- About time. I was going to do some Dev on that system. Was some time ago. Devs were so toxic I sold the Jag...
- rocky1138 7 days agoI've heard this but I've only ever had good experiences, especially with JagChris. That said maybe it just bounces off of me because I'm such a newbie.reply
- I think it is rare. I had that keyboard in my hands too. Did not know what it was. Then I got the terminal, and saw the keyboard port is just a 1/4 audio jack.
Doh! Wrong order error.
What is kijiji?
- Oh my gosh! This brings back memories!
My first real Internet machine was a 386/25, no 387 as it was an SX model CPU.
Windows 3.11
Winsock Extensions
14.4 modem
Number Nine VGA (wish I had kept that! It could do tricks with EGA, TV and such) running a 1024x768 interlaced display. Yes, turn the contrast down, and life was pretty good.
And get this:
5, count em, 12345 Megabytes of RAM!
1 on mainboard, 4 in some slot or other.
Now, 5 gave one the advantage of being able to run some programs that required 8 megabytes They would run terribly, if they ran at all, because disk thrashing, but running was better than not, so yay!
And I would run my copy of Netscape and off to the races we go!
- This was my first serious Windows environment!
Got my MCP on NT 3.51 and ran quite a lot of higher end software. And 3.51 was a solid OS, with the graphical shell customizable to a high degree. You could make a damn cool looking desktop.
- Yeah, it was a good optimization effort.
My preference was to work in cycles. Many systems have a timer one can use to get the cycle counts. There isn't one on a stock Apple 2. Many cards have the PIA chip, 6522, which does have two timers, though they are only 16 bit.
Or, a quick hand timing gets fairly close. On that, the only real difficulty is finding a task that scales well with our perceptual slowness.
- Same. Watching high res 60fps YT video on a crt is amazing!
- I still love a good CRT and can often fix them. I like their speed, and I love the glow
A good plasma set can be a compromise and that is the family TV right now
OLED glows well, but I am really hoping we get LED for supermarket bright displays that are not so delicate or susceptible to burn in.
- In high school, a physics teacher once had a play on percussive maintenance. I call it impact encouragement. Or when using a hammer, linear encouragement, but I digress...
He held a glitchy TV by one side 6 inches in the air. Went on at length about the physics of it too. All sorts of BS, and then he dropped it!
#BAM!
Perfect picture after that! And I mean exemplary! Was weird. That set performed better than the others for years! At least two
- I love the scene. Watching people continue to improve on what is possible every year is amazing and inspiring!
When a system is software driven and open, there tends to be more possible than we may think!
I first became aware of this on the VCS (2600). Actual capability was combat basically. But, the chips were designed in a permissive way and it turns out if you flog it hard enough, good things can happen!
And seeing those tricks inspired me to explore: Atari, some C64, on my own and that shaped a career of both putting out fires whike making magic happen and here is the kicker: I got paid for it!
...Color Computer 2 and 3, Some C64, Apple 2, GS (dissappointing), PC ( the 8 bit like ones, sorry viler, lol, but I got unfinished business with those machines to do the moment I get something running with an ISA bus.) VCS, 7800.
More recently, e-paper, Propeller other embedded devices.
6502, 6809, 65816, Z-80, 8086, 8088, '386
Even g-code! Made more than a few industrial machines punch well above their weight class.
Unix, Linux, NT, DOS, Microsoft Unix whatever it is called, IRIX, HP UNIX... (I really miss SGI and I never hacked on
All the way back to a 6th grade door knob I found I could unlock just by pure manipulation.
I found the scene via disk intros, then via Internet and have followed ever sense. The art is fast, beautiful, thought provoking and fun.
If we did not have a scene to inspire, challenge, express the rage, party, I thimk we would have missed out on a coupla generations of talent thst could have easily remained latent. My own, such as it is, too.
I have made e-paper run at 13 + FPS and have an asteroids type game almost done.
Lots of extra colors, screen hacks, on most of this list... Copying that which they said cannot be copied... Data recovery, debugging, assrmbly language, machine language... almost all of it influenced by scene members who shared.
Honestly, it is kind of beautiful. Watch, be amazed, investigate, remix if warranted, make magic, share, wash rinse repeat... And with great power comes great responsibility. I never felt pushed to some dark behavior. I felt pushed to learn, play, share.
Nothing wrong with that.
Thank you all you sceners. I sure had fun and may be at a party yet.
I do not believe the scene will die. It will evolve. It will go where the limits are and then push past them.
- The DemoScene was always for the love of the game. When we had more of a shared culture (saw the same movies, listened to the same music, etc) it was easier to see things done that can amaze you. pushing the hardware to places it was not thought possible. Now today, and 2SB is a testament to that, there are so many opportunies to do something crazy - hacking an LLM into animal crossing on gamecube anyone ??!?!
Our expectations are also higher - I remember building a ray tracer for the Mac II for my graphics class in '88. I made a movie - maybe 17 seconds long. all in my class when "oooh - ahhh" appreciating the accomplishment. I showed it to my girlfriend at the time and she said "I've seen better on MTV....". The technical merits are drowned out by what is common place on other system. sigh.
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I love the syntax for numbers. AT&T style was always easiest for me to read.
0xH? Ugh!