- Wow, yeah, they are cool as well.
- I’ve been around retro since it wasn’t but these things I’ve never seen before and are absolutely fantastically gorgeous. I hope we get back to experiencing the computer experience again, like a the vinyl revival we’ve been seeing for a while, instead of the boring (but also powerful, amazing, from my cold, dead hands) computing experience of the mid 2020’s.
Thanks for sharing.
- If ever you get the chance to talk to David Pleasance, who I met I Kickstart in the UK last year, you should. He’ll talk your ear off but after reading his books and then hearing his stories it like there’s colours you’ve never heard of or seen before become real. He’s a character with loads of insight into C= in the UK and Europe and has some great stories (not in the books!) about his trips to the US.
Like many of you, I expect, as a kid Amiga transcended the pettiness of everyday life, but, funny enough, Commodore was a company just like any other and not really that special (except for the way “someone” drove it into the ground).
- I know it’s DD, but how dare he! Grey? It’s beige AND grey! And often yellow these days!
He’s right about the speccy though, that rubber-keyed wonder still looks cool.
- This is probably more than your friend ever wanted to know, allow me to introduce you, er them, to "IEC dissected", by Jan Derogee.
https://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/programming/serial-b...
- bmonkey325 32 days agoMy friend thanks you. The table is complete. 4 bytes was a lot in 1980s when customers likely only had a fraction of the devices ever hooked up to the machinereply
- Thats neat, never come across anything like that before.
- i've only ever seen them twice. one my boss had and 1 on site at a engineers office.
one of those obscure pieces of hardware around before the internet and apart from a few photos on auction sites doesn't exist online.
https://www.tzsupplies.com/modular-technology-mt25-iv-interf.../
and a 1 page pdf of the manual. https://docs.rs-online.com/e9af/0900766b8001aeab.pdf
- I remember seeing this a while ago, and my memory was jogged when reading this thread about Timex / Sinclair printers on the ZX World forums.
- The Wikipedia article states, “The Sentinel has no ending sequence; upon completion of the last level, the player is looped back to level 1. When questioned about this, Crammond said he never thought anyone would go so far as to finish the game”
That’s a fun reward!
- I played it on my Spectrum and Amiga. It’s one of those games that has a particular feeling, it always struck me as lonely and a little weird. TIL it was written originally for the Beeb. Also I didn’t know it was released as “The Sentry” in the US.
There’s some download links for the C64 on this page at the very bottom, scroll down quickly to avoid gameplay spoilers! Looks like there are other remakes linked there too.
- That’s pretty cool, I might have a go at that.
There’s also a mod for the Jaaaag for Tempest.
- @nickt : you should submit this article, its a fascinating hack in its own right
- Some games you need a spinner knob. Tempest with a joystick or D-Pad is just hard, not fun. I have often contemplated what Asteroids or Star Castle might be like with a spinner knob.
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