#the atx files

[lucydonato]

me: it's been 19 months since ghost stories aired it's FINE I'm not mad about it anymore we'll probably never know what happened with all the changes it's FINE idc

me: [sees two script pages from a deleted scene for the ghost roommate plot]

me:

#i stand by my baseless speculation that it was too similar to what LS did with tommy in the atx files so tim forced them to change it #kind of like how the sniper would have been an arsonist if tim hadn't taken THAT for LS

[911lonestarrewatch]

Episode 3x06 ATX-Files Discussion Thread

Please feel free to use the comment thread and tags of this post throughout the week as a place to liveblog while watching the episode, discuss with friends, post your metas and thoughts etc. Anything you’d like to discuss while watching the episode is welcome!!

Please reblog this post for visibility!! 

#911 lone star rewatch 2024

[thisbuildinghasfeelings]

After a brief hiatus from fic recs, we are BACK!

To make up for what we've missed, this week we are going to be focusing on fic recs from the first SIX EPISODES of season 3:

3x01 The Big Chill, 3x02 Thin Ice, 3x03 Shock and Thaw, 3x04 Push, 3x05 Child Care, 3x06 The ATX Files.

Here are this week's prompts:

Ice storm arc!

The 126 separated

Marjan being a badass

PUSH--the coma, the wakeup, the "hey baby, breathe," the aftermath that the show didn't have time to give us so our wonderful fic writers had to craft it for themselves, etc.

Detective Carlos Reyes

Tommy coping with her husband's death

Judd becoming a father to Charlie/Judd becoming a father to Wyatt

Rules:

Every week there will be a different prompt, and everyone is encouraged to share a fic (or a few!) recommendation that meets the prompt and tag a few fic-reading friends. The game can be played all week, so no pressure to post right away. Please feel free to use the banner above, to make your own, or to not use one at all!

Finally, please use the tag ‘Rewatch Read-Along Week 17’ and at the end of the week @911lonestarrewatch will post the link to the tag for the comprehensive list of fic recs!

Thanks to @guardian-angle22 for the banner!

Here are my recs:

Chapter 2 of The Center of the Maze by @carlos-in-glasses

Obviously I highly recommend the entire fic, but Chapter 2 is the part that deals specifically with what we're focused on this week. A heartbroken Carlos sobbing on the side of the road...is there a sadder image?? 😭

Seven Ways (Back to You) by @welcometololaland

An amazing series made up of 7 fics that deal with TK and Carlos finding their way back together in far more depth than the show could have ever given us!

Half agony, half hope and Coming and going by @goodways

The first is a wonderful Push coda filled with yearning and love and sweetness and making up and MAKING UP 😏, while the second is a truly delightful fic occurring in the aftermath of TK's coma where, as Shannon so aptly puts it in the summary "TK and Carlos boink so hard that TK passes out." I couldn't choose between the two, so I'm reccing both!

all my blood for the sweetness of his laugh by @alrightbuckaroo

Carlos reflecting on what he missed about TK while they were apart and how much he likes TK's laugh. Carlos' joy at making TK laugh is always one of my favorite things!

My Family, More or Less by @lightningboltreader

Carlos coming home to TK and telling him about his eventful night helping Katie get reunited with her parents...with a little help from his father-in-law more or less!

Learning, relearning by @fallout-mars

A really beautiful little fic a few weeks post-coma, with TK and Carlos so in love and so happy to be back together.

Tagging some fic readers who might have recs to share:

@lemonlyman-dotcom @paperstorm @carlos-in-glasses @reyesstrand @strandnreyes

@vineofroses @bonheur-cafe @alrightbuckaroo @herefortarlos @im-overstimulated-and-im-sad

@heartstringsduet @liminalmemories21 @lightningboltreader @fangirl-paba @reyestrandd

@chicgeekgirl89 @firstprince-history-huh @noxsoulmate @ladytessa74 @sznofthesticks

@literateowl @nancygillianmvp @bonheur-cafe and OPEN TAG for anyone else who wants to share some fic recs!

