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zxm 6 days ago | parent | on: Nintendo DS at 20 – the console that paved the way...
nokia's snake would say phone gaming existed long before the nintendo ds. mobile gaming existed long before nokia with palm and psion having a fair number of games. nintendo game and watch and gakken had mobile gaming in the 80s pretty sewn up.
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zxm 46 days ago | parent | on: Modernizing the original ADB keyboard from the App...
i do love the old keyboards more than modern ones. but one thing that would drive me bonkers is the arrow keys on that board. i'm too spoiled by the inverted t on modern keyboards.
of course i'm looking at the release of the zx spectrum clone and love it but do wonder if they had to duplicate was considered for a long time the worst keyboard in computer history. :-)
- bmonkey325 46 days ago
  At least there are dedicated keys. Many other computers of the era made you do meta key combinations to get arrow keys.
zxm 71 days ago | parent | on: ZX Spectrum documentary 'The Rubber Keyed Wonder' ...
i also recommend micro men from 2009 as a drama recreation of the era.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM
- ddingus 68 days ago
  Yes. It is a good program. Seconded easily.
zxm 76 days ago | parent | on: Retroid Pocket 5 and Mini Specifications revealed
a form factor i hope catches on and sticks around. i'd love something like this for games but capable of running linux. just add a keyboard and you have a tiny display laptop. would be nice if someone made a standard dock so you can connect one to a decent keyboard and save carrying something to hold it at right angle.
zxm 85 days ago | parent | on: Apple memo : No more typewriters - 1980.
even into the 1990s i knew a few companies that kept typewriters around as they were better/easier for typing up addresses on envelopes.
zxm 85 days ago | parent | on: Why the fascination with retrocomputing?
distraction free computing. your computer did 1 thing at a time. your attention was focused on that one single task to the exclusion of everything else. no interruptions, no distractions of emails, messages, web.
your computer was secure, it was connected to nothing but a few peripherals. now it's constantly connected to an insecure network that is looking for new and clever ways to find your identity to steal, your credit card information to sell and abuse.
zxm 87 days ago | parent | on: They don’t make ’em like that any more: Borland Tu...
can be found here https://winworldpc.com/product/borland-pascal/7x
zxm 112 days ago | parent | on: Let's look at the MEGA65 Retro Computer (video)
fabulous machine but at 700 euros it's too pricey.
- upperdarkness 112 days ago
  Not to mention the postage. 200 euros to ship one to Australia.
- bmonkey325 111 days ago
  I hope revive machines doesn’t get the idea this is an OK price for its unicorn Atari 800xl reimagining
zxm 118 days ago | parent | on: A Little Atari 810 Disk Drive
i await the day when such a device has a single usb socket to power and connect it and contains not just an sd card reader but the hardware to emulate the computer itself and still fit on a keyring. plug it into a hub/dock with a keyboard mouse and display and the entire computer is ready to go. :-)
- bmonkey325 116 days ago
  I too await an “atari to go” device. Actually at this point I just hope that revive machines ships it’s tantalizing Atari machine as promised.
zxm 149 days ago | parent | on: Psion: the last computer Secrets of the Sony we ne...
love my psion 3mx. will never be parted from it. great machine.
if you are on mastodon https://bitbang.social/@thelastpsion/110003883673850146 is the psion person to follow as they seem to have the entire collection, lucky sod :-)
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