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I had a similar-ish problem about twenty years ago: new batch of LCD's wouldn't work with an existing board. Turned out that with the new 32Mhz Z80 I'd been outside the LCD data specs for about three years of production even with the old 8Mhz processor ... 
Solution? Add a PIC to drive the LCD at the right rate, and buffer the processor output - couldn't do it in the Z80 as I needed all the performance I could squeeze out of it to drive the printhead and the additional memory access cycles would have crippled it. That was something of a lash-up, but by 'eck it sold in droves! 
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I really don't want to know how many JavaScriptors you now have confused. They will never have heard of a Z80 framework and are still trying to figure out what the 32MHz and 8MHz stuff is about,
But they might know that the Falcon can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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These are not the diodes we're looking for ... move along, move along.
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You know that always confused me, :geekmode: parsec or parallax Arc Second is a measure of distance and not speed :\geekmode:
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Really? Then why would a smuggler say something like that to a farmboy and his grandpa when bragging about his ship?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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I seem to remember a short story set in the Star Wars universe that explained the Kessel Run faux pas. The "Kessel Run" was a route between two regions of the Empire. The problem with the route was that there was some kind of astronomical phenomena (nebulae, neutron stars, stellar nursery?) that made hyperspace travel dangerous unless you took the long way around. Doing the "Kessel Run" in 12 parsecs was therefore the height of ballsy and reckless piloting.
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Gravity wells pull ships out of hyperspace, repentinely and with destructive results. Planning a safe route requires a lot of computational power (which the Millenium Falcon has since it holds 3 different navigational computers... scavenged and incompatible between each other and that's why it often malfunctions), thrust power to escape the outermost areas of gravity wells before they pull the ship out of hyperspace and pilot (over)confidence.
I have a cozy home in wookieepedia. And one on tvtropes.
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 I have always found the elegant lash up last longer and is more fault tolerant than the proper methods...
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glennPattonWork wrote: elegant lash
Kinky.
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Ahhhh Z80! 
XOR A
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Clear: LD HL,Start
LD DE, HL
INC DE
LD BC,Length
XOR A
LDIR
RET
It comes back so easily - and I haven't coded in Z80 for decades now ...
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So many good (& bad) memories...
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Ok, it may be an AR but I don't see the magazine well and the barrel would be way too short.
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Mel Padden wrote: Just until you break the screen (and you will)...
Maybe, but I've never broken a screen on any (Android) phone I've ever owned, care, plus a silicon case seems to be all I need to stop damage. Not that I'm getting an iPhone 10 X or whatever its called any time soon.
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You handle your phone better than me 
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The only time I broke the screen was when my Lumia 635 started going nuts and didn't stop for a while, and I needed to make an important call. I lost patience and the phone suddenly impacted screen-first on a wall... one of those ridged exterior walls. It didn't end well for the screen.
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I've never been the sort to loose patience and go  with things like that, but I can understand some people do.
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It runs in the family since at least 3 generations - luckily only on objects. If there is something the male of my family species do not tolerate is uncomplying technology. I lost count of the phones, tools and car radios my dad threw out of the windows, deliberately massacred with power tools or run over with the car.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Girl is a little drink from an irrational state (11)
Having defeated you all twice in a row I suppose I shall have to lower my standards and give an easy one! (heh heh heh....)
modified 21-Nov-17 4:17am.
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Girl MISS
is a IS
little drink SIP
from an irrational PI
state
MISSISSIPPI
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Yep 
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You're just lucky I worked out how to stop spelling MISSISSISSISSISSISSIPPI 
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