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<cr1901_modern> Foone: Any possibility you or Lord_Nightmare could figure out the font used in the Captain Midnight intrusion incident?
<cr1901_modern> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbruOe6Yii0 Incredibly, someone had a VHS of the incident and uploaded it
<natarii> the character generator used is listed on the wikipedia article about it
<natarii> i would think something from back then is probably just a custom bitmap font, but who knows
<cr1901_modern> >Quanta Corporation Microgen MG-100
<cr1901_modern> Huh, no kidding
<cr1901_modern> I don't remember seeing that
<natarii> me neither, last time i read it
<andlabs> "MacDougall was working at his second job as an operations engineer at the Central Florida Teleport uplink station in Ocala, Florida and fought with a technician at HBO's communications center in Hauppauge, Long Island for control of the transmission"
<andlabs> score one for the boys back home
<andlabs> (hi I'm from long island, but not from hauppauge)
<andlabs> "due to a tourist having overheard him discussing the incident on a pay phone off Interstate 75" why do people do this
<andlabs> can we turn things into crimes if the person committing them are stupid
<andlabs> I'll stop before I start rambling
<cr1901_modern> Would've been far worse if he damaged a satellite
<cr1901_modern> (was "automatic temperature shutoff" not a thing in the 80's?)
<andlabs> it probably would have been meaningless in space
<andlabs> also ironically the film he jammed was a spy thriller
<andlabs> also temperature isn't the only way to damage the satellite
<andlabs> also man remember when people got angry at capitalism
<andlabs> those were the days
<andlabs> using capitalism as a shorthand for these kinds of overinflated DRM'd subscription services
<andlabs> "he attempted to regain control by increasing the uplink transmission power from 125 watts to 2,000 watts"
<andlabs> yes that would definitely damage SOMETHING
<andlabs> it always depresses me how complicit and conservative the 1980s were
<andlabs> but I won't continue being political
<andlabs> I finally identified what calculator was hacked to bits to produce the weird numpad that came with my commodore 64 though so that's good
<andlabs> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Television_broadcast_interruption "Later in the evening, Southern Television apologised for what it described as "a breakthrough in sound""
<andlabs> uh guys I don't think you know what that word means
<natarii> it was a breakthrough alright
<cr1901_modern> I've been looking for audio of that for a few years now, to no avail
<natarii> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBjAz8kBRJA is it not this, or is this some recreation?
<cr1901_modern> Hmm, it's possible. I dismissed all the YT videos as recreations
<cr1901_modern> would like confirmation of course :P
<cr1901_modern> lost media wiki claims it to be lost w/ citations
<natarii> hm. the video linked from the one citation is very different (https://youtu.be/AO2d6W9RZPc?t=6m55s)
<cr1901_modern> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKnwhokvgxE ooh I found the original max headroom intrusion :D
<natarii> the computer went wild!
<cr1901_modern> There was a recreation that's been online for a while... the recreation's pretty accurate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHtic327sT4
<cr1901_modern> (note: this is a reupload... recreation's at least 10 years old)
<cr1901_modern> natarii: it took off and went wild indeed :P
<natarii> cr1901_modern, was it you i talked to about rock-afire stuff once? apparently lost media wiki has a pretty big list of showtapes and related stuff
<cr1901_modern> natarii: Yes, I keep my interest in that stuff to a dull roar, but yes it was me. I'm more interested in Aaron Fechter than rock-afire
<natarii> shame all of the links they have are just audio rips on youtube, i would love to see the data tracks preserved ;p
<cr1901_modern> He's extremely resourceful (and almost got himself killed b/c he didn't realize it's impossible to store hydrogen safely _and_ cheaply)
<cr1901_modern> indeed, me too
<natarii> he is an interesting dude for sure ;p
<cr1901_modern> Don't remember what the process is called, but hydrogen has a tendency to... ruin the structural integrity of its container when stored under pressure. And that's exactly what happened and blew up part of his workspace.
<natarii> he's extremely lucky nobody was in there when it went off
* cr1901_modern nods
<cr1901_modern> in that broadcast intrusions are on this list
<natarii> an excellent rabbit hole indeed
<cr1901_modern> >List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft
<cr1901_modern> Oh God it's like this thread was made for me
<natarii> i should dig into these too. ntsb reports are fascinating
<Lord_Nightmare> https://web.archive.org/web/20200110133841/http://www.spectrum-soft.com/download/download.shtm is an INSANELY USEFUL tool. it is equivalent to PSPICE/Cadence except without the 5 or 6 figure price tag per license.
