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bmonkey325 54 days ago | parent | on: Bring back your old Mac: 5 ways to refresh the OS ...
Not yet vintage, but the silver age of mac gear will be retro one day. But keeping machines alive and not relegating them to e-waste is always a good thing.
bmonkey325 55 days ago | parent | on: The Demo Scene is Dying, But That's Alright
The DemoScene was always for the love of the game. When we had more of a shared culture (saw the same movies, listened to the same music, etc) it was easier to see things done that can amaze you. pushing the hardware to places it was not thought possible. Now today, and 2SB is a testament to that, there are so many opportunies to do something crazy - hacking an LLM into animal crossing on gamecube anyone ??!?!
Our expectations are also higher - I remember building a ray tracer for the Mac II for my graphics class in '88. I made a movie - maybe 17 seconds long. all in my class when "oooh - ahhh" appreciating the accomplishment. I showed it to my girlfriend at the time and she said "I've seen better on MTV....". The technical merits are drowned out by what is common place on other system. sigh.
bmonkey325 58 days ago | parent | on: All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been pr...
Anyone know if these were only USA released ? I thought I was a fan of the iPod when it was a thing but I had no idea this was out there. Maybe it also got a UK release?
- qingcharles 55 days ago
  Definitely available in UK and EU. I was working with the major labels at the time to ingest all their music and we'd get calls saying "Apple just turned up, you won't believe what they have."
bmonkey325 59 days ago | parent | on: On Deluxe Paint for AmigaOS
Great! I think we would all like to read your recollections and musings about retro computing. There are a few authors that post their work here and to the orange site on a regular basis, I hope you can be amongst them.
bmonkey325 60 days ago | parent | on: The Story of Creative Technology
Sound blaster changed gaming on the PC. I was at my buddies and we hooked the Sound Blaster to his stereo. The sound that came out of those speakers was just awesome. Doom, X-wing, kings quest. So so much better…
bmonkey325 61 days ago | parent | on: The Artistry of Avril Harrison
That image was very famous during the 80s and early 90s. The amount of artistry involved in producing the image is incredible. I never knew that Avril Harrison did the box art for prince of Persia. Incredible.
bmonkey325 61 days ago | parent | on: On Deluxe Paint for AmigaOS
I can relate to the obsession of going to the mall in hopes of seeing a glimpse of any new kit coming to market. I felt the desire to see the 1400xl and 1450xld but it was not to be and signalling the end of the 8.bit era.
bmonkey325 62 days ago | parent | on: Action! was the best 8-bit programming language
Cool thing about action! Was you could write a game in a high level language without resorting to a heavy lift of assembler. Assembler for an 12 year old like me was ans unforgiving as JavaScript but for different reasons.
bmonkey325 64 days ago | parent | on: Avalonia Visual Basic 6 - VB6 reimagined in C#
The time and effort to recreate the VB6 IDE in C# on the web: Here it is live... https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/
bmonkey325 65 days ago | parent | on: Decent 1200 mechanical keyboard replacement for At...
The 400 version was on the site before, but those with an ailing 1200xl might find this useful as repair kits can be daunting and hard to source.
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