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by einr 5y ago
The Tandy 1000 RSX has several ISA expansion slots. Putting a Sound Blaster in it is no problem.
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by einr 5y ago
In the 90s, the relevant user-facing OSes for computers were MacOS and Windows. There were at least real, meaningful attempts at competition in the consumer space with, most notably, OS/2 and BeOS. (OS/2 is seen as a commercial
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by einr 5y ago
You don't need Unicode for the shaded block characters that make up your portrait, they've been in 8-bit extended ASCII since at least the introduction of the IBM PC in 1982. Traditionally, though, the Internet ran on 7-bit ASCII
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by einr 5y ago
Pascal was super popular for applications development on the original 68k Macs, Amigas and Atari ST's. I don't know if these machines fall into your "extremely tiny" envelope but we're talking 68000 @ 7 MHz with usu
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by einr 5y ago
While you do have a point, Microsoft also sold a Pascal compiler for many years so it's not exactly like they were on a crusade against the language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Pascal When they tried
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by einr 5y ago
Pascal is generally not an interpreted language. It is a compiled language that is suitable for systems and applications programming.
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by einr 5y ago
"China’s population is ageing even faster than anticipated; its workforce is shrinking. Sky-high private-sector debt is weighing on growth."
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by einr 5y ago
The extra funny bit is that the type of physical volume control it's imitating is bad even in the real world. I remember having these dinky little wheels on Walkmans and such and having to fiddle a lot with them to get the exact volume
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by einr 5y ago
My iPhone (SE 1st gen, so I still have a headphone jack...) is constantly nagging at me that my average headphone volume is too loud; the reality is that when I use the headphone output I'm nearly always in my car using its line input,
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by einr 5y ago
Oh, the number of times I've absentmindedly adjusted the screen brightness when I meant to adjust volume or vice versa...
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by einr 5y ago
It is, and it kind of sucks. Worse yet: in different VST plugins, for instance, sometimes you're supposed to click the knob and drag up and down, sometimes you're supposed to move the mouse in a circle as if you were rotating the
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by einr 5y ago
Just to put the achievement into perspective, this is code written for a console with a 1.79 MHz 6502 running on a 3.58 MHz 65816 (a 6502 with 16-bit capabilities crudely bolted on) -- that it even runs anywhere close to native speed and
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by einr 5y ago
The Super GameBoy is essentially full GameBoy hardware in a cart, that hijacks the SNES PPU for video output and uses SNES controllers for input. There is no hardware emulation going on.
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by einr 5y ago
The GameBoy is distinctly different from the (S)NES. It uses an 8080/Z80-ish CPU core instead of the 6502/65816, the audio and graphics hardware have different capabilities than the NES, etc. There were a lot of games that were bo
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by einr 5y ago
It really is sensor size. For two sensors of the same resolution (= number of photosensitive cells), a physically larger sensor will have a greater number of photons hitting each photosite. This means better signal-to-noise ratio (fewer pho
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by einr 5y ago
No "quotes" necessary, it does have a 41MP sensor.
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by einr 5y ago
I've never personally seen that resolution used, nor called "4K". If you're going to lump together a resolution with 50% more pixels under the same umbrella term then IMO "4K" is meaningless and we need more gr
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by einr 5y ago
For a long time it was very easy to advertise cameras by the number of megapixels, and consumers supposedly like easy to understand numbers where bigger is better. This used to be kind of true back in the day of <6MP but raw megapixel nu
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by einr 5y ago
4K is 3840*2160 = roughly 8.3 megapixels.
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by einr 5y ago
There is a limit of abuse you can tolerate. This is the exact belief that lots of people had with regard to the Windows 7 -> 10 migration. Turns out, when people feel like they don't really have a choice, they will tolerate a lot
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by einr 5y ago
Meaning “requiring modern low power CPU’s is a great thing for the environment”? https://www.networkworld.com/article/2229029/computer-factor... "Study finds 70% of the energy a typical laptop will consume
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by einr 5y ago
Ahem. You can buy an Intel iMac today, new from Apple, that will not run Windows 11. https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/imac-imac/21.5-inch Yes, Apple still sells an iMac with a 7th generation Dual-Core Int
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by einr 5y ago
Windows 11 is a free upgrade if you have a Windows 10 license. You can't sell operating systems to consumers anymore, you have to sell OEM licenses to manufacturers, who in turn sell you a new computer with the new OS.
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by einr 5y ago
There were plenty of Core 2 Quads and Phenom X4's with 4 GB RAM around 2009.
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by einr 6y ago
Yes, it briefly had this abomination of a logo before adopting a more sensible identity: https://logodix.com/logo/715204.gif
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by einr 6y ago
Didn't see your reply until much later, but in case you're still wondering, this blog post about sums it up: https://jonlennartaasenden.wordpress.com/2019/02/15/hyperion...
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by einr 6y ago
> > There might be a c64 IP stack but at that point its getting technicality again; how much access and function counts? > Being able to talk at least IP and TCP without external help. Contiki ( https://www.c64-wiki.com&#
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by einr 6y ago
Probably true. As an aside, coming from a Linux/Windows background and having partially moved to Mac recently, I observe the same of the Mac community. For instance, when Big Sur launched, there was a tiny little utility that did nothi
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by einr 6y ago
It's downright affordable compared to what it's mimicking. A decked-out A1200 setup with 060 accelerator and RTG graphics etc is easily $2000 or more, and that would still be a lot slower and less capable than the Vampire. The V
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by einr 6y ago
To an extent you are right, lots of Amiga software and hardware has traditionally been commercial and proprietary in a (maybe misguided) effort to save the platform. That said, there is a lot of open source hardware too nowadays, here'

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