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What its marketed as and who it is aimed at. Nobody ever bought a nintendo NES to use as a personal computing device, it wasn’t that they looked at the specshee

by jchw 6y ago

What its marketed as and who it is aimed at. Nobody ever bought a nintendo NES to use as a personal computing device, it wasn’t that they looked at the specsheet and it had a 6502. There were in fact PCs with 6502s and powerpcs as well. In any case, I still think video game consoles are stupid but they at least have some incentives to do a walled garden type thing (anti-cheat, anti-piracy) and lacking general code execution they actually stand a reasonable chance of accomplishing that (versus iOS where I am currently typing on a jailbroken device.)

viro 6y ago
So the operating system?
- jchw 6y ago
  I said >What its marketed as and who it is aimed at. I am not sure I can make my position any clearer than that. It's not an item in a spec sheet. It's what you're claiming to be selling.
- ClumsyPilot 6y ago
  yeah, the most important piece of software on the planet.
m4rtink 6y ago
You could trade stocks and bet on horses using the NES/Famicom hardware in Japan. There was a modem acessory and a cartridge with the corresponding software: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Computer_Network_System https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Computer_Network_Syst...
kalleboo 6y ago
> Nobody ever bought a nintendo NES to use as a personal computing device Although interestingly, the Japanese console makers have continually tried to push the computer/development angle. When the NES was released in Japan before the US, it was branded the "Family Computer" and you could get a keyboard and a version of BASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_BASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_BASIC Sony has had multiple attempts, with a consumer homebrew dev kit for the PS1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze ), and Linux for the PS2 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2 ) and later PS3.
- jchw 6y ago
  Yep, those are pretty cool and also make it more sad that video game consoles continue to go down this road of lockdown. Of course Sony also had OtherOS on PS3. It's a bit sad it ended the way that it did.

by jchw 6y ago

viro 6y ago

So the operating system?

jchw 6y ago
I said >What its marketed as and who it is aimed at. I am not sure I can make my position any clearer than that. It's not an item in a spec sheet. It's what you're claiming to be selling.
ClumsyPilot 6y ago
yeah, the most important piece of software on the planet.

m4rtink 6y ago

You could trade stocks and bet on horses using the NES/Famicom hardware in Japan. There was a modem acessory and a cartridge with the corresponding software: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Computer_Network_System https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Computer_Network_Syst...

kalleboo 6y ago

> Nobody ever bought a nintendo NES to use as a personal computing device Although interestingly, the Japanese console makers have continually tried to push the computer/development angle. When the NES was released in Japan before the US, it was branded the "Family Computer" and you could get a keyboard and a version of BASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_BASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_BASIC Sony has had multiple attempts, with a consumer homebrew dev kit for the PS1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze ), and Linux for the PS2 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2 ) and later PS3.

jchw 6y ago
Yep, those are pretty cool and also make it more sad that video game consoles continue to go down this road of lockdown. Of course Sony also had OtherOS on PS3. It's a bit sad it ended the way that it did.