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You can remember them every day, if you like!

https://www.vintagetechstickers.com

Works great on a IIe, as well!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/49838052551/in/album...

I had particularly strong memories of that movie and that Apple //c scene. I was compelled to share some of them in a blog post about Max’s achievement. What an effort he put in!

https://bytecellar.com/2020/04/29/apple-c-scene-from-80s-bon...

Actually, IIe or IIc. That is the question.

https://flic.kr/p/4BRrSj

I hear lots of good about that term. I use the interesting, "16-color" TAZ when I bring out the 520ST for BBSing these days. :-)

https://bytecellar.com/2017/06/18/four-colors-into-sixteen-t...

Nice, I will check this out on my Tandy 1000HX BBS machine. I haven't found an ideal terminal program for that config. I actually thought you typed "Terminus," which is the terminal program I used on the Amiga 1200 back in '92. Today, I use Radigan's predecessor to Terminus, JR-Comm on the Amiga 1000, which is the system I use most frequently for BBSing.

Some of these systems can be seen on my BBSing page: https://bytecellar.com/bbsing/

Look at the insane cache jump on the latest SoC, the A13. 28MB SRAM cache!!!

Lovely. Enjoying scenedemos is the main thing I do with all my Amigas, Atari ST, C64, A8, and even Apple Lisa. Great to see this!

I run a vintage computing blog that has been active for the past 16 years. Modern systems at the time of its lunch are now basically vintage. Check it out.

https://bytecellar.com

"Collect what?"

"Collect sand."

I so wanted an Atari ABAQ back in the late '80s.

My homepage from 1995/6.

https://blakespot.com/homepage_1996/

Mozart's Ghost!

I subscribe to the Wash Post. Not the NYT. Wish I could read it, though.

It’s not magic. Some of us get the appeal of vintage machines, but it’s not magic that these systems work. I have a large room full of them that I use daily.

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

I’m glad that this article is out there, though.

No Man's Sky is the most impressive implementation of this in a game that I've ever seen. Not just basic data defining the systems and the planets and stars within them, but the fractal detail that is each world full of flora, fauna, etc.

A big jump over Fractalus, on that. :-) ( https://bytecellar.com/2016/11/14/procedural-planetary-explo... )

I’ll bet she gets picked up again in just days.

Thanks -- yes, I hope people read the comments on my post (OP) and leave their own experiences in the comments. The purpose of my call for advice was to turn that post into a go-to for people searching the web with capacitor concerns. (The entire blog is a retro computing blog, up since 2004.)

Some GREAT comments came with yesterday's exposure. Great to see.

Here is a teardown of this little $29 device. Take a look...

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-thunderbolt-to-fi...

My 50-inch Pioneer PDP-5060 plasma (720p) lasted from late 2005 to 2014. I felt that was a short lifespan. I replaced it with one of the last plasmas sold, a 51-inch Samsung, and after four years a vertical line appeared. Now there are two. It is failing. That seems short to me. (OP)

Sounds like you saw my blog post elsewhere on the site about Tempest 3000, so you surely saw my rotary. I can't recall...do I have a Zarjaz? Maybe an Opal. Hmmmm. Nice game. Rotary or nothing!

It's Apple's Thunderbolt to FireWire adapter that amazes me. That little $29 thing is a full PCI-e device --- there is a PCI-e interface and a FireWire chipset built into the housing. And the little cable has a huge number of individual cables inside of it.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD464LL/A/apple-thunderbo...

I just asked a macOS programmer why he’s tweeting about back and forth code conversion between Swift and Objective C. His response was “Swift is dog slow.”

Yes, I pay for a Pro account. I do appreciate Flickr.

"She's suffering horribly, my god. [Weeps] I will mercifully end her suffering .... with FIRE." ?WTF

I use it and wrote a bit about it here. It’s pretty slick when I’m not looking to fire up one of my NEXTSTEP systems.

https://bytecellar.com/2018/04/25/bbsing-on-a-virtual-next-c...

Noting that hand, it looks like he went on to work as an illustrator in Apple's patent design office.

I typed in many a BASIC program from '99er magazine, Family Computing, Compute!, and the like that used the mode you speak of, redefining characters to be shapes of the needed sort. This was used in the program I typed in for this blog post last year: http://www.bytecellar.com/2017/10/03/a-program-from-a-35-yea...

What prompted me to write the article was running across several tech news articles declaring ray tracing to be a new technique on pieces about the RTX hardware -- real-time aside. To clarify that ray tracing is not new but real-time ray tracing (generally) is was my purpose in writing the piece.

I wrote this article. The Juggler was the first time I'd seen raytracing on a computer and watching these pre-rendered animations on the Amiga was one of the thrills of the system, as it surpassed all consumer micros of the day graphically, as far as on-screen colors. The Amiga's Hold-And-Modify (HAM) mode could render the full 4096-color palette on-screen and was very well suited for displaying ray traced scenes with their realistic coloring and shading and could do so at a resolution of 320x400 (4:3 aspect) and at a sufficient framerate, given the flexibility and power of the Amiga's blitter and memory architecture. As such, it seemed worth a mention here.

Yes, as I explain in the article. I kept coming across media calling ray tracing a new technique, in articles about the RTX boards. I responded to a few and thought I'd talk about it on the blog. Enjoying ray traced animations (pre-rendered) on the Amiga was a thrill for me back in the old days, and so it felt a good fit for my vintage computing blog.