diff --git a/content/post/2023/05/april-2023.md b/content/post/2023/05/april-2023.md index 2a69ae0b..670462e2 100644 --- a/content/post/2023/05/april-2023.md +++ b/content/post/2023/05/april-2023.md @@ -38,13 +38,18 @@ Again: light material that's finished quickly or can be put away in an instant. ## Selected (blog) posts - [The Art of the Shadow: How Painters Have Gotten It Wrong for Centuries](https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-art-of-the-shadow-how-painters-have-gotten-it-wrong-for-centuries/) at MIT Press is without a doubt the most compelling read of this month. -- RMRubert writes how to [repurpose an old Pinnacle PCTV capture card](https://blog.rmrubert.eu/posts/2022-12-30-repurposing-an-old-pinnacle-tv-capture-card/) which is right up my alley! (see [capturing VGA output from DOS on WinXP](/post/2022/11/capturing-vga-output-from-dos-on-winxp/)). - Alex Murrell's [The Age of Average](https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average) article was painfully telling (and very thorough). - Jim Nielsen tries to piece together [AI & the science of creativity](https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/ai-and-the-science-of-creativity/). I don't think AI encountered the mystery of the creative muse at all, but it's an interesting point of view. - Ed Summers shows us how to "[Save WACZ Now](https://inkdroid.org/2023/04/03/spn-wacz/)" using the Wayback Machine. I didn't think this was possible and [set up an archive system for myself](/post/2023/03/we-should-build-our-own-wayback-machines-reprise/). - In [The State of Neocities](https://www.bikobatanari.art/posts/2023/state-of-neocities), bikobatanari explains why the ship is sinking, which is a bit sad to read. - I was completely fascinated by the [Japanese manhole cover fabrication processes](https://daverupert.com/2023/04/japanese-manhole-covers/) Dave Rupert writes about. Talk about having patience! +I've been testing out video streaming of a retro handheld game via a retro console using one of the retro capture cards. Success: the composite connection works! Okay okay a GB emulator is perhaps faster. + +![](../snes.jpg "Kirby's Dream Land 2 in a Super Game Boy in a SNES hooked up on a retro Windows XP machine.") + +Ricardo Montero responded on Mastodon with similar endeavors: he [repurposed an old Pinnacle PCTV capture card](https://blog.rmrubert.eu/posts/2022-12-30-repurposing-an-old-pinnacle-tv-capture-card/) which is right up my alley! (see [capturing VGA output from DOS on WinXP](/post/2022/11/capturing-vga-output-from-dos-on-winxp/)). + ## Other random links diff --git a/static/post/2023/05/snes.jpg b/static/post/2023/05/snes.jpg new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a17daf08 Binary files /dev/null and b/static/post/2023/05/snes.jpg differ