#911 lone star rewatch 2024 #Rewatch Read-Along Week 17 #911 lone star fic #911 lone star

[palms-upturned]

Hey everyone! I have set up a mutual aid fund for some retail labor organizing efforts I’m currently spearheading. (though since the union has not been declared/filed for yet, I have to be a little hush hush 🤫)

As essential as labor unions are, they don’t always provide the funds necessary for laborers to do the organizing work required to get everyone to join the union. And especially in retail work where everyone is so severely overworked and underpaid, and everyone is on shift schedules that conflict with one another, and the turnover is so high, it’s really fuckin hard to do that work. Mutual aid efforts to meet the immediate material needs of the workers is so important to creating conditions where that work can get done. Having the funds to rent out a space big enough for everyone to meet up, or to provide food at meetings, or to help cover transportation costs, or to hire a babysitter for a night, or to get someone’s prescription refilled so that they feel well enough to join in, etc etc, makes a huge difference.

You can donate to our fund below! Thank you for the support ✊

Link: https://donorbox.org/labor-organizing-in-atx-area

#labor organizing #union strong #pro union #pls be discreet 🤫

[techav]

Revisiting Wrap030 Disk Access

I have more ideas for projects than time or budget to work on them. Already this year I've gone completely through the design process for two new large homebrew projects that are currently too large for my project budget, plus a few small ones I never got around to ordering. So rather than spend more than I should taking on a new project, I decided to revisit an existing one.

It's been over a year since I last worked on the original Wrap030 project — my old stack-of-boards MC68030 system. Its current configuration includes the main board with CPU, ROM, RAM, UART, & glue logic; a hand-wired breakout board to add a second UART; a custom video output board; and a mezzanine board with FPU and provision for an IDE disk that is not yet working. It has been functional in this configuration since last February.

My goal for this project from the beginning was to build something capable of running a proper operating system, like Unix System V or Linux. To do that though, I'm going to need to get disk access working.

I had started on disk access, but didn't quite have it functional when I turned my focus to integrating all of boards into the single Wrap030-ATX motherboard. I had added IDE cycles to the CPLD on the mezzanine board, and had added a few rough drafts of disk functions to my ROM. I set the project aside when I realized my function for checking dish presence was reporting a disk was present when there wasn't one.

I have worked with IDE before — my original 68000 project had an IDE port on it. I had gotten that project to the point where I could read a sector of data from the disk, but never could wrap my head around how to actually navigate even a simple file system like FAT16. It was this code that I had adapted for Wrap030, so when it didn't work, I assumed it was a problem with my logic.

Turns out I had just inadvertently clobbered a register in the disk check function. The logic worked just fine. I was able to write a couple quick BASIC programs to read a sector of data and even run code from the boot sector.

My assembly function for reading data from disk however was still not working.

I tried rewriting it.

I tried rewriting it in C instead of assembly.

I tried again, and again, and again. I added delays and loops and print statements and everything I could think of. I scoured datasheets, read though all the different release versions of the ATA specification, ported code from other projects, looked at every example of reading from an IDE disk I could find.

No matter what I did, I always got the same result.

This did not make any sense. Reading from an IDE disk involves setting up the sector address, the number of sectors to transfer, sending a read command, and then reading the IDE data port 256 times per sector. Each time the data port is read, the disk will give another 16-bit word of data. But for some reason, all I was getting was the first word of data returned 256 times.

There is nothing in the specification to explain this.

I knew there was nothing wrong with my logic, because I could read the data just fine with my BASIC program or by manually poking the right addresses using the monitor. Maybe there was some edge case affecting timing when running in assembly, but even adding delay loops and print statements didn't have any effect.

I reached out for help. I got great feedback on my read functions and my timing and how IDE and CompactFlash cards worked, but still could not solve this problem.

But then @ZephyrZ80 noticed something —

I had shared my code and was explaining that I had added some extra NOP instructions to enforce minimum time between IDE access cycles in PIO-0 mode. At 25MHz with cache enabled, the 68030 can complete an instruction in as little as 80ns, so a few NOPs would ensure enough time elapsed between cycles.

With cache enabled.

… cache enabled.

… cache.

The 68030 has 256 bytes of data cache. My disk read function is running in a tight loop that only really hits a few addresses; not nearly enough to invalidate and flush the entire 256 bytes of cache. The CPU does have a cache inhibit signal to use with peripherals that return new data on subsequent access to the same address, but it turns out I was only asserting it when accessing the UART on the main board.

