The LaserBoy Thread

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Originally Posted by james

By the way... The writing is on the wall.

Windows 11 is coming.

As if Windows 10 isn't a complete disaster.

It's time to learn Linux y'all!

I mean you're only like 30 years late to the party, but that's ok!

It's way stupid simple these days.

Get a nice USB drive of any size 64GB or more.

Copy the Knoppix iso onto it.

Boot from it.

Enjoy!

Learn.

Install Ubuntu or Debian on a real hard drive.

Live happily ever after.

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Already got Win 11 on my laptop- the Start button is now a little more to the right and the furniture has been rearranged a bit.
Doesn't look like there's a 32 bit version...

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Originally Posted by dchammonds

Already got Win 11 on my laptop- the Start button is now a little more to the right and the furniture has been rearranged a bit.
Doesn't look like there's a 32 bit version...

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You forgot to mention that you have also installed Ubuntu and you are pretty well through learning C and getting ready to move on to C++.

Finally!

A new full public release of LaserBoy!!!

https://laserboy.org/code/LaserBoy_Current.zip

I cleaned up everything. If you already have an installation folder of LaserBoy, I would recommend renaming it as old and unzipping this in its place. Then move your files from the old folder(s) to this new one.

For Windows users:
The zip no longer contains a 32-bit version.

LaserBoy.exe is now a 64-bit application.

Please let me know if you find any problems or have questions.

James.

Yet another new version!

08/20/2021

https://laserboy.org/code/LaserBoy_Current.zip

Fixed up a lot of menu stuff.

The alt menu (t) idea is now more consistent through the four menus that use it.

Menu c for coloring a frame or the frame_set now has parameters for cycling
through the palette or the 1530 pure hues through the frames,
starting each next frame at a progressively shifted index in the array of colors.

Let me know if there are any issues or questions.

Update:
09_05_2021
Fixed all the new color cycling stuff in menu c.

https://laserboy.org/code/LaserBoy_Current.zip

RIP Clive Sinclair

Thank you for the ZX81.

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Originally Posted by james

RIP Clive Sinclair

Thank you for the ZX81.

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I second that notion.

Can you get to facebook.com right now?

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Yep. Apparently all Facebook owned services are down.

Even services that use fb id login are inaccessible.

Perhaps this will bolster the value and importance of independent forums like this one.



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Originally Posted by james

Can you get to facebook.com right now?

Edit:

Yep. Apparently all Facebook owned services are down.

Even services that use fb id login are inaccessible.

Perhaps this will bolster the value and importance of independent forums like this one.



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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/techn...?ocid=msedgntp


Zuck & Co are scrambling...:rolleyes:

They probably forgot to pay godaddy to update their dns service.

Oops.

Maybe they should unplug their modem for a few minutes.


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