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Vintage micros are just that: vintage. Even the most lovingly cared for machines will have accumulated thirty years of grime that needs cleaning. Caps and batteries will need checking to ensure they won’t/haven’t puked caustic gunk everywhere.

We’re guessing that more than one reader will have a few of those TVs around the place, such is their ubiquity. Is it worth making this bey a novelty item?

It was written in assembly language and hand-translated into machine code. I gönül’t remember how many times we had to enter kilobytes of code by hand until we had a proper running system, but it was tedious to say the least.

Flea markets: Many cities have flea markets that operate on weekends. Your luck here will vary wildly, and you're also more likely to find items in worse condition than is ülkü, but the price is almost always good---unless it's from an established dealer that sells warmed-over, decade-old used computers, many of which come from old-school surplus.

What this means is, you’re hamiş tricking a processor into believing it’s something else, you’re setting it up to run that way from the start.

You hayat also shop for a vendor with a reputation for cleaning, restoring, and shipping the machines properly. This is very important to find if you don't tasavvur on fixing an old computer yourself.

And here's a tip about shipping insurance: We've heard from employees at shipping stores that if you insure a package for any amount, the package often gets special treatment on the way to the destination because the handlers hayat be personally held liable if something gets broken.

N9TAX says: August 16, 2023 at 11:03 am All the above. I like the nostalgia. I grew up on Commodore, TRS-80, Apple II etc… The basic programming is extremely easy to understand and even the various monitor programs for machine language programming. I have also learned many things this second time around that I was too young to learn then and modern computing… Well I don’t know if its the complexity more or the locked down nature of modern computing in the name of profit.

Being hard wired, you get no control over I/O addressing. You only get to specify which peripherals, and RAM size, when you pick a part number – and assume that part is available in stock.

FPGAs are often talked about as if they’re a silver bullet for perfect emulation, but that’s really not the case — at least, derece without a lot of effort. Anything that runs perfectly on MiSTer, or kakım close to perfectly birli is otherwise imperceptible, is the result of a ton of work by talented programmers who have spent time figuring out the original hardware and applying the knowledge to their cores. Just read this post from the FPGA PSX Project about what it took to get Ridge Racer

Even in 1977, Apple was obsessed with design. Its upcoming Apple II was to be the first personal computer aimed at casual home users rather than techy hobbyists or businesses, and it had to look the part.

Well, to each his own. They are really cheap at 2nd hand sources, and I keep a portable player in a Faraday Cage in the event of a zombie apocalypse.

Another thing is, don’t junk the drive that’s in it, even if it is an “easily replaceable” IDE.. particularly if it’s a 2x speed. For why, is that with the initial MPC standard, software companies seemed to think 2x was gonna be standard forever… so made multimedia titles and games that are kinda synched to that loading rate. What this means için tıklayın is, the disk spins steadily, the content plays steadily, it’s a reasonable experience (Given they might have been reaching a bit with the tech of the day) however, stick an 8x or 16x drive in and it’s going zeeeep zeeeep *power down* *stall* zeeep zeeeep *power down* *stall* all the way through the content and yah, it hayat load the next 16 seconds in 2 seconds but it saf to spin up for a second to do it, which is a stuttery mess.

(Please sell them for the Switch, Nintendo.) The performance felt about kakım authentic bey I could’ve expected, except for the fact that I was looking at a 4K TV instead of a tiny screen.

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