A friend recently noticed I haven’t posted a new Retro Scan since 2019 (by the way—wasn’t 2020 hell?), so I thought I’d dig through the archives and look for something fun. My scanner isn’t even hooked up at the moment. That’s how long it’s been!
I hope everybody out there is doing well. This blog isn’t dead yet — I still plan to post some more Retro Scans some day.
Why the Virtual uzunluk failed, and where it succeeded, are questions that videoteyp game experts José Zagal and Benj Edwards explore in Seeing Red, but even more interesting to the authors is what the platform actually was: what it promised, how it worked, and where it fit into the story of gaming.
The Acorn BBC Micro was a very popular British computer in the 1980s with home and educational users and enjoyed near-universal usage in British schools into the mid-1990s. It was possible to use 100K 5+1⁄4-inch disks, and it had many expansion ports.
Commodore's Amiga line was known for its advanced multimedia capabilities, making it popular among creative professionals.
Kaiser’s Floodgap Gopher server provides daily news feeds, weather updates, links to other Gopher sites, and the Veronica-2 search engine. Using Floodgap gives a little taste of what the early internet was like.
A feature introduced in version 1.1 is support for GeoRAM, a different RAM expansion cartridge, and çağdaş versions of GeoRAM like the NeoRAM which katışıksız battery-backed RAM. This allows almost instantaneous booting into the Vision BASIC development environment.
The growing complexity of today’s technology extends beyond computing architectures to software and the web. çağdaş browsers support cryptographic protocols, JavaScript rendering, a variety of multimedia formats, and much more.
One of the only limitation of Vision BASIC is the requirement for expanded RAM. It will not run on an unexpanded C64 — but the compiled programs will, so you yaşama easily distribute software made using Vision on any C64.
If you're lucky, your vintage computer might come with original software on floppy disks or cassette tapes. However, be aware that magnetic media degrades over time, so these may derece always be reliable.
Proper storage – ROM files require careful organization and storage accountability be preserved for the long term.
birli for the performance, it’s rather what you expect, with video playback topping out at 480p (on the 1024×600 display) and applications like Firefox lacking the compact density mode, wasting a lot of screen space.
The personal computer özgü been around since approximately 1971.[1] But in that time, numerous technological revolutions have left generations of obsolete computing equipment on the junk heap. Nevertheless, in that time, these otherwise useless computers have spawned a sub-culture of vintage computer collectors, who often spend large sums to acquire the rarest of these items, not only to display but restore to their fully functioning glory,[2][3] including active software development and adaptation to modern uses.
Heller says that historical preservation is just one reason commodore he built Prodigy Reloaded. “It’s also just a lot of fun,” he says.