@jonnypencils@mastodon.social
@jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

jonnypencils

@jonnypencils@mastodon.social

Interests and posts here are mainly #retrocomputing #vintagecomputers especially Commodore 64 stuff.

I have other accounts for #photography and music especially #vinyl and #cassettes

Currently working on (very slowly) #Discogs64 on the #C64, writing my book which I have been doing for the last 10 years, and getting my record shop and blog slowly set up.

Also #NFFC fan for 40+ years (good grief)

#geocaching again after 20 years away!!

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

psychicparrot42, (edited ) to random
@psychicparrot42@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

OK this has got to be one of the weirdest images on Amazon. It's an image for Croc toes. You get a rubber toe for $12 and put it on your Crocs, so it looks like your toe is sticking out. Just wait until that poor kid opens the box and sees it's full of toes (or maybe just one toe in a lot of wrapping?). In my head, this whole thing is a scene from a horror movie. #AmazonFinds

jonnypencils,
@jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

@psychicparrot42 That made me laugh way more than it should have 😀

Hundstrasse, to random
@Hundstrasse@retro.pizza avatar

I'm making Toad in the Hole right now. Do you have sausages, flour, milk and eggs? You could also be making Toad in the Hole right now

jonnypencils,
@jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

@Hundstrasse I have three out of four of those things. I can make the hole. But not the toad.

revengeday, to random
@revengeday@corteximplant.com avatar

Friday, finally. That means Ramsi Mobil is driving through your timeline again! :ramsimobile:​

https://corteximplant.com/@revengeday/112251400664929519

jonnypencils,
@jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

@revengeday

2 flat whites please.

whispers they’re both for me

llamasoft_ox, to random
@llamasoft_ox@toot.wales avatar

I really ought to get out more and do a bit of exercise (my recent bad back episode definitely made me think that would be a good idea) so I am thinking of restarting geocaching, and leaving a plastic ox in each suitably-sized cache would be a cool visiting token I reckon 🐂

jonnypencils,
@jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

@llamasoft_ox I used to love geocaching! A great excuse for a walk. I don’t know why we stopped doing it but maybe it’s time to start again!

revk, to random
@revk@toot.me.uk avatar

I can’t help feeling that giving some of my grandkids a BBC micro, and cassette player, and the BASIC manual would help them learn so much. Sadly I’d have to lock them in a sealed room for a year as well, they would get so bored these days I bet. They just don’t appreciate quite how much happens behind the scenes on their gadgets. The layers and layers of code and hardware. Shame…

jonnypencils,
@jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

@revk My wife has arranged for every child in her class to get a microbit next term. It isn’t quite the same as sitting in your bedroom with an 80s micro, from which we all learned so, so much, but it is a start and I think (hope) it could spark the same kind of interest and enthusiasm.

https://microbit.org/projects/make-it-code-it/

robb, (edited ) to random
@robb@social.lol avatar

Does anyone know what the deal is with when Mastodon does or does not store the application used for a toot? There doesn't appear to be a parameter to pass to the API when creating a status.

All toots that come from Ivory (like this one) have it, but some from my custom applications don't but I don't know why.

Solved: that data isn't federated across instances: https://mastodon.social/@jonnypencils/112212281348808881

jonnypencils,
@jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

@robb It also only shows on toots/users from the instance you are on yourself.

Your toot, for example, shown below compared to one on the same instance as me.

Toot from somebody on my instance clearly showing the app used.

dirkdierickx, to c64
@dirkdierickx@mastodon-belgium.be avatar

8BitDo introduces the Retro Mechanical Keyboard #Commodore #C64 Edition

https://www.8bitdo.com/retro-mechanical-keyboard-c64/

#retrocomputing #hardware

jonnypencils,
@jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

@root42 @dirkdierickx

Check this out. I guess it’s the same for the C64 version?

https://rknight.me/blog/using-the-8bitdo-keyboard-on-macos/

jonnypencils, to random
@jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

Very interesting. This is addressing all the issues I found when running my single user mastodon instance. https://epiktistes.com/objects/4BOtsIa77Oc

vga256, to random
@vga256@dialup.cafe avatar

last year @ThreeOhFour told me that buying a kilo of old used stamps was a bad idea

this is what being wrong looks like my friend 😂

jonnypencils,
@jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

@vga256 Seems you have a finger print there too!

kimlockhartga, to bookstodon
@kimlockhartga@beige.party avatar

@bookstodon Do you own any autographed books? If so, did you personally meet the author at a signing?

jonnypencils,
@jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

@kimlockhartga @bookstodon Yes, quite a few. I go to Hay Literature Festival most years and it’s a great place to snag signed copies and to meet the authors. Got some goodies - Stephen Fry, Gilbert & George, Richard Dawkins, Brian May - quite a few others !

jonnypencils, to random
@jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

Wouldn’t you have felt foolish if you’d bought this at the original price of £350! Now only £95 - a bargain!

peter, (edited ) to retrocomputing
@peter@area51.social avatar

BBC Radio 4 - Commodore Computers & why they went bust.