It's a simple enough hypothesis to test. When I initially added support in my ROM for enabling cache at startup, I included user functions for enabling and disabling cache.

… It was cache all along.

Now I need to add some way to inhibit cache while accessing the IDE port, and then I can move on to trying to use the disk for loading programs.

#wrap030 #homebrew computing #homebrew computer #mc68030 #mc68000 #ide interface #retro computing

[marwanidaily]

MARJAN MARWANI IN EVERY EP 9-1-1: Lone Star S03E06 | "The ATX Files"

#marjan marwani #marjaneps #tusersilence #usermorgan #userrin #userpickles #911women #911 lone star #911lonestaredit #911verse #911lsedit #usersteen #usermimsi #actuallysara #userisaiah #singinprincess #s3 #3x06 #madebyjen

[judsonryderdaily]

JUDD RYDER IN EVERY EP 9-1-1: Lone Star S03E06 | "The ATX Files"

#911lsedit #911 lone star #juddeps #judd ryder #usersteen #usermoosh #tusersilence #usermorgan #useralie #userbones #tusersonny #tuserhidden #jddryder #userlutavero #userpickles #s3 #3x06

[invisible-pink-toast]

stages of grief

3. bargaining

Another form of bargaining, which many people do, and she did too, is to replay the final painful moments over and over in her head as if by doing so she could eventually create a different outcome.

We The Kings "What I Wouldn't Give" / Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot "Orpheus leading Eurydice from the Underworld" / Craig Mazin "The Last of Us: Long Long Time" / glosbe user: Tatoeba-2020.08 / Shutterstock "Looks like reversed infinity time spiral" / Glenn Slater "The Little Mermaid: If Only" / Simon Jones "Please please come back to me" / The Haunting of Hill House: Eulogy / Hammad Zaidi "What If" / Emerald Fennell "Promising Young Woman"/ Florence + The Machine "Shake It Out" / Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Forever / Roy Davenport "Bargaining With God" / 9-1-1 Lone Star: ATX Files / Sabrina Romanoff / Ruelle "Carry You" / The Princess and the Frog (2009) / John Castle "In The Wake of Sorrow" / Kate McGahan "Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: An Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal"

#grief #stages of grief #bargaining #web weaving #quotes #my post

[tommyvegacentral]

Tommy Vega in The ATX Files

#by alex #s3 #3x06 #tusersilence #usertelevision #911coc #911women #911verse #911edit #lonestardaily #dailytvwomen #femalecharacters #dailytvfilmgifs #tvfilmsource #tommyvegaedit #ours

[defendingwarrior]

JUDD RYDER in 9-1-1: LONE STAR | 3.06 The ATX-Files

#911lonestaredit #911lsedit #911 lone star #judd ryder #tvedit #dailyflicks #cinemapix #tvandfilm #filmtv #gifs #gif #edits #edit #mine

[lonestardaily]

9-1-1: Lone Star S03E06 | "The ATX Files"

#owen strand #mateo chavez #madebyjen #tusersilence #userbones #usermorgan #usermbg #isastrxnd #usertelevision #dailytvsource #s3 #3x06 #ours

[queerstuffonscreen]

9-1-1: Lone Star (2020-)

Episode length: 46-60 min.

Country: USA

Genre: Drama

Language: English

A sophisticated New York cop, along with his son, re-locates to Austin, Texas, and must try to balance saving those who are at their most vulnerable with solving the problems in his own life.

