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Account age
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📊 Post engagement
3
Avg engagement / post
0.2%
Engagement vs followers
Dec 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Sweet! Let's solve some murders. · 6 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
85.7 / week
A very active account — posts many times a day.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 3 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
9.9×
Follows 145 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
Sweet! Let's solve some murders.
when you eject a disk you actually hear the latch open and the disk slide out
it's neat
"implemented stuff"
this commit is going to be disgusting, i went off and wrote a whole new sound system, asset library manager, sound effects manager and event resolver, and refactored the entire floppy drive controller, without ever committing anything.
i'm…
Speaking of drive sounds, my full-height Tandon drive arrived today, so I can go about trying to record a new sound-effects set from the OG IBM 5.25" diskette drive.
Maybe then everyone can stop telling me it sounds like a 3.5" drive
I still need to tie the new sound-effects system into the debugger so that that the 'motor on' sound shuts the hell up when the emulator is paused.
I gotta say the floppy drive sounds are growing on me. It's just neat hearing the hiss and the seeks as a game loads.
So with that I have successfully un-fucked my FDC, I think.
Now I just have to refactor the entire thing again to make it completely flux-based.
No, really. But at least the general shape of things is more or less correct. It will be…
Bit 5 is what we're looking for. We need to set this bit because we encountered a bad address CRC.
Right now i'm setting bit 2, saying I can't find the data field, which is arguably true, but that's just not correct in this case.
So what value of ST1 should we return when we read Sector 96?
If only someone had written a handy dandy Floppy Drive Controller reference.
oh wait
The deleted part is really a red herring. A sector with a bad address CRC cannot be read at all, deleted or not.
Also the bad data CRC shouldn't be reported either, because the bad address CRC makes the controller not even bother lookin…
Sector 96 has a bad address CRC, a bad data CRC, and is deleted to boot.
That is why it is Very Red.
"implemented stuff"
this commit is going to be disgusting, i went off and wrote a whole new sound system, asset library manager, sound effects manager and event resolver, and refactored the entire floppy drive controller, without ever committing anything.
i'm…
Speaking of drive sounds, my full-height Tandon drive arrived today, so I can go about trying to record a new sound-effects set from the OG IBM 5.25" diskette drive.
Maybe then everyone can stop telling me it sounds like a 3.5" drive
I still need to tie the new sound-effects system into the debugger so that that the 'motor on' sound shuts the hell up when the emulator is paused.
I gotta say the floppy drive sounds are growing on me. It's just neat hearing the hiss and the seeks as a game loads.
So with that I have successfully un-fucked my FDC, I think.
Now I just have to refactor the entire thing again to make it completely flux-based.
No, really. But at least the general shape of things is more or less correct. It will be…
Bit 5 is what we're looking for. We need to set this bit because we encountered a bad address CRC.
Right now i'm setting bit 2, saying I can't find the data field, which is arguably true, but that's just not correct in this case.
So what value of ST1 should we return when we read Sector 96?
If only someone had written a handy dandy Floppy Drive Controller reference.
oh wait
The deleted part is really a red herring. A sector with a bad address CRC cannot be read at all, deleted or not.
Also the bad data CRC shouldn't be reported either, because the bad address CRC makes the controller not even bother lookin…
Sector 96 has a bad address CRC, a bad data CRC, and is deleted to boot.
That is why it is Very Red.
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
oldbytes.space
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
On Mastodon since
Dec 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 3 views per post.
📤Posts about 85.7× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
43/100
Fair
Credibility score
73%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 73% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.2% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
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MartyPC, a PC/XT/Jr/Tandy emulator
https://github.com/dbalsom/martypc
👉 Web demo: https://martypc.net 👈
Fluxfox, a Rust disk image library
https://github.com/dbalsom/fluxfox/
ArduinoX86, a framework for controlling Intel CPUs
https://github.com/dbalsom/arduinoX86
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