Sharp's innovative pocket PCs ran on BASIC, allowing users to write programs, load from tapes, and even check email. They connected to phones, enabling journalists to read email from payphones. Equipped with serial ports, they facilitated data transfer with printers and computers, and some even had built-in printers! 🖨️
It's #ReleaseFriday 🚀 — This round has lots of progress and additions to the recently announced https://thi.ng/imago package for declarative image compositing and (nestable) transformations. It already supports 5 layer types (incl. SVG & dynamic text overlays), 12 transform operators and 9 output file formats, output path formatters/params. I've started adding more API docs and examples to the readme (both JSON & API) to give a better impression of what's possible & how to use it. The main use case for now is asset preparation for the static site generator of the next thi.ng website, but it's already far more expressive than that...
I'm not looking for new vintage #cassette gear right now, but when a friend gifts you a desirable one owner #boombox from 1985 that's in close to new condition and doesn't need any work, it'd be churlish not to accept, right?
These #Sharp component boomboxes are a bit of a unicorn in that they're small, fully featured, can take a #turntable input and actually sound excellent.
🚨We are now accepting applications for our 25th-Anniversary Fellowship and Research Grants for BIPOC Scholars! Deadline for applications is February 26th, 2024.🏆
Ohio-based vintage computing specialist Legacy Pixels has launched a slick add-on which offers a true hardware MIDI interface for MiSTer FPGA-based emulation systems, compatible with a selection of cores and hardware....
In questo nuovo episodio della serie regolare @mr_Micro ci parla del secondo e ultimo videogioco realizzato da Hiroshi Ishikawa esclusivamente per lo #Sharp#X1 e pubblicato da Enix nel 1985: Brain Breker (ブレインブレイカー).
i may have just became the owner of a #MSX computer.
I've been tempted for ages but got distracted by an amstrad CP and then an amiga has eaten up all my time & to be honest more than its fair share of cash.
but I am honestly having more fun with the amstrad CPC 464 so I thought another 8 bit Z80 computer would mean double the fun.
now I gotta wait for the postal service to do it's thing before I get to play with it.
and who knows where I'm storing all this stuff tbh.
@gerrykelly I don't think those who built their kit themselves will easily give it away. once you're finished and it works you feel proud like a Woz or Sir Clive .. hehe ..
and building them isn't really that hard if you know the right side of a soldering iron. I built my first about three years ago and never built anything like that before. just the odd bodge wire - but then it became sort of a new addiction, soldering stuff, because you learn so much and you feel more related to the system you've built.
anyway, as for collecting: there's a #Sharp#PocketPC E220 which has an instruction (but not cycle) compatible version of the #Z80 - it can be programmed in BASIC or Z80 assembler ...
The small #MiSTer box in the middle holds all the computers around it. And many more, additional arcade machines aso.
A big thank you to all the core developers who give us this freedom with their mostly spare time work 😘 #RetroComputing#Amiga#Atari#Sinclair#Archimedes#Sharp#Apple2
Legacy Pixels' MIDI Interface Adds Low-Latency MIDI Ports to Your MiSTer Emulation Station (www.hackster.io)
Ohio-based vintage computing specialist Legacy Pixels has launched a slick add-on which offers a true hardware MIDI interface for MiSTer FPGA-based emulation systems, compatible with a selection of cores and hardware....
PCG for Sharp MZ-700 (monochromeeffect.org)