- Interesting. I asked grok and Chad Jippity and those models believe it’s a human. The details and footnotes look human to me.
TBH. The image looks more kitch than something an ai can generate.
- Not this extreme but I had a laptop on an inverter running map point and a USB gps antenna in the era before garmin gps and expensive auto GPS.
Wife was navigator and speed advisor.
- The Be was impressive. The mult-tasking and multimedia was impressive. How different the world would be if Apple bought Be instead of NEXT in 1996.
- Well, Apple would have gone out of business one way or another, and we'd still be at the mercy of carrier-locked "featurephones". No iPod, either.
And this isn't about BeOS, really; the lack of technical merit was a problem, but Mac OS X didn't ship in usable form for six years, and, you know, in that time they certainly could have ported QuickDraw GX and print drivers, and ported over Unicode support from the Taligent sources. But there's no timeline in which Gil Amelio manages to fully rescue Apple. He and the people he brought in didn't understand the problems.
Is that a better world? Quite possibly, because social media wouldn't have been able to destroy the world quite so effectively. (And I prefer MiniDisc to the original iPod; still have a couple of MiniDisc players and some blank discs.) But probably not better for computing.
- I don’t think Gil Amelio leads Apple anywhere except bankruptcy in any alternate timeline.
In my alternative world :
- all the kids want a zune this Christmas which is gaining traction on market leader creative
- general magic is bought by a baby bill post MS breakup to give us iPhone-ish in 2013
- wearables is science fiction
- VR still sux
- Facebook doesn’t happen ( I can dream)
- blackberry is still a thing
- A great test of this machine will be if it can play these games that students built in 2023. I really hope this ships in '25. Im more pumped for this than the RM800xl since the vectrex has been a whale I have chased for 40 years...
https://itwww.hs-pforzheim.de/daten/mitarbeiter/johannsen/ve...
- if you want to follow the project on X : https://x.com/VectrexOn
kickstarter : https://vectrex.com/vectrex-mini-kickstarter/
- I know its the rage to build "mini" rebuilds of retro and coinop games, but I have retro eyesight and hope that they will be successful enough to build Vectrex "biggies".
Apparently is built on amoled screen and has HDMI out ..
I have always wanted a vectrex system - but so rare in the wild that I swore I would buy the next one I saw - working or not.
- Love or hate, Microsoft certainly did a lot to empower hobbyist and professional developers in the PC/wintel era. Certainly in the 80s SDKs were notoriouly expensive. OS/2 dev kit was $3000. I remember the SGI Irix Developer Option (IDO) was $3500. you could get a C compiler from MS for about $500. MSDN later become something pricey but wasnt strictly needed to sit down and build code for a PC and ship it
- All of these companies wanted to make a profit off developer tools, which is why they charged that much -- there were so few developers compared to end-users. But viable platforms need applications! The only way to get them is to get developers on board, so you want to publish the tools as cheaply as you possibly can.
I think SGI's hardware was exclusive enough to limit their audience anyway, but everyone else, including Apple, really screwed themselves with this.
This is something Steve Jobs fixed at Apple in 1997 by eliminating per-division tracking of profit/loss. When the VPs are freed from profit motive for their direct divisional output, they become responsible for the profit of the entire company. It's worked pretty well.
- These are the only tools I've really used for the last 30 years of professional development. Before that I was mostly on the Borland C and Turbo Assembler train. Before that it was Spectrum Basic lol
- In 2027, Terminator : Rise of the Vibe Code
- I couldn't reach this at home. Perhaps blocked by pi-hole. I found a similar article in case its not pi-hole blocked and just down
- My first word processor :
Star micronics lc 10
Bank street writer / atari writer
Atari 800
Atari 850
- More
Somedays, I can be a couple of bytes short of a file.
Also, is it just me, or is that an illustration style you'd rather connect with the Apple II? Which may be well why the keyboard is placed like it is and may explain the over-all cutesy appearance.
The Atari art style is equally unmistakeable. I have a coffee table book devoted to their art...
art of atari book - i have the hardback and iTunes digital : https://a.co/d/3X4mHWX