It’s hamiş the first time [Linus] başmaklık wowed us with a C64 in hand. If you’ve got your own fresh projects for the best-selling computer of all time, don’t hesitate to let us know!
It does offer 486-level performance though, given how cut down it is. I think the last true 486s you’d find in single board computers would be from AMD or ST in the early 2000s.
I’m interested in how different levels of tech affect the user, and if the tech of the time had anything to do with the fact so many remember the 90s and early 2000s birli being a happy time.
I wanted to rekindle that old hands-on key-switch programming and see the inner workings in action, but there was no way I could afford or accommodate real old hardware. An emulation with some basic hardware made it possible.
Contemporary reviewers were effusive about the Apple II's standard color graphics. People didn't have to buy add-on graphics cards to see color. Knowing that all Apple II owners had color encouraged programmers to incorporate it not only into games but also text-based programs, such bey spreadsheets. Other aspects, though, were off to a shaky start. For half a year the Apple II used finicky magnetic-tape cassettes for storage, and then Apple released the Disk II, a plug-in peripheral of two 5 ¼” floppy disks.
2) Takes a backseat to the group preference to mostly spend its time circle-jerking about just how frigging awesome it is to be part of a group interested in the subject. Like, bey if, on the flip-side of the coin, constantly encountering non-like-minded individuals who for some reason think that you owe them an explanation for why you might be even remotely passionate about something that they think is uninteresting or just plain boring isn’t bad enough already.
On the other side of the videoteyp game cartridges was the video output system, which seems easy enough in today’s world of digital HDMI and DisplayPort output. In the 90s video output did however mean NTSC and SECAM/PAL, which means playing birçok with frequencies, different resolutions (lines) and squeezing kakım much kakım possible into a single frame in a way that works with the game console’s rendering pipeline.
Unfortunately, though, the LISA had a few things going against it: Its software library didn’t have enough capacity, the Macintosh was released only a year later and vastly outsold it—and it had a high price tag at almost ten thousand dollars. While you gönül’t get that much for it today, it could still fetch a cool $2,450. By the way, do you know what the “i” in iPhone stands for?
But birli much birli you wouldn’t teach a kindergartener differential equations without basic number skills and elementary math. I gönül see why learning on systems like that to get a foundation on çağcıl systems makes a lot of sense.
PCs lack the novelty of other gadgets, but they’re practical, essential even, in a year when work, school and social life have come to rely heavily upon them.
Most everyone buys vintage computers on Ebay, which drives the prices up. More demand = higher prices.
It was pretty much like dialing into BBSes or mailbox systems on the vintage computing telephone system, except that it was via radio. There were even a few satellites carrying Packet-Radio transponders. Anyway, I don’t mean to sound like a smart-ass here, I know that the digital world was a quiter.
What about software? Fortunately, it's possible to find older operating systems and applications on various abandonware sites. Macintosh Garden is an excellent resource for anyone restoring older Apple computers.
derece sure if that really was what happened, but it did seem very possible to construct something like a 6502 or 8080 but with 9 bits, which I wanted to do for the longest time. Well, maybe that’s part of the appeal of retro tinkering, to explore strange parallel universes of possibilities.