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date: 2024-11-09, from: Richard Murray’s blog
Winter is coming, That was odd, Speaking of Gloom, An expense but useful?, The Elite.
https://heyrick.eu/blog/index.php?diary=20241109
date: 2024-11-09, from: Retro Innovations blog
Having found some external fonts used with a MC6847 lowercase modification from “back in the day” (the lowerkit product from Green Mountain Micro) and converting them into ROM-burnable images, I determined a ROM font was composed of 12 bytes of font bitmap data, with 4 bytes of “padding” to align font data on 16 byte … Continue reading Expanding the MC6847: Deciphering the Interface
https://www.go4retro.com/2024/11/08/expanding-the-mc6847-deciphering-the-interface/
date: 2024-11-08, from: Digital Antiquarian
My one big regret was the PlayStation version [of Broken Sword]. No one thought it would sell, so we kept it like the PC version. In hindsight, I think if we had introduced direct control in this game, it would have been enormous. — Charles Cecil of Revolution Software, speaking from the Department of Be […]
https://www.filfre.net/2024/11/grim-fandango/
date: 2024-11-08, from: Linux Magazine
The latest release from Steam has some pretty cool tricks up its sleeve.
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/New-Steam-Client-Ups-the-Ante-for-Linux
date: 2024-11-07, from: Icon Bar, RISC OS News
The Autumn edition of Drag’n’Drop magazine has now been sent out to subscribers, and we are now into Volume 14! This edition is 27 pages of news, reviews, tools and lots of code (on yellow pages no less)! As it is a PDF you can read it on just about any system.
http://www.iconbar.com/comments/rss/news2131.html
date: 2024-11-06, from: Richard Murray’s blog
What the actual fuuuuuuuuuu….?, Polishing a turd.
https://heyrick.eu/blog/index.php?diary=20241106
date: 2024-11-06, from: Computer History: Stores
One item in a new collection fascinated CHM curator David Brock—an early video recording, made in 1968, with explanatory notes by industrial psychologist Robert Dunlop. The notes told of an inventive computer system at IBM headquarters that Brock had never heard anything about. A demo of the system was captured on the long obsolete video. Could it be restored, and would it change history?
The post The Biography of a Discovery appeared first on CHM.
https://computerhistory.org/stories/the-biography-of-a-discovery/
date: 2024-11-05, from: Computer ads from the Past
Your options are a programming language, a multimedia program, and a printer.
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/vote-for-the-november-2024-post-topic
date: 2024-11-05, from: Richard Murray’s blog
November 5th, ESP32Cam woes, My Sunday Project #1, My Sunday Project #2.
https://heyrick.eu/blog/index.php?diary=20241105
date: 2024-11-05, from: Hans Otten’s Retro blog
Thanks to Eric Dennison I can show photos of the RNB Enterprises VAK-1 motherboard. The large motherboard and the huge case with homebuilt 16K static RAM memory card are representative for the KIM-1 systems then! See also:Focal-65 V3D for TIM and KIM-1Focal on the 6502, a page on this small language, originating for Digital Equipment. […]
http://retro.hansotten.nl/rnb-vak-1-photos/
date: 2024-11-04, from: Linux Magazine
If you’re looking for the perfectly vanilla take on the Gnome desktop, Gnome OS might be for you.
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Gnome-OS-Transitioning-Toward-a-General-Purpose-Distro
date: 2024-11-04, from: RiscOS Story
In the run up to the recent London Show, RISC OS Developments released an updated version of RISC OS Direct, their customised and more user-enticing distribution of RISC OS – and it was a very important update, because it also marked the first public release of their web browser, Iris, which is now bundled in the distro. Andrew Rawnsley from RISC OS Developments will be joining the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) as their guest speaker for their next meeting to talk about RISC OS Direct 5.31 – dubbed…
https://www.riscository.com/2024/risc-os-developments-wrocc-6th-november/
date: 2024-11-04, from: RiscOS Story
Released over twenty years ago, Kclock is a simple clock application by Keven Wells that displays the time and date in a window – and it has now received its first ever update, making it version 1.01. The main functional change is that for systems running RISC OS 3.50 or later, a button can be pressed to invoke the system date and time configuration. Behind the scenes, another change is that it now uses the latest version of the Dr Wimp BASIC library. If you find any of Kevin’s software,…
https://www.riscository.com/2024/kclock-1-01/
date: 2024-11-04, from: Icon Bar, RISC OS News
The November 2024 WROCC talk is on wednesday. As usual it takes place on Zoom and kicks off at 7.45pm.