- I'm really excited to watch this. I also need to download Sigil 2. It makes me so happy that Doom has a thriving community thirty years on
- I have both a STacy and a Mac Portable, and they're not even in the same class. The Portable has a fabulous screen and a wonderful full-stroke keyboard, and feels solid and professional. The STacy feels cheap and thrown together. The Portable can be relatively easily worked on, the degenerating plastics notwithstanding; the STacy hides screws and flexed dangerously even when it was new.
But the STacy is an ST, and it's the only one I've got.
- I worked at Xerox and got a chance to actually see an Alto up close, although it was not in operating condition. When I started in the mid-90s GlobalView, the successor to the OS that ran on the Star (which was a successor of the Alto), had been ported to run on Sun workstations and was still in use inside the company. They also ported it to run on top of Windows but performance was horrible and people only used it if they had to.
- This weird little machine has an entry on the Obsolete Computer Museum
- Ugh, thats crazy stuff.. I remember playing DOOM on my 386DX40 and peformance was not good. I had to reduce screen size and do double pixels. 486SX25 peformed much better, especially when I overclocked it to 33MHz.
- 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...
- This submission uses the HTTPS protocol, but the web server has a self-signed certificate. If that's a problem, it seems to work via regular HTTP also.
- Your wish is my command! It's done.
- It's $750 so I can imagine it's out of a lot of price ranges but I love my 5XPro and have a 4k tv so I'm definitely tempted to sell that and pick this up.
- Nice work.
I wish more sites took linkrot seriously like this.
- This is a great addition! Thanks!
- It even includes the MouseText glyphs introduced with Unicode 13.
Now if only I could find a library for drawing MouseText interfaces on a modern terminal...
- To clarify the title, this isn't a library of images of retro computers. It is a code library (and executables) to read retro image formats of various computers.
- This paper predicts many of the design issues soon to emerge around computer graphic display architectures and suggests display list coprocessors much like those eventually used in early arcade, console and home computer hardware.
Like much of foundational computer graphics, Ivan Sutherland et al were searching for solutions to problems few others had yet realized would be problems.
- A good way to assuage your worries is ask yourself if it's the middle of the night in Europe. If it is then I'm probably asleep and not fixing the site!
- Here is an article by the author of the reverse-engineering about his work: https://blog.asie.pl/2020/08/reconstructing-zzt/
Check out this one, too: https://museumofzzt.com/article/view/468/a-month-of-reconstr.../
- The source code of the last version of ZZT has been reverse-engineered : https://github.com/asiekierka/reconstruction-of-zzt
The resulting program, when compiled with Turbo Pascal 5.5, produces a ZZT.EXE executable byte-for byte identical to the original.
- The article fails to mention this Windows 3-era clone of it.
https://archive.org/details/win3_COLUMNS
12-ish-year-old me spent countless hours playing this version. It has a bug where a certain pattern in two bottommost rows will be incorrectly detected as a vertical match of three and the game will crash. I learned to play in a way which avoided this glitch. Thank you for the nostalgia trip.
- Interesting; I just noticed that also versions of the GEM source code are available (see e.g. http://www.deltasoft.com/downloads.htm).
- I'd heard about similar experiments before but didn't realize anyone managed to get the Pentium Overdrive slowed down to 8 MHz! Mark me down as impressed.
- The HN code and the open source one are very different. The class names and tag IDs are often different and they are simply not compatible.
- A lot more information on Copland, including installation guides (it runs on early PPC Macs, e.g. the 6100/7100/8100 series), can be found at https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Apple_Copland
- Great design and selection of articles. Why not adding a rss feed?
- My mother possesed one of these and always told me how much time she would sink into this product. It's nice to read more about it, as she sadly lost hers.
- I wrote about the history of WordStar: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/arrogant-difficult-powerful
- I’m looking forward to more posts in this new blog, he does a bit of an intro here:
https://stonetools.ghost.io/introducing/
I saw the author also has a bunch of interesting Pico-8 software developments in the same vein:
- Now we just need somebody to port the code to a more modern assembler.
- 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.
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