"I bought a vintage mechanical keyboard at the local flea market. Now, how do I plug this in?" ⌨️
The Olympia Traveller typewriters are of german design. They were originally introduced in 1969 but, from 1971, were manufactured in the former Yugoslavia – in Bugojno, modern day Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This one is from 1986 and it's in near perfect condition. The accent keys were jamming, but that turned out to be an easy fix.
It's relatively lightweight, only 4.5 Kg. 🏋️♂️
These three pictures assume square pixels, which is wrong. Instead, they should have 4:3 aspect ratios, right? 📺
Day of The Tentacle, yes. 320x200 on the PC is expected to be 4:3, and its pixels are not square.
The other two are debatable. Their arcade cabinets had 4:3 CRTs, but neither look right in 4:3. Street Fighter looks better close to 3:2, and Ghouls'n Ghosts looks OK in 16:10. In both cases, their pixels aren't square either.
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So this is my favorite way to learn a new language:
📖 use Busuu to learn the language and vocabulary
🙋♂️ get your texts corrected by native speakers on Busuu
🤖 ask ChatGPT about the reasons for the corrections and how to use certain words
May not be a popular opinion, but Hans Zimmer beats John Williams any day of the week. 🎼
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Threads tests something a lot similar to Tweetdeck: https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C7CQT2rLTeN/
So, that's what these strange approach detours are. Instead of holding in circles, (some) planes take a longer route around one of two defined arcs to serialize for landing.
Supposedly this saves fuel and reduces noise (by happening at higher altitudes).
Apple is angering large parts of the creative community by destroying some of their most valued tools.
A better ad would have looked like this. It was made by Apple 10 years ago.
History of Media: 10 years ago, the “Innovation” report of the New York Times was leaked. It was published in BuzzFeed News, a medium that no longer exists. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew-phelps-316398b0_ten-years-ago-today-the-new-york-times-activity-7196569671536377856-uqtT
Threads rolls out a chronological search for all users: https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C6_8zLPvaFA
Mais uma razão pela qual a opção (muito mais barata) de construir um aeroporto secundário na região de Lisboa nunca foi verdadeiramente considerada.
Construir um novo mega-aeroporto é uma forma do estado gastar dinheiro dos impostos (de todos os portugueses) em infraestrutura, enquanto esse dinheiro vai parar indirectamente ao bolso dos privados pela via da exploração dos terrenos do actual aeroporto.
É complicado resistir à pressão.
Geeks used to form a counterculture, chasing knowledge for self-improvement, and contributing to the commons as a combination of fun, exercising their skills, and regaining control over technology.
Geeks used to reject solutions and products under someone else's control as a matter of principle. They used to reject money-driven technologies and corporate propaganda.
What happened to that? 😢
This is the first official painting of King Charles and I really like it https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68981200?utm_source=social&utm_medium=threads&utm_campaign=@tibor
Apple copies the New York Times: If you pay 13 Dollars a month for Apple News+, you can now play games there as well. https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/05/apple-news-adds-a-new-original-game-to-boost-news-subscriptions/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=@tibor
You can now use Google like it used to be, with only text links and no images, videos or other media included.
https://mastodon.social/@searchliaison/112441219235077974
Street Fighter II (1991) needs no introduction. But what about the first?
I bet that a lot of people would react to this question with a mix of confusion and realization. For most, it's as if a first never existed – like Star Wars starting with episode IV (a moniker it only got three years later when The Empire Strikes Back was released).
But it did exist and, although flawed when played today, Street Fighter (1987) was a step ahead in the genre.
In the perennial discussion on why the Amiga lost to the PC, opinions often reduce to Doom and/or Commodore mismanagement.
But I think the root cause runs much deeper, is much subtler, and isn't Amiga-specific – it's just that other affected systems were all but dead by the time the Amiga died.
I believe all architectures somehow married to TV standards had their days numbered regardless. ⌛
My reasoning on this is a bit wonky. Bear with me...
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It's a reality check for those that complain #retro has gone mainstream when some dude wearing a Windows 95 t-shirt and hat doesn't go above 19th (out of 25) at #eurovision.
Perhaps he should have worn the #amiga logo instead?
Mr. Do is a circus clown, and clowns aren't creepy at all. Just look at these two flyers for "Do! Run Run" (1984), aren't they cute? 🤡 🔪
Mr. Do appears in a series of four arcade games by Universal (not the film studio) in 82, 83 and 84.
The first ("Mr. Do") is an obvious clone of Namco's "Dig Dug" (1982) with more colors and complexified mechanics. I like the original more.
The second ("Mr. Do's Castle") is the most fun to me.
The latter two are... OK, I guess. 🤷♂️
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