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going into another rabbit hole and found a bbs (cool) and found some ansi art i reallly love (cooler)
share some cool ansi art you've stumbled upon pls
This guy posted this somewhere, I can't remember where.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfe3VK7H6uI
Game called ASCIIDENT
Now he's working on an RPG and it's crazy how far he's come with this rendering style
I used to play this MUD at phidar.org:9000 that supported ansi color and it had ascii maps with every room. It's been down for over 10 years. I wish I could post pictures of that. It probably wouldn't be impressive by today's standards but for back then...
>>0x000002
> Game called ASCIIDENT
damn that looks sick. the technical know-how to do that is impressive.
also - found more ANSI art, from https://serionbbs.comwhere you can play Legend of the Red Dragon
>>0x000004
Wow. I'm really impressed by how cool this is. I'll have to check this out. I haven't played multi user terminal games since I was a pre-teen. I use a terminal everyday for general computer use but not for art, BBS, games, just utility. I probably should see what types of modern things people are doing in that space.
>>0x000005
> I probably should see what types of modern things people are doing in that space.
i was on it chatting the other day and was pleasantly surprised that people were actually on it and active. not a lot of them though, there were like 11 online in one room and 8 in another.
I like the idea of restoring old computers but I don't know. I also don't want to use loud potato computer that much.
At least they look cool.
how old are we talking? i think to sate your appetite for it you can consider doing some dumpster diving
recently found a discarded 10th gen i7 laptop with some graphics card i forgot. almost perfect condition. another time found a whole pc with a 2070 gpu, just needed to swap out the processor.
call me a trash panda but shit pays off for real
>>0x00000c
> shit pays off for real
damn that's crazy.
Dumpster diving get a certain reputation because a lot of people that do it are tweakers pathologically gathering trash to take home. But if you're really just keeping an eye out for stuff of value, that's awesome.
>>0x00000c
I read your blog post on this subject and left a comment. I thought other people might like to read it as well since its on this subject.
https://chxshire22.com/blog/2025/things-have-souls/
btw cool site design (picrel)
>>0x00000e
> btw cool site design (picrel)
thanks!
also i got around to repairing an "older" laptop last night (pic related) - swapping the motherboard out. when it first broke down, the shop i went to told me it was a motherboard issue and wanted to charge $200-$300 (SGD) for it, which was ridiculous since the whole laptop costs around $180. so i bought a motherboard online for $40~ and did it myself.
turns out it was just the ram malfunctioning. wldve been nice to have had the brains to just swap the ram first and not trust people blindly lol.
anyway, i think older thinkpads are still really good, at least the ones with 6th gen processors and onwards. everything on them is a relatively easy fix. the one i was working on in the pic is an x270. this one isn't mine, but i've got an x270 of my own, and ive been using it for school and work and it handles everything well.
i assume OP meant OLD computers though like an ancient mac or commodore but im not entirely sure what they cld be used for today, but collecting them if you have the space can be interesting
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yeah they probably don't have the know how to do what you're doing there.
Something I noticed among the neocities kids is they think it's really cool to use XP-era computers just for aesthetic reasons, but then when they actually pursue these machines, they wake up to the reality that it's not practical and they don't have the resources to learn to improve the machine even if they wanted to.
> OLD computers
I went to a computer show once where they had the extremely old ones, like so old I've never seen them in person ever, and they're fully restored and sparkling like in a movie. It's absolutely crazy and I'm glad someone does that because it was a worthy experience.
> turns out it was just the ram malfunctioning. wldve been nice to have had the brains to just swap the ram first and not trust people blindly lol.
This is just the type of wisdom you get with time I assume.
> thinkpads
I notice a lot of people use these that want a Linux laptop.
Personally, I hate working on small computers. My eye sight isn't good enough anymore and I'm terrible with tiny parts. I'm pretty good with software but not hardware so much. I have built a PC or two so I'm not ignorant but it's always in big, easy to work with cases. I get stressed out when the parts are tiny.
I wanted to do hoodrat stuff with my friends
I started an open source Discord bot if you want to check it out. There's also a feed of all posts to the board in the main server, so if that would help you keep up with updates it's an option.
Here's the repo with instructions for how to contribute: https://github.com/divSelector/hardbot
This should be a never expiring link to join the server: https://discord.com/invite/bkh2rbuPjc
But just in case I need to change it, I'll keep a current one at: https://this.goeshard.org/discord
Getting board updates directly from Discord is pretty convenient if you're into that.
There's also a feed of git updates for the bot, although I just started that so.
new commands dropped
!neocities random (get a random neocities page)
!neocities random <tag> (get a random neocities page by tag)
You can always come check them out.
It's my personal pastebin -- a modified instance of pinnwand. The uploads will automatically expire.
Let's find out if these pastes actually get deleted.
https://code.goeshard.org/AM-- this one should be gone a week from now.
https://archive.is/VhLNe-- here's the archived page.
I moved this thread to /tech/ to kind of emphasize that this is a good place to share your projects.
I actually might take this down one day. At the moment there isn't a good reason to bring it down, but in the future it could turn into "I would rather run something else instead."
Today I finished reading K&R all the way through! :D
I'll be working my way through a bunch of personal projects now
Nice I read this last spring.
Books are the slept on best way to learn programming.
You can technically share code on the board.
https://code.goeshard.org-- the pastebins will expire so you have to use a page archiver.
Although it would have to be really important to want to go to all that trouble. :P
>>0x000004
> would be easier to just use a never expire pastebin site
you're not wrong though. I don't want the responsbility of running never expire text files so yeah just use that.
Is it because of my inadequacy as a programmer?
>>0x000005
> I never thought about this before. Is this good advice?
its OPEN sourced not OPENED sourced you idiot learn some grammer
I’d like to interject for a moment. What you are referring to as Linux is in fact GNU/Linux or as recently i have taken to calling - GNU+Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself but rather another free component of a full functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
they have the technology you know
