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Apple IIe, Tandy CoCo, Tandy 1000, and Tandy MC-10 - VCF Southwest 2023
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Revealing a Rare 1983 Vintage Computing Gem - Christmas Day Unboxing 2022
#Vintage Computing#8Bit Computers#Retro Computing#MaidenAriana#Ferret C#EPROM Programmer#CoCo2#Tandy Color Computer 2#Laser 128#Timex Sinclair 1000
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it is time to be old on the internet: TFP Ratchet's hatred of 2010 era human tech is hilarious
every time Ratchet complains about shitty human technology in TFP, it's so funny to me, that shit is so good
because, I mean, I grew up with the first computer in my house being a fucking Tandy 1000, which to be fair wasn't exactly the hottest model even then, but still LMAO
the first modem I ever messed with as a kid was the wood box phone receiver type, the acoustic coupler ones, which was my dad's, and he only had it because his job at a local university meant he could borrow one from their tech lab (so we didn't technically own it)
if I remember correctly, the one we had ran at 300 baud, which was fucking amazing for such a set up at the time. slightly later AOL dial up looked like lightning speed compared to that shit.
my first chat rooms were BBS/Usenet (whenever I could connect) and IRC chats. now everyone has Discord and I still don't understand how that shit works lmao but that's more of a me problem and less of an age problem, I think
we got dial up (in the "modern" sense of it being AOL dial up service with the infamous hell noises) in my household in 1994, back when it was pretty much a brand new thing (at least for AOL), and I remember the Eternal September Usenet rush, lmao
imagine if TFP took place in the 80s/90s, oh my god
(I'm assuming TFP takes place in roughly 2010 because that's when the show premiered, and Miko has some kind of Razr-inspired flip phone, so if we assume it's supposed to be based on the first model of Razr, then at the earliest that places the show in 2004)
Ratchet would have gone completely insane with old school internet capable consumer level human tech
Ratchet: "How do I look at photos on this monitor?"
80s Raf: "what"
Ratchet: "what"
oh god now I want an 80s/90s TFP AU so fucking bad. imagine 80s Raf. it's so good
oh god, IMAGINE 90s RAF. just getting traumatised by terrifying shitty mid-90s FMV horror games. this poor boy. but imagine his hype when the PS1 would come out in the USA in 1995. the hype would be so fucking real. lmao
also for those of you who are Younger and Blessed With Good Internet From An Early Age, if you want a good idea of old school internet shit, go ahead and watch WarGames (1983) and look up 2600 Magazine and Mondo 2000 if you don't already know about those.
(personally I consider WarGames and Hackers (1995) to be the two best simultaneously dumbest and best movie depictions of computer bullshit in their respective eras, although Hackers was more of a thing that informed cyber culture after it released rather than reflecting actual hacker culture as it was at that exact time but anyway, please watch them if you have not seen them already, you will love this shit lmao)
I assume almost all of you already know about this stuff, but just in case, I want to mention it. those two movies are really good. lol
anyway, Ratchet dealing with early internet. early shitty human tech. or at least the 90s shit. imagine Ratchet having to listen to the fucking dial up screeching. the kids having to look through geocities webrings to see if any images of the bots had been leaked on any conspiracy websites. just 10/10 lmaooo
"I hate talking to machines" Ratchet, buddy, you have NO IDEA how bad it could have been!!!
anyway I'm old, I guess that's the point of this post LOL
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ok please tell us about the tandy-memorex vis :D
OKAY the Tandy Memorex Video Information System is a hilarious console that Tandy/Radio Shack came up with in 1992.
It's called the Tandy-Memorex VIS partially to distance itself from Tandy, but Memorex was owned by Tandy at the time, and this is entirely their fault. Back in 1992, the CD-ROM was the NEW HOT THING and everyone wanted to get in on that. Arguably every console that tried failed to some degree or another, until the Sony Playstation in 1994. But the VIS failed spectacularly hard, selling something like 11,000 units, and Radio Shack was nearly giving them away towards the short lifespan of the console (1992-1994).
It got about 20 games, and another 24 releases that could charitably be called "multimedia products". Things like encyclopedias, photo albums on assorted issues, and spoken-illustrated-book things with minimal animation. Of those 20 games, many of them were edutainment games, things like word puzzles, math games, drawing tools along the lines of kid-pix (on a console with no way to save pictures or print them out, so... yeah).
