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I had an Oric-1 in those days, but really wanted a Jupiter Ace as well .. there was something so sexy about that machine, for some reason.
by torpor 16y ago
I had an Oric-1 in those days, but really wanted a Jupiter Ace as well .. there was something so sexy about that machine, for some reason.
- arethuza 16y agoHere's your chance: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Jupiter-Ace-Computer-/290440498106?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item439f9a4bba http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Jupiter-Ace-Computer-/290440498106?cmd... I have to say that it doesn't look quite as interesting as it did when I was 16.
- deadsy 16y agoI had similar feelings of lust. A couple of years ago I satisfied them by pulling the rom binaries off the web and writing a z80 emulator (in python) that could run them. Conclusion: a) don't expect to write fast cpu emulators in python. b) the jupiter ace failed because the hardware missed the boat. It was basically a zx81 running Forth, released at a time when the zx spectrum was wowing everybody with its color. It's probably the case that the use of Forth didn't give it any great advantages over BASIC given that the underlying machine was so incapable.
- 10ren 16y agoForth claimed to be 5 times faster than BASIC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace Everyone went to assembly if they wanted speed. I think Forth requires more thinking than BASIC (at least, of a mathematically flexible kind).