Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

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The Rubi-Con Episode Nov 29, 2019

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The Rubi-Con Episode: Smokey the Police Dog, Rubi-Con, Detroit Not Detroit, Off-Kilter, Duct Tape, Drunkeness, The Adult in the Room, Fire, The Raid, Another Year and Another Name, $100 Towels, What Is Destruction For, Hacker Cons, The Real Jewel.

I captured the Rubi-Con site from way back then: http://cow.net/rubicon/decaffeinated/navigation.html

To listen to audio from Rubi-Con 5: http://audio.textfiles.com/cons/rubicon/rubicon5/

Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It - Episode 81 Nov 22, 2019

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The Internet Archive October Event Episode: Once Again Back at the Archive, Onsite, The Things We're Working On, Wikipedia Linkage, Better World Books, A Lesson On Japanese Internment, Company Culture, Six Weeks or Six Years, Unlike Anything Else, An Elephant Costume and a Hospital Visit.

The 2019 October Event's livestream is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az4BpuVrOhI (Things start happening around the ten minute mark)Wendy Hanamura's collected library of Japanese Incarceration is here: https://archive.org/details/digital-library-of-japanese-american-incarceration 2,500 MS-DOS games added: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games?and%5B%5D=emulator_start%3A%2Aiafix%2A&sin=&sort=-downloads

The Raytracing Episode Nov 13, 2019

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The Raytracing Episode: A Confession, What Raytracing Is, DKBTrace, The Overnight Render, DKB and POVRay, The Pac-Man, Anything for a UNIX Prompt, Gandalf, Supermarket Gang, Pixar's Tools, A Missed Boat With No Regrets.

DKBTrace/POVRay has a website here: http://www.povray.org/

The original creator of the POVRay Pac-Man Render: http://vs.iki.fi/raytrace/

Here's the Pixar Presto demonstration I'm talking about (I was in the back of the room): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnFSVx7NhmM

The POVRay Wikipedia page is (as of this writing) a good overview of the lineage and aspects of the program.

The NAID Episode Oct 26, 2019

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The NAID Episode: Jim Says It's Happening, North American International Demo Party, A Very Ill-Advised Travel, Border, Exchange Rate, The Actual NAID, Classrooms, Jacket for Blanket, Cow Suit, Walking the Halls, Font Throwing, The Competitions, A New Idea about Conferences, A Wild Success, Synchrony, Thanks. A mirror of NAIDorabilia: http://cd.textfiles.com/naidorabilia/

Memories of NAID: https://trixter.oldskool.org/2012/06/06/memories-of-naid/

Who Killed the American Demoscene? (Stupid headline, great article): https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5wgp7/who-killed-the-american-demoscene-synchrony-demoparty

NAID party artifacts at POUET: http://www.pouet.net/party.php?which=159

Vintage News Broadcast in Montreal about NAID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVj_EXJt0mY

Keyboard Throwing Competition (1996, I'm the last Keyboard Tosser): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieHC9ZrCpJM

Me in a Cow Suit: http://www.slengpung.com/v3/show_photo.php?id=10253&ref=people&uid=1428

The Electric Stories Episode Oct 10, 2019

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The Electric Stories Episode: A VAX in Need of a Home, The Lady of the VAX, A Very Heavy 3/280, MFM Drives, 20 Amps, Electrical Cyberpunk Nightmares, Don't Do It Again, Mainframes, Pavl, The Underside of Conferences, 220 Drop, A May December Romance. Three stories of me and electricity.

This presentation by Joe Grand includes pictures (in the PDF) of the vax: http://www.grandideastudio.com/perspectives-from-the-l0pht/

Images of a Sun 3/280: http://www.obsolyte.com/sunPICS/3_280/

I can't find any images of the MFM drives so use your imagination.

I wrote a long article about the DEFCON Vaxes, so there's lots of details: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2114

The Music Tracker Episode Sep 29, 2019

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The Music Tracker Episode: Carousel, Cards and Belts, Piano Rolls, Notches and Points, My Magical Amiga, Music Disks, Tiny Sizes, Spreadsheets and Waveforms, Making My Own, Tracker Battles, CDROM.COM, Making My Fastrackers, Sketch the Cow, Saving the MODs, The Time I Got Flattened.

In this episode, I talk about music tracking, which has such a deep part of my life for years on end. The beautiful sub-300k song I mention is called Klisje paa Klisje (English: Cliche' after Cliche') by Walkman. Here's a youtube video of it being played in a tracker, showing all the different ways the music changes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9S0MC8nKRc

Recordings of my musical creations playable right now are here: http://www.cow.net/jason/music/

And if you want to browse hundreds of music disks for the C64 and the Commodore Amiga, they're playable here at the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_c64_musicdisks

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_amiga_musicdisks

Mr. Hernandez Sep 22, 2019

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Mr. Hernandez: Kit Computers, Plastic Cases, Malls, Computer Stores. Brewster's dim days, Mr. Hernandez' Store, Plastic Bags, The Rules of Talking, Preppie! Avalon Hill, Scott Adams Adventures. The Bright Line. Flaking Out, Fading Away. Preppie! is playable at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/Preppie_1982_Adventure_International_US

Preppie's Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preppie!_(video_game) The original book that started the preppie craze was "The Official Preppy Handbook" by Lisa Birnbach. (1980). The illustrator for the Preppie! game was Scott Ross, who's still around and still in business: http://www.scottross.com/index.html

The Avalon Hill Game I bought was Dnieper River Line. A playable version is here, although playable is relative without all the cardboard pieces: https://archive.org/details/a8b_Dnieper_River_Line_1982_Avalon_Hill_US_BASIC Further information on Dnieper River Line is here: https://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-8-bit/dnieper-river-line I am reasonably sure the Scott Adams adventure game I played was Adventure #4: Voodoo Castle. It's playable here: https://archive.org/details/a8b_Adventure_No._04_Voodoo_Castle_v3.9_119_1981_Adventure_International_US_k_file.a

(I didn't have the graphics version, though.)

All Debt, All the Time Sep 21, 2019

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All Debt, All The Time: The Current Debt Status, The Black Shadow, I Blame Myself, The First Credit Card, A $1100/$2000 Flight, No Shame in an Accountant, Your Two Important Homework Assignments. 75 episodes in! Time to talk about that whole debt issue the podcast was created for, and my current thoughts on debt in general.

The Hardcoded Episode Aug 27, 2019

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The Hardcoded Episode: Blowing Glass. A Cancelled Project. Reality Shows. The Elevator Pitch. The Best Laid Plans. Why I Gave Up. Fake. Prototype This. Take It Away. An episode about one of my favorite projects that I gave up in the face of logic and discovery. Everyone's got a few of these if they work creatively. This one got pretty far along before it ended.

I checked, and I don't know where the written notes are - sorry about that. But I'll answer questions if people have any.

The Project Everything Episode Aug 06, 2019

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The Project Everything Episode: Starting Projects, KansasFest 2019, Pulling Back But Then Pulled Back In, Garage Giveaway, Floppy Disk Images, Applesauce, The Start of Everything, Software Preservation, Apple II's Special Situation, A Silver Chalice, Respect for Volunteers.

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