- Not this extreme but I had a laptop on an inverter running map point and a USB gps antenna in the era before garmin gps and expensive auto GPS.
Wife was navigator and speed advisor.
- The Be was impressive. The mult-tasking and multimedia was impressive. How different the world would be if Apple bought Be instead of NEXT in 1996.
- A great test of this machine will be if it can play these games that students built in 2023. I really hope this ships in '25. Im more pumped for this than the RM800xl since the vectrex has been a whale I have chased for 40 years...
https://itwww.hs-pforzheim.de/daten/mitarbeiter/johannsen/ve...
- if you want to follow the project on X : https://x.com/VectrexOn
kickstarter : https://vectrex.com/vectrex-mini-kickstarter/
- I know its the rage to build "mini" rebuilds of retro and coinop games, but I have retro eyesight and hope that they will be successful enough to build Vectrex "biggies".
Apparently is built on amoled screen and has HDMI out ..
I have always wanted a vectrex system - but so rare in the wild that I swore I would buy the next one I saw - working or not.
- Love or hate, Microsoft certainly did a lot to empower hobbyist and professional developers in the PC/wintel era. Certainly in the 80s SDKs were notoriouly expensive. OS/2 dev kit was $3000. I remember the SGI Irix Developer Option (IDO) was $3500. you could get a C compiler from MS for about $500. MSDN later become something pricey but wasnt strictly needed to sit down and build code for a PC and ship it
- In 2027, Terminator : Rise of the Vibe Code
- I couldn't reach this at home. Perhaps blocked by pi-hole. I found a similar article in case its not pi-hole blocked and just down
- My first word processor :
Star micronics lc 10
Bank street writer / atari writer
Atari 800
Atari 850
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I think SGI's hardware was exclusive enough to limit their audience anyway, but everyone else, including Apple, really screwed themselves with this.
This is something Steve Jobs fixed at Apple in 1997 by eliminating per-division tracking of profit/loss. When the VPs are freed from profit motive for their direct divisional output, they become responsible for the profit of the entire company. It's worked pretty well.