A lawsuit filed by book publishers could mean Brewster Kahle would have to shut down the Internet Archive and fork over about $60 million. Read more here: via Barbara Lane trib.al/Ah5yiTO

We hope you are doing well during these tough times. The deadline for CoLLAs has been extended as follows: Abstract Deadline: March 7th (AOE) Paper Deadline: March 10th (AOE) We look forward to seeing your submission on lifelong learning! lifelong-ml.cc/call

Short test of the NEC Multisync II using a MisterFPGA and a DB9 to HD15 cable: has a nice 15kHz picture and mask. As soon as the EGA 386 is fixed I will test it with some nice EGA games. #crtgaming

This. Is. VARTAAAAA! And Varta likes to destroy mainboards. After lots of cleaning, resoldering, and replacing the corroded DIN-5 Keyboard port this portable 386 is back alive (some EGA Loom on NEC Multisync II for testing).

We were able to stock up on CIB games recently. I'd recommend to come check them out this Saturday from 10:00 - 16:00 in our store in CH-4543 Deitingen or online on classicgamestore.ch

If you have a personal collection of CRTs which aren't documented on my website crtdatabase.com please reach out to me via DM or Discord so I can coordinate some documentation with you including pictures and any personal anecdotes you have. Please RT for visibility.

TIL about personal computers "Smaky" from Switzerland, which existed from the late 70s into the 90s! There's barely anything written about them on the non-Swiss internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smaky

Introducing Return to Monkey Island, a new game by Ron Gilbert coming in 2022. returntomonkeyisland.com

Retrogaminggggg

#retrogaming party also means #crtgaming party

Replaced the old floppy drive in my Tektronix scope with a Gotek drive (SFR1M44-DU26) that is originally for embroidery machines. Had to remove JD and JC jumpers, and set the third to S1. Works nicely.

CRTs from the past #6: Sony BVM-14G5E with a fantastic picture (this tube has 30k hours) and so many picture adjustment options...

If you're still at CVPR and have the stamina to make it through another poster session, check out RawNeRF tomorrow morning! We exploit the fact that NeRF is surprisingly robust to image noise to reconstruct scenes directly from raw HDR sensor data.

What makes us human, at the neuronal network level? We discovered a dramatic (10-fold) expansion of interneuron-to-interneuron networks in the human brain compared to mouse: just published in Science Magazine MPI for Brain Research Max Planck Society science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

MusicLM: Generating Music From Text abs: arxiv.org/abs/2301.11325 project page: google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm…

Happy MSX Day. No new setup pics so here are some of when I got it... #MaySiXth #MSX