jonatanforsberg.net: 2022

Monday, November 14, 2022

The Boar's Tale

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Resurrected in petscii cyberspace

Enter the search string "how to get friends and turn immensely popular" into your search engine of choice and becoming a sysop for a bulletin board system available only from petscii-capable 40-column terminals via telnet will most certainly come up first. For this reason I spent hundreds and hundreds of hours over a year, together with a few chosen fellow nerds, in order to get the Boar's Head Tavern BBS up and running and working fairly stably.

That was until the launch in spring last year. Since then the cyberpunk Sea*Bass from the abyss has of course continued to cause hacking-headache and -hypertension while reinforcing the love in my marriage. The Boar has until now welcomed almost 5000 calls and has 200 users, and it has had featured articles in both flagship disk magazines Vandalism News and Propaganda.

Those articles are preferably read together with the rest of their outfit from a disk on a real 6510-based machine or in an emulator, and can of course be downloaded from the Tavern. I have however made the screens available for those unable to here (zoomable .png):

Vandalism News issue 72 "Cyberpunks and Young Malts" by Jazzcat

Propaganda issue 31 "Interview: Macx" by Hedning

The solitary node for the online pub Boar’s Head Tavern is always present in cyberspace past the Tannhäuser Gate. For help on how to rummage around inside a Commodore 64 in my data dungeon, a primer is available here (.pdf): icrap.dk/boar-help.

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"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants"
(Sir Isaac Newton)

"you chose to act as if you had never been molded into civil society and had everything to begin anew. You began ill, because you began by despising everything that belonged to you."
(Edmund Burke in Reflections on the Revolution in France)

"Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve"
(Sir Karl Popper)

Liberty is, of course, a loftier goal. But only those who have never known disorder fail to grasp that [order] is the necessary precondition for liberty."
(Niall Ferguson in Colossus)

"When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude."
(Theodore Dalrymple in What is Poverty?)

"If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. // We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant."
(Sir Karl Popper on the paradox of freedom in The Open Society and Its Enemies)

"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. // The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them."
(Thomas Sowell in Is Reality Optional?)

"Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop."

(G.K. Chesterton in Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State)

"to take part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress."
(The aim of The Economist)

"This is the lesson: Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
(Sir Winston Churchill, October 29th 1941, Harrow School , London)