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by nickt 5y ago
See also the Leslie speaker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_speaker
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by nickt 5y ago
I’m 27 years out of Uni and it’s great to see Comer's book still being used and recommended, and updated of course.
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by nickt 5y ago
That’s interesting. It must be one of the most ported games ever. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia_(1989_video...
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by nickt 5y ago
via LGRs video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USHvvSbYmJA rasteri also did a couple of build videos: Part 1: https://youtu.be/aJEp4ZUG7BI Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P1E2vjpcR
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The WeeCee – Tiny Vortex86-Based DOS Gaming PC(vogons.org)
132 points by nickt 5y ago|43 comments
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Timex had the contact to assemble the ZX81 in Dundee (Scotland). I imagine that that made them the obvious choice for a US expansion. Some background here [1] - this whole website has lots of nuggets of info if you’re interested in the earl
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by nickt 5y ago
Looks like Hayes modems are still around too, though maybe someone simply forgot to take the webpage down in 1999. http://www.hayesmicro.com/
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China’s noisy ‘dancing grannies’ silenced by device that disables speakers(theguardian.com)
165 points by nickt 5y ago|236 comments
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by nickt 5y ago
An amazing achievement but he has a way to go before he’s even close to Martin Strel - the Big River Man. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Strel
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by nickt 5y ago
Bassoon tracker is another good in-browser tracker, with a nice Amiga-like feel to it. https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/
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Trinity – A Ternary Lisp Machine (2014)(hackaday.io)
10 points by nickt 5y ago|0 comments
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by nickt 5y ago
Surely we can’t talk about the B-52’s Rock Lobster on HN without an obligatory Amiga 500 reference? http://www.bambi-amiga.co.uk/amigahistory/b52board.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10637447
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by nickt 5y ago
Chet, I just discovered your blog today via this post. It’s going to take me a while to catch up on the last 11 years but I’ll give it a shot. Thank you so much for your amazing contributions and welcome to HN.
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by nickt 5y ago
I’m sure getting an Oric and Blake’s 7 reference in a single post qualifies for a special upvote around here! Thanks for sharing, both great sites. I’ll dig out that Atmos I have in the basement!
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by nickt 5y ago
If you like this sort of thing, Crowdsupply [1] and Tindie [2] are great places to browse once in a while. And when you’re done with them, there’s always [3]! 1. https://www.crowdsupply.com/ 2. https://www.tindie
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The last of the line, the SPARC-based CM-5 was the first time I saw one, but only on the big screen. http://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=15
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JANET in the UK did this until it adopted the internet standards in the 1990’s. Always seemed more logical to me too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET_NRS
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Yeah but, life finds a way.
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The Commodore Vic-20 Registry(cbmvic.net)
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I bet you have some stories. ACE was a blast too. https://archive.org/details/acemagazinefuture
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by nickt 5y ago
Wikipedia has a good overview / history [1] and BasoonTracker [2] has a good demo if you want to have a go. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker [2] https://github.com/steffest/Bass
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Recreated Apple 1 operations manual(retroplace.com)
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Why bother with old technology? (2013)(retrotechnology.com)
62 points by nickt 5y ago|57 comments
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VMS Software Inc. [1] are the custodian of (own, I suppose) VMS these days. The exciting news in this space is that the x86 port of OpenVMS is coming along nicely. While I’ve not used VMS in production (apart from a few days at an, ahem, la
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Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present (v10.0.0) (1997)(cl.cam.ac.uk)
1 points by nickt 5y ago|0 comments
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Also the repo is here: https://github.com/jes/scamp-cpu
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Scamp – a homebrew 16-bit CPU(incoherency.co.uk)
129 points by nickt 5y ago|20 comments
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Apple 2 Image Library(apple2.org)
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In the beginning was CAOS (Amiga History – 1988)(devili.iki.fi)
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You can’t talk about tilting trains with mentioning the ill-fated British Rail Advanced Passenger Train that started in the 1960’s. The article gives it a short mention. “Iwnicki thinks the biggest problem with the APT, devised in an atmosp

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