<Lord_Nightmare> I was just using it to simulate some op-amp analog filters
<cr1901_modern> is that the company that recently went insolvent?
<Lord_Nightmare> they went out of business in fall 2019
<Lord_Nightmare> the site went down about a month ago
<cr1901_modern> https://www.twitch.tv/the_sylph iwxzr is making music and it's freakin' amazing. Running the gamut from PC-98 soundtracks to PS1-like JRPGs
<andlabs> so I clicked some links on hackernews and got reminded of another recent thing that makes me angry
<andlabs> Lord_Nightmare: what program is this?
<andlabs> also speaking of archive.org there are some programs that were made free around 2008 or so that are not available on archive.org and that makes me sad
<andlabs> and in the case of Caligari trueSpace, only the actual program itself is still downloadable
<andlabs> the rest of the assets they released are gone
<andlabs> so I fucked up back when I had windows vista trying to offload data from my tiny mac partition to my even tinier windows partition and lost all the software downloads I had saved between 2003 and 2007
<Lord_Nightmare> andlabs more lost stuff was the maya 3d screensaver they released for win95
<Lord_Nightmare> that was a very cool program
<Lord_Nightmare> it had a bunch of free addons for it
<Lord_Nightmare> all those are lost
<Lord_Nightmare> the screensaver itself... i have an installed copy of it, but i think the installer may have survived
<andlabs> when was that?
<andlabs> I'm not complaining about stuff from 95
<andlabs> I'm complaining about stuff from the obama administration lol
<Lord_Nightmare> it was the maya alias|wavefront paint effects screensaver
<Lord_Nightmare> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTG4tul1FNo is a video of it running with the default(?) presets
<Lord_Nightmare> shakycam
<Lord_Nightmare> actually the screensaver (a user-bugfixed version of it) is on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/MayaPaintEffectsScreenSaver
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<andlabs> anyway I'm gonna go to bed but have this first https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAhR1MLGYNU it's much more positive things for tonight
<andlabs> Lord_Nightmare: also still wondering what this program is
<andlabs> the micro-cap program
<andlabs> Micro-Cap 12 is an integrated schematic editor and mixed analog/digital simulator that provides an interactive sketch and simulate environment for electronics engineers. Since its original release in 1982, Micro-Cap has been steadily expanded and improved. Micro-Cap 12, the twelfth generation, blends a modern, intuitive interface with robust numerical algorithms to produce unparalleled levels of simulation power and ease of use.
<andlabs> Nothing else comes close.
<andlabs> oh
<andlabs> heh
<andlabs> which reminds me one day I should probably teach myself both kicad and either vhdl or verilog but extended to include analog circuitry
<andlabs> yes I have to be that clear because apparently this is not something that either vhdl or verilog do natively
<andlabs> anyway good night
<samlittlewood_> Good stream from Alex Evans (media molecule) talking about synths, kicad, & jlpcb assembly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf4CxC8exFM
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<cr1901_modern> samlittlewood_: Thanks for sharing! I need to get competent at kicad sometime this century.
<andlabs> ah cool, didn't realize you were responding to me
<andlabs> I didn't read past media molecule and said "wait they did stuff other than littlebigplanet?!"
<andlabs> anyway will check later, thanks
<andlabs> also kind of a stretch here but: can anyone here with betaarchive ftp access check if they have any Longhorn SDKs? preferably from around July 2004?
<samlittlewood_> alex uses eurorack footling as hobby decompression from dreams
<cr1901_modern> That dreams is becoming a copyright/IP nightmare for a bunch of companies gives me warm and fuzzy feelings inside :3
<Sarayan> dreams?
<andlabs> I take it their new project that'll be the biggest thing ever for a few months and then be completely forgotten about
<andlabs> shrug
<andlabs> okay how about a quesiton that's more likely to get an answer
<andlabs> https://twitter.com/pgandlabs/status/1244649516734742531 anyway in nerdier news if any of you knowt he answer please reply here because I'm still at a loss as to what turntable to get to save a bunch of 45s I have
<andlabs> also oh huh they did do something other than littlebigplanet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tearaway_(video_game)
<Lord_Nightmare> andlabs: i have a BROKEN quartz lock turntable
<Lord_Nightmare> the quartz lock DOESN'T WORK
<Lord_Nightmare> it stays in the red state forever
<Lord_Nightmare> i don't know WHY
<Lord_Nightmare> might be useful for tests
<Lord_Nightmare> i suspect it may be bad caps or a failed sensor for the light reflecting off the edge of the turntable to produce the feedback
<andlabs> probably
<andlabs> heh
<andlabs> I may be totally misunderstanding wow and flutter though