- Hot take: I prefer RGB, even with the dithering. As an ex-pixel artist I enjoy seeing the dithering.
- I never knew there was a DOS version. The first time I saw it was 1991 with Windows 3.x.
- I can't remember how much my first CD recorder weighed, but it was the size of an early 80s VCR.
- Fantastic. As an early 3D developer in the late 80s, I'm obsessed with 3D renderers on underpowered hardware.
- Wow, that was one hell of an article!
- From here:
- What's a Diamondscan?
I had the 40" Sony CRT. It took 3 of us to lift that thing. I bought it just for lightgun games.
- bmonkey325 527 days ago4:3 rear projector 50” tv of the same era. 3 colour tubes to composite and project each colour plane. Just a big, bulky, dumb tv. I only noted it because it had the same mass as the tube tv you had.it took 3 persons to cart it up the 2 flights of steps into my apartment.
- I wish I had the spare amount of time some of these guys have. Awesome retro software modding.
- His story arc is amazing.
With this video his passion and energy shines through, but he is trying to sell crumbs. 50,000 units / year!
C.f. 2024 when Apple sells billions of products a year. BILLIONS. Unreal.
- At this point in time 50k workstations would be a big deal, $500M for a company <5 years old. Apple did 6B that year.
That was my inspiration in posting it. The passion and insight and singular belief I. What he was doing
- It's really incredible he went through such a long period in the wilderness with nobody paying much attention to him. He was mostly forgotten and alone until Apple makes a decision, based on desperation, to bring him back. He comes back literally like a phoenix, bringing everything he had learned and meditated on in his time away and turned Apple around into the greatest company on Earth.
I wonder what he'd make of AI? I wonder what he would have done with it. I hope he would have been more forward-thinking than Cook and wouldn't be begging his rivals to let him use their technology.
Apple has really dropped the ball on AI in the same way that Microsoft dropped the ball on the Internet in the mid-90s.
- I don’t know that Apple has dropped the ball on AI. AI is a capability, not a product. TBH iPhone has had AI inside since 2007. The keyboard pretty much can’t work without the predictive model inside - and this isn’t the drunken autocorrect elf I’m speaking of.
Thing they will need is some sort of copilot plugin for Xcode. Thats a hole I see right now.
- Hopefully the bulb is found. Those bulbs were everywhere when I was a kid, so surely it can't be too hard to find? Unless it is some super specific frequency of light, which I highly doubt. The bulb could be tested by going to a store that still develops film and asking them for one of their empty disposable camera shells and hooking up the flash circuit from it. I used to use those circuits as jury-rigged Tasers when I was a little kid at school :D
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