- Yeah, I was hoping for a Christmas treat, too. I'm usually not very interested in these emulator machines but I think I'll get this one. Having the right keyboard layout will (hopefully) make usage smoother compared to emulation on a PC.
- Apparently. If you can access the “god mode” on it, an atm/cash machine can be made to spit out money :-)
- Any other usage for the one I have in the garage, anyone ? ^^
- around 180€ or 150UKP, which is quite good considering you get a full working keyboard and a supposedly rather powerful ARM SOC
- Would totally kill if it was shipping for Christmas 2025. Any word on pricing ?
- zx spectrum this side of the pond did the same. it worked for a number of reasons, some of which are mentioned in the post.
1) a computer was perceived as educational. even if it was for games. 2) games were so much cheaper. and could be copied so easily with 2 cassette recorders. 3) there were tv shows here on home computing showing how to use/setup/program to get kids interested. 4) they were cheaper. the zx spectrum had many faults (glares at rubber keyboard) but it was cheap. anyone could get one. and as people upgraded 2nd hand units came along even cheaper. 5) monthly magazine gave away free games to type in and later included on cassettes taped to the cover. 6) schools had some of these home computers and created instant support groups if you bought one that gave you access to help, support, games, software.
- Interesting read, thanks!
Too bad the other parts are password-protected, and the password isn't "bloodmoney" :)
- All those are true. I don’t really know what I thought. USB is going to be faster than anything the device had.
in my head. I had a mental lapse thinking it might have sata support which is a fever dream of epic fail.
I think fujinet is still a work in progress.
Regardless. This is going to make so many happy. I hold out for rm800xl but that appears to be a true science fiction fantasy
- I'd love to see the community make a cartridge reader for the USB port.
- Only? Apart from "Plug in dusty old cartridges, CRT TVs, datasettes, or disk drives - it all works" and "128MB DDR2 RAM (16 MB system, 16 MB REU, 16 MB GeoRAM (soon), remaining MB RAM Disk)" where I assume the RAM disk fits into the "Wi-Fi game transfer" as a destination but that is just a guess from my side.
Or usb.
- Apologies if this isn’t on point for 2SB. I was sucked in by the retro pixel art.
- Super neat. Has anyone tried it?
- Does this mean that the the only mass storage is USB? Asking for a friend.
- I really like this type of content. It reminds me of Kaze Emanuar on youtube or even pikuma.com
- I for one welcome this. Finally something not a retread of 2600 or 7800. The genxgrownup review was favourable. The controllers are something. Wireless in same form factor and can take the keypad cards from days of old. That’s quite amazing to me.
- Not enough TI99 posts on 2SB. Just a machine I dont know enough about. I just didnt travel in circles where it was available in Canada where I grew up. Projects like this are really, really interesting. repurposing a machine from another era to do something else.
- This experience is still available at the fruit company for those who are interested.
- The ex-NeXT people used to maintain a little museum of running NeXTstep/OpenStep boxes at the Apple campus, and one was a Sun workstation running one of the first builds of NeXTstep. It was unusably slow and difficult to use.
- Oh neat! It's amazing how a small company that struggled ended up making a massive difference in computing history.
- Those are an amazing find of photos from the NEXT era.
I know this era is gone - neo modern box building on a sprawling campus creating a life changing technology that the world doesn’t yet know it needs. Todays developers and engineeers rebel like they are being caged like an animal to be in such an evironment.
- I had posted the moonlander.bas from this collection not realizing it was part of a larger collection. I am glad my other post took a tumbleweed through 2SB in light of this larger trove.
Like text adventures - these codes were super simple and you had to use your imagination to see beyond. Never quite knowing what the next key press would bring from the blackness. What that trick the blinking cursor might bring forth to my 8 year old mind.
- From the article:
Fuse emulates Sinclair’s original Spectrum models, Amstrad’s successors, and even some clones like the Pentagon. It does not support the modern ZX Spectrum Next; for Next emulation options, see the SpecNext Wiki.
- More photos of the former NeXT offices and factory can be found in Stanford’s Douglas Menuez photography collection:
https://exhibits.stanford.edu/menuez/browse/next-computer-in...
An interesting observation is that quite a number of Sun-3 workstations can be seen in these pictures. NeXTstep was originally developed on 68k-based Sun machines, version 0.6 was running on Sun hardware according to blackholeinc's Rob Blessin. The first NeXTstep version for 68k NeXT hardware still supported executing SunOS a.out binaries in addition to Mach-O ones.
- Fuse supports classic Spectrums, not the ZX Spectrum Next.
- Yet another retro game console by Atari. This is the remake of Mattel Intellivision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellivision
- Reading the quickstart leads me to believe this is quite an interesting project. But imho their website is... not great. Now, this is obviously not an IDE, but a suite of command line tools, but they could still do with some screenshots of example code or simple games that were made with it just for some visual appeal and to grab attention. Visual fluff can make a lot of difference for perception of these projects.
- I've heard this but I've only ever had good experiences, especially with JagChris. That said maybe it just bounces off of me because I'm such a newbie.
- What a comprehensive extension!!
I love the syntax for numbers. AT&T style was always easiest for me to read.
0xH? Ugh!
- About time. I was going to do some Dev on that system. Was some time ago. Devs were so toxic I sold the Jag...
- More
And for a time, there were a few ways one could more fully exploit the hardware. The non 68K processors or at least one was buggy. Problems with JMP type instructions landing a guy in places that were too difficult to recover from.
Of course, there were convoluted ways it could get done and a lot of gatekeeping surrounding all of that.
I remember it being such a difference J was stunned right out of any interest in the machine! All of us early 8 bit people would just disassemble things and the magic was right there for the reading!
On the Jag? Sure! So long as you held your nose and did it anyway, ignoring cries from "those people" who probably had a bit more into the Jag than most would end up doing.
Today, I bet it is like most other scenes. If so, have fun! I think the Jag is an interesting machine and it has some untapped potential.
Or... it did. Perhaps all is known today. I don't know!
Lol