"There is no Star Trek in production or greenlit for the first time in nearly a decade, and the sets for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Starfleet Academy coming down means it's truly the end of an era."
There are episodes yet to be broadcast, but still ... :'-(
I will give Strange New Worlds credit for being closer to the spirit of Star Trek than anything in recent memory but the last genuine Star Trek was Voyager ending in 2001, maybe extending to Enterprise if one is feeling generous. Everything after that was soulless monetization of a franchise by people who didn't understand it.
"He's dead, Jim" and the remains are completely desiccated.
| Works Perfectly | Mostly Works | Has Lots Of Bugs
-------------------+-----------------+--------------+-----------------
Default Install | | |
-------------------+-----------------+--------------+-----------------
With Add-Ons | X | |
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Major Config Work | | |
i.e. Declare its working quality after the install is done. The install may take multiple steps. (In this case, copying some files over, apparently.)
Just curious what you mean by "fixing the audio"? In GBA emulation or on the hardware?
I'm aware that if you need/want PCM audio, there's going to be mixing, probably with a software library, and significant CPU use for it. Is emulated GBA audio buggy?
One of my first gigs was Game Boy and Game Gear programming. I know the GBA allows DMG audio compatibility and, with all its constraints, well it sure does keep things simple. And emulation is reliable AFAIK.
I see what happened, I was replying to a different comment, that did mention the GBA audio, when I wrote that, but somehow ended up replying to this one.
The TI-84+ graphing calculator is still popular and a current model and it is Z80 based. (Though I doubt you'll find a DIP40 socket in one for a swap.)
The TI-84+ uses a TI REF 84PLUSB (or variant) ASIC that has a Z80-compatible core in it, not a Zilog Z80, and, as you say, definitely not a DIP40 part.
Thank you! I had a job coding Z80 assembly "back in the day" and grew to love its instruction set so I'm not surprised there is legacy and value to keep stuffing wee Z80ish cores into modern devices.
TIC-80 is wonderful to play in. Besides being free/open, another advantage over PICO-8 is TIC-80 has native support for Fennel. i.e. you can code within the system editor in Lua OR Fennel (or half a dozen other languages!) You don't have to edit and transpile to Lua on the desktop as you would with PICO-8. This has some value in debugging with error messages and line numbers.
It's also just plain cool to rock the TIC-80 editor fullscreen with narrow font, coding natively in Lisp and publishing the result to a webpage you can share.
I wish the iOS (app) deployment story was a little smoother for TIC-80.
> If anything, doesn't it add anxiety as you watch the game?
> Is anxiety interesting?
Yes. Adding anxiety generally makes things more interesting. Think of watching a story or a film or a game play out. Good stories often involve giving the reader some anxiety. Tension. Not knowing what's going to happen, but being somehow invested in it ... to stay engaged.
I had two calls from "Apple Support" very very much like this in the past two weeks. Both times, their claim was that someone was trying to reset my Apple password and they were trying to protect me.
Both times, they asked me to go to a BS "apple-support" website and enter a six digit number they'd read out to me, where I'd see a transcript of this very phone call so I could then have full assurance that they were legit and working for Apple.
Uh huh.
And both times, when I asked them to just send me a quick email from their address at Apple (any address, even a generic inbox or support address) to assure me they worked for Apple ... pause ... [click]. Yeah.
"The limiting factor in urine distillation is actually the high level of calcium
from disintegrating astronaut bone, a nice example of how problems in space find
ways to compound one another."
Sobering. One of the many long term effects of life away from Earth.[1]
With humanity's future probably (?) driving more of us to leave the planet, I'm glad these things are being studied. Where there's a will, there's a way.
They need to come up with either spinning ships or suits that compress you enough to activate the bones (they are piezoelectric so they naturally catch calcium ions when under stress).
They mention a botched drug study but I'm curious why that wasn't redone correctly given how many years we've been at this. And growing plants for that matter. Hop to it guys, we have to get this figured out while we have a station.
There are episodes yet to be broadcast, but still ... :'-(
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