Season 1

Episode 1: Pilot

Episode 2: Yee-Haw

Episode 3: Texas Proud

Episode 4: Act of God

Episode 5: Studs

Episode 6: Friends Like These

Episode 7: Bum Steer

Episode 8: Monster Inside

Episode 9: Awakening

Episode 10: Austin, We Have a Problem

Season 2

Episode 1: Back in the Saddle

Episode 2: 2100

Episode 3: Hold the Line

Episode 4: Friends with Benefits

Episode 5: Difficult Conversations

Episode 6: Everyone and Their Brother

Episode 7: Displaced

Episode 8: Bad Call

Episode 9: Saving Grace

Episode 10: A Little Help From My Friends

Episode 11: Slow Burn

Episode 12: The Big Heart

Episode 13: One Day

Episode 14: Dust to Dust

Season 3

Episode 1: The Big Chill

Episode 2: Thin Ice

Episode 3: Shock & Thaw

Episode 4: Push

Episode 5: Child Care

Episode 6: The ATX-Files

Episode 7: Red vs Blue

Episode 8: In the Unlikely Event of an Emergency

Episode 9: The Bird

Episode 10: Parental Guidance

Episode 11: Prince Albert in a Can

Episode 12: Negative Space

Episode 13: Riddle of the Sphynx

Episode 14: Impulse Control

Episode 15: Down To Clown

Episode 16: Shift-Less

Episode 17: Spring Cleaning

Episode 18: A Bright and Cloudless Morning

Season 4

Episode 1: The New Hotness

Episode 2: The New Hot Mess

Episode 3: Cry Wolf

Episode 4: Abandoned

Episode 5: Human Resources

Episode 6: This Is Not a Drill

Episode 7: Tommy Dearest

Episode 8: Control Freaks

Episode 9: Road Kill

Episode 10: Sellouts

Episode 11: Double Trouble

Episode 12: Swipe Left

Episode 13: Open

Episode 14: Tongues Out

Episode 15: Donors

Episode 16: A House Divided

Episode 17: Best of Men

Episode 18: In Sickness and In Health

Watch on Disney+

#9-1-1: lone star #911 lone star #drama #G #gay #gay characters #tk strand #Carlos Reyes #B #bisexual #bisexual character #Nancy Gillian #T #trans #trans character #Paul Strickland #lgbt #lgbtq #series with queer characters #tv shows with queer characters

[911lonestarrewatch]

Welcome to the 2024 hiatus rewatch!

Starting January 1st, we will be watching two episodes per week (Monday - Sunday). These can be watched at any point throughout the week. Complete rewatch schedule can be found below the cut!

Reminders of which episodes we will be watching each week will be posted on Sunday around noon CST. On Monday, a discussion post will go live that you can reply to if you want to talk to your fellow rewatchers, as well as a list of any fanfics that are tagged on AO3 with the episode number.

We encourage anyone participating to live blog, share their thoughts, scream about their favorite parts, or post any newly created fanworks about the episode using #911 lone star rewatch 2024

Other ways you can participate:

Reblog gif sets, fan art, fan fics, edits, metas, etc. related to the episodes of the week! Tag them ‘911 lone star rewatch 2024’ and we will do our best to reblog as much as we can as well, including queuing up posts throughout the week. (Obviously we will not reblog spam, or anything hateful or bigoted.)

Send us fic recs pertaining to the weekly episodes! Not everyone tags the episode on AO3, so send us anything we missed.

Please mention us @911lonestarrewatch or use the tag ‘911 lone star rewatch 2024’ if you post any new gif sets, fics, or fan art pertaining to that week’s episodes

Feel free to come and go as you please, there’s no obligation to take part every week. Also feel free to fall behind and reblog stuff from past weeks. The schedule is just to give this some structure, not a deadline anyone has to meet.

And have fun!

Schedule under the cut:

January 1st - January 7th:

1x01: Pilot

1x02: Yee-Haw

January 8th - January 14th:

1x03: Texas Proud

1x04: Act of God

January 15th - January 21st:

1x05: Studs

1x06: Friends Like These

January 22nd - January 28th:

1x07: Bum Steer

1x08: Monster Inside

January 29th - February 4th:

1x09: Awakening

1x10: Austin, We Have a Problem

February 5th - February 11th:

2x01: Back in the Saddle

2x02: 2100°

February 12th - February 18th:

2x03: Hold the Line

2x04: Friends with Benefits

February 19th - February 25th:

2x05: Difficult Conversations

2x06: Everyone and Their Brother

February 26th - March 3rd:

2x07: Displaced

2x08: Bad Call

March 4th - March 10th:

2x09: Saving Grace

2x10: A Little Help From My Friends

March 11th - March 17th:

2x11: Slow Burn

2x12: The Big Heat

March 18th - March 24th:

2x13: One Day

2x14: Dust to Dust

March 25th - March 31st:

3x01: The Big Chill

3x02: Thin Ice

April 1st - April 7th:

