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Yeah my step one was a 1 hour consultation with a patent attorney. Answered a lot of questions. Also see if there are any tech/ startup incubators you can book a meeting with to chat. They'll answer other basic questions you probably didn't know you had. You can always just start making them and selling them to see if there actually is any value (my favorite approach.) You might not be able to patent anything but you can trademark etc your particular approach and style as another method of raising the bar to competition.
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If your doodad is a simple plastic thing with a few screws, your version might be unique but it also might not be realistically possible to stop anyone from copying it and competing with a product that solves the same problem if they really wanted to. A consultation with a patent attorney will help you get an idea of the "patentability" of the thing. You can go nuts worrying about it all. It can feel overwhelming.
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30 seconds after you file the patent there will be knockoffs on aliexpress.
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Why do I feel compelled to write assembly lately? Why am I scouring the Internet and downloading all these old assemblers? What is happening to me?... 
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minidracula posted:Why do I feel compelled to write assembly lately? Why am I scouring the Internet and downloading all these old assemblers? What is happening to me?... I'm sorry to tell you this is a degenerative neural disease, the next stage is designing and building a cpu from 7400 series ICs
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Benjamin Button but you go backwards on computers. Terminal stage is trying to build your own difference engine. I'm sorry for your loss.
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Got my Tower of Power 90% working. Got the CD player and tape player last weekend. The tape player works fine, the CD player however needed some work. First off the belt needs to be replaced for closing the tray, which I will order soon. The other issue was each time the CD player would try to seek, there was a nasty gear noise. I pulled the lid off it and had a look. The issue was the guide rails that the laser head moves on were gummed up, and the toothed rail that the allows the head move from the motor goes into a kinda fail safe that allows the motor to spin without chewing the hell out of the plastic gears or teeth. A good clean down and a little bit of lithium grease and all is well. 
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hell yeah we've talked about yamahas before. perfect
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i had that tape deck welp that's my story i'll see myself out
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Jonny 290 posted:hell yeah we've talked about yamahas before. perfect Thanks for all the help and information you gave me Jonny
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ol qwerty bastard posted:I'm sorry to tell you this is a degenerative neural disease, the next stage is designing and building a cpu from 7400 series ICs shoeberto posted:Benjamin Button but you go backwards on computers. Terminal stage is trying to build your own difference engine. I'm sorry for your loss. I have been stalking Am2900 series parts on eBay for the last year-plus though, so we all know how this story ends.
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Godot is cool and good. I wish I had more energy to tinker with it.
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I bought a Pioneer Elite plasma TV the other day that I'm vertically mounting to run shumps in retroarch and Switch Tate mode games on.  Ikaruga translite is going to sit on top for shits and giggles.
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i;m thinking of starting a new project for myself. A clone of the Adlib Gold surround module. Since I have an adlib god I might as well. Some german person already did one last year but they're selling it for way too much money and I wanna see if I can design a PCB and whatnot. Nowadays PCB manufacturing is so cheap and easy that I can afford to gently caress up a couple times. Just need to source some vintage Yamaha chips.
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spankmeister posted:old weird computer is fun to play with imo i agree, but i definitely don't have the space for them. if toilet seat ibooks could use the modern internet i would like one of those in the kitchen to look up recipes and watch tv. key lime please
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spankmeister posted:old weird computer is fun to play with imo it’s old and just weird enough to be interesting but not weird enough to be useless, since it can do everything a contemporary Win95 computer can the largest Japanese shareware site still operates (vector.co.jp) so there’s plenty of software to check out too
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spankmeister posted:i;m thinking of starting a new project for myself. A clone of the Adlib Gold surround module. Since I have an adlib god I might as well. Some german person already did one last year but they're selling it for way too much money and I wanna see if I can design a PCB and whatnot. Nowadays PCB manufacturing is so cheap and easy that I can afford to gently caress up a couple times. Just need to source some vintage Yamaha chips. oh yeah, I love this cottage industry of reverse engineered ISA cards!
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if only you could order custom reproduction chips the way you can PCBs to keep old tech running, but i guess that's what the fpgas are for
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yeah all the cool new snes throwback consoles use fpgas
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It's cool that fpga's have become cheap enough that we can do cycle-accurate emulation in them without paying thousands
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just curious like what do you guys do with old computer once you’ve booted into the os and gone thru the menus .. ?? not ragging on yas just interested in some insight
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echinopsis posted:just curious like what do you guys do with old computer once you’ve booted into the os and gone thru the menus .. I make bad games and demos. Getting real-time music synthesis and sprite rendering to work on my mac plus (holy poo poo that thing is slow) was a lot of fun. But I'm a huge dork, so...
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echinopsis posted:just curious like what do you guys do with old computer once you’ve booted into the os and gone thru the menus .. A lot of it is nostalgia, often times it's about having experiences with technology that we weren't able to afford when we were kids. That's why 90's era hardware is getting real expensive now, because the millennials have grown up and have gotten jobs and are buying it all up.
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Stack Machine posted:I make bad games and demos. I love trying to figure out how amiga demo effects work but there's so much more to learn vs c64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYtleuGV7ok
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spankmeister posted:A lot of it is nostalgia, often times it's about having experiences with technology that we weren't able to afford when we were kids. That's why 90's era hardware is getting real expensive now, because the millennials have grown up and have gotten jobs and are buying it all up. oh yeah this makes sense. was only kind of imagining booting up into amiga workbench just to be like “oh yeah that’s right” but this makes sense
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echinopsis posted:just curious like what do you guys do with old computer once you’ve booted into the os and gone thru the menus ..
