Effects so realistic they appear 3 Dimensional!
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Star Raiders was awesome! I still wish I had an old Atari to play that game. Marc
Was that the game that came with it's own controller, just for that game ? Plugged in and had a ton of buttons, so I guess the game was one player ? I never got a copy, but I wanted it.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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I actually owned one of those computers (the TRS-80 Model 100). It was pretty cool for its day. I had mine fully-kitted out with 32K of RAM and the external floppy drive. The floppy ran off the RS-232 interface at 19.2K baud and stored a maximum of 100K per disk. Probably the nicest thing about it was it would run for 8-10 hours per charge on 3 AA nicad batteries.
Software Zen:
delete this;
Fold With Us![^]Meh. Only one ? I had several Apple ][s, several C64s and at least one C128.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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Star Raiders was awesome! I still wish I had an old Atari to play that game. Marc
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Star Raiders was awesome! I still wish I had an old Atari to play that game. Marc
I get very nostalgic when I recall the games of my childhood which I played on a 286 with monochrome amber screen, but whenever I download and try to play any of those games (from abandonware sites) I just can't do it anymore. And I try, oh my god do I try... but the graphics and controls are an unpassable barrier to me now... :(
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Meh. Only one ? I had several Apple ][s, several C64s and at least one C128.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
First one i had was a modern Pentium II :P Atari games do make me feel nostalgic :(
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I actually owned one of those computers (the TRS-80 Model 100). It was pretty cool for its day. I had mine fully-kitted out with 32K of RAM and the external floppy drive. The floppy ran off the RS-232 interface at 19.2K baud and stored a maximum of 100K per disk. Probably the nicest thing about it was it would run for 8-10 hours per charge on 3 AA nicad batteries.
Software Zen:
delete this;
Fold With Us![^]In 1984 I had a Commodore 64. Probably one of the best investments of my life! In 1986 I bought a 20 meg hard drive for it. My dad commented at the time: "20 megs? Why would you ever need 20 megs?" Of course at the time, most files were 50k or so.
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But wait! There's more! 16 hilariously unimpressive computer ads[^]
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on! A post a day, keeps the white coats away!
The say unimpressive, but I remember many of these or things like them and they were quite impressive at the time (okay, even at the time, I wasn't impressed with the Radio Shack Model 100.) One of the more interesting, which they don't touch, is the Data General clamshell laptop circa 1985 that was way ahead of its time. I often joke with my kids about how lame many of the "bleeding edge" technology things will be when they are buying stuff for their kids in twenty or thirty years.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Meh. Only one ? I had several Apple ][s, several C64s and at least one C128.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
I had an Apple IIe at one point in college. Ended up selling it at the best possible price point [too bad I don't have the touch with stocks] and bought a 1979 Honda Civic CVCC (I loved that car.) I wrote my first programs on an Apple II Plus in 1980, my senior year of High School. A year later, I took a Z80 assembly language class in college, it didn't really click until I started programming my Apple IIe two years later. I wrote a small hack to do word counting in a lame word processor it had and in the middle of doing that, assembly language just clicked in my mind; one moment it was the fuzzy thing, the next it made perfect sense. Several years later, I answered an ad in the Arizona Republic newspaper for Apple II assembly language programmers and got the job. Been programming since. Point being that Apple II is what started my programming career. (While at that job, I taught myself C using Turbo C. It took three days. I was confused until I did some disassembly and realized that C was just a really cool macro assembler. For the record; my trick with C++ was realizing that it was C with a this pointer. With C# it was that everything is an object.)
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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I actually owned one of those computers (the TRS-80 Model 100). It was pretty cool for its day. I had mine fully-kitted out with 32K of RAM and the external floppy drive. The floppy ran off the RS-232 interface at 19.2K baud and stored a maximum of 100K per disk. Probably the nicest thing about it was it would run for 8-10 hours per charge on 3 AA nicad batteries.
Software Zen:
delete this;
Fold With Us![^]My trash80 was the color edition. The dual floppies were connected via the game cartridge port.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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In 1984 I had a Commodore 64. Probably one of the best investments of my life! In 1986 I bought a 20 meg hard drive for it. My dad commented at the time: "20 megs? Why would you ever need 20 megs?" Of course at the time, most files were 50k or so.
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But wait! There's more! 16 hilariously unimpressive computer ads[^]
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on! A post a day, keeps the white coats away!
I actually still own the Oddessy2 game console with the speech module. In it's day it was a fun console.
Kelly Herald Software Developer
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Was it the Lt. Kernel? I always wanted one of those for my C64 so that I could run my own BBS. Never happened, which was probably for the best.....
LOL, yes it was! I had a BBS for a few years. It was work, spent a bunch of money on it, but it was fun...
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LOL, yes it was! I had a BBS for a few years. It was work, spent a bunch of money on it, but it was fun...
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To make people like me laugh out loud when they remember stuff from 22 years ago :P
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The say unimpressive, but I remember many of these or things like them and they were quite impressive at the time (okay, even at the time, I wasn't impressed with the Radio Shack Model 100.) One of the more interesting, which they don't touch, is the Data General clamshell laptop circa 1985 that was way ahead of its time. I often joke with my kids about how lame many of the "bleeding edge" technology things will be when they are buying stuff for their kids in twenty or thirty years.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
The things that made the Model 100 useful were the serial and bar code ports. It was really easy to right serial port test programs on the thing when you were debugging hardware that used serial I/O. The so-called 'bar code port' was actually a couple of simple TTL input lines that you could use for general input.
Software Zen:
delete this;
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But wait! There's more! 16 hilariously unimpressive computer ads[^]
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on! A post a day, keeps the white coats away!
I remember my first IBM PC/AT. Got it in late 84. It was a piece of crap. But, everyone wanted one, including me. It was the ultimate power PC. But, it was so bad that when I dropped a book on the table where the PC (body) was located, I lost half of the disk directory I was currently in. It was a bad disk controller. Even the guy in the next office could do the same thing with his AT.
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But wait! There's more! 16 hilariously unimpressive computer ads[^]
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on! A post a day, keeps the white coats away!
Got this header in an email, and thought it was on about stereoscopic images, which are awesome. I've been making some myself, in Blender. http://sara.and.zuka.googlepages.com/stereoscopic3.png[^] http://sara.and.zuka.googlepages.com/stereoscopic6.png[^] I'm not convinced the first one works, but if it were more vivid (the ships further apart) it would be a more interesting effect than a single Abaddon.
