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by einr 6y ago
I think it is prudent not to sit on other people's couches uninvited. Now what programmers do to their own couches or RAM I couldn't care less about, but generally they write software for other people and their RAM.
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by einr 6y ago
Close, but no. Windows does not use the CGA/EGA palette (unless started in EGA mode, which is a thing that can be done) The Windows 16-color palette is based on pure, fully saturated colors (i.e. red is 255/0/0, lime green is
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by einr 6y ago
Opening this site for me made 905 HTTP requests. Apparently it tries to pre-load every job listing, including YouTube videos for everything? I appreciate what you're trying to do here but the site is pretty painful on a slow connecti
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by einr 6y ago
For a real-world example of these CPU's being used in actual products today, I was doing some maintenance on a current-model GCC LaserPro Spirit laser engraver/cutter a while back and was a little surprised (and delighted, because
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by einr 6y ago
The Obscuritory -- https://obscuritory.com/ -- if you have any interest in the culture surrounding computer games or retrocomputing or even just obscure, weird things in general I can not recommend this enough OS/2 Mus
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by einr 6y ago
Hanging on to my SE not only because it still feels nippy and works great and because the form factor is ideal (my first iPhone was a 5, then a 5S, then the SE) but also because it's the last bastion of the headphone jack.
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by einr 6y ago
That's true. A lot of people got the shareware versions online (whether by FTP or more likely from a BBS) and decided to buy them after trying, so in that sense it's selling software online, but I get what you're saying, it
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by einr 6y ago
Yeah but who honestly is going to try to exploit Eudora 7 in 2020 unless they are deliberately targeting you?
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by einr 6y ago
Was anyone actually selling software over the internet in the 80's/early 90's at scale? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Realms#The_Apogee_Model_(19...
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by einr 6y ago
I still use Office 2003 as it is the last version without the ribbon. The ribbon is still a really bad idea and I can't wait for it to go out of fashion again.
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by einr 6y ago
But you actually only play the game in two dimensions, because the pieces cannot move up or down. Normal chess is a game happening on a 2D plane whether or not the representation of the board and pieces is 2D or 3D.
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by einr 6y ago
If you do want to pursue that, a couple of tips: Most ISA network cards are for the 16-bit bus, XT class machines only have 8-bit slots. This doesn't necessarily mean that the cards will not function, but you also need a packet driver
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by einr 6y ago
I see your 386 and raise you an 8088 at 4.77 MHz and 256K of RAM (or less, I'm not sure what the actual requirements of ircjr is if you want to push it): http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/IRCjr.html Really, it's ju
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by einr 6y ago
The ME runs on an ARC chip, not ARM.
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by einr 6y ago
nano is a GPL-licensed clone of pico, which in turn was originally conceived as the integrated message editor in PINE, the popular UNIX e-mail client first released in 1989. If you look at the overall interface of PINE you will recognize t
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by einr 6y ago
Wasn't the kludge in some Apollos that they had two 68000s arranged so they did exactly the same thing, but with one delayed? If the leading one hit a page fault, they would generate an NMI for the trailing one before it too hit the p
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by einr 6y ago
Does it have a replaceable battery?
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by einr 6y ago
remember, you can buy xbox games via disk. not all games have to be via the store. independent publishers have a way to get you those games without going through microsoft. The Xbox is a closed system that will only run approved and sign
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by einr 6y ago
It booted in ~10 seconds on my Pentium II 266 system, which was a VERY BIG DEAL back then.
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by einr 6y ago
You're trying to run a generic operating system on a closed platform whose vendor publishes no documentation on anything. Some manual work is to be expected. I can assure you it is not 1999 anymore and things are a lot smoother today w
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by einr 6y ago
Same. I love Reaper, its no-nonsense approach, how unbloated and customizable it is. Truly great software. I paid for a copy out of respect and encouragement, but I never use it. I've tried, but it's just not going to happen anyti
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by einr 6y ago
(which is mostly theoretical, clocking a 486 at 4.77MHz, while not necessarily impossible, might turn out to be quite a project on consumer hardware). Quite a project indeed, but possible with the right motherboard -- as an amusing side n
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by einr 6y ago
The highest clocked 386 CPU, and one of the most popular ones, was the Am386DX40, so your computer would likely have had a 40 MHz part. It is a common misconception is that the MHz displays from this era had any kind of communication with t
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by einr 6y ago
The turbo button originates from Taiwanese "Turbo XT" clones that would run an 8088 or V20 at 8, 10, 12 or even 16 MHz with turbo engaged and 4.77 with it off. Later 386 and 486 systems implemented turbo logic in different ways. S
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by einr 6y ago
If you're interested in exploring further, https://www.unseen64.net/ has been cataloguing and writing about lost, cancelled and prototype video games since 2001.
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by einr 6y ago
https://www.inexhibit.com/case-studies/project-sphinx-when-t...
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by einr 6y ago
Back when the entire web was like this, simple websites would be hosted on 50-200 MHz single core machines with RAM in the megabytes. So I don't mean to come off as confrontative but if you can't host a text-based website on a q
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by einr 6y ago
The 8086 and 8088 are architecturally identical and run the exact same code. The only difference is that the 8088 runs an 8-bit external bus.
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by einr 6y ago
This site is really dolky†, I'm loving it. † https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/dolky/eyJ3IjogImRvbGt...
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by einr 7y ago
It's not that bad yet. Almost everything is still some flavor of x86 or ARM. Back in the 90's server/workstation space, almost every player made their own wildly incompatible chips; * DEC Alpha * Sun SPARC * HP PA-RISC * SGI

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