Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?

Posted on 2020-07-01, 17:26

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And having a screen this big with touch instead of buying a bulky WACOM tablet to carry with my MBP? I'd rather get the touch screen. Precision may not be good enough, but it's a complaint I leave for the artists. UI/UX designs don't need that high level of precision which translates later to code. …

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Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?

Posted on 2020-07-01, 15:32

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On a desktop/laptop it's not supposed to replace the keyboard and mouse but to complement it... same as the mouse was never supposed to replace the keyboard (and I guess if you search you will find the same comment about mice back then). Probably people are finding new ways to make use of devices …

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Re: nearly got ran over by a young dude on a moped...

Posted on 2020-07-01, 10:24

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^ Yeah man. See, OP, the Indignation and Offense Police have spoken, and at considerable length I might add. We hope you feel duly chastised, and are prepared to assume the requisite position of and ferociously virtue-signal in repentance of that unspeakable insult.

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Re: What font did PC Magazine use?

Posted on 2020-06-29, 10:28

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I would try Adobe Indesign program. First you might want to try reading the questions you're replying to. @kingcake: those look like Helvetica Condensed Black (title) and Times New Roman (paragraph). The printing or the scan makes them a little bit "heavier"/bolder than the typical result on a …

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Re: Your oldest favorite computer game?

Posted on 2020-06-27, 01:39

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The earliest game I really "got into" and played over and over was Cosmic Crusaders (1982, although I probably encountered it '87-ish). Most because it was the first one on our family PC (XT clone) which actually *felt* like a real arcade game and did everything right - a lot of early IBM PC stuff …

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Re: What font did PC Magazine use?

Posted on 2020-06-26, 23:37

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They used a lot of fonts in different places over the years... show an example of the one you want, it'll help us help you.

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Re: Computer projects you would have liked to have been a part of ?

Posted on 2020-06-26, 10:12

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Game programming in the 2D era when you directly programmed the hardware, not using 3rd party APIs in cumbersome modern OSes. I think the Atari 2600 was too limited for my taste, but anything from the A8/C64 up through the early 1990s would have been fun to be involved with. Mid-90s everything got …

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Re: Big A** Monitors thread

Posted on 2020-06-24, 19:08

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Yes, AFAIK the longevity issue isn't a solved problem yet. Personally I'm wary of using TVs as computer monitors, mostly because the internal setup options are limited, and not geared towards precision. E.g. scaling/aspect choices, annoyances that often can't be disabled (permanent underscan, …

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Re: Frederik Pohl's Gateway - retro game review

Posted on 2020-06-23, 17:15

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Does it hold up to the novel it's based on? 😀

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-06-19, 11:30

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math and science don't care about your "feelings" or your "beliefs". If only. Try telling that to those who now measure the number of genders in astrophysical units, or to those who found works like The Bell Curve "offensive", and see how quick you get something far worse than a cactus up your …

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Re: IBM PCjr emulation preferably on old PC? And other related questions

Posted on 2020-06-12, 21:48

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^ That's true. The Jr. was the slowest member of the PC family (mostly due to its memory architecture), so most speed-sensitive PCjr games need a very low cycle count in DOSBox. Sometimes down to 150 or so. PCem is another emulator that does PCjr, but DOSBox is much more convenient when you need to …

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Re: IBM PCjr emulation preferably on old PC? And other related questions

Posted on 2020-06-11, 16:59

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Thanks for this! Yesterday I went and used WinImage. Is there a problem with it besides it being paid? Are the IMA files it makes good? They should be, except for the 160KB issue you've already encountered, but I don't know how well it deals with unreliable sectors. Also this is more of a Windows …

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Re: IBM PCjr emulation preferably on old PC? And other related questions

Posted on 2020-06-11, 08:17

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I tried RawWriteWin but it doesn't work. I think it's only good for 1.44MB disks. These are, I think all, 360KB DSDD disks. Thanks for trying but I guess I need a different tool, maybe I need one for DOS instead of Windows 98? I recently went on a similar dumping mission (some >100 non-protected / …

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Re: Archive.org lawsuit

Posted on 2020-06-09, 15:07

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Maybe, but typically you wouldn't be able to find it unless you were already aware of the original URL before the host nuked it. And in any case, I believe the domain owner can still make a request to archive.org to remove the snapshots. Although I don't know what the IA's policies are in cases that …

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Re: ripa PC Speaker patch (was Want to use PC Speaker and not Sound Blaster in StarControl 1)

Posted on 2020-06-09, 10:25

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Dosbox PC speaker emulation is still broken in 2020. Any reason this patch which is accurate to real hardware is not part of the official dosbox yet? I'd assume it's the regression cases that have been mentioned. Adding to that: I've also noticed that speaker music played with MONOTONE sounds …

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Re: Archive.org lawsuit

Posted on 2020-06-09, 10:09

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I'm surprised Wayback Machine has lasted as long as it has. There's a lot of stuff behind paywalls which can be read on the WM because it was free some time in the past. I won't say this hasn't been useful to me, but the legal problems are obvious. I was under the impression that they take down …

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Re: IBM PCjr emulation preferably on old PC? And other related questions

Posted on 2020-05-25, 22:35

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I've never really tried Tand-Em, but it claims that only the Tandy BIOS ROM is supported (PCjr is slated for "a future release"). It's also 20 years old, and a lot of the machine-specific research has accumulated since then. Wouldn't get my hopes up. DOSBox on a Pentium II *might* be able to pull …

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Re: GW-BASIC source code released

Posted on 2020-05-22, 17:57

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Your first link is kaput. Copy-pasting when crossposting links never ends well... thanks, edited. Welp, time for that GW-BASIC libretro core to happen! Bring on the .BAS filled playlists!! Dunno about that, I'm just getting my cringe ready for the obligatory HTML5+JS port... including a faithful …

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GW-BASIC source code released

Posted on 2020-05-22, 13:03

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https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/mi … urces-gw-basic/ https://github.com/microsoft/GW-BASIC Now, if they only go one further and release the sources for BASCOM as well, that'd certainly be helpful. 😀

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Re: What was the first computer you ever purchased?

Posted on 2020-05-19, 20:54

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First one paid for with my own hard-earned cash? A generic Pentium II build which I honestly don't even remember much about, other than the Voodoo II. Even Microsoft was using UNIX computers as there Backbone webservers and database servers. ( lol, it’s true and it was funny to see ). Why funny? …

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