3x03: Shock & Thaw

3x04: Push

April 8th - April 14th:

3x05: Child Care

3x06: The ATX-Files

April 15th - April 21st:

3x07: Red vs Blue

3x08: In the Unlikely Event of an Emergency

April 22nd - April 28th:

3x09: The Bird

3x10: Parental Guidance

April 29th - May 5th:

3x11: Prince Albert in a Can

3x12: Negative Space

May 6th - May 12th

3x13: Riddle of the Sphynx

3x14: Impulse Control

May 13th - May 19th

3x15: Down To Clown

3x16: Shift-Less

May 20th - May 26th

3x17: Spring Cleaning

3x18: A Bright and Cloudless Morning

May 27th - June 2nd:

4x01: The New Hotness

4x02: The New Hot Mess

June 3rd - June 9th:

4x03: Cry Wolf

4x04: Abandoned

June 10th - June 16th:

4x05: Human Resources

4x06: This Is Not a Drill

June 17th - June 23rd:

4x07: Tommy Dearest

4x08: Control Freaks

June 24th - June 30th:

4x09: Road Kill

4x10: Sellouts

July 1st - July 7th:

4x11: Double Trouble

4x12: Swipe Left

July 8th - July 14th:

4x13: Open

4x14: Tongues Out

July 15th - July 21th:

4x15: Donors

4x16: A House Divided

July 22nd - July 28th:

4x17: Best of Men

4x18: In Sickness and In Health

#911 lone star #911 lone star rewatch 2024

[the-empress-7]

Rumor-tracking anon here. I feel like I should make a side-tumblr with the name.

So many many apologies in advance for another long one. This one is incredibly nuanced because there are a lot of moving pieces and it does sound tinhatty but I PROMISE there's a point.

TL;DR - I need People Anon's help in trying to figure out the timing of the interview and the photoshoot if Kashner was filing his story around 8/2/17. I'm totally okay with extrapolating if she can only answer/give context using People's weekly format. My questions:

1) How long before a monthly magazine is published does the book close? 2) How long before the book closes are the articles and photographs due to be filed? 3) How far in advance of a publication's release are the advance copies/previews done?

The two three rumors I am working on are:

Harry proposed a very long time before they announced the engagement.

They kept the engagement a secret for a long time for a specific reason.

Something happened that caused the palace and Harry to "let" Meghan stay after the VF interview when in the past, Harry notoriously cut friends and girls out if they talked to the press.

And the Big Question is: when exactly did Harry propose?

So now the verrrrrrry long version. (feel free to put a cut here!)

Bower's VF excerpt says:

After Harry proposed, they discussed announcing the engagement when The Queen returned from her summer in Balmoral.

They were engaged when Meghan did the VF interview.

VF sent a preview copy when Meghan and Harry were in Botswana for her birthday, which Meghan saw after returning home.

The pictures accompanying the VF article were taken in London.

Meghan, Harry, and the Palace were angry that the VF story was about Harry. (Meghan b/c she wanted the focus to be her philanthropy, Harry b/c he didn't want to be in the article, and the Palace because she existed.)

From internet sleuthing -- all dates 2017 unless noted otherwise and I'm using American date convention (mm/dd).

Meghan shut her social media down in April 2017. We know she thrived on social media so she wouldn't have shut it down without something definite and concrete being given to her in return.

Meghan was papped with Harry in May 2017 - early May at polo and mid-May around Pippa's wedding.

Meghan did not attend Wimbledon 2017. (Serena wasn't playing so of course Meghan wasn't going to waste her time.) So she was not papped in London in late June/early July.

Per the Court Circular, Harry's summer holiday started 7/29. We know he was back in London by 8/29 as he attended the Diana Sunken Garden thing on 8/30.

Per the Court Circular, The Queen was in Balmoral from 8/7 to 10/10 so Harry and Meghan weren't planning to tell anyone they were engaged until at least 10/11.

Meghan's birthday is August 4. Meghan and Harry were papped at the airport in Botswana on 8/4 and her PR said there was a birthday party for her that night. We can assume Meghan flew into London around 7/28, when Harry took off for the summer.

