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  • nickt 198 days ago | parent | on: Why I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012
    I’ve been tempted by one of these upgraded old-school Thinkpads:

    https://www.xyte.ch/mods/x210-x2100/

    But not pulled the trigger. Anyone have direct experience of these?

  • nickt 249 days ago | parent | on: SSI : Pool of Radiance RPG review
    This is one of those games that I’ve seen crop up so many times, read so much about it and seen the videos that I misremember playing it. I never have but it does look great!
    • danaris 249 days ago
      It was one of the first computer RPGs I played, and still one of the best computer implementations of D&D—especially early D&D. Personally, I still strongly prefer the fully-turn-based Gold Box combat system to the real-time-with-pause system popularized by Baldur's Gate.
  • nickt 267 days ago | parent | on: Building a replacement 386/486 CMOS battery
    The linked bad idea Varta board made my day!

    https://texelec.com/product/bad-barta/

  • nickt 273 days ago | parent | on: Micronet 800: Tunes your BBC into a new channel of...
    Thanks for posting - the whole archive is a nicely curated treasure trove.

    https://nosher.net/archives/computers/

  • nickt 274 days ago | parent | on: Donut shop in Indiana still using a Commodore 64.
    It looks like there’s 2 modern PSUs sitting between them so they’re probably OG.
    • bmonkey325 274 days ago
      I was just being funny. I have no doubt these are real C64's doing gods work for a donut shop
  • nickt 274 days ago | parent | on: Donut shop in Indiana still using a Commodore 64.
    That’s a great example of “the Commodore keeping up with you”!
  • nickt 280 days ago | parent | on: Retro Enthusiast Gift Ideas
    I think you mean your friend doesn’t have an active Mac or Amiga project… :)
    • bmonkey325 280 days ago
      lol. Accurate.
  • nickt 289 days ago | parent | on: 8-Bit Computers Crunch Advanced Scientific Computa...
    I enjoyed the 8-bit blah blah blah followed rapidly by an Amiga BASIC screenshot…
    • bmonkey325 288 days ago
      Yes. AmigaBasic made me chuckle too.

      Did a lot of astronomy calculations on Atari 800s and Apple II systems even it was closed form equations it was much easier than doing them on a calculator.

  • nickt 316 days ago | parent | on: Back to the future: Writing 6502 assembler with Am...
    I’ve messed about with the OpenAI tools to covert python to BBC Basic to Spectrum Basic, etc. It’s pretty decent and a fun afternoon. I’m all for more tools for the toolkit!
  • nickt 375 days ago | parent | on: A note on the PERQ computer.
    Thanks for posting, it’s a very interesting read. Definitely filled in some gaps for me too.
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