- Good article :)
- bmonkey325 581 days agoI feel seen …
- This was great. A working network of RM Nimbus! I saw an ACT/Victor Sirius 1 as he panned across.
- I never noticed the weirdness of the enter key either before. There were many more offenders than this article had time to cover.
I'm finally used to the @ being on the "2" key on US keyboards. It's not there on British ones I grew up with, perhaps justifying it being on the "P".
One of the best things about the 128 Spectrum was that you could just type in all the keywords like PRINT instead of spending 5 minutes trying to find the right key combination, as on the previous models. The 128 taught me to type.
- I played this game once when I bought the newest Intel CPU in 2013. I think I worked out it was faster than some DARPA mainframe which was the #1 supercomputer in 1990 and cost $90m and took up an entire building.
If you took it back to something like 1983 it was faster than every computer on the planet combined, IIRC.
- I'm going to try and find all the original clips they used from the archives (e.g. Getty) and redo this low-res thing.
- OK, so this works in the only way possible, by recreating some functions of the VDP. I looked at this years ago and the problem is that the VDP creates the analog signal directly on the chip, so there is no simple way to tap a digital signal.
The problem with recreating the VDP is that you have to be careful that you are doing it correctly -- you're emulating the functions of the original chip, so are you doing it 100% right? Are there any games that glitch with this mod?
- Amazing to know this survived. This was where I learned to code, and it's doing me well over 40 years later.
I visited SN Systems once in the mid-90s when I was a game dev, and they had every first prototype of every console you could imagine. I wonder if they still have them? There were some wild ones there.
- Unreal. This build is great.
- This was a neat article, thanks :)
- Are there good repair instructions for the arcade ones? Like, how long will it be possible to keep one of those running in the future?
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