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by illys 4y ago
I started collecting some legacy hardware in 2018 because I missed the touch and feel of playing Digger, Popcorn, Lemmings... on real hardware (not attracted by emulators). Problem with such hardware is that when you look for a piece, you f
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by illys 4y ago
Atari also... Their Falcon was great but probably too small and too late.
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by illys 4y ago
I heard that so many times in the 1990's in France, "les autoroutes de l'information". I knew that politicians were running after what the USA do, but I did not realize that they were also translating and recycling the v
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by illys 4y ago
So I guess the right question is "Are you sure?", not "Prove it".
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by illys 4y ago
Why/how should he prove something that did not happen? An event, a fact can be proved... not their absence. Try for yourself: prove your have not done [X] in the last 10 years.
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by illys 4y ago
"What's the point of developing new faster CPUs if it takes the software guys just a few months to undo all the hardware progress?" Nice you found out and mention it here. It has been like that since new generation x86 CPUs p
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by illys 4y ago
Reenigne and Scali, I am very honored to have an answer from both of you :-)
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by illys 4y ago
Thank you for your reply, it is conforting to know the tricks are solid. Maybe it will help some retroprogrammed CGA games to appear with more colors and effects. I have a VGA XT clone (4.77/8 MHz) and an ATI Small Wonder CGA clone boa
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by illys 4y ago
I wonder about one thing... If that exceptional talent and art-code were distributed in the 1980's, obvioulsly they would have had a large effect in many extends (inspiration to others on the platform, definition of new compatibility l
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by illys 4y ago
If you can put USD 50-100 in your antics, you may add an XT-IDE ISA card with a Compact Flash adapter. The one I have has a slot in the backside metal bracket: I can load a Compact Flash (1 GiB, FAT-32 formatted) in a modern PC with a USB a
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by illys 4y ago
I love the closing quote: "If [this machine] satisfies the need, it is never obsolete. (...) If the need continues to exist until the year 2000, then this machine is still satisfactory. There is no such thing as hardware obsolescence.
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by illys 4y ago
I am amazed by the discussions below on computer performance vs. software inefficiency: I remember the same discussions and arguments about software running on 8088 vs 80286 vs 80386 vs i486 vs Pentium... and so on. You could have had those
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by illys 4y ago
Keeping aside the browser issue (which is already a quite interesting issue)... The correct scaling double square is already an issue with my eyes: Mixing black and white dots to produce a grey was a pretty common trick when we did not have
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by illys 5y ago
I cannot reach the article (paywall) but I found another source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal It seems only the small fishes are caught, the big ones that give directions are not aware of what ha
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by illys 5y ago
I remember the night sky of the 80's in the property of my grand-parents, South of France during the summer holidays: in my early years we had a clear view of the Milky Way... But every year, a larger share of the night sky was turning
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by illys 5y ago
I am not in the figures but I understand "moving death around" this way: If you do not properly hospitalize serious Covid patients, you get more Covid death... If you properly treat them, you postpone the treatment of other sickn
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by illys 5y ago
Clients will have to, server may stick to a version as long as that specific version is not discarded by the organization running the standard.
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by illys 5y ago
I am always amazed by new stuff claiming to be faster when the old stuff has worked perfectly since computers and networks were hundreds of times less performant. It seems to me just like another excuse to add complexity and to create more
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by illys 5y ago
"I wanted to do good, but I did not want to make noise, because I felt noise does not do good" I once read. So the owner is seen as evil, the woman is fired, the co-workers are destabilized by their own unluckiness and the termina
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by illys 5y ago
Thank you :-)
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Rama – HQ version (O'Neil Cylinder space station) [video](youtube.com)
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by illys 5y ago
Your article: "More than 50,000 people have been arrested in Turkey pending trial over links to Mr Gulen. Another 150,000 people have been sacked or suspended from jobs in the public and private sectors since the coup attempt on 15 Jul
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by illys 5y ago
In an open economy, the money is printed from the public demand. The more demand, the more printing, the more inflation... And the money demand is controlled down by raising interest rates, but Erdogan has ordered the central bank to keep t
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by illys 5y ago
The problem is not Apple, this is just symptoms of the crisis. Erdogan developing his personal power and doing nonsense in all political fields (military, diplomatic, economic, democracy, minorities...) with the dream to restore the Ottoman
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by illys 5y ago
Thanks, the cylinder world seems really neat, but the virtual reality video gives headaches :-( Do you know if there is any clean video of this world?
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by illys 5y ago
You are welcome, I am glad you like it. I find everything great too: the video, the cylinder idea, the music... It helps keeping big dreams for humankind in difficult times. Miserere, the music, is typical of the cathedral songs and is pre
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by illys 5y ago
Would the dream be complete without the O'Neill Cylinder Rama 3D animation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBIQCm54dfY&t=58s
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by illys 5y ago
Right... But there is nearly (no?) work to port from 8086 to 8088. The work was to adapt to the underlying IBM system calls (BIOS) and to the specific wired electronics (video card, DMA, mass-storage media, clock, keyboard...).
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by illys 5y ago
The DOS CGA, EGA and Hercules versions are missing too. EGA was rather pleasant. https://www.reddit.com/r/dosgaming/comments/57egq3/prince_of... In the binaries I have, CGA and EGA are bundled together,
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by illys 5y ago
Thanks for the article. Some parts are funny and not very representative... About European toilets in villages or residential areas: "Though some modern squat toilets feature a flushing mechanism, others require you to pour water down

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