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The image depicts a close-up illustration of two hands engaged in an exchange. The hand on the right is holding a string attached to a decorative ornament, which features a red, spiral design resembling a candy cane, and a white, round element with a face-like appearance. The hand on the left is reaching out, seemingly to receive the ornament. The background is a plain, light green color, providing a neutral backdrop that highlights the hands and the ornament. The illustration style is simple and cartoonish, with soft colors and clean lines.

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謝謝自己提早起床慢步到小漁港,看見這麼美麗的早晨超級幸福!!

#写真 #街角スナップ #紅柴坑漁港 #harbour #morning #photography #streetphotography #mobilephotography #streetsnap

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When you don't have your camera with you - the phone just has to do. Great Blue Heron in the evening sun. #Birds 🪶 #Photography #BirdPhotography #Pixel8Pro

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The Lost 256 KB Japanese ROM for the MacIntosh Plus Has Been Found


Mainboard with the two 128 kB EPROMs containing the special MacIntosh Plus ROM image. (Credit: Pierre Dandumont)
The two 128 kB EPROMs containing the special MacIntosh Plus ROM image. (Credit: Pierre Dandumont)The two 128 kB EPROMs containing the special MacIntosh Plus ROM image. (Credit: Pierre Dandumont)
The Apple MacIntosh Plus was one of the most long-lived Apple computers and saw three revisions of its 128 kB-sized ROMs during its life time, at least officially. There’s a fourth ROM, sized 256 kB, that merges the Western ROMs with Japanese fonts. This would save a user of a Western MacIntosh Plus precious start-up time & RAM when starting software using these fonts. Unfortunately, this mythical ROM existed mostly as a kind of myth, until [Pierre Dandumont] uncovered one (machine-translated, French original).

Since this particular ROM was rumored to exist somewhere in the Japanese market, [Pierre] went hunting for Japanese MacIntosh Plus mainboards, hoping to find a board with this ROM. After finally getting lucky, the next task was to dump the two 128 kB EPROMs. An interesting sidenote here is that the MacIntosh Plus’ two ROM sockets use the typical programming voltage pin (Vpp) as an extra address line, enabling 256 kB of capacity across the two sockets.

This detail probably is why this special ROM wasn’t verified before, as people tried to dump them without using that extra address line, i.e. as a typical 27C512 64 kB EPROM instead of this proprietary pinout, which would have resulted in the same 64 kB dump as from a standard ROM. Thanks to [Doc TB]’s help and his UCA device it was possible to dump the whole image, with the images available for download.

Using this ROM image was the next interesting part, as [Pierre] initially didn’t have a system to test it with, and emulators assume the 128 kB ROM format. Fortunately these are all problems that can be solved, allowing the ROM images to be validated on real hardware as well as a modified MAME build. We were informed by [Pierre] that MAME releases will soon be getting support for this ROM as well.

Top image: Mainboard with the two 128 kB EPROMs containing the special MacIntosh Plus ROM image. (Credit: Pierre Dandumont)


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The House bill to cut taxes on the rich includes a rider that would allow arbitrary removal of any organization's tax exemption. I hope the Democrats have the courage to filibuster the whole thing.

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or just wait four years and make a point.

Pull status from all right wing groups.

Obviously this is a terrible idea, but I do sometimes wonder if folks need a taste of their own medicine to understand why people are rejecting it.





In 20 minutes, a #Vine's world premiere #Elgar with Haverorn and Vaughan Williams with Fagan from #Sydney worldconcerthall.com/en/schedu… #wch


ISW gives a good overview of Russia's stance with regard to Ukraine.
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#russia #ukraine #isw #geopolitics #usa #trump #eu @geopolitics





Aren't we all a little obsessed with mushrooms at the moment?
#mushrooms #mushtodon

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What was it that finally convinced them? Their children telling them they are monsters every morning?

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The image displays a digital music player interface for the "Super Mario Odyssey Original Soundtrack" by Nintendo, released in 2018. The background is dark, with a red album cover featuring Mario's face and a red hat at the top. The title "Super Mario Odyssey Original Soundtrack" is prominently displayed in white text, with "Nintendo" in red below it. The release year "2018" is shown in smaller white text, followed by a five-star rating. Below the title, there are two red buttons labeled "Play" and "Shuffle." The track list includes "Jump Up, Super Star!" by The Super Mario Players featuring Kate Davis, and "Jump Up, Super Star! Japanese Version" by The Super Mario Players featuring Aimi Mukohara. The track list is displayed in white text with red stars next to the track titles.

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Trump has been enriching himself at an unprecedented scale since day one of his second term—actually, since just before, given that he announced the $Trump meme coin a few days before swearing to protect and defend the Constitution. trib.al/RCSlXSp



Ancient Chinese star chart dated to 2,300 years ago may be the oldest ever, challenging astronomy history | Archaeology News Online Magazine

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#archaeology #ancienthistory #history #science #astronomy #china #starchart

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Let’s add a few thousand more years with the en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_…

The race to discover that we were already intelligent long ago will never end, because we have three million years of human evolution beneath our feet to uncover.

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That cat is playing it way too cool. It needs to go in the scanner to search for hidden catnip.

What was its alley of origin and who's paying its ticket?

in reply to CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch)

Heyo maybe americans could finally get the medical scans they need by simply buying a plane ticket.

It would be a lot cheaper…



C’è un po’ di Svizzera nella vittoria di JJ
“Wasted Love”, canzone vincitrice di Eurovision, è coprodotta da Pele Loriano, autore musicale e direttore artistico di questa edizione basilese
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Sorry, long day, repost. Short story short, check your oil (and teach your kids how to check their oil), rather than wondering if the oil you notice under your car is actually an oil leak. #automobiles





Kim Jong-un held a live-fire drill of air units and called on the army to be ready for war en.news-front.su/2025/05/17/ki…


Attorney General Bonta Secures Preliminary Injunction in Trump Administration Lawsuit over Unlawful Termination of $11 Billion in Critical Public Heal... oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases…


When possible the proletariat should convert property to use for the people... but, occasionally, something may be so steeped in evil, so marked by pain, it may need removed before we can go forward together.

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Miss Daisy and Amos keeping an eye on the outdoor cats

#Caturday