I watched all of that. Begrudgingly. So much video time.<p>A decade ago it would have been a text format blog post with screenshots and downloadable binaries, and perhaps the occasional demo video. The same amount of information could be consumed in 5 minutes.<p>Now we need to watch hours of overproduced youtube videos, because that's the way "creators get paid".<p>We should have gotten micropayments to work in browsers instead.<p>Google really did a number on the web.
The modern maybe-AI generated, definitely SEO optimized method of writing where they spend 5 paragraphs restating the same thing in different ways when it could have been said in two sentences is unbearable.
Here's the manual...
<a href="https://archive.org/download/microtext-user-guide-from-perifractic/Microtext%20User%20Guide%20from%20Perifractic.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/download/microtext-user-guide-from-perif...</a><p>Here's the disk file you can load into your emulator...
<a href="https://archive.org/download/microtext-user-guide-from-perifractic/microtxt.d64" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/download/microtext-user-guide-from-perif...</a>
Weird that the photo of the eBayed disk is a Maxell CF2 - a 3in disk! These were standard on the Amstrad 8-bits (CPC/PCW) and the Sinclair Spectrum +3, after Amstrad bought the rights to the Spectrum, but I’d never seen them on a C64.
A better title would be "Former Star Wars actor and retro computing enthusiast Christian Simpson (Retro Recipes) finds lost programming language."<p>With a link to the source YouTube video:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvSlWLgXcsU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvSlWLgXcsU</a>