Suits Season 7 announced filming dates of 4/4 - 11/15. Production actually wrapped on 11/23. The last pictures of Meghan on the Suits set were from 11/11. Meghan's stand-in tweeted on 11/17 and it seems to be a goodbye/thank you tweet, suggesting that 11/17 was her last day, meaning no more scenes involving Rachel Zane.

Suits Season 7 was split into half-seasons, with the first half airing in summer 2017 (7/12 - 9/13) and the second half airing in spring 2018 (3/28/18 - 4/25/18). This suggests that the production took a break in the summer for the cast to do PR for the premiere.

Members of Suits started doing PR for the new season in June 2017 with the ATX Festival. Meghan is seen in set photos taken 7/12 to celebrate filming Suits' 100th episode that Sarah Rafferty posted on IG.

On 11/20, Meghan moved to London after being spotted in the London airport and after movers were seen at her Toronto house.

The engagement was announced on 11/27.

So all of this to say I think the VF photoshoot was at the end of July, probably no later than 7/28 since Harry usually didn't work when she's visiting. Since Kashner (the VF writer) ended his story by saying Meghan texted him right before he was filing that she would be unreachable and a couple days later were the Botswana airport pics, that suggests he was probably filing the story around 8/4.

If Kashner filed on 8/4, then it was probably after a few weeks for VF to fact-check her, a week or two to write the story and turn in a draft for fact-checking, and a day or so for the interview. That puts the interview happening in early July, or at least sometime before July 12 when we know definitively she was still in Toronto on the Suits set. Which means that the photoshoot was either at the end of July when she was flying in ahead of the Botswana trip or in early/mid-May when she was papped at polo or Pippa's wedding. The latter sounds like it might be too early in the process since if the interview was early July, then they were probably negotiating the article in June with the offer being made late May/early June. (People Anon, help! Does this timeline sound reasonable? Is this the process?)

And if Bower's tea that they were engaged before she did the VF interview is true, then the evidence is indicating they actually got engaged in April or May. (Of course, it's also entirely possible there were other secret trips to London in the intervening time but when you look at Meghan's PR cycle, which always had a pap walk or a story about her being in London with Harry every 3-4 weeks like clockwork and there are no new stories between Pippa's wedding and August, it does seem unlikely.)

We know from their engagement interview that the proposal was very spur-of-the-moment, unexpected, and Harry had been unprepared. To me this sounds like Harry didn't have a ring for her. He just got caught up in the emotions of seeing her again and proposed, sans ring. Was that May? Maybe. Was that July? Maybe. Definitely wasn't November when she moved to London like their PR's been claiming since 2017. Definitely wasn't September or October like maybe they told friends, if they told people they were waiting till The Queen came back from Balmoral. Maybe Harry presented her with the ring around that time to make it official and that's their story, they're sticking to it, but it doesn't jibe with Bower's findings nor basic internet sleuthing.

(In other words, shenanigans afoot since the very beginning as everyone rightly suspected.)

So if they were secretly engaged when she did the VF interview, that means the proposal or the discussion to marry was in the late spring. And if Harry did propose in the late spring/mid-summer like the evidence shows (rather than the autumn like they claim), then why did they wait 4 to 7 months till November to announce? Why didn't they announce it around August 31st, the 20th anniversary of Diana's death, in a tribute to his mother's legacy? (It was guaranteed wall-to-wall press coverage and Meghan probably would've sold out the VF issue if they did, possibly cementing her as a "serious" cover girl at Kate's level.) Why didn't they announce it in September ahead of the Toronto Invictus Games and after the VF article? (Arguably they did with Meghan's strategic product placement of the Husband shirt.) Why didn't they announce it the second The Queen was back from Balmoral?

My theory: Harry knew they effed up with the VF article and delayed it to let the palace's anger blow over, and luckily Big Bro William to the rescue announcing Kate's third pregnancy right before Meghan's VF issue dropped so the firm could ignore the Meghan story in favor of pushing the new Cambridge baby.

And if Harry proposed before Meghan did the interview and if they were engaged before the issue dropped/the advance copy went out, then that explains why Meghan got to stick around after talking to the press about their relationship and why Meghan got the official royal treatment at Toronto IG despite being "just" a girlfriend; Harry was already committed and engaged to Meghan.

