- URL is broken, should be:
https://github.com/willtobyte/NES/
Pretty interesting .. off to do some code-reading.
- I have a few thousand, new-in-box 3.5" floppy disks, MS-DOS preformatted, if anyone needs them.
15 Euro's for a pack of 10, plus shipping and handling.
Send me a message.
- How are you getting your Amiga 500 online? I've been working on a restoration and am about ready to boot it .. next step is going to be giving it a 21st Century upgrade ..
- I remember having a box of floppies, each one laboriously labelled "UTIL [1] .. [2] .. [etc.]" that I would religiously protect from all and sundry in my little dev team. We'd pass around the box, and one of use would know "PC-Write is in UTIL 4" .. "Turbo C install .EXE is in UTIL 6", and so on. This box grew and grew until eventually it was decided, we had to just have a Maxtor disk - a WOPPING 512 Megabytes, to replace this box of floppies.
For a few years afterwards, I kept this UTIL box around. I'm pretty sure its still in one of my many, many other boxes of boxes in the house ..
- It truly is an astonishing feat!
Here's a great thread on the work being done to get a Wolfenstein/DOOM-alike running on another neat 8-bit platform, the Oric Atmos .. check out the video demos in this thread (which is incidentally interesting on its own weight):
https://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?t=1813&hil...
Direct link to cute demo:
https://forum.defence-force.org/viewtopic.php?p=26846#p26846
- I loved my Lynx when I finally got one, but man did it chew up batteries. Still got it around somewhere .. anyone know of any decent ROM carts suitable for next-gen dev?
- Wow, as if I didn't have enough reasons to get the 800XL out for a weekend of hacking, this excellent document propels things forward considerably ..
- Apropos long-use machines from the 80's, I have in my collection a system that was for 40-years used as the primary database for logging trips and fuel consumption for a motorcycle club .. a few hundred or so riders, every weekend, logging their details and distances and consumption rates .. it was sent to me after a members grandson finally said "lets replace this with an android tablet" .. well, now this machine, which was running for 40 years, is a museum piece. ;0
Still works great!
- Very impressive work, and a truly subversive device to be hacking on .. I wonder what else is going to come of this ..
- This is a really excellent collection of materials .. looking forward to digging into them.
I'm a strange person, I won't use 'modern' gadgets like the PLIP box[1] to get my Amigas online. For me, Retro is about re-enjoying the classic machines along with the era-appropriate peripherals (where possible).
What I've been doing for a while now is using a Null-Modem cable to my main PC and running a custom 'BBS' type app that effectively offers file browsing of a local folder on the PC along with XModem upload/download. This is a good stop-gap to get stuff on/off my Amiga's hard drive. I use JComm on the Amiga as the terminal client.
Lately, I've been playing with AmigaNOS[2], which is an all-in-one TCP/IP over serial application that runs on the Amiga. Connecting to a Linux machine (again over the null-modem) with slattach[3] running on the Linux box gives me a point-to-point TCP/IP connection. Googling AmigaNOS instructions on how to do this has shown that the knowledge has been lost over time, so I'm documenting it heavily for a future blog post.
The downside of slattach is that it doesn't work with iptables so I can't route the amiga traffic to the outside world. So the next thing is a cheap old Cisco Router with a serial port on it that will route serial-to-network properly. I'm waiting for that to arrive at the moment. End goal on this is multiple serial ports to ethernet for all my retro machines.
I love Kickstart/Workbench 1.3, but bigger TCP/IP stacks like AmiTCP or Miami don't play well (if at all) with it. Hence exploring this esoteric method with AmigaNOS.
OK, this probably isn't the answer you were looking for :) So... for less crazy people, the answer is: A PLIP Box, Kickstart 3.x, and Miami or AmiTCP.
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[1] https://amitopia.com/plipbox-deluxe-is-a-really-great-soluti.../
[2] https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/amiga/networking/74-AmigaNOSFla...
[3] https://linux.die.net/man/8/slattach