<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kevinbowen" class="u-url mention">@<span>kevinbowen</span></a></span> my folks are in Russia and Ukraine. You can probably imagine any sort of travel now is impossible, and the entire thing is very complicated.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@isagalaev" class="u-url mention">@<span>isagalaev</span></a></span> </p><p>I kinda-sorta understand. I&#39;m a 1st generation migrant from the East Coast and a 3rd generation immigrant from the &quot;old country&quot;. I once met a distant cousin of mine from Latvia; but, that was 30 years ago.</p><p>Aside from my daughter, the rest of my family remains on the East Coast &amp; we all kinda drifted apart once the grandmother&#39;s passed in the mid &#39;90s.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kevinbowen" class="u-url mention">@<span>kevinbowen</span></a></span> I&#39;m quietly envious as a first-generation migrant. We don&#39;t get any family visits…</p>

<p>Looks like we&#39;re having a mini-family reunion in June.</p><p>Last night, out of the blue, my mom&#39;s youngest brother reached out to me. He, his wife &amp; son are coming out west for some sort of memorial(on his wife&#39;s side) &amp; will be staying in the neighborhood for a week.</p><p>We&#39;re not terribly close; but my daughter &amp; his son were best pals whenever they saw each other as kids.</p><p>I&#39;m touched that he reached out to me &amp; nervously excited to hang out without my folks being intermediaries.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@zmz" class="u-url mention">@<span>zmz</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://urusai.social/@thepi" class="u-url mention">@<span>thepi</span></a></span> excellent</p>

<p>that&#39;s so cute that this code considers &quot;256 instructions&quot; to be a meaningful length of time.</p>

<p>I just found a function (inside another function!) that&#39;s a fixed delay. How long is it?<br />it&#39;s a loop that runs 256 times!</p>

<p>I suspect there may be an issue here: I identified a variable as containing the Soundblaster IO port, right? and I&#39;m assuming everything that uses it is Soundblaster code.</p><p>But it may just be &quot;soundcard IO port&quot; and there&#39;s other sound device code mixed in here. So that&#39;s why some of it doesn&#39;t make sense as soundblaster, it&#39;s actually tandy 3voice or something</p>

<p>they&#39;re sending a... internal soundblaster test command? <br />(DSP 0xF0)</p><p>I dunno why this code is like this.</p>