Channel Title: Alone in the Kitchen — by Nino Ivanov Channel Description: Hardcore geek channel, cyberpunk experiments & #retrofuturism: Wanderer, who Thou walkest with me through this realm, here Thou findst computer, #microcontroller, communications, experimental, retro, retrofuturistic, #cyberpunk and modern technical IT and other geekery (lots of cassette futurism), involving chiefly #Linux, DOS, Digital Research' CP/M, Windows, MacOS, Xenix and vintage AT&T Unix, and others, down to FOCAL69 on some simulated PDP-8, as well as reviews of books on Common Lisp and Artificial Intelligence, lasers, modems, radio #teletypes, ultrasonic endeavors and even USB punched card readers. Feast Thy eyes, yet beware, artificial spectres of marvelous machinations lurk ahead, among the wailing souls of burned microchips… <video> Geeky Retro: Netbook Setup on Windows 7 Description: Having obtained an Acer Aspire One 722 netbook with Windows 7 64bit, it appeared opportune to turn it into a platform for retro experiments. Using Thorium and Supermium as browsers (apart from Links up to 2.29), Fabrice Bellard's Tiny C Compiler TCC, a "private" Python 3.10 fork, Clozure Common Lisp / SBCL / GCL as Lisp, SWI-Prolog & Strawberry Prolog, PC-BASIC and QB64, emulators for C64, Apple ii, Tandy TRS80 Model 100 and CP/M (and SimH in general), Fldigi / WSJTX / multimon-ng / jmorse for radio experiments, Yori / GNUWin32 / UNXUTILS for making the command line more pleasant, Firejox' Winsocat for transfer experiments (as well as TcpSerialBridge, Netcat and CKermit, Putty and TeraTerm), ShareX for screen recordings with FFMpeg, the Sun Wireless Toolkit in version 2.5.2 (with Java 8), Tor, Daemon Tools for mounting ISOs (used to install Microsoft Office 2016), Rufus for flashing images onto USB sticks, and many others, even the ed editor. Note in hindsight: it is better to opt for multimon-ng by "cuppa-joe", as it understands input audio, and better opt for sox 1.14.1a, as it understands "-d" rather than "-t waveaudio 0" for the default audio device. Hope you find it useful! </video> <video> BASIC: Wretchedly stumbling around on a ZX Spectrum replica Description: Never ever having touched anything ZX Spectrum like before, and having acquired a The Spectrum replica by Retro Games, I am trying my very first steps there and learning to use the BASIC interpreter, featuring important questions like "where is backspace" and so on… until finally getting the hang of it. This is "a noob’s adventure"! #ZX #Spectrum #TheSpectrum </video> <video> Eee PC 701 4G — installing, and giving up on, Slackware Description: #Slackware, being a Linux I am very fond of in heart, went on to get installed onto the Asus #EeePC 701 4G. The #installation and setup seemingly went fine — but then I encountered difficulties that made me give up, such as certain commands not working, no network card being recognized, etc., and I abandoned it. To note, this is not the newest version of Slackware available presently, and your results might nowadays be better. </video> <video> #Satellite #Dish #1980s #TV Description: 1980s satellite dish in Sofia, Bulgaria, for the reception of television from other countries — suddenly and mysteriously stopped TV reception; the problem is to be examined. </video> <video> Fog in Sofia, Bulgaria Description: View from the balcony. </video> <video> "Abusing" BASIC as a text editor on the Spectrum Description: The Sinclair ZX Spectrum clone "The Spectrum" by Retro Games allows for the creation and editing of "text files" via BASIC REM statements, saving whatever one has "commented". While certainly there are more convenient text editors out there, this method requires quasi zero effort and no external tools. The created file can then be processed on Windows’ Powershell or Linux’ Bash to extract a pretty clean text file, turning this modern retro machine into a potential word processing system, if one were so inclined. #zxspectrum #thespectrum #editor </video> <video> Haiku Beta 4 on Asus Eee PC 701 4G Description: #Haiku is a wonderful operating system for the Asus #EeePC 701 4G — demonstrated are its #installation and setup. Certain issues I encountered in Haiku Beta 4 have been alleviated in Haiku Beta 5, to be shown in the next video — all in all, Haiku has been an incredibly pleasant experience on the Eee PC. </video> <video> Pocket 386: Adjust harddisk parameters Description: Selecting a #disk type in the #BIOS to adjust the hard disk parameters (cylinders, heads (tracks), sectors) in a #pocket386 modern retro computer. </video> <video> #burned #satellite Description: The mysterious cause of the outage of satellite TV signals was that the satellite had been deorbited and burnt up in the atmosphere in 2023. </video> <video> "The Spectrum" by Retro Games — unboxing and first run Description: Retro Games did it again — this time, creating "The Spectrum", a modern take on the ZX Spectrum, the Spectrum 128k, etc, in short, once again bringing the 1980s into your house. It is a beautiful little machine indeed — and an excellent "modern retro computer" that may bring a lot of the joy and magic of days long gone by, yet without the need of your being an electronics expert handling rusty motherboard traces and leaky capacitors. Turn it on — it just works! #TheSpectrum #Retro #Games </video> <video> 1V0 Tz IV on The Spectrum: programming environment introduction Description: A FOSS programming environment (somewhere between an interpreter and a virtual machine), ported to the ZX Spectrum clone "The Spectrum" by Retro Games (covering a whole gamut of Spectrum variants) that permits computation with numbers with amounts as large as 999999999999999.99999999 and as small as 0.00000001 is presented, giving you a taste of "late-1940s-mainframe-like programming" on The Spectrum. Instructions on #1V0 #Tzvetanka IV are assembler-like, but very CISC and rich, including a variety of array-operations, to make life for the newbie easier. You operate, however, on pure data addresses — there are no "variable names" (with memory space between instructions and data being separated, in Harvard architecture style rather than following a Von-Neumann-architecture). The original target for this machine was a very primitive computer, whose half-baked C compiler at the time did not allow even negative numbers (and no defines etc). The tap-file (only tested on The Spectrum, no #ZX #Spectrum with a real tape drive being around) is here: https://github.com/KedalionDaimon/1V0/blob/master/ivo_tz_4.tap The manual can be found here: https://github.com/KedalionDaimon/1V0/blob/master/1V0TzIV_ZXSpectrum.txt The source is available here: https://github.com/KedalionDaimon/1V0/blob/master/1V0TzIV220zx_20241213a.c </video> <video> 1V0 Tz IV on The Spectrum: advanced concepts Description: The 1V0 Tz IV programming environment, permitting computation in a "mainframe-like" fashion on devices as small as microcontrollers, is running on The Spectrum by Retro Games, a clone of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum (as presented in the previous video). In this video, we are exploring a couple of more advanced concepts, such as indirect addressing and longer program runs (where you need to keep pressing enter after each screenfill of the tracing facility — a circumstance so far unique to The Spectrum). — (Nota bene: 1V0 Tz IV has been adjusted meanwhile in terms of how the immediate operation 1111 — "show instructions at address" — operates; it now also rints out the instruction address; this seems to be more intuitive.) The tap-file is here: https://github.com/KedalionDaimon/1V0/blob/master/ivo_tz_4.tap The manual can be found here: https://github.com/KedalionDaimon/1V0/blob/master/1V0TzIV_ZXSpectrum.txt The source is available here: https://github.com/KedalionDaimon/1V0/blob/master/1V0TzIV220zx_20241213a.c #ZX #Spectrum #1V0 #programming </video> <video> #YouCut #Data #Protection #GDPR Description: YouCut acting super greedily as a proverbial "data kraken" despite having bought their pro version, using hundreds of switches instead of a simple "Reject all" button. Shameful! </video> <video> Haiku Beta 5 on Asus Eee PC 701 4G Description: Haiku Beta 5 smoothens out even the few remaining wrinkles of Haiku Beta 4 noted in the previous review — LibreOffice on i386 works, the wireless settings no longer crash, and even on a #netbook light on ressources like the Asus Eee PC 4G 701, #Haiku is very pleasant to use, as hopefully clearly demonstrated in this video. Long live the #EeePC! </video> <video> FreeDOS 1.3 installation — format C: Description: The moment the C: drive gets formatted — always a satisfying experience in the installation of any DOS operating system. </video>

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Hardcore geek channel, cyberpunk experiments & #retrofuturism: Wanderer, who Thou walkest with me through this realm, here Thou findst computer, #microcontroller, communications, experimental, retro, retrofuturistic, #cyberpunk and modern technical IT and other geekery (lots of cassette futurism), involving chiefly #Linux, DOS, Digital Research' CP/M, Windows, MacOS, Xenix and vintage AT&T Unix, and others, down to FOCAL69 on some simulated PDP-8, as well as reviews of books on Common Lisp and Artificial Intelligence, lasers, modems, radio #teletypes, ultrasonic endeavors and even USB punched card readers. Feast Thy eyes, yet beware, artificial spectres of marvelous machinations lurk ahead, among the wailing souls of burned microchips…

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