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Retronomicon 422 days ago | parent | on: Hitting the Books: Amiga and the birth of 256-colo...
Since the first HAM game, Pioneer Plague, didn't exist until 1988, and Thexder had 256-colour graphics on MCGA in 1987. I'd argue that the amiga did not birth 256-colour gaming.
Retronomicon 448 days ago | parent | on: Re-UD-80 - a larger display for Epson PX-4 / PX-8
That's some really nice readable 80col text for a composite signal, makes me wonder how they achieved it. (edit: they didn't, all the text shots are via the VGA output :(
Retronomicon 461 days ago | parent | on: Is the Atari Jaguar 64-bit? Yes, no, and who cares...
> Man, Jaguar vs 3DO was epic! As were many other long running discussions.
TBF we all lost by the M2 not reaching market.
RGVA was a goldmine of netkookery though, second only to CSAA
Retronomicon 499 days ago | parent | on: Non-PC compatible x86 computers
No mention of the mighty sequent symmetry ?
Retronomicon 499 days ago | parent | on: Couch to 64k – a.k.a. Building a Z80 Breadboard Co...
Urgh, chrome-specific video embeds :(
Retronomicon 515 days ago | parent | on: An Optimizing Compiler for Lisp for the Z80
There was also Microsoft Lisp (MuLISP) on CP/M
Retronomicon 515 days ago | parent | on: The 8-bit Guy's restoration videos
TBH I find them both far less enjoyable than Noel's Retro Lab (https://www.youtube.com/@NoelsRetroLab), who is probably the last hold out on youtube against the 'it's all about me!' style that every other channel seems to have adopted.
- djr 513 days ago
  the RetroChannel is very lo-key as well, I enjoy both these channels: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRetroChannel
Retronomicon 525 days ago | parent | on: How Tandy bet big on Windows in 1984 and lost
It mentions the Tandy sensation, but not their real 1992 horror - the Tandy VIS, which was a CDTV/CDi-alike based on the sensation hardware, co-marketed with Memorex:
https://archive.org/details/memorex_visual_information_syste...
Retronomicon 528 days ago | parent | on: The 80186: Intel's most misunderstood CPU
The RM Nimbus PC-186 was moderately popular in UK educational facilities, and obviously used the 80186.
Once upon a time I came across some unnamed PC clone, skulking in our university's business department that actually used the even rarer 80188, at the time no-one even believed me that it existed, but the modern internet thankfully makes it clear that it did.
- jgrahamc 528 days ago
  I did a lot of stuff with RM machines, but of an early generation. The Z80 based 380Z and 480Z. Fun machines.
  - Retronomicon 526 days ago
    nod the school I went to had 2 380Zs as their primary micros, one tape and one disk, before the BBC got released.
    Waiting for the tape machine to boot was mind numbing since you had to load basic from tape too (as you probably remember).
Retronomicon 549 days ago | parent | on: CPU 6502 Pascal Compiler/IDE/Debugger
The existence of Turbo Pascal was one of the Z80's best 'pro' points.