Community reach

calcmandan · Post by **calcmandan** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 10:39 am

Does this community, by chance, have a presence in IRC? How about usenet?

I've been working on learning assembly for the commander. Been reading through 'Programming the 6502' book. Would a better intro to assembly suit me on the transition to the CX16?

I've been watching Matt Hefferman's tutorials but I feel like I don't have enough foundation in assembly to follow intelligently.

JimmyDansbo · Post by **JimmyDansbo** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 11:29 am

You are welcome in #commander-x16 on freenode or you can join CX16 Basic and Assembler newbies on FB (https://www.facebook.com/groups/434065570799988)

Otherwise this forum is the place to go for help ?

StephenHorn · Post by **StephenHorn** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 7:11 pm

There's also an unofficial Discord server, which has a few active members, some of whom are actively learning, and a couple of others who like me and Matt Heffernan who'll answer questions (though I'm more likely to answer and then go off on a random tangent).

https://discord.gg/nS2PqEC

kelli217 · Post by **kelli217** » Sun Feb 07, 2021 6:50 am

Sine the alt.* hierarchy is a bit of a free-for-all, you could just create alt.comp.sys.cx16. ?

desertfish · Post by **desertfish** » Sun Feb 07, 2021 3:29 pm

@kelli217 people are still using usenet for other things as spam?

BruceMcF · Post by **BruceMcF** » Sun Feb 07, 2021 8:13 pm

4 hours ago, desertfish said:

@kelli217 people are still using usenet for other things as spam?

I've seen the comp.lang.forth newsgroup used to maintain a grudge from the 90s.

SlithyMatt · Post by **SlithyMatt** » Sun Feb 07, 2021 8:33 pm

Usenet is mainly used today, bandwidth-wise, for pirated video. I don't know the "Rule 34" percentage these days, but it's probably lower, and the big chunk is mainstream movies and TV shows that people can subscribe to with a SickBeard agent. The remaining 0.00001% are ancient flame wars. This is why most ISPs don't offer NNTP access any more, and you have to pay a third party for it.

calcmandan · Post by **calcmandan** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 1:56 am

Sine the alt.* hierarchy is a bit of a free-for-all, you could just create alt.comp.sys.cx16. [emoji1787]

hmm. I didnt know that

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calcmandan · Post by **calcmandan** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:08 am

Usenet is mainly used today, bandwidth-wise, for pirated video. I don't know the "Rule 34" percentage these days, but it's probably lower, and the big chunk is mainstream movies and TV shows that people can subscribe to with a SickBeard agent. The remaining 0.00001% are ancient flame wars. This is why most ISPs don't offer NNTP access any more, and you have to pay a third party for it.

I subscribe to a various number of newsgroups. While there is still spam from time to time, most people i know create filters to prevent downloading. We have good conversations in them. Sure there is pirating going on but you have to look for it specifically. It doesnt happen in regular ng's.

I subscribe to hobby type ngs for things like like pipe smokers, cooking, commodore, programming, linux, astronomy.

Flame wars. Are you saying that these things only exist in usenet? And this isnt why most isps dropped nntp support. It was due to the cost of server maintenance and bandwidth vs a dwindling number of subscribers utilizing the service. Some people pay a third party for access, but many people use google groups.

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SlithyMatt · Post by **SlithyMatt** » Mon Feb 08, 2021 4:46 am

2 hours ago, calcmandan said:

Are you saying that these things only exist in usenet?

Of course not. Twitter is just a giant, flat, global flame war. The difference is that Usenet has flame wars that have been going on for 30 years. And I'm sure there is still good discussion, but the fact is that it's closed off to most ISP customers now and most of the people paying for it are feeding their SickBeard. Usenet has always been a breeding ground for piracy ever since UUEncode was invented, and ISPs didn't want the liability of keeping it open once the vast majority of discussion moved to web forums and chat groups.