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Author: scruss
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Lovely automata: bbcbasicbot
bbcbasicbot rendering of my one-liner BBC BASIC bot [beta2] on Twitter is lovely. You tweet a BBC BASIC program to it and it replies with an animation rendering of what your program would look like on a BBC Micro.
I sent it this:
1MODE4:VDU23,224,24,48,96,193,131,6,12,24:VDU23,225,24,12,6,131,193,96,48,24 2PRINTCHR$(224.5+RND(1));:GOTO2
which readers might recognize as 10 PRINT, the endless random maze one-liner for the C64. This program even inspired its own book – also called 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 – about simple generative art.
You can run it in your browser thanks to the amazing JSBeeb.
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knotwork + strapwork
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Weird thrift-store find: homebrew CD player
I killed some time this lunchtime in a thrift store. I was half-looking for a case for a kit computer, but wasn’t expecting much to turn up. But I found this:
No identifying marks on this device 
Back panel looks hand cut – and is that a PC power supply? 
Inside is just … wow! 
Power supply is from EWE Comp in Belgrade, Serbia 
DVD decoder/preamp board 
looks like a full DVD player output board 
surprisingly tidy displays 
more of the board 
nice simple front panel 
surprise inside 
hey, free CanCon! 
that tray’s a bit flimsy
There really are no identifying marks on this. No idea how it got to be in Canada.
