I might be seeing Wayne this summer. I'll ask if he still has it (I doubt it). I like all the emulators and being able to bring back that nostalgia for a brief moment, but the one I keep gravitating to again and again is Stella...
Very cool, I hope my memory was right and it was him. And he still has it...
There's something to be said about emulation. When I was able to do homework on the ST that was emulating a PC that saved me from having to live at the computer lab...
and so what uranus is a star - Rob
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I almost forgot that it had a PC emulator. So of course I had to try it again - and I remember the headache trying to get a disk to boot and the emulator brought back that repressed memory. I still couldn't get it to boot a DOS floppy and I tried a bunch...
My task to get it booted was probably a little easier. I was just taking some developer classes and just needed to boot into DOS. From there it was a bunch of editing source code then compiling and testing. Though (I seem to remember) the Modula-2 course used an IDE, but I don't seem to remember that being overly difficult to get running.
Now here's something that I found that's interesting...
and so what uranus is a star - Rob
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I think playing with PC-DOS on the ST was more of a novelty. When I did get it to work I managed to run a few games, but it was a bit sluggish if I remember correctly. But that find of yours is awesome. Way to bring back the early 90's. I have to see if I can find my ST disks and any of my Calamus work I did...
It played perfectly on my system. The only thing I haven't figured out is the volume control because it's a lot louder than I'd like it to be. But for some reason I could have sworn FTL had more games than that. That reminded of a game called FTL that I've played...
If I remember there were some games that did utilize the MIDI ports, but for the most part I was having fun with MIDI files and that little keyboard...
and so what uranus is a star - Rob
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04-25-2024, 10:59 PM (This post was last modified: 04-25-2024, 11:00 PM by Blaze.
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I was a bit surprised to see that MIDI is still alive and kicking today. And just recently they introduced a 2.0 standard for it. I kind of wish I was more musically inclined because there's a lot of tech that seems cool...
Taking into consideration the advancement of everything else, I am surprised as well. But I guess if you design something that then becomes the standard, it's easier to modify that into a new version and keep the hardware the same...
and so what uranus is a star - Rob
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I think MIDI was one of those things that was way ahead of its time but didn't end up like other things way ahead of their time. It's a simple protocol and having a few collaborators define the specs because they all felt that there needed to be a standard so that all manufacturers could grow. I wish all tech companies behaved this way but nooooooooo...