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  • classichasclass 2 days ago | parent | on: Still booting after all these years: The people st...
    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.).
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    • bmonkey325 2 days ago
      I 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.
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  • classichasclass 3 days ago | parent | on: Reverse-engineering Roadsearch Plus, or, roadgeeki...
    Hey, thanks! It turns out there's lots of ways to be a nerd. :)
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  • classichasclass 6 days ago | parent | on: How many BeBox can you have in one room?
    Can't see myself parting with my own 133MHz, no.
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  • classichasclass 21 days ago | parent | on: Happy Birthday 6502
    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.
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  • classichasclass 25 days 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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    • Darkstar 24 days ago
      My favorite was the "Real Reality" spoof by Never a few years later for Mekka&Symposium. They re-made it entirely with shaky VHS home cameras and papercraft models... Extremely creative, for a time when video editing was still very much not in reach for most people
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  • classichasclass 39 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 39 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 45 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...

  • classichasclass 80 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 80 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 84 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 84 days ago
      mmmmm... cake....

      cool feature of this "port" is that there in external music playback from ./music folder

  • classichasclass 98 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.
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