| Experiment-626 | I have a problem with my dual screen. I have a radeon graphics card using the additional drivers option. When I plug in my screen, it looks like the screens are not separating and bleeding into each other. | 02:26 |
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| Experiment-626 | has anyone seen this before? | 02:29 |
| Experiment-626 | I tried to use a different resolutioned, VGA monitor on my laptop. It looks like it is not separating the screen and they are flickering/bleeding into each other. when I remove the dsub cable, everything goes back to normal. Can any one help me fix my problem? | 02:55 |
| cmaloney | Experiment-626: Hello | 03:02 |
| cmaloney | You might want to check on askubuntu.com with the driver version number | 03:02 |
| cmaloney | unfortunately I moved to a NVidia card a while ago because I didn't have good luck withthe Radeon drivers | 03:02 |
| Experiment-626 | cmaloney: Thanks. I hope it is something easy. | 03:15 |
| cmaloney | Likely a differnt driver version | 03:25 |
| cmaloney | or perhaps the OSS driver might do the trick | 03:25 |
| cmaloney | night! | 03:25 |
| cmaloney | https://luxinframundisproductions.bandcamp.com/album/farseeing-the-paranormal-abysm | 15:08 |
| cmaloney | https://www.retrolayer.com/posts/zx-spectrum-is-being-revived | 15:10 |
| cmaloney | This excites me | 15:10 |
| cmaloney | I'd love to get my hands on a ZX Spectrum some day. | 15:10 |
| cmaloney | Also: in celebration of the Groundhog seeing his shadow we'll be having CHC tonight at 8pm | 15:15 |
| cmaloney | had the Groundhog not seen his shadow we would be having CHC tonight at 8pm | 15:15 |
| devinheitmueller | http://www.ebay.com/itm/SINCLAIR-ZX-SPECTRUM-48K-COMPUTER-BOXED-TESTED-AND-WORKING-NEW-KEYBOARD-MEMBRANE-/301504167067?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item46330c7c9b | 15:15 |
| cmaloney | That's how highly we think of the groundhog. :) | 15:15 |
| cmaloney | devinheitmueller: Yeah, I'm not payig 35Pounds to have one shipped to me. :) | 15:16 |
| devinheitmueller | Life is full of choices. :-) | 15:16 |
| cmaloney | They're rarer over here but they're C64-common in the UK | 15:16 |
| cmaloney | devinheitmueller: Yeah, I know. | 15:16 |
| cmaloney | I hope they show up like the ZX-81s I have: Someone cleaning out their house. :) | 15:17 |
| cmaloney | Also: deleted my eBay account. :( | 15:17 |
| devinheitmueller | I sometimes miss my CoCo2 | 15:17 |
| cmaloney | I still have my Atari 800 / 800XL | 15:17 |
| cmaloney | Those were my teething computers | 15:18 |
| cmaloney | I managed to destroy the 400, much to my father's complete chagrin | 15:18 |
| devinheitmueller | My NYC apartment has no space to store such things. | 15:18 |
| cmaloney | devinheitmueller: Yeah, I know the feeling | 15:18 |
| cmaloney | these are at my parents place | 15:18 |
| devinheitmueller | Ah | 15:18 |
| cmaloney | and they're getting itchy to not have the Craig Maloney memorial computer museum much longer | 15:18 |
| cmaloney | So when the weather breaks some of these are getting "emulated" | 15:19 |
| jrwren | cmaloney: i had a garage sale zx spectrum back in 87 or so. | 15:19 |
| cmaloney | aka: donated to the A2 computer game museum | 15:19 |
| cmaloney | jrwren: That's awesome | 15:19 |
| devinheitmueller | Nice. | 15:19 |
| jrwren | the atari 800xl was WAY more powerful and fun to write BASIC on | 15:20 |
| jrwren | the BASIC on the zx was pretty lame. | 15:20 |
| cmaloney | Yeah, I'm not looking for it as a work machine | 15:20 |
| cmaloney | Though JoDee works with a guy that wrote a paper for college and did his calculations using a ZX with basic programs | 15:20 |
| cmaloney | Not sure if ZX80 or 81 | 15:21 |
| cmaloney | Regardless, he has even more of my respect. | 15:21 |
| cmaloney | Atari Basic was awesome | 15:21 |
| cmaloney | Had arrays that were closer to C than Microsoft Basic | 15:22 |
