EmuStudio is an excellent emulator and Assembly IDE for a number of 8-bit CPUs and historical microcomputers such as the Z80, 8080, 8008, and Altair 8800.
I finally got a chance to try the latest release and it's greatly improved. For example, the ADM-3A terminal emulator features a slick replica of the original font as in this screenshot of emuStudio under Crostini Linux on my Chromebox.
Folks think the “embrace” part of embrace, extend, extinguish applies only to the technology itself. It doesn’t. It also applies to the people prominent within it. Their legitimacy is essential for it to work. They’re told “come, sit at the big boys’ table with us” and “don’t listen to the naysayers, they’re just jealous of how popular we can make you.”
Last time I experienced this, the person in question who sold out got an OBE out of it. Which is rather fitting, when you think about it.
:8bit_mario2: Although this book was mostly about Tom Kalinske, who took Sega from the ashes, defeated Nintendo big time, only for Sega's Japanese people to revert it back into ashes, I feel an unexpected respect towards Nintendo now that I know more about them. :1up:
@darth the PineNote is in practice not purchaseable - there was only a single batch made, explicitly intended for kernel/driver devs, released ~2021 and long since sold out.
The next batch won't be released until all the kernel/display bugs are sorted out, which still is still a work in progress as of May 2024, and there's no particular timeline for when it'll be complete. This was also the case 2 years ago.
So tl;dr #PineNote is out of stock and staying that way for who-knows-how-long.
@qlp this myth just won't die: "the company e-ink has the patents now, and I think that's the reason why e-paper products are still so expensive"
No, e-ink screens are expensive because they have no scale compared to LCDs - there are 6 billion smartphone owners in the world, and plenty of them have a TV/laptop/desktop-monitor/smartwatch/tablet. And another at work, and e.g. supermarket kiosk.
E-ink has kindles and supermarket tags. Repeat after me: economy of scale.
@spaceraser when e-ink screens break (or lose power due to a crash), they can leave the screen permanently displaying stale (or sensitive) information. When LCDs break or lose power, they tend to just go blank - which is a much clearer and more reliable failure mode.