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Sam Bo

@sammargh.bsky.social

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build clouds for a living | fix and make old hardware do stupid things otherwise ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ | games are fun too

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Sep 29

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so the ebay app had a moment this morning on my ipad

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t but a tidbit from work may be of use. Omnissa Horizon sent an advisory that KB5066835 rendered Horizon clients unable to connect. Initial instructions were to uninstall

The resolution was pushed out by Microsoft last night and instructions were to inform clients to reboot an impacted device

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 5d

dad did the same with the local college bbs and pc games. mom put her foot down when he was going to buy me a professor sf lol

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · 13d

a cartoon character from doug 's garage band

ALT: a cartoon character from doug 's garage band

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The Walking Tim @daddymulk.bsky.social · Sep 18

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Sep 19

ux moment

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Sep 15

for mario’s anniversary here’s a video of one of the earliest nintendo emulators i can find on the internet. this is pasofami for the fm-towns released in 1994!

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Sep 6

it’s already f so i can’t even meme

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Sep 3

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Sep 1

The usb descriptor is enough to answer that. It’s not too wild of a controller

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Aug 29

Turns out osx kitty is a getty image as are a lot of the default early osx profile pictures www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo...

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Aug 22

Give it a few months and we’ll probably see some wall street magic

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Aug 21

the collapse of the hypercube

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Aug 4

I got a new (to me) smoker from a friend yesterday and set the app up today. I’m happy with the nickname I selected for the Pit Boss 💃

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Experiment T @experimentt.bsky.social · Jul 28

First screenshots of the first ever Pioneer LaserActive emulator, courtesy of Nemesis running as part of Ares. Major preservation milestone right here.

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Jul 12

i was talking about this game with friends earlier tonight. i want it bad but have a pile of games i’m working through

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Jul 7

Oh! A better one - I bought a random Plextor SCSI cd-rom off ebay and it was from Phil Nibbelink.

He let me recreate an Amiga system and share a copy to of the cd as well!

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Phil Nibbelink's Amiga System Backups : Phil Nibbelink : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Enclosed in this archive are backups unearthed from Phil Nibbelink's Amiga workstation. This computer was used to create many animated films in the past such...

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Jul 7

I have one of the two XBox Debug Kits that Official XBox Magazine used to test games for reviews.

It was found in a storage closet ~10 years after the system was dead. A friend sent it to me for free as they demanded it get destroyed. Didn’t have anything cool on it but hey!

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Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · Jul 5

Last night I got access to a digitized film reel from 1969 that shows off a computer artillery game called Potshot. And to explain why that’s a big deal, I need to talk about Dartmouth and the BASIC computer language.

Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · Jul 5

Here’s a clue that will probably only mean something to 5 people

A teletype printout that says “Potshot” with text about setting up the playfield

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Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Jul 3

lucy hopes you have a safe and happy holiday weekend

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Jul 1

Oh! Egg on my face! I was going to use my Wii U.

Nintendo Switch 2 console with game from Nintendo’s web store stating that the product is only for use with the Nintendo Switch 2.

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Jul 1

Please share the link if you do ❤️

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Jun 26

you can use a graphical installer or it can be fed flags for silent install.. any installer offers this unless they’re an asshole

Sam Bo @sammargh.bsky.social · Jun 22

oh dear

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · Jun 22

#PicoGUS firmware v3.1.0 is released. It adds the ability to load a CD image by name and has *many* fixes for cd image listing and loading. github.com/polpo/picogu...

Release v3.1.0 · polpo/picogus

Fixes CD-ROM emulation Many fixes/improvements to CD image handling: Add ability to load image by name Fix memory leak when changing images (file handle not freed, causing crash after switching im...

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