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Smiling Savage Kiosk #2

A list of related, tangental, inspirational, or completely random links shared from this week's browser history

Tom Wanat
Feb 1, 2022
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Smiling Savage Kiosk #2

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Music
  • While creating the last post on music creation I narrated a video of the song playing in Logic Pro. I was disappointed by the results, as I think the music was too much in the background. In the future I’d like to do more videos about how songs are created, so I want to figure this out. I thought this how-to-video explains how to achieve the results I want, capturing in-device audio alongside microphone audio.

    • The free and open source BlackHole audio driver for routing audio between apps appears to be the key software component — https://existential.audio/blackhole/

  • This week’s earworm: Collect Your Things and Run by Hot Water Music — https://music.apple.com/us/album/collect-your-things-and-run/1592574428?i=1592574760

Feel The Void
Computing
  • I think this is a beautiful retro set-up:

    Twitter avatar for @blakespot
    Blake Patterson @blakespot
    Got a standing listener on the Mac so I can "dial in" from a WiFi232 for a terminal session without cables. #AppleII #vintagecomputers #retrocomputing #telnet #macOS
    Image
    3:24 AM ∙ Jan 29, 2022
    20Likes2Retweets
  • Turning a Pi Zero into a SCSI emulator which can emulate multiple devices simultaneously — https://blog.tindie.com/2022/01/turn-your-pi-zero-into-a-scsi-emulator/

  • Fun using a rotary phone to enter numbers:

    Twitter avatar for @johnedgarpark
    John Edgar Park @johnedgarpark
    The most important thing I’ve built to date. Finally I have a way to enter numbers on a computer using a rotary phone dial. Uses CircuitPython and KB2040 Kee Boar to read dial pulses and send USB HID. @adafruit Learn Guide in the works. Grab a Model 500s out of your garage!
    4:45 AM ∙ Feb 1, 2022
    672Likes140Retweets
  • Lotus 123 spreadsheet software on two cartridges for the IBM PCjr:

    Twitter avatar for @Foone
    foone @Foone
    Don't talk to me unless you've got a spreadsheet on cartridges
    Image
    7:45 AM ∙ Jan 27, 2022
    365Likes29Retweets
  • A portable Atari 800, with wood veneer no less (I can’t tell if it exists only as an image, but it’s still neat to see):

    Twitter avatar for @VingTroiSeize
    2316 | VingTroiSeize | Only 𝑨𝑴𝑰𝑮𝑨𝑨𝑨𝑨𝑨 💎 @VingTroiSeize
    Atari 800 XE laptop by Ben Heckendorn #atari #retrocomputer #retrogaming #ATARI800XE #Laptop
    Image
    10:59 PM ∙ Jan 31, 2022
    64Likes16Retweets
  • This is a nice tour of a soldering workbench — https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2022/01/30/soldering-workbench-tour/

  • Neat to see replacement Commodore 64 boards — https://www.tindie.com/products/bobsbits/sixtyclone-commodore-64-replica-pcbs/

  • The Cerberus 2080 is a newly created 8-bit computer for students and hobbyists — https://www.thebyteattic.com/p/cerberus-2080.html

Photography
  • As I mentioned in an earlier photography piece I’m looking to get back into the darkroom. I recently toured PhotoWorks at Glen Echo, Maryland and loved it — https://www.glenechophotoworks.org

Writing
  • A bit meta to my writing: How to ensure the Smiling Savage is found in Google searches… I found setup to have a better outcome than this author, but I am using my own domain on Substack, so maybe that helps?

    Random S*&%$ I learned today
    How I got my Substack to be Google searchable
    Update (23 Sep 2021) Grrrrrr! Check the comments. This helped lots of people. Many commented. Even more liked and didn’t comment. Now Substack has broken this method. Substack support confirms this. I have spent hours trying to find an alternative using Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager. So far no luck. If you can figure it out, let me know how in t…
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    2 years ago · 30 likes · 57 comments · Michael Wolf
  • While I’m at it, I hooked up Google Analytics in case — no, for when — tracking subscriber conversions needs to be easier — https://karen-cherry.medium.com/how-to-add-google-analytics-to-substack-b20a5d6b8524

Gaming
  • A nicely detailed look at how to create a video game in hardware, not software — in the style of the original arcade version of Space Invaders in the late 70s — https://memorymachinepod.com/2022/01/31/stormtrooper-attack-making-your-own-video-games-1970s-style-part-3/

  • New to me, it’s neat to learn about disk emulators as replacements for the optical drives in systems like the Sega Saturn, as this would be a great project — https://castlemaniagames.com/products/fenrir

  • Very nice looking forthcoming book on the Atari Lynx — https://zafinnbooks.com/gameguide_lynx.html#extHeader19-8k

  • The virally popular game Wordle has been in the news, and here are some retro conversions of the game for…

    • Commodore 64 — https://github.com/spiroharvey/c64/tree/main/Wordle

    • Intellivision — https://atariage.com/forums/topic/329869-intle-wordle-for-intellivision/

    • BBC Micro — http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=4073

    • Pico-8 — https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=46207

  • This forthcoming Steam game ZERO_PAGE, which uses in-game emulated Apple II computers for the puzzles, looks incredible — https://store.steampowered.com/app/1752240/Zero_Page/

    • I recommend watching this making-of video about how the emulation is done in the game engine, including how the sound effects were created, and how the Apple II’s expansion abilities makes it possible:

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