[11:04] the new nvidia cards make Roman look like a small man - https://youtu.be/3si-LpxvbHI?t=54 [11:59] heats a home quick as you like [12:27] winter gaming! [12:36] in summer divert the hot air to the kiddie pool to keep it warm at night [12:37] cool video of Shelby (Tech Tangets on YouTube) cloning that early Philips CD drive "LMSI" controller card to use the earliest known one with a PC: https://youtu.be/0W1t2_EJG9w [12:37] Tangents* too [12:48] that's a use of twitch i never considered before. what's next, how to defuse a russian nuclear weapon, live on twitch :-P [12:48] :) [12:49] he's pretty brave to do stuff live, so many cooks helping to spoil the broth... i corrected a switch he was using on a program the other day 'cause he was so distracted he missed the man page line stating it was the wrong thing [13:02] it was about the same level of excitement when you got cd-rom working back then too :-D [13:04] hehehe [13:06] an original cd rom, external. you'd be lucky to 150kbs over it's own wacky serial jobbie [13:07] yep! he's done some fun speed testing, comparing DOS to Windows [13:08] i liked dos. still have a few dos apps around now. but looking at getting a cp/m system for offline distraction free work [13:32] daftykins: I saw the video, dude cloned a ISA card from photos. [13:33] yeah :D [13:33] i was on the livestream a little after the clip [14:02] well as he said the size of the components was huge :-) [14:36] Pimp my BBC Micro .. https://github.com/dekuNukem/RGBeeb/blob/master/README.md [14:36] is it a bbc micro without the iconic keyboard? [14:37] it has a modern keyboard [14:37] that's what i mean [14:38] kinda like the speccy keyboard, it was awful, inspired a 1000 jokes and yet it was a solid part of the spectrum experience [14:44] * zxmpi wonders how big a hard drive you'd need to have every game and bit of software for all bbc archives [14:45] having a mate at archive.org might help ;) [14:49] you're just making an offline backup [20:09] But archive.org is the backup