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.
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.
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
A nerd nostalgia thread of possible #RetroComputing interest:
From 1993-1994, I was a “technical assistant” in the RF Engineering department of #Comcast#Cellular. Back then, Comcast was a scrappy regional cable #TV operator making its first foray into #mobile telephony, not the multinational #telecommunications and media behemoth we know today. (1/6)
Ep.1 is about The Well and British Journalist #JamieBartlett claims that The Well was the world's first social network.
Before he was even born the Brits (and Europeans!) were running big, successful online social media sites and I think we mostly understood the potential consequences.
From an American? Fine - But come on BBC/Jamie! Do your research or get Tom Sandage to fact-check a little. Grr!
After getting the #Commodore#C64 and #C128 running again, the next device to repair is the #C1571.
It had #corrosion and #rust on the main board and the power supply is beyond repairworthiness. I'd replace the latter with a #meanwell RD-35 with 5 and 12 volt output.
One #diode was rusty, a few traces needed #cleaning and five #resistor looked bad. Hope the black hybrid chip is still okay.
Sadly, the lower read head seems to be broken, my work might've been in vain. #floppydrive#retrocomputer
To make absolutely sure that the 6502 #processor is defective, I built a #NOP test #circuit on a #breadboard with a 100kHz #NE555 clock and a couple of LEDs on the address lines.
A known working 6502 looks fine, I can clearly see the higher address lines counting up (I accidentally inverted the LEDs).
The one from the 1541 doesn't show any activity. Only address lines A0 to A3 look normal on the oscilloscope. #retrocomputing
Some more progress on the #Commodore#VC1541 today.
The #alignment from the diagnostics looks okay so far.
But when trying the performance test, it gets stuck at the "formatting" stage. The red LED lights, but the spindle motor doesn't start.
When trying the "fast format", the spindle motor starts, but the red LED doesn't light up.
Both programs, and any other from the diagnostic, seem to freeze until I switch the drive off, resulting in a "device not present" error or similar. #retrocomputing