even an erlier hint in "VCS": this is as much an acronym as "PET". In actuality, this stands for V100S, like V34 and so on ("S" may be for "Stella", or just for "single"), an early communication standard, but then they (Warner-Atari) dropped the modem part for cost savings.
That made me thinking. Until now, I fell to the common misconception that the VCS was renamed as the 2600, because this positioned it as the Atari 5200's little brother in the lineup. But it may have been just the other way round and the 5200 was named so, because it promised double the baud rate! 😀
With this thing playing 6 copies of Seaquest, at once, they stood no chance! It's the true story of the Battle of the Atlantic.
The real thing, the MARJAC ROM Scanner, actually yes!
Compare www.the-liberator.net/site-files/r...
There, you have me!
(I actually wasn't sure and thought the sides were thick enough. But the comparison leaves no room for excuses. I guess, I'm seriously out-nerded. 😀)
I've to admit, it's a quick and shameless repost from 2021, but, for an excuse, a first time on the blue sky.
Compare: www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/20...
(So, the images are notably pre-genAI.)
Who hasn't fond memories of playing the 128 byte RAM version of Space Travel? 😀
Now this is some rare piece of equipment: An Atari 2600 "Heavy Sixer" running UNIX System V.
The venerable VCS is attached to a box branded “pdp11/2600” and runs System V from a DEC cartridge. TTY is looped through the Spectravideo CompuMate keyboard add-on. Must investigate…
To be honest, no! What is this even about? Clearly, I can't count from 0 to 255 in just 0.001281 seconds. What a question!?!
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