Covers the C64 but mentions the PET & Amiga A500 & 600

Not certain if this is playable outside of the UK or not

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001vl9n

#retroComputing #commodore #podcast #audio #c64 #amiga

jonnypencils,
@jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

@peter “The best computer on the market at the time” High praise indeed from the BBC !

Good listen!

jonnypencils, to VisionPro
@jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

I wonder if this is an age thing. I hope not. I want to stay curious and up to date with technology, but I’m finding it very difficult to drum up any enthusiasm at all for - just leaves me cold.

I have, however, just ordered a 40 year old dot matrix printer so yeah, maybe it’s an age thing 😂

jonnypencils,
@jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

@jake4480 Haha yeah. But I am, for better or worse, firmly immersed in the Apple world, iPhone and MacBook for years now, but even that’s not enough to interest me in these goggles.

jake4480, to random
@jake4480@c.im avatar

Tried watching Ready Player One last night. Turned it off probably 30 minutes in. Not for me.

jonnypencils,
@jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

@jake4480 The book is really good.

psychicparrot42, to random
@psychicparrot42@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

deleted_by_author

    •
    jonnypencils,
    @jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

    @psychicparrot42 I blame Thatcher.

    jonnypencils, to linux
    @jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

    Trying on my trusty old workhorse. Heard good things about it so let’s see…

    amoroso, to retrocomputing
    @amoroso@fosstodon.org avatar

    Retro Programming is a delightful but sadly abandoned blog about programming retro systems, particularly the Spectrum and Z80 devices.

    However, the archive is full of great posts on Z80 Assembly, Forth, BASIC, and more. Lots of interesting technical details and project ideas.

    http://www.retroprogramming.com

    #retrocomputing #assembly #forth

    jonnypencils,
    @jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

    @martin_piper @amoroso The author still seems to be active online. It’s a great blog!

    https://twitter.com/john_metcalf

    jonnypencils, to vinyl
    @jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

    Just checking Fedi before I start going down this rabbit hole.

    Has anybody out there done any work on fetching Discogs marketplace listings into Wordpress via the Discogs API?

    I’m going to start work on a plugin but thought I’d check with you lot first :)

    jonnypencils, to Nurses
    @jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

    My daughter is a nurse and working a 12 hour shift today. Huge shout out to health care staff, fire fighters and all those working today to keep us healthy and safe. We will be doing our Christmas Day tomorrow so we are all together.

    Enjoy yours, if you celebrate it, wherever you are!

    jake4480, to Metal
    @jake4480@c.im avatar

    deleted_by_author

    •
    jonnypencils,
    @jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

    @jake4480 I just hear @johnpeelbandnames in my head reading these names out on late night radio.

    jonnypencils, to affinity
    @jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

    I'd forgotten how good #affinity photo/designer/publisher was. I bought them all last year in the Black Friday sale but for some reason kept using PS Elements. Now, thanks to a bug in PSE on macOS Sonoma, and Adobe's fix being 'just upgrade to 2024 for £100' I have deleted PS and gone all in with Affinity. It's very good!

    pixelfed, (edited ) to Pixelfed
    @pixelfed@mastodon.social avatar

    ✨ Radically Simple Registration

    We redesigned the in-app registration to make it easier to join Pixelfed!

    Edit: Now available!

    jonnypencils,
    @jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

    @pixelfed @dansup haven’t been able to use it for ages 🥲

    Why not just release it to the App Store??

    jonnypencils,
    @jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

    @pixelfed @dansup Oh brilliant! Thanks. I had missed it :)

    dirkdierickx, to c64
    @dirkdierickx@mastodon-belgium.be avatar

    Take your 1541 floppy drive to the next level with the MasterTracker, pre-orders available now!

    https://corei64.com/shop/index.php?route=product%252Fproduct&product_id=445

    jonnypencils,
    @jonnypencils@mastodon.social avatar

    @cenbe @dirkdierickx me too

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • provamag3
  • thenastyranch
  • magazineikmin
  • ethstaker
  • InstantRegret
  • tacticalgear
  • rosin
  • love
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • ngwrru68w68
  • kavyap
  • cubers
  • DreamBathrooms
  • megavids
  • mdbf
  • modclub
  • GTA5RPClips
  • normalnudes
  • khanakhh
  • everett
  • cisconetworking
  • osvaldo12
  • anitta
  • Leos
  • Durango
  • tester
  • JUstTest
  • All magazines
    •