- Yeah, that's the version this post actually links to. I don't see any links to newer versions of GW-BASIC. It's weird, as the post title refers to GW-BASIC, but everything else is about DOS 4.xx
- Is this a different version of GW-BASIC? The article mentions MS-DOS 4.01. Perhaps it is the version of GW-BASIC included with that? I thought a version of GW-BASIC had already been open-sourced a few years back?
- I tried it for a short while. Its not bad. But I found AntiX Linux to be even more lightweight compared to Q4OS. It doesnt provide XP feel tho.
- Reminiscent of SNES DOOM, where the coprocessor on the cartridge is basically doing the work.
- Relevant Old New Thing: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20211111-00/?p=10...
Compare to Connectix's RAM Doubler for Mac which was not only legit but is so good that it's often worth installing even with compression disabled:
https://macintoshgarden.org/search/node/connectix%20ram%20do...
- A while back I found copies of a CAD add on program I wrote called Ez-Shapes. Two disks, 3.5" style. One had bad blocks. I had made multiple compressed archives of both source code and object code.
Lost the object code archive for some of the project, despite having two copies.
The source code was fine, and after getting a copy of the software via (those places online), I was able to compile and run the thing as if it were 1992!
I have a USB floppy drive that seems to work well.
For grins, I plugged it into my Samsung Note 9 phone, and it WORKED! I saw 1.44Mb storage device. Hilarious!
- TL;DR The Računalniški muzej (Computer Museum) in Slovenia is celebrating the 55th anniversary of Radio Študent by broadcasting a ZX Spectrum game called "Kontrabant 2" over FM radio. This nostalgic event allows owners of the original ZX Spectrum to load and play the game via radio waves, reminiscent of how games were distributed in the past. The broadcast will take place at 89.3 MHz around 21:30.
- Everyone. Do yourself a favour and click the link.
1) Yes the console looks dorky and odd, but the animations of the terminal sessions is a piece of magic.
2) There is a map of the ENTIRE internet circa 1977. The whole banana in one spot.
- I bought an ihome dock last year but my ipod has rockbox on it and it just didn't really work like I wanted it to. I know it probably would if I just put it back to stock firmware but that's just not really worth it for the trade off
- that's actually the cover from the Shadowrun 2nd edition core rulebook :)
- I got one of these from a co-worker. Really cool little device! I wish I had one back in 89 that would have been awesome
- seems there's a project to create a drop in open source replacement.
- The ATM hacking scene in T2 was very iconic. It was almost a meme at the time, as witnessed by the cover of Shadowrun for Sega Genesis. The image which depicts a person jacked into an ATM while their friends stood watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0926221/mediaviewer/rm385149184.../
- Here is a much better link about the maze: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2024/01/the-endless-maze-alg.../
- This is probably more than your friend ever wanted to know, allow me to introduce you, er them, to "IEC dissected", by Jan Derogee.
https://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/programming/serial-b...
- I remember seeing this a while ago, and my memory was jogged when reading this thread about Timex / Sinclair printers on the ZX World forums.
- That sure sucks, but there are cases where one side of the story ain't enough... and this specific source is known to be one of them. It'd be interesting to hear what the VCF team has to say about this.
- Responsible organizations have other options, such as stopping accepting new submissions when storage space runs out, or looking for a new good home for the excess material they can no longer store. Or, at the very least, notify the original submitter they can no longer store the material.
- My first 8 bit computer was an Amstrad CPC 464 and that one had a _nearly_ modern keyboard ;-) https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Amstrad_CPC464_keyboard.j...
- Not retro and vintage focused for today but good to see for future 2SB. As N archivist of sorts no telling what will happen to the retro gear I have accumulated after I slide off this mortal coil. Will a museum or curator be interested or have the capacity to take my accumulated Atari gear and games in the era post 2040 era where my life probability becomes vanishingly small.
- At the dawn of binned parts. The odd part was having a 487sx released. I guess it was probably for those that could enjoy the 486sx upfront and then when the funds became available later to enjoy the 487sx rather than buying a combined DX part and motherboard upfront ?
- Vi has two modes. The mode you make mistakes in and the mode that beeps at you. :-)
I used Stevie on OS/2 and I carrried a vi 3.5” floppy I got from watcom for a long time because it was a standard editor I could use at alien DOS computers I would be asked to troubleshoot.
- played it on zx spectrum, a LOT great game. computer hide and seek. always on the move, trying to stay ahead of the sentinel or it's sentries.
what amused me at the time was that there are 10,000 levels loaded in from tape and within a few weeks of it being released magazines had accumulated codes for all of them from readers playing at home iirc. pre internet that was a lot of information gathering.
- I played it on my Spectrum and Amiga. It’s one of those games that has a particular feeling, it always struck me as lonely and a little weird. TIL it was written originally for the Beeb. Also I didn’t know it was released as “The Sentry” in the US.
There’s some download links for the C64 on this page at the very bottom, scroll down quickly to avoid gameplay spoilers! Looks like there are other remakes linked there too.
- Wow. What a beautiful remake. I never played or even heard of the original gsme. Anyone know if it’s available in an archive for the c-64. Was it ever ported to any other system?
- That’s pretty cool, I might have a go at that.
There’s also a mod for the Jaaaag for Tempest.
- The wifi and NTP are really really interesting parts of this card. The HD speed is nice bonus. Its cards like this add new features that were never imagined that amaze me the most.
- So far, others have pointed out 9 and I remembered two I meant to include and forgot. So I'll be adding those 11 very soon.
- eMachines also had the bad luck of going IPO at the worst time possible. NASDAQ hit its all time intraday high of 5,132.52 on Mar 10, 2000. It dipped about 300 points for about 1-2 weeks, before eMachines went IPO on Fri, Mar 24. NASDAQ hit an intraday high of 5,078.86 that day, then went into a free fall from that peak. That was the beginning of the "dot com crash". It would take 15 years for NASDAQ to recover (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/apr/23/nasdaq-new-...).
eMachines IPO'd at $9 on Mar 24, climbing to $10, then closing at 8 13/16. It would never again hit $9. It was delisted from NASDAQ slightly over a year later, in May 2001. I cannot find a source for the exact date of delisting. Wikipedia says that the price was hovering around $0.38 when it was delisted, but I think I recall seeing its price hitting lows of $0.12 before delisting.
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