84-24 is a beautiful -- both technically and visually --account of restoring an original #Macintosh. A good cozy engineering read for first morning coffee.
If you want proof that how people act on the internet is pretty much the same as it's ever been, back to ARPANET in 1984 no less... #humor#computer#RetroComputing
It’s not every day I get to play with a Xerox Alto thanks to the people at The Computer Museum in Maryland! I suck at Missile Command BTW. Great exhibit space and worth a visit! #RetroComputing#XeroxAlto
What was the last printed magazine article to publish detailed plans for building your own computer, and when was it? 1990s? Early ‘80s? I’m talking about plans with detailed schematics and PCB layouts, like the Mark-8 or COSMAC ELF. #VintageComputing#RetroComputing
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...☺️👍🕹️
@pixel It's impressive enough you've found Tempest at all, and so quickly. :)
I've been looking for it and asking around for years with those book links being the only proof of existence I've ever come across.
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
@amoroso Uh ... this was exactly it, and it was ENTIRELY my fault. Your example even uses :READTABLE "XCL", but that's on the part that's scrolled over to the right and not visible and I guess the first time I read it I translated it to "LISP" and never looked closely enough again!
I'm not completely clear on the distinction between the package XCL and the package COMMON-LISP (which seems to be an alias for LISP) on Medley, but I'll get there.