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by mark_round 3y ago
OS 4.x runs on PowerPC processors, and there are a bunch of dedicated systems like the X1000, X5000 or SAM460EP. You can also run a "classic" OS 4.x version in emulators or on classic Amigas fitted with PowerPC accelerators. You c
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by mark_round 3y ago
Modern systems ? I dunno. I wouldn't use anything like Linux, Mac or Windows - there's just way too much indirection and the system as a whole is just too opaque for a beginner. I think the A500 could make a fantastic platform for
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by mark_round 3y ago
CygnusEd was the absolute business back in the day. I still love it, but my muscle memory just isn't there anymore after years of PC/Mac editors! I guess I've also become too spoiled by modern conveniences. LiteXL runs on pre
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by mark_round 3y ago
Ha, good eye :) Nah, you see an A1200 that I am constantly fiddling with, and I frequently take the SD and CF cards out to clone! I do have a set of backup scripts that clone content to a CF card in a PCMCIA adapter but I always feel safer
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by mark_round 3y ago
Author here, thanks for posting! Happy to answer any questions or chat Amiga stuff in general. Bear in mind - as I said in the article - I'm more-or-less a total newbie when it comes to all this stuff. I have been involved in the Amiga
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by mark_round 3y ago
If you want to get really obscure, someone has implemented a substantial amount of VMS commands and related userland stuff for classic AmigaOS! http://aminet.net/package/misc/emu/AmiVms
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by mark_round 3y ago
Great stuff! Like many here, my blog/website seems to have been started at that magic ~20 year-old point. I also went back through the Internet Archive and revisited the different phases in my site's "life" at https:&#x
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by mark_round 4y ago
It's a Haiku thing. Added around 2018 if I recall correctly - see the linked lobste.rs thread in another of my comments where a Haiku developer gives some (really interesting) background on the development and effects on the community.
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by mark_round 4y ago
I highly recommend it! Even if you haven't had the experience or attachment to BeOS it's a refreshing and fun take on a desktop system. It just "clicks" with me in a way that Linux/Windows/Mac never did. It&#x2
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by mark_round 4y ago
Author of the article here. Thanks for posting this! There's also a really interesting thread on lobste.rs [1] where a Haiku developer talks more about some of their less user-visible innovations, compares the Linux development model t
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by mark_round 4y ago
Author here - thanks for posting! There's also a really interesting discussion thread about this on lobste.rs where a Haiku developer gives some of the interesting background (and drama!) behind the development of their package managem
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by mark_round 4y ago
https://direnv.net/ possibly ?
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by mark_round 4y ago
I wrote about this a few years ago on my blog when I re-fitted my old Commodore Amiga with a floppy drive after years of using SD-card floppy emulators: http://www.markround.com/blog/2019/12/30/back-to-th
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by mark_round 4y ago
Thank you for posting that. It came at a surprisingly opportune moment and I needed to read that. I'll be checking it out later tonight.
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by mark_round 4y ago
Oh wow, that's seriously amazing! It's great to see others enjoying my crazy ideas :) These old systems sure can be a lot of fun. You definitely get your moneys worth!
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by mark_round 4y ago
Mine too. Eventually got a +3,a Plus and even a ZX81 for the sake of completion before I moved onto the Amiga. Other systems of the day like the C64 could run rings around the Speccy, but I always loved it's quintessentially British &q
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by mark_round 4y ago
YS forever. SU had some good covertapes, but YS was a way of life.
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by mark_round 4y ago
Thanks! Looks like it's just been submitted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31134121 I'm glad you liked it, the whole project was a labour of love and a huge amount of fun to put together. Particularly the
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by mark_round 4y ago
Hi, author of the article here! Great to see this posted today on the Speccy's 40th birthday :) Happy to answer any questions or reminisce about the Good Old Days!
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by mark_round 4y ago
I grew up with the Speccy and it's what kick-started my interest in computers and ultimately led to my career. I still have a +3, which is connected to the internet [1]. It's amazing to see that there's still a sizeable scene
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DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum(markround.com)
2 points by mark_round 5y ago|0 comments
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Back To The Floppy – a love letter to the floppy disk(markround.com)
1 points by mark_round 7y ago|0 comments
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by mark_round 11y ago
As others have written, you can either download your config from an external host, or pass in environment variables to your container and generate a configuration based on them. Lots of people write their own scripts to do this; I wrote Til