Getting it to build right from source can be a bit finicky so I recommend a binary release unless you're willing to fiddle a bunch :)
This gives you a really nice easy ATASCII terminal you can use to connect to old school Atari bulletin boards like Southern Amis, my personal favorite :)
Anybody else do any 8 bit Retro BBS-ing? What solutions do you use to handle the ASCII -> ATASCII/PETSCII/Other ASCII variants I don't know barrier? :)
「 BeOS was, at the time, a foray into a new way of doing home computing. The features it introduced that were brand new at the time are now ubiquitous — things such as preemptive multitasking, journaling filesystems and an uncluttered desktop design. In a way, it was forward-thinking enough that if you look at a screenshot of it today you’d swear it was just any other modern Linux environment, ’90s graphical aesthetic aside 」
— @hackaday
“Look at this. It’s worthless — ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless. Like the Ark.”
There’s a bit of #indianajones in all of us here I think.
TODAY IN 1990: Commodore announced the launch of the Amiga 3000 (A3000) worldwide, making the formal announcement at the SCIOB Comdex/Europe show in Paris. The base configuration came with a 16 MHz Motorola 68030 CPU, 1 MB of RAM, a 40 MB hard disk, and cost $4,000. Commodore also announced "AmigaVision," a multimedia authoring system designed to work with the A3000.
Che figata, un progettino che emula l'interfaccia di win95/98/me all'interno del browser con alcuni giochi di un tempo (doom, quake, ecc) sempre emulati. Da provare sul pc, sul telefono non rende bene.
In July 1982, "market analyst" Chris Christiansen told the press that Osborne Computer Corporation would "continue at about an 80 percent annual growth rate in the next few years" and praised CEO Adam Osborne's genius.
Fourteen months later, Osborne Computer filed for bankruptcy. Christansen told the press it was all Adam Osborne's fault. He "completely misjudged the popularity of the IBM Personal Computer and the enormous effect it would have on the market."
Funny, you'd think a market analyst would have seen that coming, especially since the PC had already been out for a year when he predicted that a small, rapidly growing startup with an inexperienced CEO would somehow lead the market against one of the largest companies in the world.
@reidrac nos trae este estupendo arcade para #Commodore64 lleno de acción, buenos gráficos y estupenda ambientación general.
Como tu mejor amigo el orco Orc hace dos semanas que no pasa por tu casa a tomar el té llegas a la conclusión de que algo terrible tiene que haberle pasado. Así que coges tu espada y decides ir a buscarlo al «Mundo de Mágica» donde nada es lo que parece, ni siquiera tu que eres un afable goblin.
Tendrás que recorrer los 5 niveles hasta saber qué le ha pasado a tu amigo.
Rescuing Orc es muy divertido. Puedes descargarlo desde https://www.usebox.net/jjm/rescuing-orc/ 👍😊🕹️ #retrogaming#retrocomputing#retrogames#retrojuegos#videojuegos#videogames#arcade#plataformas
Anyone got any experience connecting a Sinclair ZX Spectrum Interface 1 RS232 serial interface to either a Raspberry Pi's serial pins or another computer via a USB-serial adaptor? How many volts does the Interface 1 put out? What does it expect / tolerate as an input? #ZXSpectrum#RetroComputing
At 8pm BST tonight, I'm resuming my series of streams playing through all the #Amiga Power magazine coverdisks on #Twitch. We pick up from issue 20 (December 1992) - things get a bit, er, seasonally inappropriate briefly.
Plenty of fab demos and PD games to come including more scope to cause a diplomatic incident like this one last time round... check us out at https://twitch.tv/NAG_Graham and join our lovely community!
TODAY IN 1985: Warner Communications paid $17.5 million to settle the last in a series of shareholder lawsuits alleging that Warner's Atari, Inc., subsidiary withheld information about its financial losses prior to the collapse of the North American home video game market in 1982-83.
Meanwhile, Atari Corporation, which Jack Tramiel created after acquiring the home computer and home video game assets from Warner, announced it would skip the upcoming summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago. There were rumors that Atari was having problems getting its promised 520ST--dubbed "the Jackintosh" by the press--ready for market.
Tramiel later changed his mind and Atari did book space at CES. Not only did Atari show off the 520ST it also displayed a prototype of a proposed $500 CD-ROM drive developed in conjunction with Gary Kildall's Activenture, Inc. (The Atari folks can correct me, but I don't think that CD-ROM ever shipped.)
「 Broadly speaking, the PARC researchers set out to explore possible technologies for use in what Xerox had tagged “the office of the future.” They aimed to develop the kind of computing hardware and software that they thought could be both technologically and economically possible, desirable, and, perhaps to a lesser extent, profitable in about 10 to 15 years 」
— Spectrum IEEE
My thanks to the bidders and buyers of the charity listings I had on eBay to benefit the fantastic Retro Computer Museum in Leicester. £41.40 was raised from the "scammer return" cartridge + smaller donations from other items.
Found my AMD Duron 850MHz from way back when! Remember when CPUs came as flip chips on a ceramic square with no additional protection? :) #retrocomputing#AMDDuron
Alternativa sarebbe quella di montare la CF su windows, copiare le cartelle del setup di ms-dos o windows e poi lanciare da lì i setup dopo l’avvio del overlay disco 🤔Indovinate? Non ho un lettore CF in giro 😅 se mi rompo le balle saluto l’overlay e installo in nativo su soli 504 MB (che a metà anni 90 non era affatto poco spazio btw)…overlay disco usato: OnTrack Disk Manager, scaricabile dal buon https://www.philscomputerlab.com/ una delle tante risorse del mondo #retrocomputing e #retrogaming