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classichasclass 9 hours ago | parent | on: Second Reality by Future Crew ported to Windows
Still always loved the Commodore 64 "port." I'm sure it started as a joke, but it really works.
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classichasclass 14 days ago | parent | on: A tour of Microsoft's MacBU lab
I think you're talking about System X. That was actually a bunch of G5 systems, first actual Power Mac cheesegraters and then Xserves. System G was the follow-on and that was indeed made out of Mac Pros, but the Power Macs were the first at VT.
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- bmonkey325 14 days ago
  Correct. Not an electric collection of various generations like the macBU but a lot of Apple gear nonetheless congealed in one place
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classichasclass 20 days ago | parent | on: 10 Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn’t Make It
Newsroom also had ports for the C64 and, later on, the Atari (after a write-in campaign). I think the C64 version was used more than the Apple II original, at least in my experience; our local users group did their newsletter in it. There was also Newsroom Pro, but only on the PC.
(my article) https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/03/printing-real-headline-n...
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classichasclass 55 days ago | parent | on: WarGames Terminal Fonts
Is it me, or is the aspect ratio not quite right? The letters seem wider than they did onscreen.
- mwalden 55 days ago
  Hello classichasclass,
  As the author of that web page I can point you to this text from the page:
  "In the following section you will see all of the text in these images transcribed in the WarGames Terminal N W.woff (Normal) font used for this web page's text. This font is slightly ## vertically compressed ## compared to the font in the images. WarGames Terminal D W.woff (Double) looks closer, but I will not use it here now due to the issue with .WOFF font creation in FontForge that I described earlier."
  Note where I put "##"s around "## vertically compressed ##" in the text above.
  When I get the .WOFF file situation sorted out, I may change the font for the page from the Normal version to the Double version so that it looks closer to the images of on-screen text. You can see the Double and Raster fonts in the "Font samples" section of the page to get an idea of what they will look like.
  Cheers, - Michael Walden
classichasclass 59 days ago | parent | on: Chocolate-quake: purist Quake source port that res...
And as a bonus it even sounds like "Chocolate Cake."
Who doesn't like chocolate cake?
- bmonkey325 59 days ago
  mmmmm... cake....
  cool feature of this "port" is that there in external music playback from ./music folder
classichasclass 73 days ago | parent | on: The Computer Collection: Unix Workstations
Always wanted to play with a Clipper RISC. It's about the only significant 90's RISC not represented in my collection.
classichasclass 79 days ago | parent | on: Lord of the Sord
Of course! It was a fun article.
classichasclass 80 days ago | parent | on: The Singing 1541 Floppy Drive
I'm always amused by this demo, but I always wondered what it was doing to my drive's heads (and the 1541 is so easy to throw out of alignment).
classichasclass 109 days ago | parent | on: Commodore hardware viruses–yes, they were possible
There was the BHP virus, but that was more of a proof of concept, and I don't remember hearing much (if anything) of it being in the wild. That said, it could stamp itself on disks even by simply listing the directory. 64'er was indirectly its source (by claiming it couldn't be done), and they were also the ones to issue a cleaner to remove it from disks.
See also groepaz's list: https://hitmen.c02.at/files/docs/c64/C64_Virus_List.txt
classichasclass 110 days ago | parent | on: Compute!’s Gazette Magazine returns to print (and ...
Except it's unlikely to be exclusively for Commodore systems - they seem to be making it retro-general. Which is fine, but that's not Gazette, either.
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