- My BeBox gets booted once a year and then placed back in storage after verification of its operational status.
I should probably use it more. ;)
- I love my ZX Next .. its such a fun machine. It feels modern, has all the old and great classics available, and can be booted into all sorts of different machines.
Really looking forward to seeing more ZX Next users out there - every one of these campaigns means a broader market for new software, too.
- 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!
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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