- we used dr-dos into the 90s. aside from being a great dos with lots of ram. >720k it also had netwars which whiled away a few hours when you were waiting for someone to get back to you.
- with the end of 3.5 disks and the rise of retro machines usage i do feel there is a place for some standard device that would fit in a 3.5" slot that would replace it. some sort of 'super floppy'. whether it writes to mini-sd, sd, compact flash or usb wouldn't matter much. just a way to easily transfer from modern compute to retro computer. something that will be around for the next 20 years.
- the umd drive was for me what killed it. a brand new storage medium available no where else. and they want us to buy media in this format? when vcd was becoming increasingly popular at the time never mind dvd.
sony makes beautiful hardware, some of the best. but they destroy it with bad practices like cd players that can't read cd-rs. digital music players that weren't mp3. they became about protecting their copyright and not doing what their customers wanted.
- I feel the same way.
For a while, I had a SONY CD Changer in my car. You ever see the scratched up CDs often sold at flea markets for a buck each or less?
Many computers and players won't read them.
But that SONY does. And not only does it read them, the thing takes a bit longer to buffer due to all the scratches and massive error correction it has to do while buffering...
But once it does all that, it will play the disc flawlessly! Bumpy roads, too cold, too hot, disc too scratched?
All pretty much no problem.
I would gladly buy another. Was that good, but it won't read ANY recordable format.
Bummer.
It went with the car when I sold it. I put some of the very worst discs I had ever seen in it for demo purposes too.
Dude that bought the car loved it like I did. I did not mention CD-R largely because the player was going with the car no matter what.
- casio heli-fighter was the one i had. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK0pbTxdwVk
it wasn't great as to fire you had to press both buttons at same time.
- reminded me of the song someone made from cosmos footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
- i remember dos 5.0 fondly. we had been stuck on 3.30 forever. 4.0 had come but had used to much memory that i never encountered it in the wild. 5.0 was just so much better. edit, qbasic, freed up more memory for applications.
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- my psion 3a was better than win3.x :-)
i could have spreadsheet, database, agenda and word processor open and swapping between docs instantly while my win3.x desktop lurched and trashed disk with just 1-2 windows open. also win3.x at the best of times was pretty crashy. a few reboots a day was quite common.
plus memory. some programs wanted expanded, some wanted extended so you ended up with multiple boot configurations, some for games, some for windows, some for dos apps.
- The Psion 3 series used 8086 processors, so they could have released a standalone version of SIBO for IBM-PCs with relative ease.
In fact, Psion did release a SIBO "emulator"* for DOS which seems to be basically a PC port. It's intended for developers, and hews to replicating the mobile devices rather than taking advantage of the PC hardware, but you can imagine polishing it a step further.
- i remember using procomm with the first modem i used, a hayes compatible modem at the super fast speed of 2400 in 1990 or so. it came with the modem i think. and as more modems came along i stuck with it because it was familiar. i think i finally replaced it in dos when the modems got faster than 14400. i can't remember what i replaced it with though.
- same as the 1980s so. made maps during class in maths exercise book from memory. really passed the time.
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https://fujinet.online/
On the Apple, Woz leaned into NTSC and employed it to what I consider pretty great effect.
Dithers are contrived uses, not abuses!
The difference is one can dither on any display system and achieve visuals that convey greater color depth or more intensity granularity than the system design intent would allow for.
Again, on the Apple, artists would combine artifact colors, as well as the lack of color, say black and white, in ways that suggest other colors not intended.
The dot patterns can suggest various intensities and hues one cannot just ask for jn a COLOR = statement.
Does that help?
I will try and find an image or two to link a bit later.
https://twostopbits.com/item?id=5863
https://hackaday.io/project/164212/gallery#0f87e94323e101952...
I do not think it matches up. Too bad! But maybe the author will share details. I really wanted to know what they did.
Also, after I get past this appointment, maybe we can chat about dither vs artifact.