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echinopsis posted:oh yeah this makes sense. was only kind of imagining booting up into amiga workbench just to be like “oh yeah that’s right” but this makes sense it’s a fully functional Win95 machine so there’s plenty to do plus yeah I’ve always wanted one and they’re not that expensive compared to other retro systems - the computer itself was $200ish, which is way less than my Amiga cost
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every time i boot one of my old macs i end up playing prince of persia 2 until i get to this scene https://i.imgur.com/3Ojtx1L.mp4
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i am so loving sick of wordpress. i have an idea i want to bounce off you guys. i like wp's architecture (plug-ins using hooks and filters, that's pretty genius) and relatively down-to-earth templating system. but i hate that it becomes a house of cards as soon as you try to add features that allow customers (i.e people with almost 0 knowledge of computers) to change their website without breaking it. i've written fully custom wordpress templates for "designer" type customers that will send you an e-mail about a margin being 3px too small. they work okay until you start getting into the nitty gritty, where you need to modify some obscure template file or add a filter / hook to change some really dumb default behavior (did you know that if a customer qualifies for free shipping in woocommerce, they can always choose to still pay for it!!). letting my customers update this site is either: - use gutenberg and spend weeks architecting some bullshit around its limitations and writing way too many lines of js to make it remotely useful - use the standard wysiwyg editor, basically typing a lot of loving html in it, and hoping the customer doesn't break the layout i've also tried the way of wpbakery, which is impressive in all its features, but is janky as gently caress. also 200% reliant on database so good luck versioning this poo poo. the current status of the web seems to be either: - communication agencies with little to no dev skills that add a plug-in for every little lovely thing their customer wants, building an un-versionable and unmaintainable house of cards with absolutely poo poo performance, but that allows customers to change something on their site when they want - full-on agencies hiring devs that create a custom site and bill the customer every time they want a semicolon added somewhere or an image changed. i'm thinking of creating a super simple cms that's developer-friendly. basically, with a little bit of react magic and a simple, RESTful kind of PHP backend, let webdevs control 100% of the generated html/css. as a webdev, you'd write something like this in the templates file code:
probably a lot more options i could come up with, i'm just typing this slightly drunk right now. this system would be mostly file-based (except user credentials in a db i guess). meaning that editing a page actually modifies a file. this makes the entire site git-able and allows for easy dev /staging / production environments that is just so loving hard to do in wordpress (though it's still ways ahead of drupal .. loving tangled mess of sql) any comments on this idea? maybe something like that already exists? go play outside Skyler fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Mar 5, 2021 |
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The idea of "WordPress, but not a dumpster fire" does seem like it's something that would have been taken on by now, so it's worth trawling github to see what's out there. Fwiw, static site generators are also popular-ish, stuff like Jekyll: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll Which might not be wysiwyg enough for your needs, but it might be a good starting point for your research.
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Jonny 290 posted:yeah all the cool new snes throwback consoles use fpgas yeah i got one of those (mister) and it was a bit of a pain to set up cuz it wouldn’t recognize my sd card, but it’s good once running.
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spankmeister posted:i;m thinking of starting a new project for myself. A clone of the Adlib Gold surround module. Since I have an adlib god I might as well. Some german person already did one last year but they're selling it for way too much money and I wanna see if I can design a PCB and whatnot. Nowadays PCB manufacturing is so cheap and easy that I can afford to gently caress up a couple times. Just need to source some vintage Yamaha chips. There was another similar thing too, but I forget the details; I wanna say it was a GUS remake but I doubt I have that right; probably some other card. Anyway, similar story: German (I think) guy anounces the project, gets a bunch of interest, lays out plans, goes dark forever, pops back up, makes some claims about progress and maybe starts getting feedback, ignores/dismisses/rants at most feedback, disappears again, others volunteer to make pieces of things for him to help get the thing out, OG guy more or less walks out in a huff. I'm sure I have most of that wrong -- like I said, I didn't pay close attention -- but it seemed sad and yet all too predictable.
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minidracula posted:If the other thing you're talking about was that thing on Vogons (mention of the German guy is what triggered this memory), that seemed like a poo poo-show from more or less day one, at least from the very little driveby attention I gave it in passing some ~2.5-3 years back... Yes it was that thread on vogons. The other thing is briefly mentioned in that thread as well. My plan is to just trace out the circuit from the publicly available pictures of both the original and the clone. I do intend to sell my AdLib gold and I think a working surround module will increase its value, even of it's a DIY reproduction. But contrary to the other person I fully intend to share the circuit design and gerbers on github or smth so that anyone can order a pcb and build one. Well, if they can source a chip that is. I haven't been able to find any yet Or maybe do one in an fpga? 
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I'm not sure it's right for your project but I do have a little command line utility that automates tracing black-and-white PNGs into gerber files for PCBs. I've posted about it in DIY before but shamefully I've yet to make anything very YOSPOS with it. https://github.com/stackmachineSA/emboarden/releases/
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I have another batch of pc98 stuff coming from Japan, an S3 video card, MO and CDROM drives, SCSI adapter. also have one of those kryofluxes coming to write  and archive a couple disks I have that aren’t on archive.org
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 No regrets in mounting the 50 inch plasma sideways. Retroarch and vertical Switch games look beautiful on it.
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