I'm trying to explore an alternate history (via emulation) where I got an equivalent A500 system from my parents for Christmas 1989 instead of the Macintosh SE (20MB HD, 1MB RAM) I got that year.
What magazines can I look for on archive dot org or elsewhere online to find hardware prices and bundles for that year? Any idea?
@RL_Dane you are Welcome. The price you found feels about right, iirc IT was a bundles together with the TV Adapter, though I think I paid it in German Mark back then.
Bought mine in at a store called Brinkmann's in Mönkebergstreet in Hamburg. My dad drove to IT after I nagged him for days. ;-)
And yeah, the TV Out Pictures was notoriously subpar. A while later a good friend of mine soldered a Monitor to SCART cable for us. I think he had found the how-to in a Amiga Mag.
About writing school papers... We mostly played Games first, started to make music and the only real Homework I did was for chemistry when I drew the while citrate-cycle in DPaint for a presentation.🤣
@RL_Dane HAM/Hold and modify, the 4096 colour mode was "special". But Iirc it was interlaced and too slow for everyday use.
The UI usually ran in 4 colours, later with Magic Workbench in 8 colours(640x200 for ntsc and 640x256 for pal) Screens with 32colours usually were 320x200 or 256. Another special mode was the extra halfbright mode with 64 colours.
Much later, the AGA Machines were able to have a 256 colour mode, like the VGA modes in PC.
I was able to "monkey patch" a WB 2.0 look into a Part of the Kickstart 1.2's intuition.library, iirc or to divert syscalls to my animated mouse pointer routine. Not to mention adding songend to binary music replay routines in memory for eagleplayer (All you needed was a memory pointer, check for an opcode you can inject your jsr myhackysongend; afterwards ;-) Wild Times.
@royal@RL_Dane for me it was wb2.0's introduction of datatypes: essentially a plugin system for mimetype handling/converting within apps, so e.g. if you add a gif datatype to the system all programs handling DT/images were able to read it or save it. On the fly de/compressing, new fileformats, etc
KIO or gstreamer comes to mind, but DTs were more general.
Oh, and MagicWB was just gorgeous.
One other thing was lowlevel access to all hw components which benefitted the Demoscene.
#myfirstdistro was Slackware on CD via mail order. Would have been the mid 90s so version 2.0.0 maybe? It genuinely opened my eyes to what could be possible for a community built OS. Watching the last 30 years has been quite something to behold. #linux
@otherdog almost the same... #MyFirstDistro was slackware too. It was a cover cd of a pc magazine.
I ran it on an overclocked p90 first with an et4000 and a bit later a ati mach64. Kernel was 1.1 or 1.2 or something. My first wm was fvwm. Souncard was a soundblaster 16 iirc.
I cant seem to get sound running under #linux on my machine...
Windows recognizes the onboard soundcard, but linux doesn´t, no matter which distro i am trying. Every singel one says dummy output. I tried restarting pipewire, alsamixer and pulseaudio. I tried another kernel, I reinstalled everything ...nothing. and windows is like: yup, there is the soundcard! Ahhh so frustrating...any recommendations what i can do to get soud work? #linux#support#fedihelp
@helpers Wie vielleicht einige gesehen haben, wird troet.cafe und damit eine der größten deutschsprachigen Mastodon-Instanzen zu Anfang April eingestellt. Damit müssen etliche Leute umziehen - was immer noch mit dem Verlust aller Posts einhergeht. 😕 Haben "wir" eine Chance, da zu helfen? Mastodon-Archiv-Import....? 😉
Die Wahl zwischen individueller Tragödie und gesellschaftlicher Tragödie ist immer eine Wahl zwischen Pest und Cholera und sollte imho nicht gegeneinander aufgerechnet werden.
Ok, bin im Sozialwesen tätig und da gehört es zur proffessionellen Grundhaltung, wenn ich das in Frage stellen würde, dann wäre ich ein schlchter Pädagoge. ;-)