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by nkali 9mo ago
PC-9801 could do 640×400 in 8 colors, and is supported by early Windows.
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by nkali 9mo ago
Oh no, you're right How do I unsee this
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by nkali 9mo ago
For the record, a text-mode SuperWriter is the default word processor for the Apricot - but its format is not well understood by modern tools, unfortunately.
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by nkali 9mo ago
The keyboard on the Apricot uses round capacitive foam pads under the keys. This means the keys had to be square, or they needed a mechanical thing like the space button on the photo here: https://www.baffo71.com/details.php
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by nkali 9mo ago
That's what I've heard, too! But apparently there even was an effort to port Windows 2.11 to XEN, though I have no idea whether it was ever completed.
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by nkali 9mo ago
There are two now; one from GEM 1.2 and one from FreeGEM.
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by nkali 9mo ago
The model I have is exactly like this, with a handle and a clip. You can still get one! :)
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by nkali 9mo ago
Hi, the article's author here~ I just checked the Tandy 2000 Windows pre-installation - it has the drivers unpacked, which means you can just get the Slow Boot Windows 2.0, and put the drivers from this floppy to it. And the fonts, of
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Recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp Visi On(git.sr.ht)
98 points by nkali 10mo ago|17 comments
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by nkali 11mo ago
Thank you for sharing. Note it's a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45558371
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by nkali 11mo ago
Thank you! MGR (and other projects you shared on your home page) are very fun!
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by nkali 11mo ago
Indeed, the signalling is implemented in a really, really clever way. I had no idea that the author was left-handed; it would be interesting to try MGR with remapped mouse controls, I suppose!
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by nkali 1y ago
Not just "some", but whopping 23% of this test participants.
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by nkali 1y ago
I tried to do something like that in my free time. ARMs are everywhere, PICs are very common as well: https://github.com/ninakali/chip_scavenger/tree/main/src
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by nkali 2y ago
Even if not, the collieries in Wales, built on top of coal shafts, were quite industrial-looking/landscape-runining. https://museum.wales/articles/1260/Nantgarw-Colliery---once-...
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by nkali 2y ago
There was a HN thread about this, of course. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40647278
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by nkali 2y ago
And it seems to be David C Norris, a software engineer from Microsoft: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidcnorris/details/experience/ Here are more details about Bogus Software: https://mineswee
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by nkali 2y ago
I have checked both, and while there are similarities, I think they both share a common ancestor - some physical Mahjongg tiles. This Windows Taipei 1 is written by " Bogus Software Inc", and Windows 3.0 Taipei, which uses a very
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by nkali 2y ago
I suspect that Windows used monochrome mode to squeeze 78 characters per line, not because the colours were "useless". CGA graphics is tricky, but it can look at least as pretty as contemporary ZX Spectrum: https://medi
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by nkali 2y ago
I was talking about the looks of the version 1. Technical side of things seems quite solid, and things have clearly improved by 2.x.
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by nkali 2y ago
I think this is a bug with smooth scrolling of pixel perfect scaled images. I'm not quite sure though.
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by nkali 2y ago
And not just Freecell. Here is a list of compatible programs; it includes Photoshop 4, Nero Burning ROM 4.0, Space Cadet Pinball, ICQ: http://stephan.win31.de/w32slist.htm#list There are only few things that stop compilers
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by nkali 2y ago
Imagine the backlash: "new Windows version requires a $300 video card and a $400 monitor to run". When Windows 95 finally dropped the support for EGA, many people were upset (including me).
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by nkali 2y ago
Thank you! I'll take a note :)
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by nkali 2y ago
Amiga Workbench had a comically bad interface, though?
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by nkali 2y ago
Windows 2 was an ugly duckling, yes. The interface was ham-fisted by coders, and it was supposed to support non-square monochrome pixels of CGA monitors, to make it worse. That being said, I am really curious about your perception of other
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by nkali 2y ago
The answer to that is in the "sources" section. Raymond Chen first claims that Windows 2.x supported protected mode (which is half-true; it could run DOS applications in protected mode, but neither kernel nor applications supporte
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by nkali 2y ago
There is a reason why they're the most ugly colours. Windows 2 only can display 8 colours: CMY+RGB+Black+White. Cheap colour monitors had only four input pins - RGBI - and could at best display those eight colours, plus a darker versio
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by nkali 3y ago
I think it's much more fun to compress stuff in lossy ways and see how glitchy it becomes! I made a fun thread on Mastodon on compressing images with MP3 and OGG Vorbis: https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina/1117555395
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by nkali 3y ago
Things are more complicated than that, I'm afraid. Lots of CPU time (and browser complexity) is spent on DOM/CSSOM bindings and the way browser engine handles updates/redraws.

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