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rocky1138 120 days ago | parent | on: 80 Columns in Software on the Commodore VIC-20
I wonder if there's some low hanging fruit of changing a few of the most unreadable characters to 3x8 instead.
rocky1138 125 days ago | parent | on: This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wii
One of the coolest things I've seen in a while
rocky1138 155 days ago | parent | on: LED Matrix Wall Arcade for Pico-8
I wonder what the cheapest alternative to the pi5 is that could still run smoothly.
rocky1138 195 days ago | parent | on: Archiving hardware projects
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?
- bmonkey325 195 days ago
  Given our overlords station in life, I expect it will be something akin to the Paul Allen estate and be auctioned off at Sothebeys.
  - jgrahamc 195 days ago
    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.
    - bmonkey325 195 days ago
      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.
      - jgrahamc 195 days ago
        Oh, I know people like that! I just took a different path.
rocky1138 206 days ago | parent | on: I fixed a beat-up Atari 2600 "Jr" with glue, a sin...
Good read. I was able to clear paint splatter on my 2600 using a cotton swab and isopropyl alcohol.
rocky1138 212 days ago | parent | on: Macintosh TV
Was the keyboard rubber dome?
- bmonkey325 212 days ago
  I don’t know. It looks like an ADB Keyboard
rocky1138 212 days ago | parent | on: Ontario’s ICON Computer
Yeah it seems like they were coming down from academia to home rather than tackling all those fresh new users who've heard about computers and want to know what the big deal is.
rocky1138 218 days ago | parent | on: Nintendo’s attorney weighs in on what makes emulat...
Emulators are going nowhere. They'll outlast Nintendo.
rocky1138 223 days ago | parent | on: (Rescue on) Fractalus - remake for Win, Mac, Linux
Has anyone tried this in VR?
rocky1138 224 days ago | parent | on: Railroad Tycoon II
Off topic, but it sucks that pinch coming zooming is disabled on this site. I wanted to look at that image of the dev with the game on in the background.
- ddingus 224 days ago
  You on android?
  You can force the pinch zoom function. Look for "pinch" in your settings. I found "force pinch zoom" under Internet settings.
  The one that annoys me is "double tap and drag to zoom", because I use that constantly and there appears to be no similar override.
  - rocky1138 223 days ago
    I am, yeah. I'll check the settings. Thanks!
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