- I'd love to see the community make a cartridge reader for the USB port.
- Super neat. Has anyone tried it?
- I'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.
- This is a good idea. I've been using it in VSCodium and just pressing F6 to switch to the in-editor terminal to build it. At the end of the build it launches the emulator automatically. Super handy :)
- I purchased one of these for my Tandy 1000SX but didn't notice a performance boost when playing Zak McKraken, not that it was terrible before (turning off scrolling is a must). I think the next step is looking at replacing the clock on the motherboard with something to push a bit faster. Maybe to 10 MHz via https://github.com/reeshub/pc-sprint.
- I wish there were more photos!
- I wonder if there's some low hanging fruit of changing a few of the most unreadable characters to 3x8 instead.
- One of the coolest things I've seen in a while
- I wonder what the cheapest alternative to the pi5 is that could still run smoothly.
- Take it a step further: consider what will happen when you die and people come in to clear out your stuff. Will this just end up in the trash? Is that okay? If not, how can you ensure that?
- Given our overlords station in life, I expect it will be something akin to the Paul Allen estate and be auctioned off at Sothebeys.
- I super doubt that. I don't think my collection is significant in any way. I decided long ago that I would collect very few computers and that they would have to be things that I personally used and care about. So, I have the following:
KIM-1
Sharp MZ-80K
Research Machines 380Z
Research Machines 480Z
BBC Micro Model B (my original machine)
OLPC XO-1 (my original machine)
Minitel 1b
Minitel 2
IBM ThinkPad 701c (the one I did a complete restoration on)
And that's it. These are all in working order because I keep them that way. Truly believe that keeping these machines alive it important.
- My apologies. My presumption was based on a fever dream from what I know of the many ex microsofties from U. Waterloo and elsewhere in Canada that have piles of retro gear. Eg. Vax 11/780 and two PDP in basement and garage and 20+ workstations from their career at MS.
I am glad you keep a curated set of devices.
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And for a time, there were a few ways one could more fully exploit the hardware. The non 68K processors or at least one was buggy. Problems with JMP type instructions landing a guy in places that were too difficult to recover from.
Of course, there were convoluted ways it could get done and a lot of gatekeeping surrounding all of that.
I remember it being such a difference J was stunned right out of any interest in the machine! All of us early 8 bit people would just disassemble things and the magic was right there for the reading!
On the Jag? Sure! So long as you held your nose and did it anyway, ignoring cries from "those people" who probably had a bit more into the Jag than most would end up doing.
Today, I bet it is like most other scenes. If so, have fun! I think the Jag is an interesting machine and it has some untapped potential.
Or... it did. Perhaps all is known today. I don't know!
Lol