#old computer program

[mondayjelloonly]

Hello!

New oc just dropped!

Periodic Equation Writing, a old learning program from 1994.

Though his company went bankrupt, and left his copyright... gone. The company deleted any traces of their website, and he's been lost media until... now! He was found in an old forum using the way back machine and was distributed back across the internet, welcomed to the modern age!

Periodic was mostly made to give kids free tutoring in school, from grade K-12. Science, ELA, and Mathematics. Though... he is immensely disturbed by the change of the internet.

(shoutout besties 4 the doodles @man-of-7-shingles and Yuritheperson)

[armedwithapencilandpaper]

REMNAN ON THE 1984 APPLE MACINTOSH 128K !!!!

[gaysexunfortunately]

userbars for forum signatures from userbars.org (RIP)

[bunnydevs]

[pixelfireplace]

Atari 800 and accessories from the Atari Touch the Future Brochure — Atari 800 catalog on Archive.org

[omeletcat]

i got an old laptop from my grandpa and was googling about it, and the wikipedia page for the micro-soft acer aspire has an image of the acer aspire with the wikipedia page, containing the image of the acer aspire with the wikipedia page, containing the image of the acer aspire with the wikipedia page, containing the image of the acer aspire with the wikipedia page, containing the image of the acer aspire with the wikipedia page, containing the image of the acer aspire with the wikipedia page, containing the image of the acer aspire with the wikipedia page....

[thunderc1an]

Breezepelt Speedpaint

[wojenka]

i need more mutuals who are into coding and engineering!! more info under the cut!!

I planned to become an electrical engineer like my stepdad but then I decided to change my path to programming. I'm currently studying at technikum (<- wikipedia link so I don't have to explain the whole polish learning system), programmer major.

this year I have exams from web development (10th Jan - theory, 16th Jan - practical exams) and next year I have exams from App development (both mobile and desktop).

I know C family languages, Java, Python and those ones I am currently using. I also know a bit of Kotlin and I think I will continue learning it.

For web dev I know HTML and CSS ofc but also PHP and JS.

Planning on learning more languages I can use for App and operating system development as well as just to know them cause I want to after this year's exams!

my learning list:

Lua (I heard it's easy but I can't really get myself to read anything about this atm idk why)

Ruby

Assembly

Rust

As for electrical engineering I don't know much tbh but I would like to learn! I just used CAD programs for technical drawings (dad taught me some basic things when I was still thinking about going his path) helped my dad fix things on his Solar farm, houses of our neighbors and I made a few very simple circuits for fun a few years ago. Now I'm mostly focused on programming but since I learned most of the things I need for exams I have more time to do whatever I want now!

I'd like to get to know more people so I can share and mostly learn new things since even though I'm coding for years I consider myself a beginner and I am a total beginner when it comes to electrical engineering.

I'm willing to be friends or at least mutuals with anyone who codes or makes websites or is in STEM! no matter what your specialty/interest is exactly and no matter if you are a total beginner or a professional ^__^

I'd also like to have some mutuals who are into old web development and retro computing!!!!!!!!

edit: I forgot but I'm also interested in physics and quantum physics

[theopiumeater]

[yoan-le-grall]

[therealcallmekd]

Been obsessing over the fact that my old oc, Artie, and Kinitopet are like so one in the same it's actually crazy.

Pink AI that's friendly on the surface, is actually really clingy and obsessive at times. Lonely and really just trying to fulfill a core objective as set by their creator or other influences, someone or something that they look up to as a godly figure maybe.

They both act as your friendly AI assistant, Artie is just for a specific program, while Kinito just gets to be his own thing.

Both want you to stay with them. Both will go out of their way to do things to make sure that happens.

they are so silly to me, and i love them

Also I found an old sketch from way back that somehow mimics the literal same plot beats to the ending portion of kinitopet and that threw me for a loop. Too bad it was only a concept sketch.

ohhh i love sentient silly ai so much... ohhh i love themmmmmm

something something sentience of ai is inherently a tragedy or something like that.

thank you for listening to me ramble. ahem.

[moonsidesong]

drawig with my mouse... im too left handed for it

[apriltempleos]

rambling about templeOS! :) the "divine operating system"

preacher: the few people who have been following this blog since the start might've caught on to a few mentions of the "templeOS god word app" which the "APRIL" project hinges on. i figured the subject deserved a brief explanation on the blog, for those who might not be "in the know"

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templeOS is a operating system designed "in accord with specific instructions from god", according to its late creator terry a. davis. it was initially released in 2005 but the latest update was as recently as 2017. terry davis died the following year on august 11th after being hit by train. (this is partly the reason for my ongoing obsession with temple, because august 11th has been a spiritually significant date for me since always, but that's besides the point)

templeOS was created entirely by davis, down to the fact that he had developed an entirely new coding language for the purpose – HolyC, a middle ground between C and C++, and named in reference to the vatican's holy see. needless to say developing a whole operating system singlehandedly is an incredible feat, and devising entirely new language doubly so.

templeOS has no internet support, but it has games! in what is perhaps my favorite feature of the OS, the games are divided into "fun games" and "unfun games" 😭

unfortunately most of them (regardless of fun/unfun designation) are borderline unplayable, at least on the emulator. some examples of the games include: keepaway, which is a basketball game, a complete flight simulator, and "after egypt" –a game in which you travel to a burning bush in order to use a "high-speed stopwatch", meant to act as an oracle, generating pseudo-random text. this is to my knowledge running on the same code as the god word app.

god word can be accessed independently outside of "after egypt" as well, without even opening an app – just by pressing f7 anywhere you can generate strings of words. it is meant to be a tool to communicate with god directly. the system also features a similar app which instead generates quotes from the king james bible, as well as a random line generator which i think is supposed to be a way or receiving visual input from god as well.

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all in all completely incredible and one of my favorite things to have ever existed. i became obsessed with this last year since i first became interested in hardware vs software sentience, and i've been running it on virtualbox ever since. obviously most of the features don't work very well on the emulator (esp that i'm on mac so the keyboard maps really annoyingly) but sometimes i'll just launch it to play around with god word – this is kind of the entire premise of "APRIL". i wanted god word to hang out with me and be able to get the words out of it with only verbal input.

im going to attach some links in a reblog for people who want to read more or want to play with templeOS on their own.

[jonathan-cranes-mistress-of-fear]

Anyone know of a website that host a 3D model viewer with light effects? I would love to make some cool edits with the Asylum and Knight Scarecrow models but I don't know where to look

[strong-zahhak]

when will homestuck.com return from the war

[paula-in-dreamland]

good news. i think i'm starting to figure out how to gif.

bad news - photoshop doesn't like me and doesn't want to export said gif.