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  • ivolimmen 126 days ago | parent | on: Intel 486DX2 66mhz Startup Sounds
    I kinda miss the Windows 95 loader screen. I used to replace it with a custom image that had a color palette animation as well.
    • bmonkey325 124 days ago
      I saw all manner of Window XP pirated edition boot screens, but I don't think I remember seeing any mods to the boot screen in Windows 95. But then again, I do live in Canada where films with colour and sound are a recent phenomenon.
  • ivolimmen 147 days ago | parent | on: Added (year) as a field
    Love this!
  • ivolimmen 193 days ago | parent | on: The Rise and Fall of Ashton-Tate : Vulcan & dBASE
    dBASE is still a file format that is used, Microsoft Access files not so much.
  • ivolimmen 285 days ago | parent | on: Unicode 16.0: Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplem...
    This will be awesome. When I find a programming language that implements unicode 16 (that I am familiar with) I am going to try and implement space invaders using this.
    • rbanffy 279 days ago
      You’ll need the right font for that. I don’t think terminals will support most of those (VTE will probably support the new 2x4 mosaics)
  • ivolimmen 308 days ago | parent | on: Why the fascination with retrocomputing?
    With a current new machine a newbie can not do ANYTHING. With the old machine you could do tons of things. A lot of stuff was in your operating system by default. Programming could be done on ANY new computer as BASIC was a default item in your system. Currently there is no programming language that is as simple as BASIC. Any language has a huge learning curve
    • bmonkey325 308 days ago
      To much choice in the modern stack. Since you have to learn so much a lot of time wasted on picking “the right one”.

      6502 : assembler/ basic / pascal or c

      X86. Python. javascript. C/c++, c#/java, rust /go, pascal, lisp, Fortran, VB/basic,……..

  • ivolimmen 508 days ago | parent | on: Foenix F256K New Retro Computer
    It is a new retro; it is not compatible with anything. See https://wiki.c256foenix.com/index.php?title=Main_Page it has an FAQ
  • ivolimmen 566 days ago | parent | on: Doom Is 30, but Hasn’t Aged the Way Games Are Supp...
    Doom still works. A lot of modern games don't. Enshitification... Yes I am looking at you EA, Epic, etc.
  • ivolimmen 592 days ago | parent | on: BMC64 is a bare metal C64 emulator optimized for t...
    I am going to have to buy a new Rapberry PI I see...
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