- I wish there were more photos!
- 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.
- Amazing. I always loved VB6. The crazy thing is, to this day I'm still using the exact same interface to make Windows desktop apps every day in Visual Studio. 30 years later, same UI.
- A3000UX not in the list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_3000UX
- I was curious and found a good period article — by Brian Moriarty, later of Infocom and LucasArts fame — on the Action! language: https://x868k.com/retro/action/article/?p=analog&i=n16p0...
- Now we just need somebody to port the code to a more modern assembler.
- An additional link from the Microsoft Open Source Blog: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/03/microsoft-o.../
As I've been toying around with a 6502 emulator, it's of particular interest to me at this time. Total aside: the 6502 is such a simple architecture and very well documented, doing an emulator for it is a great exercise.
- Fun thread from Tube Time on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/tubetime.bsky.social/post/3lxxn23kn...
- The time and effort to recreate the VB6 IDE in C# on the web: Here it is live... https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/
- I don't think the article is AI. I use AI to write a lot of research documents, with footnotes, and it never feels as casual as this writing, even if you prompt it that way. And I'm using all the SOTA tools.
Could be wrong, though. AI is getting nearly impossible to detect in most tasks.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- some more and different pictures for this lego build:
- There was a link to an imgur gallery with down in the comments that has some addition photos of the event:
- This was interesting and really well written.
- Not going to lie. I really didn't understand the algorithm this was coding and optimizing. depending on the bit depth you basically do a 1-d bressenham mapping x pixels into y pixels and the same for the y direction either duplicating scaled lines or dropping lines in the source image.
- That's a great example! 10 sec per frame down to 5 FPS. Unusable to usable!
I love the 1mhz Apple 2 because just about anything becomes usable this way.
And one running at 16Mhz is crazy! That same image routine can go a few times faster, limited in the end by the 1Mhz bus on the way to the graphics screen.
There are times when I wish the Apple ended up with a video card standard. That would have ended up PC like and may well have brought the higher speeds to more software more generally.
- Makes an interesting point that we actually need a "Return" key again nowadays for chat clients where we are always having to type [alt]/[shift]/[ctrl]+enter to get a new line without submitting the message. Or sometimes those submit the message and we have to do it without. There's no standard.
- All that weight to support such a shitty UX.
PDF was so painful until Mac OS X came along with (a) the Preview app to make it actually nice to read the documents, albeit not supporting every feature; and (b) universal support for printing to PDF files.
- Thanks for posting the link. Look back at typesetting in the old times. A lost art. Set the tone for what would come later. In some ways it looks like markdown.
- I posted the link twice in a row in the URL field and I can no longer edit it. The correct link is:
https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-08-30/0/POSTI...
Apologies.
- That price tho…
- I wonder the legality of this, I know that some dos versions where released by Microsoft, but not DOS 3.10. In any case that would be nice to get this archived for historical/research reasons.
- I hope the 404 on this is temporary …
- Cool story about compiling and running on ibm mainframe Linux. Why it was posted to LinkedIn baffled me but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Even referenced Carmacks Law so +1
- This is so good. OG Mac’s are in short supply and the ravages of age will make what is left hard to keep alive. What made the Mac so great has been lost to complexity
- What to Lego and retro computers have in common ? You can’t have just one
- Thanks! I somehow missed this being released. Looks like a good read.
- The mainframe division did all kinds of meddling to avoid canibalizing mainframe and AS400 sales. The coffee pot story about a coffee pot inside a "microsoft confidential" box during the OS/2 days was IBM not being able to get out of its way...
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