- I did a lot of stuff with RM machines, but of an early generation. The Z80 based 380Z and 480Z. Fun machines.
- The game that took all my money was Defender. But I do remember Battlezone was completely amazing. The whole 3D graphics and vector look were mind blowing. One day I'll break down and buy myself a Vectrex.
- Defender was too difficult for me, had a friend at the time that was the only one playing it cause the rest were not up to the task. And a Vectrex is one of those things I keep saying my self I really don't want one and every few months reading about it and the new games that are our and sighing.
- In Canada, Battlezone was $1 to play when most other games were $0.50 so I simply couldn't really afford to play it more than once or twice.
Defneder and Stargate certainly took a ton of money off me. There was a pizza place down the street from me that had a Defender that I would play while waiting for my order on Friday nights.
- I'd rather not do that because then people will start "bumping" stories by commenting "bump" just to promote their personal thing. I think the answer is more users. The site currently gets about 15,000 page views / day which is already amazing given how little promotion the site has had.
Since the site is open source you can see the front page ranking algorithm here: https://github.com/jgrahamc/twostopbits/blob/master/apps/new...
- There’s always going to be people gaming the algorithm. YouTube aides and abets this by including its “si” parameter in the link which arc forum treats as a different post.
Any any changes in the algorithm I would suspect as temporary. Measures only to spur discussion and avoid “tumbleweed” posts that briefly appear on the front page and then sink back into obscurity. If the community ever attracted a “cult of rust” like you see in HN that post and upvotes anything Rust. We would have a problem. Such a faction with its enthusiasm would be able to squeeze out anything else. Amiga. Nintendo. Atari. As examples.
- > Measures only to spur discussion and avoid “tumbleweed” posts that briefly appear on the front page and then sink back into obscurity.
Yeah, exactly this. Lazy "bump" comments could and should be moderated away. It would be fine for comments-by-submission-author to not bump a submission in this way.
- That said - the somewhat nostalgic nature of the subject matter may stifle comments. I’m grateful for the site I was inspired to relearn 6502 assembly for the second time - over 40 years apart.
- I like this but I can't find a way to back the project. All the buttons are greyed out.
- I didn’t find anything on the kickstarter page :
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/checkmate1500mini/retro...
There was an email link on the original page but I didn’t pursue. I don’t live anywhere near the UK so it would be 3-4 months to receive. Once it was shipping I was hoping to dive in.
- Ah. I hadn't looked at dark mode for a while. Will fix.
- I've added the z80 tag.
- Yeah. I'll fix that.
- Fixed the link. Thanks!
- What is this?
- An old C and Borland Pascal graphic library that runs on DOS, Win32 and Linux (X11 and framebuffer).
I myself used it to port good old DOOM editor called ZETH. I also added it to my Ruby so I can do basic graph drawing from scripting language.
- Ah. Thanks! The site doesn't seem to work for me. All I see is a picture of space.
- same here, on Chrome
- Wow, what browser are you using? This site is old. It should render pretty much on anything I guess.. FF 2.x included ;)
What about IA version? I wonder if IPv6 is a problem here:
grx.gnu.de is an alias for https.gerwinski.de. https.gerwinski.de is an alias for mx3.gerwinski.de. mx3.gerwinski.de has address 88.198.170.59 mx3.gerwinski.de has IPv6 address 2a01:4f8:192:4405::170:59
- This is why I have a simple rule: I only collect machines I personally used more than a little.
- Same. For me, that is Apple 2, Atari.
C64, Color Computer 3 are on my to do list.
- Well, that is why I have a C64 and an Amiga 500.
The five other C64s an Amiga 500, 500+ and 1200, Amstrad CPC6128, Macintosh FDHD, LCII, Apple G4, Apple G5, Atari ST and every console are all illusions... nope nothing to see.
To be fair, I love repairing and exploring the old software more than cupboard space.
edit: forgot about the Dragons and the Apple IIs...
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Waiting for the tape machine to boot was mind numbing since you had to load basic from tape too (as you probably remember).