- X16 - You shoot yourself in the foot.
- C64 - After hours of troubleshooting chip failures, and weeks searching for replacement parts, you shoot yourself in the foot in full, retro glory.
- Windows - While assembling your gun, you pull a string. It's attached by a series of levers and pulleys to a gun half a mile away, and it shoots you in the head.
- iOS - Your gun violates the app store's terms of service. Six months later, Apple includes a gun just like yours with the OS.
- Linux - You aim at your foot, but the gun explodes in your hand. StackOverflow has six relevant questions about why this happened, with eight methods provided by non-experts to work around the supposed problems, none of which work in your case so you ultimately decide to use a different model of gun.
Ones own foot, and the shooting thereof.
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Ones own foot, and the shooting thereof.
I'm reminded of the old saw about how different languages allow you to shoot yourself in the foot, and was thinking about how that applies to various computing platforms:
Developer for Box16, the other X16 emulator. (Box16 on GitHub)
I also accept pull requests for x16emu, the official X16 emulator. (x16-emulator on GitHub)
I also accept pull requests for x16emu, the official X16 emulator. (x16-emulator on GitHub)
Re: Ones own foot, and the shooting thereof.
With a VIC-20, it's so resource limited you can't harm anything - it's more of a nerf gun without any rounds.
PS - I started with a VIC and now have a small collection holed up in my crawlspace for "someday", including a user port proto board and enough card edge connectors to plug in every cartridge all at once!
PS - I started with a VIC and now have a small collection holed up in my crawlspace for "someday", including a user port proto board and enough card edge connectors to plug in every cartridge all at once!
Re: Ones own foot, and the shooting thereof.
Forth: In the foot, it was, that shoot yourself, you did.
Re: Ones own foot, and the shooting thereof.
MS-DOS:
C:\> SHOOT -T FOOT
Thank you for trying the Shareware version of Shoot! To get the full version of Shoot!, which includes the arms, legs, and other body parts, please send $19.95 to...
C:\> SHOOT -T FOOT
Thank you for trying the Shareware version of Shoot! To get the full version of Shoot!, which includes the arms, legs, and other body parts, please send $19.95 to...
Re: Ones own foot, and the shooting thereof.
Perl: virtually unlimited assortment of parts, most combinations make loaded guns. You usually don't realize you've shot yourself until you "use strict". "use warnings" is a lie, it should be "use been shot". And if you manage to not shoot yourself, it comes with an unlimited spool of rope and unwinnable version of hangman.