Wasn't there an article somewhere a year or two back about about how they made NTV work?

(watch it turn out to be a decade ago)

Surely there are hardware timer interrupts etc that you can measure the interval of to determine if you're running a high CPU clock rate? Or just probe at extended hardware to see if it exists.

The Meccano Hellschreiber machine standing on a small folding table, with a big pile of paper tape printout piled up on the floor below it.

Another successful Sunday in Hell making paper spaghetti, with my new speed control circuit finally working flawlessly.
Hard to tell how good your own signal is, but it looked a lot cleaner on the waterfall of a websdr with the little changes I made to the tone generator this week.

Hedge update: it's been trimmed

If for any reason somebody happened to want a retrofest 2026 teletext page they're welcome to help themself to it from the editor link 😁

Don't let it be said I simply repost the same old crap again and again – Since last year I've created lowercase letters! 😄

✳︎ please change the code so that posts load again and users don't get error messages

well put it this way, when I click on your post, I get this 😆

I'm intrigued by the notion of interviewing Mike Reid about Alf, though suspect it might just be @benbaker.bsky.social doing an impression.

The edit adding that they see others are aware is sublime 😆

They walk* among us‡ Mrs Dane!

*Watch YouTube
‡At home on their PC

Never mind all that, SET THE ASPECT RATIO PROPERLY

If only you could work out what they have in common... 😄

Argh, I can't even find a photo of one of these. Did anyone buy one? 😄

Doom Guy shooting a barrel through a MIDGRATE, but it's also a working door.

No *you* spent two days figuring out how to make an impossible door in DOOM.

A Look Inside: BBC NICAM 3 Decoder YouTube video by Nathan Dane

youtu.be/rfM6kEGlIJo

Announcing BeebEm v4.23. The main new features in this release are:

* Support for modern game controllers, such as XBox controllers
* Support for the Acorn TMS5220 Speech System
* Improvements to the debugger, including Z80 and ARM disassemblers

Download here: www.mkw.me.uk/beebem/

a close up of a computer motherboard with a lot of electrical components on it . Alt: extract from the intro to the IBA Engineering Announcements

*erects pneumatic mast and changes polarisation*

Level 2.5 train art FTW

That reminds me I saw a sad thing on Thursday, a face-but-no-name Henry chucked in the WEEE pile in the yard.
What's most distressing is that parts are available so whatever was wrong it could almost certainly have been repaired until it was abandoned in the rain for however long. 😫

Strangely as soon as we bought a vacuum cleaner with a face I started having conversations with it. But if it had any big-tech internet-of-shit surveillance hardware it wouldn't be in the house 😆

something something hot grits

Q-tips is a brand name. We refer to them by their generic name; "ear pokers" 😆

Or was, iirc it's since shut.

Google Maps Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

We did! Behold Smithy's Kaff! www.google.com/maps/@52.457...

Putting the clocks wrong - zxguesser on Twitch zxguesser went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Just Chatting VOD now.

and a VOD for any somehow even weirder people, who want to look at some clocks showing the wrong time at random points for the next week 😆

Even made a couple of extra clocks today just so I could change them, such is my madness 😆

Putting the clocks wrong - zxguesser on Twitch zxguesser went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Just Chatting VOD now.

and a VOD for any somehow even weirder people, who want to look at some clocks showing the wrong time at random points for the next week 😆

ZXGuesser - Twitch ZXGuesser streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join their community.

live streaming my clocks changing, for some reason 😅
www.twitch.tv/zxguesser

close up of the weird computer's interface showing a little image of a mouse on, presumably, the trackpad

Something something Terence Cuneomputer send tweet