- Yeah, I was hoping for a Christmas treat, too. I'm usually not very interested in these emulator machines but I think I'll get this one. Having the right keyboard layout will (hopefully) make usage smoother compared to emulation on a PC.
- Good stuff, been curious about MGR for a long time.
- I highly recommend Kernighan's book "UNIX: A History and a Memoir".
- glhaynes 59 days agoThanks! I somehow missed this being released. Looks like a good read.
- I'm skeptical about this venture for several reasons, but this is a good first product launch. The bundle seems like a great deal, at least for people who know what they're really buying.
I'm also curious about how many of these kinds of machines the market can absorb. It's more of a replacement/backup unit for serious C64 enthusiasts than a casual "nostalgia" gaming platform, which is to their credit IMHO, but maybe a harder sell. RG's THEC64 Maxi reportedly sold in the tens of thousands but it was roughly half the price.
- I estimate that there are only about 32,000 working C64 left in the wild. Anything, even FPGA, to keep the ability for the machine to be alive is awesome. The SID, VIC II are becoming more and more rare by the day. The supply has all but dried up in Canada where I live. Tarrif anxiety is having a chilling effect of sourcing parts from USA
- There was a Swedish Commodore magazine that did all of their DTP in Publishing Partner Master on Amiga... for a couple of years, until they silently switched to Macs. :)
- Copyrights for the AmigaOS software is contested between Cloanto and Hyperion. Cloanto is however the uncontested copyright holder for the C64 KERNAL. Some very vague hints were dropped in this latest video about acquiring the ROM:s. Alas, I have no insider info.
I get a very vague feeling about all of it and I wonder if even the key people involved are completely sure about which direction they want to take. The various possible endeavors mentioned in the two videos combined seems to amount to "something for everyone" - replacement C64 parts, an "official" web shop, educational platforms, the internet - before facebook made it suck, early noughties cellphones, generic merch, retro-ish gaming devices, modern PC hardware in C64 cases...
I guess we'll have to wait and see.
- Some of his other videos are funnier (such as "Interview with Esoteric Language Academic"), but I thought this fit well here.
- I remember an "interview with an ffmpeg enthusiast" which hit incredibly close to home with me. :-D
- Interesting! A lot of his answers and thought processes are naturally influenced by the limitations of early home computer hardware. Others are still highly relevant, especially about code reviews.
- > Most applications simply append an icon to the icon bar; the screenshot below shows the effect of launching !Edit, with the extra icon in the icon bar being the only clue that anything happened: This new icon in the icon bar has to be clicked to cause the program to appear.
This little idiosyncrasy confused me copiously when first trying RiscOS.
- I mostly posted this because it seems very rare with photos/screenshots of InterGraph's EnvironV. If anyone is sitting on a rare image goldmine, please share. :)
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