Pixelbrick·قبل 4 أشهر·discussI'd of said I had limited appetite for April fools gubbins this year too but this still made me smile :)
Pixelbrick·قبل 5 أشهر·discussI used a pirate copy of it to lay out a group newspaper project for English class in the early 90s. Our teacher gave me an A and the rest of the group a B. It was alot of fun learning to use it.
Pixelbrick·قبل 5 أشهر·discussI look after one at a University that gets used for teaching & outreach & there's definitely no hydraulics on the thing.
Pixelbrick·قبل 9 أشهر·discussCan't think of a way that brains doing this is adaptive in an evolutionary sense.
Pixelbrick·قبل سنتين·discussYou've clearly given as much effort to thinking about this as I've wasted worrying about political economy on the Isle of Sodor.
Pixelbrick·قبل سنتين·discussAs a Scouser with an interest in physics I'm ashamed to have known nothing about this :(
Pixelbrick·قبل سنتين·discussIf you enjoy the 'cute bugs doing science' SF subgenre then his incandescence is definitely worth a look.https://www.gregegan.net/INCANDESCENCE/Incandescence.html
Pixelbrick·قبل 3 سنوات·discussAwesome find, the author is lucky indeed. I've got a 2465 (no B) that I love dearly & have spent too much time & money on.
Pixelbrick·قبل 3 سنوات·discussThere's also the superfo harlequin that disintegrates the ULA into 74 series logic:https://www.bytedelight.com/?product_cat=harlequin128I'm currently building the 48k version
Pixelbrick·قبل 3 سنوات·discussTake another look at the spec, looks like it has the dual core PRUs, an R5 & the A4 - whoops M4
Pixelbrick·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss+1Measure the voltages on the connector. There's a pinout diagram further down on this page:https://retrogamestart.com/answers/replace-c64-power-supply-...I've seen a bad power supply kill one of the two CIAs, the color ram & damage the SID on a C64C