- 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...
- This is a good idea. I've been using it in VSCodium and just pressing F6 to switch to the in-editor terminal to build it. At the end of the build it launches the emulator automatically. Super handy :)
- I was surprised this wasn't a VS code extension like Stella is for the 2600. Still nice to see a tool that can do things for the Jaguar.
- PASTA/80 is a simple Pascal cross compiler targeting the Z80 microprocessor. It generates code for these classic and modern machines: CP/M; ZX Spectrum 48K; ZX Spectrum 128K; ZX Spectrum Next.
The supported Pascal dialect is an almost exact clone of the original Turbo Pascal 3.0 for CP/M.
- Nice tip, thanks. I'll try it out the next time I work in VICE.
- The samples in this post are just beautiful.
- C was always just a "high level" assembler. Eventually you have the techniques in your mental toolbox to nudge your compiler in the right direction. Unless you read the K&R deeply you might not even know there is "volatile" and "register" keyword. Then with poking your compiler do you get to find out what it does when you write code with those modifiers.
As a tutorial on how to go about optimizing code youits good, as a practical matter there wasn't much need to tweak this piece of code for a production system. IMHO. Opinions will vary. I always worked in shops where the schedule was always shrinking and deadlines loomed ever closer - optimizing only where it was absolutely needed.
- Good stuff, been curious about MGR for a long time.
- It does feel like you have to know a ton of m68k asm already in order to know when its good enough, so you might aswell have written it as inline asm to begin with.
- Just want to drop an observation here that the final version of the Unix shell — V6 — that Ken was solely responsible for may have been limited in functionality compared to the V7 shell, but the syntax was much cleaner and less difficult to understand. Mashey and Bourne have much to answer for.
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