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"They" should just have an emulator for all these machines on the raspberry pi, with a shell keyboard that makes it look like these machines.
by omarhaneef 6y ago
"They" should just have an emulator for all these machines on the raspberry pi, with a shell keyboard that makes it look like these machines.
- hnlmorg 6y agoThere's a lot of enjoyment to be had actually using these retro systems. A large part of it is nostalgia, I wont deny that. But the way those systems directly interfaced with the hardware does bring some enjoyment too. I think of it like playing vinyl, some people enjoy the colourisation that vinyl adds to the sound but other people enjoy the tactile nature of the medium. Typing your code directly on an Amstrad, BBC Micro or Apple II is a bit like that in that there are technically better ways to do it these days but using the original machines gives you an irrational sense of enjoyment.
- dhosek 6y agoI used to explore what happened reading/writing to memory locations connected to the expansion cards on the Apple ][. I later had a Spectravideo PC and one of the first things I did was explore the memory by writing into different locations to see what happened. I also wrote a Z-80 disassembler to try to reverse engineer how much of the system worked (unfortunately, I never got around to properly decoding multi-byte opcodes).
- fit2rule 6y agoOh, the Open Pandora, which is literally loaded to the gills with all of the emulators, is a regular treat. But the joy of sitting on an old machine and putting it through its paces is quite something else ..
- the_af 6y agoA Raspberry Pi with BMC64 is almost there. It feels like the real deal: you boot it up in seconds, and shut it down by unplugging it. But I want the C64 look & feel with its keyboard. If someone made a USB replica of a fully functional C64 keyboard I'd be in heaven. (I'm aware of the TheC64 project, but it seems sold out at the moment, and not easy to get in all parts of the world).