- I like how if you tap any of the images it transforms from an Atkinson dithered image to a a clear colour image. Cool effect.
- Nice! I love the portrait mode. I played a ton of this on the Jaguar as a kid. Great music.
- Note that Two Stop Bits includes links to the Internet Archive for every post (see the 'ia' link near the story title).
- TL;DR The Računalniški muzej (Computer Museum) in Slovenia is celebrating the 55th anniversary of Radio Študent by broadcasting a ZX Spectrum game called "Kontrabant 2" over FM radio. This nostalgic event allows owners of the original ZX Spectrum to load and play the game via radio waves, reminiscent of how games were distributed in the past. The broadcast will take place at 89.3 MHz around 21:30.
- Wow, yeah, they are cool as well.
- I’ve been around retro since it wasn’t but these things I’ve never seen before and are absolutely fantastically gorgeous. I hope we get back to experiencing the computer experience again, like a the vinyl revival we’ve been seeing for a while, instead of the boring (but also powerful, amazing, from my cold, dead hands) computing experience of the mid 2020’s.
Thanks for sharing.
- Wow. Those are neat. They seem to be the inspiration for some of the Mac pro types design studies. Or at least they remind me of these
https://www.neowin.net/news/here-are-some-early-apple-comput.../
- Includes such classics as: Maclisp, Scheme, Macsyma, TECO, Emacs, the Magic Switch, the Jargon file, Logo, CLU, Zork, Adventure, Maze, MacHack VI, Spacewar.
- That is a magnificent front panel! Link well worth it!
- I remember when desktop publishing was a business. You could go to someones house and work with them on a news letter or brochure and get something printed on a laserwriter or then taken to a print house if you had money to get it done in colour.
What a wild time.
- Slight different generation. I remember, 6 years earlier in middle school, friends and I pouring over the green catalog for Atari VCS games. Dreams of what was out there and what we hoped to play one day. It was a magical time:
https://archive.org/embed/Atari_Video_Computer_System_Catalo...
- The tech pub group at my work had Xerox publishing systems and I thought the vertical monitors made so much sense for most tasks. When the Radius came out I desperately wanted one but with the money I spent on my 512K "Fat Mac" and upgrade to Mac Plus it was out of the question.
- I forgot about Ura Zelda - I am sure it would have been awesome to play
- It’s interesting that Bill Atkinson doesn’t appear on the org chart. This was probably a time when Jef Raskin still was driving macintosh. Of course the high production cost doomed Lisa and nearly killed Mac
- Like I said above, I just do not care. This event in isolation? I agree with you.
But it is not in isolation.
Expressing my general disgust over the general IP scene is neither crying or moaning.
This will all play out like it always does --a mess.
Peace.
- This is nothing of the sort. No matter if one thinks whether the Yuzu takedown was justified or not (As I understand it, they distributed the decryption keys for the games, and they took money for providing special builds that were designed to run obviously-pirated games that were not even released yet).... You can't get more "hey we're pirates!" than that... This was not a lawsuit against emulation. It was a lawsuit against commercial piracy, plain and simple.
> People are out there doing really fun, cool things. Sonic and Mario on the C64, for example.
True, but they're doing that with the IP of Nintendo, and often even copying artwork (sprites, background) pixel-by-pixel. You can cry and moan as much as you want, the law is pretty clearly on the side of Nintendo here in those cases. And this is not about some old, obscure license or character that they have almost forgotten about. It's an IP that they're still actively developing, promoting and selling. I hate stupid useless lawsuits for obscure and forgotten stuff as much as everyone, but in this case I can't help but side with Nintendo (as much as it pains me to say).
- Good grief! I really dislike the more aggressive toward IP companies.
People are out there doing really fun, cool things. Sonic and Mario on the C64, for example.
Much like Disney who climbed their ladder to fortune on the backs of the likes of The Brothers Grimm, only to pull that ladder up hard in the form of way over the top copyright extensions, these companies seek to own culture and ideas even remotely related to some product or other.
The movie and media companies cry, "Theft!" when no theft happened. Infringement did happen and we remain largely unable to talk rationally about that despite decades of experience shows us the end result ends up a net benefit to EVERYONE involved, even the company who was infringed on.
Nintendo stands out as a most aggressive company, though they are definitely not alone. Had they all gotten their way some time back, there would be no meaningful retro culture today, or maybe a shadow of what we have today, but more importantly, none of them would have the gifts from emulator authors and reverse engineers to infringe on for profit today! Many titles have shipped with emulators for one reason or another. Emulators they did not author and do not own. Hubris!
Disgusting. Really. This is raw greed and territorial behavior at its very worst
And this is not right, in this context, and I just don't care:
In general, I am as nice to others as they are to me. And should it go not nice?
Game on!
Clowns.
- Everyone. Do yourself a favour and click the link.
1) Yes the console looks dorky and odd, but the animations of the terminal sessions is a piece of magic.
2) There is a map of the ENTIRE internet circa 1977. The whole banana in one spot.
- The discussion thread you did post is far more interesting
- This is a much more interesting insight than that repo link I posted. Pictures of humans at work. What’s not to like.
- "The Orange Site" LOL! I feel you :)
- Ha, I should have checked /new before trying to submit my own link.
The intro music is absolutely classic.
- thanks friend
- It’s satisfying to see this here before it goes up on the orange site
- Meta: A console hacked in this way loses all signature checks, meaning one can run any Homebrew, any pirated official game/DLC/etc content packages (the official store is shutting down so fuck it lol), any unsigned content packages like custom Rock Band songs, anything.
You can convert your Dashboard-installed legally-owned games to run without the disc (NXE2GOD, i.e. New XBOX Experience [Dashboard update that introduced the DVD-installation feature] to Games On Demand).
You can patch out the 10ms “ping limit” and tunnel System Link over the Internet. You can replace the HDD without the hassle of the MS-signed security sector and without being limited to officially-sold capacities like 20/60/120/250GB — shove a 2TB laptop SSD in there!
- This is so niche as to be retro. It may also give new life to RISC OS of old. I for one will try it...
- I always knew this day would come. Anyone have a link to modding instructions?
- I bought an ihome dock last year but my ipod has rockbox on it and it just didn't really work like I wanted it to. I know it probably would if I just put it back to stock firmware but that's just not really worth it for the trade off
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