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I don’t suppose there’s a version that is not scaled to 1.2x height, for conversion and display on an Amiga CRT, avoiding the need to scale the PNG and lose quality. (Ahoy, if you’re reading this.) I’d love to have such a version.

It's not an extremely unusual peripheral, but I use a rather nontraditional display with my Mac Studio, the LG DualUp. It's a 28-inch 16:18 aspect (square-ish) display with 2560x2880 native resolution (roughly the pixel density of a "4K display"). I use it rotated (for 18:16 aspect) and I love it. For general use -- web, photos, terminal windows -- it's great, and it's perfect as a dev machine, which it also is. I'm more fond of it than any display I've used in the past.

The display in my setup: https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/52345176302/in/album...

Easy there, tiger.

There's SyncTerm.

This is magic. I love it.

Seems rather a shame.

Yep, I just "tooted" a few screenshots in a discussion yesterday. When rendered on a CRT, the effect is shockingly good.

https://oldbytes.space/@blakespot/109441218193887773

It makes for a far better color 80-column experience (maybe for ANSI term emu) than that offered by, say, the Atari ST which had a strict 640-mode 4-color limit (but was a rather faster machine). Of course, they had some pretty creative "solutions" over there, I must say (TAZ terminal).

Rosetta 2 could serve as a crutch for developers that don't want to expend the time and effort updating their apps to native ARM compiles. As such, those apps will perform more poorly than they would otherwise. Of course, that needs to be balanced against the potential lack of that app entirely if Rosetta 2 is removed. Looking back, Apple seems to lean towards the more harsh scenario. I am guessing it will be removed some time distant in the future.

Indeed. I recall reading, in the end, that some 90+% of the code had been converted shortly before OS X became the mainstay.

I've just heard a rumor that a very capable, active developer in the Apple II community was handed the source code at some point. That would be nice.

I have added some potentially helpful links in the text, and a bit of explanation for what IRC is, in an effort to help the uninitiated. I should have done so earlier.

Well, to start, of course there is no fan. So, that's quite a place from which to start.

Presumably due to thermal throttling.

KARR - Knight Automated Roving Robot

For whatever reason, I expected this to be a work of art, something of an impressionist style painting, of rather pleasant-seeming snakes enjoying some bubble tea in the grass on the shore of a river.

I put an NEC V20 in my Amiga 2000's A2088 BridgeBoard for a nice boost in performance, and I've recently replaced the 8MHz 8088-2 in my recent acquired Tandy 1000HX with a V20. It's a great telnet BBSing machine. I've got some pics of the Tandy and the upgrade process in a gallery:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/albums/7215770249469...

Give it a try, and ideally on a vintage machine. There are lots of telnet BBSs out there today!

Here’s my guide: https://bytecellar.com/bbsing/

It was my first computer, Christmas 1982. I recall it well, and not too long ago had some old Kodak disc film sent off for development and found photos of the fully expanded setup from 1983: https://bytecellar.com/2016/07/03/33-year-old-roll-of-film-o...

I currently have a comparable TI setup (not the same unit as my first), and still enjoy typing in magazine programs on it. I had some particular fun "recently" finding a magazine I had way back when, typing in the program again, and chatting with its author: https://bytecellar.com/2017/10/03/a-program-from-a-35-year-o...

Lovely memories.

This book sits on my shelf.

I love my HP PA-RISC "Gecko."

https://bytecellar.com/2016/03/02/a-quick-tour-of-the-hp-900...

Ah, not the same as venerable WeeChat. #IRC

I quite recently purchased the Ultimate 1MB upgrade for my 64K PAL Atari 800XL, allowing me to fully enjoy the A8 demo scene here at home in the states. (The system is also equipped with an SIO2SD floppy emulator.)

https://flic.kr/p/2kwmwr7

How about Apple?

Deluxe Paint does defeat Graphicraft handily. DPaint III is my go to.

I collect, but still find it pretty easy to get replacements for when one of my CRTs...

https://www.bytecellar.com/photo_pano.html

...dies. I recently replaced the Amiga 2000's 1084S with a more versatile Sony PVM (which lets me do PAL s-video from my Atari 800XL). Right now there are nearly 10 Commodore RGB screens on eBay, btw...

I use my actual Amiga 1000 and its actual matching 1080 CRT daily, and have for years. No emulators or projectors involved!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/50909237317/in/album...

Dangerous click of the day...?

I do have the physical BYTE issue.

It took me a great deal of time to track it down - and I only have it as a PDF, never found a physical copy. Long-running saved eBay search still active for it. :-)

TL;DR: Sony sacrificed a bit of CPU and GPU to save die space for data compression / decompression hardware to allow for for data coherency and access speeds 100x that of PC, and far faster than the Xbox Series X, allowing for new types of games that won’t be possible on PC or Xbox Series X. (Jump to 13m into the vid for the crux of all this.)