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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-12-13, 23:34

Peter Swinkels wrote on 2020-12-13, 12:16: And people complaining about modern software should be forced to do their work on a Windows 9x machine. (BWAHAHA.) I do some of my actual paid work on a Windows 98 machine (but mostly in DOS mode) 😉

Re: Apple's T2: Vulnerable and Unfixable

Posted on 2020-11-26, 23:26

Soldered RAM and storage is getting common for the cheap laptops, crap chiclet keyboards are around, and TPMs are rolled out to prosumer machines like Lenovo Yogas or HP Envy/Spectres as well, and who knows what issues they might have. Ironically, it's the most expensive and desirable laptops that …

Re: Apple's T2: Vulnerable and Unfixable

Posted on 2020-11-25, 10:05

*sigh* does it always have to be this passive aggressiveness when it comes to apple users? YOU are imagining things. I REALLY want to know the responses of Apple fans/user for this security issue. As I would for fans/users of any other hardware platform. It concerns me about as much as Intel …

Re: Windows 98 and DOS Question

Posted on 2020-11-24, 16:44

I don't remember any huge issues with running DOS programs in Windows 98's DOS 7.1. I think there were a couple of games where built-in copy protection couldn't calculate the checksum of a FAT32 partition or something like that, but this was not a difficult problem to solve (nudge nudge wink wink). …

Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-24, 10:19

I don't mind the imperial measuring system on its own: after all, people used it for hundreds of years and somehow managed to build houses, bridges etc. Imperial screws, on the other hand, are a satanic invention. This is especially true for British products since Britain has (or had?) about a dozen …

Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-23, 13:11

We're quite lucky that it's English that is the modern lingua franca. It's rather simple as far as languages go (its slightly tricky phonetics notwithstanding). If it was a language with non-rudimentary conjugation, declension etc., our life would be much more difficult. The truth is that English …

Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-22, 20:31

We're quite lucky that it's English that is the modern lingua franca. It's rather simple as far as languages go (its slightly tricky phonetics notwithstanding). If it was a language with non-rudimentary conjugation, declension etc., our life would be much more difficult.

Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-20, 22:16

I have no nostalgia for the Atari ST. It was always an inferior platform with terrible sound, with mediocre games and mediocre ports of Amiga games. Maybe it was worse if you only wanted to play games, but it was a better machine for getting work done. Amiga with its crappy PAL/NTSC video modes and …

Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?

Posted on 2020-11-11, 07:45

AnandTech published their analysis of Apple's CPU microarchitecture and performance: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-deep-dive TL;DR . A14 (the 5W iPhone chip) has CPU cores that are faster than any x86 core except Ryzen 5950X. M1, which obviously has more headroom, should …

Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?

Posted on 2020-11-11, 00:19

No, I actually think that's inexcusable in 2020. However, they only transitioned low-end models today — I'm pretty sure they will release a more powerful SoC (M1X? M2?) which will be used in their more powerful laptops and will come with more RAM.

Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-10, 10:55

Some people are probably going to hate me, but I think Amiga's failure was well deserved. Commodore wanted to make the system cheaper to use for a home user and made some technical decisions that really hurt it in the long run (like sticking to NTSC and PAL video modes). The OS was impressive for …

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