- I was surprised to read the professor couldn't find a PC with a 5.25" drive. I'd give her my Am5x86 but I'm actually using it for serious business (games, etc.).
- bmonkey325 2 days agoI am not able to source a 5.25" drive where I live in Canada. I can get a 3.5" USB but implies a certain vintage of machine. OG mechanisms for pre-USB are definitely hard and few between even at e-waste depots near my home.reply
- Hey, thanks! It turns out there's lots of ways to be a nerd. :)
- Can't see myself parting with my own 133MHz, no.
- Although I'd argue that's an odd, almost vestigial use. The RP2040 on that board is performing most of the show and the 6502 becomes more of a front end. But it's a fun idea, at any rate.
- Still always loved the Commodore 64 "port." I'm sure it started as a joke, but it really works.
- 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.
- 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...
- Is it me, or is the aspect ratio not quite right? The letters seem wider than they did onscreen.
- 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
- And as a bonus it even sounds like "Chocolate Cake."
Who doesn't like chocolate cake?
- Always wanted to play with a Clipper RISC. It's about the only significant 90's RISC not represented in my collection.
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