The Pass Pub: The High-End Off Topic Thread

^ I doubt I knew it by rote, but, I did write a character generator in assembly for the TRS-80 many years ago. One of the points of contention among (typical) kids was the unsupervised generation of characters with some pretty startling attributes. That led to some shouting. So... we went truly random.

If I recall correctly, and it's highly likely that I don't, I used this book as a reference.

https://sam.speccy.cz/asm/trs80_asm_prog_pt1.pdf

Perhaps I wrote a portion of it in BASIC and compiled it and wrote a segment in assembly for comparison. Looking back, writing out the full program in assembly doesn't seem like something I'd do at that age ... but ... I created a character generator that we all used, and it wasn't all written in BASIC.

I like the AI option. 🙂
 
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The first thing I hacked was in 7:th grade, and it was the probably similar ABC-80, manufactured by the classic Luxor company. It also compiled BASIC and understood Assembler code of course.

My math-teacher was in charge of the tiny computer room and I knew he had invited the neighboring school to demo and brag.

The ABC-80 had this own demo-program, on a cassette, as it was by then. So loading that promt and type run, I guess, ran the ”go-to” program, line 10 write blablabla.

So it was supposed to write:
”Hi, I am ABC-80, I can do this, and this, and this, etc. You can probably guess what I changed all the subjects of all it could do…

I think my mum had to come and state some public excuse.
 
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I know, joking mostly

should I say that I've spent entire life in RPG

:rofl:

I thought you used RPGs when you played Nazis and Partisans.

I grew up partly in Hawai'i.

We inhaled, so I had my Marantz 2220B, Kenwood belt driven table, Pickering 625E, Kenwood Cassette Deck (Dolby!), Marantz 4G speakers and Koss Pro4AA..... I was fifteen then... bought it all with my hardworking cash.... we really had no time to play silly games.....

Santana and Elton John came by to give concerts... Cecilio and Kapono... no time for silly games. Just pass me the peace pipe and be careful when you lower the tonearm...
 
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I admit I'd have never thought of that, but .... COOL!

I haven't played in 35+ years I'll bet.

<Rummaging around for my 1st Edition Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide and Monster Manual>

35 years ago... my reading consisted of Internetworking With TCP/IP by Stevens... and the label for Johnny Walker Red.

I never understood that whole thing with those games... two of us at work created our own mark up language and browser... but it was an internal company product for use by our FAEs and R&D. It was a lot cheaper to use than the commercial SNMP based network manager.. then two years later the academic guy doing research at CERN released his design... and called it the WWW.
 
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Just got off the phone with dude... He bagan by uploading nothing more than this image and asking the AI if it could be his DM assistant. It replied in the affirmative and ask him a few questions, one of which was if he wanted to play classic D&D rules. He doesn't know how anything worked out on the backend and what it may have used for further info but it didn't take long. He did caution that it uses very literal interpretations (an LLM, go figure) and there have been a few minor hiccups along the way but all up, its a huge success.
I've been playing with Claude Sonnet looking to integrate a Time of Flight sensor with an 8 axis controller and all I provided information wise in my initial question/prompt was the two part numbers... truly impressive
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