| cmaloney | which meant you had "fun" converting strings from MS Basic to Atari Basic | 15:22 |
| cmaloney | Not impossible, but they worked way differently. | 15:22 |
| jrwren | dude, 8 bit calculations... that is NOT a good idea. | 15:23 |
| jrwren | it doesnt 'do floating point, does it? | 15:23 |
| cmaloney | jrwren: It was the tool he had | 15:23 |
| jrwren | what year was it? | 15:23 |
| cmaloney | I'll have to ask him next time I see him | 15:23 |
| jrwren | I'm pretty sure the BASIC on it didn't have a bignum implementation. | 15:23 |
| jrwren | but I could be wrong. | 15:23 |
| cmaloney | yeah, I'm pretty sure the ZX series had the most basic of floating point | 15:24 |
| jrwren | I mean, "did his calculation" - maybe he wrote his own bignum and or float and or fixed point impl, which means, that is pretty sweet. | 15:24 |
| jrwren | cmaloney: really? in hardware or in software? either way, I highly doubt it. | 15:24 |
| jrwren | 1 X=255 | 15:24 |
| jrwren | 2 X=X+1 | 15:24 |
| jrwren | 3 PRINT X | 15:24 |
| jrwren | RUN | 15:24 |
| jrwren | 0 | 15:25 |
| cmaloney | I don't have a ZX81 emulator to check that | 15:25 |
| cmaloney | but most BASIC could handle larger than 255 | 15:25 |
| jrwren | yeah, must have been in software. | 15:25 |
| cmaloney | I remember the Atari 8bit started putting things into scientific notation at one point | 15:26 |
| jrwren | O_O i don't remember that. | 15:27 |
| cmaloney | http://atariage.com/forums/topic/210068-whats-the-highest-number-atari-basic-can-count-to/ | 15:27 |
| cmaloney | Yeah, it's pretty amazing what they shoved into those machines | 15:27 |
| jrwren | oh yeah, I kinda remember big numbers. | 15:28 |
| cmaloney | I'm sure whatever he did wasn't fast by any stretch | 15:28 |
| jrwren | no, very slow | 15:29 |
| cmaloney | but this dude is both patient and persistent | 15:29 |
| cmaloney | and infinitely curious | 15:29 |
| jrwren | wikipedia says all the math in atari basic was using those floating routines. | 15:29 |
| jrwren | so very slow. | 15:29 |
| cmaloney | He wrote this paper because he got interested in the subject (subject escapes me) and went out and bought the computer to do the calculations | 15:29 |
| jrwren | and it sounds like as long as the numbers were less than 1billion, it is accurate. | 15:30 |
| cmaloney | Yeah, not sure what calc he was doing | 15:30 |
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| PainBank_ | where is CHC being held now? | 16:21 |
| cmaloney | Bean and Leaf in Royal Oak | 16:29 |
| cmaloney | https://plus.google.com/communities/105711849406316277146 | 16:29 |
| cmaloney | PainBank_: ^^ | 16:29 |
| brousch | What kind of leaves? Is that a cannabis shop? | 16:32 |
| jrwren | TEA LEAVES!!! | 16:33 |
| brousch | Are you some kind of dope head? | 16:33 |
| cmaloney | Holy shit | 16:33 |
| * cmaloney is listening to Satyrasis - Circumstances | 16:33 | |
| cmaloney | jcastro: ^^ | 16:33 |
| jrwren | evarlast is currently listening to Letterman, by Old Man Markley | 16:34 |
| cmaloney | https://satyrasis.bandcamp.com/ <- Track 7 | 16:34 |
| cmaloney | Surprise Rush | 16:34 |
| greg-g | Old Man Markley! | 16:37 |
| greg-g | saw them in concert a few months back, they opened for Rev Horton Heat | 16:38 |
| greg-g | The Rev is LOUD | 16:39 |
| jrwren | greg-g: man, the rev is still touring! | 16:55 |
| === greg-g is now known as bd9000 | ||
| === bd9000 is now known as greg-g | ||
| === mrgoodcat_ is now known as mrgoodcat | ||
| jhansonxi | Check this out: https://www.humblebundle.com/books | 19:31 |
| jhansonxi | I little OT but I couldn't resist | 19:32 |
| cmaloney | jhansonxi: Yeah, lots of good titles on there for kids. | 19:33 |
| jhansonxi | The electronics, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript books I thought would be of interest | 19:38 |
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