The MSX classic The Maze of Galious was actually Knightmare 2.
An interesting feature of the game depended on what was inserted into the MSX's second cartridge slot.
If the first Knightmare was in, you could resurrect your companion 99 times. If there was Q-bert, you started the game with bonuses like extra gold and a full health bar...☺️👍🕹️
I just updated my Medley from the Medley Interlisp Revival project (https://interlisp.org/) to get improved CLtL2 compatibility ... and boom, CL (loop)! Now to work through some CL code I've written to see if I can get it into the environment and running. #lisp#retrocomputing
I don’t really understand what your job is about …
Oh it’s a bit of everything. I code in the blue window, then take notes in the white one, watch the presentation on the small screen, then open the terminal to very serious server admin.
I don't have any real retro games I want to play enough to say get a hold of an emulator; I fully admit most games I played 10 hours a day in my youth (the 1980s) were shit. The oldest games might actually fancy to play still functions on Steam.
Of course there were good ones like Arkanoid, Uridium, Balder Dash, Tetris and a bit later Defender of the Crown and a few others, but most were played because they were the only game in town.
This short history of web development is a useful overview for me as I haven't kept close tabs on the field. The post seems to cover all the main frameworks but a notable omission is Tailwind CSS.
Wer braucht noch fabrikneue #Z80-CPUs? Bis zum 14. Juni 2024 könnt ihr die letzten ihrer Art bei #Zilog bestellen.
Ich bin berührt davon, dass der #Mikroprozessor, auf dem ich 1986 in der DDR zu programmieren anfing, immer noch hergestellt wird.
Der Vater eines Schulfreunds arbeitete im VEB Mikroelektronik »Wilhelm Pieck« Mühlhausen, wo der KC 85/2 hergestellt wurde. In dem steckten der Z80-Klon #U880 aus dem Funkwerk Erfurt und ein BASIC-Modul.
Also me: Come on a 12” sony vaio from 2004 for the equivalent of 44$ ? This thing could run 32 bit #HaikuOS . 1.5GHz and 1GB RAM should be enough for everybody.
Atari 1040STF upgrade to 4MB - works! It's quite smooth, and easy if you got the mobo with 8 chips for 1MB (or 4 for 520STF).
I've seen that Mega ST1 to ST4 has similarities to this particular motherboard, and decided to try.
Get a PS/2 FPM 70ns RAM module with 8 chips, SOJ26 to DIP adaptera (8 pcs), 33ohm resistor
Desolder the chips from PS/2 module and desolder old RAM from ST, then solder new RAM in adapters (add sockets)
Connect all the legs - number 5 from the left, top (signal A9) with each other then connect them to MMU pin 64 (its not connected to anythin) via 33 Ohm resistor. The A9 singls on RAM are also not connected.
The upgrade is reversible just by swapping memory chips.
That is it. I'll prepare a blog entry with details.
Hmm… when I open an Apple II disk image in Disk Jockey, it shows the folders and system files, but not any of the HyperCard stacks or the HyperCard IIGS application.
There goes my attempt at examining a IIGS stack using Hex Fiend to see if it's the same as a Mac stack.
Looking for Toshiba L50utils.exe - laptop pcmcia drivers for Windows 95. It is long gone from the Toshiba website. Anybody with a floppy with this on or know where to find a copy?
If you ever saw a pixel-perfect screenshot from a virtual machine running MS-DOS in the default VGA text mode, you probably noticed that it looks slightly off.
The characters are too wide, and the whole image seems stretched.
But did you know that what you’re seeing is a perfect representation of the actual image, while your monitor from 1995 was deceiving you? Let’s have a closer look.
He encontrado en una caja mis archivadores con diskettes antiguos, cuando aún el CD-ROM no era algo al alcance de todos y para conseguir software o juegos los teniamos que copiar de unos a otros en discos de 1.44Mb...
Era una época en mi vida de ir a la escuela, jugar y coleccionar tazos, suspender conocimiento del medio, hacer el gamberro y a usar el comando DISKCOPY...
Do you remember those screens displayed after POSTing and before booting OS? I don't remember seeing one on any semi-recent box I own(ed) or use(d)... Damn, I miss them. #retrocomputing#pc#x86