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7:51:16
Shinmera
gingerale confirmed yesterday that cl-gamepad broke with the port to using com-on, and not due to a Windows change
8:12:36
Shinmera
I guess one would have to step in both versions at once to see where things start diverging, but dear lord that's a pain.
11:29:40
Shinmera
The bytes I get for the GUID in memory are the exact same for both versions, yet in one version it complains that the device is not recognised. How. Why? WTF?
11:36:37
Shinmera
Hmm, no, never mind. I get a different GUID in the previous version. But this is within a callback
11:47:03
selwyn
i am going to pick up a bbc micro today, which among other goodies has its own lisp dialect
11:50:26
Shinmera
Aight, getting further. Other things are also broken, but at least it's now standard broken port crap instead of incomprehensible bs.
11:51:56
selwyn
my first project will be to connect it to the internet over wifi, probably by using a esp8266 as a peripheral
11:53:51
selwyn
i find it weird that half of the references i find online are to museum exhibits and the other half to replacement parts, peripherals etc that you can purchase
12:01:44
selwyn
it can connect to prestel, which was apparently a kind of ancient british internet that resembled teletext
12:02:28
Colleen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K61... Website (HTML), Title: Prestel, Mailbox, Micronet, Chatlines - live capture! - YouTube
12:03:46
selwyn
looks quite fun. first thing i notice are hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy references as befits 70's and 80's british nerd culture
12:14:07
Shinmera
The only fix on the cl-gamepad side necessary was a lifetime issue, the rest was all com-on problems.