So finally FINALLY all this to say that People Anon might help me confirm this long-held Tumblr rumor: Meghan had something over Harry that caused him to keep her after she talked to VF about the relationship, and that was their engagement.

Whew.

If you want to respond with that Charlie Day gif from It's Always Sunny, the one where he's crazy on coffee explaining conspiracy theories in front of the wall of paper, I totally understand.

Although at this point I've been researching and writing this up for so long that now I'm doubting Bower's excerpt says they were engaged when she did the VF interview and I made that part up by overthinking it too much. I'm just going to click submit and you can tell me if I imagined that part.

I'll crawl back into my research hole now.

Phew. I hope you are saving all these somewhere.

Paging People Anon for Rumor Tracking Anon.

[techav]

Introducing Wrap030-ATX

New Boards Day!

They're here!

This is a project that has been a long time coming, and something I have wanted to do for a long time.

This is the largest, most complex PCB I have ever designed — a 9.6x9.6 inch (244x244mm) square, 4-layer, complete motherboard for my MC68030 homebrew computer project.

It is designed to support the Motorola MC68030 CPU, MC68882 FPU, two 72-pin SIMM sockets, 512kB ROM, two serial ports, one parallel port, PS/2 keyboard, 4-bpp VGA video, IDE hard drive, and three ISA expansion slots. A complete system all in a microATX form factor.

This builds on my previous work with the 68030, based heavily on my wire-wrap project and the boards that followed. It's a project over four years in the making. I have made a few improvements on the old design, like 16550-compatible serial ports and an updated memory map to support much more RAM in a contiguous space.

Keeping with my existing system designs, I've combined most of the logic into a set of CPLDs. This makes things like PCB layout and logic debugging so much easier. Most of the remaining discrete logic on the board is 74'245 bus transceivers for driving memory and the ISA slots.

I've kept the name "wrap030" in honor of the project's origin as a wire-wrapped prototype, despite the move to proper PCBs. It's just what I've been calling the project in my own head (and design files) all this time, so at this point no other name would feel right.

I of course wasted no time starting to assemble one, but I did stop myself from getting too carried away with the soldering iron. I want to be methodical and test each section before moving on to the next.

I have already found one major error in my board layout — the footprint for the VGA connector is backwards. I may need to bodge together some kind of adapter.

So far I've confirmed the minimalist AT power supply section works with no major shorts on power supply rails, and the reset circuit is working as expected. Next step is to try a free run test with the CPU to ensure the system clock and CPU are working. Once that is confirmed working, I can start loading logic for accessing ROM. My goal is to have it at least running BASIC on a serial terminal by VCFSW in June.

I've forked my existing wrap030 repository on GitHub for this new Wrap030-ATX, since it does make some breaking changes that will require updates to logic and programs. New repo is here:

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Capturing the ambience of Trespasser

This ambitious and influential Jurassic Park title guides you through a dinosaur-infested site.

Running the game

When installing the game, be sure to run setup/setup95.exe rather than the more obvious SETUP.EXE found in the root directory. After the game is installed (you can skip DirectX installation on modern systems), you'll want to apply the official 1.1 patch for its bugfixes.

From there, install Trespasser CE Patch, the successor to the popular ATX patch. Replace your trespasser.ini file with the trespasser_dx9-hq.ini one found in the mod, and run the game.

Once inside the game, you can change video settings to your liking. You can also open an external options menu with a couple of additional options by clicking Select New Video Driver. You may also want to change the default FoV of 75 inside trespasser.ini.

Enabling cheats

Press Ctrl + F11 to open the developer command console. The retail game ships with some cheats available, but many more are disabled. To access them, add the following to your trespasser.ini file:

;-------- [Debug] ;-------- LogDevInfo=1

Capturing footage

You can detach the camera with the FLY <speed> developer cheat. Use the walk, jump, and crouch keys to move the camera. Keep in mind, however, that new ambient sounds won't trigger unless the player-character is nearby. The TNEXT command is useful to cycle between preconfigured checkpoint locations in each level.

To access level-select, go to the main menu and hold CTRL, SHIFT, Q, and W, and then release W.

Extracting sounds

Trespasser has over 150 ambient sounds inside its TPA archive. These can be played or extracted via TPA Player.

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