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classichasclass 13 days ago | parent | on: W11: FPGA PDP-11/70 SoC
Doesn't look like it _yet_. Seems to require a connected computer to provide most of the devices over a high-speed serial link. But that could be handled by an RPi nowadays.
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classichasclass 13 days ago | parent | on: Examining Superbase on the Commodore 64
Dunno if this would work in the program, but you could try using the VICE monitor to disable key repeat (set location 650 to 64). Made using warp mode a lot more liveable when I was playing with Roadsearch Plus.
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- ChristopherDrum 10 days ago
  Nice tip, thanks. I'll try it out the next time I work in VICE.
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classichasclass 33 days ago | parent | on: Jef Raskin’s cul-de-sac and the quest for the huma...
(author) Yes, that one is a mockup model, but it's actually the Swyft. The Cat does not have a handle in that location.
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classichasclass 59 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.).
- bmonkey325 59 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.
classichasclass 60 days ago | parent | on: Reverse-engineering Roadsearch Plus, or, roadgeeki...
Hey, thanks! It turns out there's lots of ways to be a nerd. :)
classichasclass 63 days ago | parent | on: How many BeBox can you have in one room?
Can't see myself parting with my own 133MHz, no.
classichasclass 78 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.
classichasclass 82 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.
- Darkstar 81 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
classichasclass 96 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.
- bmonkey325 96 days ago
  Correct. Not an electric collection of various generations like the macBU but a lot of Apple gear nonetheless congealed in one place
classichasclass 102 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.
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