- True. The previous post was here: https://twostopbits.com/item?id=3057
Gonna to delete this one.
- Note that Two Stop Bits includes links to the Internet Archive for every post (see the 'ia' link near the story title).
- My problem also.
- And AT codes are alive and well inside your phone today. It's likely the software is talking to the baseband using them.
- It takes over the bus inside the Vectrex and forces a HALT on its processor. That way the Pi can completely control the Vectrex.
- Nooooo! Somebody save me! I've been tempted over and over again to buy a Vectrex because they are so great and now this. However will I ever resist the temptation? :-)
- I just bought an OG Tempest like DavePl has. I’m at my lifetime vector machine limit. I don’t see Vextrex come up for sale in Canada very often. Are they common in your area ?
- That's a neat solution. I spent enough on Tempest as a kid I should've probably just done what you have years ago. Then just a sit-down Star Wars, Asteroids, obviously Battlezone and then my other massive consumer of 10p pieces - Lunar Lander.
I wonder what a vector future would have looked like if raster hadn't won?
- That brings back memories. I did a lot of work on Novell IPX/SPX and VINES was one of the competing technologies. Ultimately, TCP/IP won.
- The young'uns today spoiled with their Ethernet and TCP/IP! I have this T-Shirt (this is the one at the CHM), but it reminds me what internetworking was all about in the 90's. I remember listenening to the clicks in the Token Ring MSAU's and learning all about DEC LAT at 0200 on a Friday morning while in the SBC office in London...
https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/networking/19/376...
- Wild!
- I guess the readers of Two Stop Bits get to decide what's suitable content but I'm not a fan of cyberdecks here. They don't feel very retro.
- perhaps a cutoff point would be 32bit os or less. cpm, dos, os/2 and it's pretty retro. anything with a 64bit os modern windows or linux is not applicable to this site?
- I would prefer to stick to the bounds of good taste than a hard cutoff. IRIX on SGI equipment from the 1990s was 64-bit. It would be a shame to not post anything for that kit because it is 64-bit. iPod is on its way to be vintage / retro since. And what about the revive 800xl built totally on modern FPGA kit - an Atari with native HDMI.
At this point my post is going to tumbleweed along as it has not received a single upvote and will never see the front page. And I am ok with it if that is the will of the site.
- as soon as i hit enter i remembered the early 64 bit systems from the 90s PLUS the mainframes we're now emulating in micro systems like https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/articles/pidp-11-review
perhaps a better definition would be 2 out of 3 of ancient, obsolete, legendary?
- Tbh. I spent a lot of time thinking on this today. My self regulation was to post an interesting cyberdeck link on “Cyberdeck Thursday”. Mostly im suckered by ones that harken back to gas plasma displays or look futuristic in some way.
Ultimately, I want to see this site succeed and grow . So many amazing things I’ve seen and learned about.
- I always like them because they appear in so much cyberpunk art that predated the web. Especially this one in particular. Of what could have been instead of all the boring clamshells and beige boxes that define the PC era.
Retro doesn’t have to mean old. New guts in old cases. Atari vcs inspired case running an emulator so that old games from many eras could have another life.
- In he 80s and 90s when everyone assumed this was the future and have keyboard will travel was going to be a thing. :
- There’s something I’d not seen before, the Sakhr AX-370. It’s a Kuwaiti MSX, based on the Sanyo PHC-70FD. Very 80’s cybervibes.
- That's fair. I like them too. I just worry that Two Stop Bits could get overrun with people's cyberdecks. But as I said above it's the users of Two Stop Bits who upvote stuff so we'll see where it goes.
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Would it be too much of an ask to style http articles differently so we know what’s safe(r) to click ?