On top of this, it cost 699$. IN NINETEEN NINETY FUCKING TWO. Plug that into an inflation calculator and it comes out at about one and a half thousand dollars, for a console with barely any games and the ones that it did come with are designed for the little kiddies. This thing never had a market.
But here's the thing that makes it so memorable to me: While the games available for it were not interesting, and it's just another example of a failed CD-ROM console alongside the endless failed or barely-survived ones that littered the early-90s... (Every played a CD-i, 3DO, NeoGeo CD, PC-FX, FX Towns Marty, LaserActive, Commodore CD-TV or Amiga CD32? How about one of the add-ons, the Sega CD, TurboGrafx-CD, or Atari Jaguar CD? Hell, this is what the Nintendo Playstation was supposed to be, before that deal went sideways and it became two separate consoles)
The thing is that technologically the VIS is super unique because it's an idea that wouldn't really be repeated until 2001, nearly a decade later: The VIS is a console that's a computer.
Yeah, I know, all consoles are computers (except maybe arguably some early pong units), but I mean like a desktop PC. The Tandy-Memorex VIS is an IBM PC clone running Windows!
(EDIT: Accidentally submitted too early)
It's a modular windows, a sort of embedded-windows that only runs off a ROM chip, but it's still an Intel 286 with a relatively normal VGA card, a megabyte of RAM, and a 1X CD-ROM drive. This thing could basically play a ton of DOS games, it would just be a matter of some basic porting.
And it just never happened. Instead all the games are custom-designed edutainment/multimedia things, and no one ported Duke Nukem or Commander Keen or Kings Quest to it (Actually Sierra did make a test port of Kings Quest 5, but it never came out. Reportedly it was slow as hell)
It could have been a very interesting console that let us play tons of DOS games in the living room in 1992, but Tandy mismanaged it with the ridiculous price and bad policy regarding games releases which meant it never really amounted to anything.
Anyway I've got one in my room right now, and I'm planning on building a CD-ROM emulator for it so I can easily play around with making homebrew with it. I want to port a bunch of DOS games to it and make it reach its potential, like Tandy should have done in 1992.
They already had a successful line of PC compatibles in the Tandy 1000, and the VIS is partially made of advancements they developed for that weird line of computers. If they had leaned into that angle, sold it at a better price, they could have really built something special. So many advanced DOS games (and even more advanced ones made possible by the CD-ROM format) that would blow away anything else in the console market in 1992 could have been VIS releases. Instead we got some (barely-)FMV games and a bunch of sub-par Math Blaster and Reader Rabbit clones on a console that no one wanted to buy because it was too damn expensive.
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RECOIL 6.4.0 - Retro Computer Image Library decodes Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari Portfolio, Atari ST/TT/Falcon, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Commodore 16/116/Plus4, Commodore 128, Electronika BK, FM Towns, HP 48, Macintosh 128K, MSX, NEC PC-80/88/98, Oric, SAM Coupe, Sharp X68000, Tandy 1000, Timex 2048, TRS-80, TRS-80 Color Computer, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum picture formats. The project contains a simple viewer, plug-ins for general-purpose image viewers and editors, and an everything-to-png converter.
#commodore#retro#amiga#c64#vintage#classic#cbm#Amstrad CPC#Apple II#Atari 8-bit#Atari Portfolio#Atari ST/TT/Falcon#BBC Micro#Commodore 64#Commodore 16/116/Plus4#Commodore 128#Electronika BK#FM Towns#HP 48#Macintosh 128K#MSX#NEC PC-80/88/98#Oric#SAM Coupe#Sharp X68000#Tandy 1000#Timex 2048#TRS-80#TRS-80 Color Computer#ZX81
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What type of computer is Byte based off of, and where did you get the inspiration to make them?
This is a hard question to answer because I mostly forgot! I do remember he started off as a doodle of what I could remember an older computer looking like. I'd say hes roughly based off of an industrial PC and his color inspiration comes from the plethora of vintage things that come in that one very specific teal color. The closest thing I could find would be the Tandy 1000 if i was ever to redesign him to be more realistic I would reference that computer but I'm very happy with a silly stylized one off at this point. (rounded screen, boxy but smooth shape, kinda chonky, monitor stacked on top of computer)
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98.) Zaxxon
Release: January 1982 | GGF: Arcade, Action, Shoot 'Em Up | Developer(s): SEGA Enterprises Ltd. | Publisher(s): SEGA/Gremlin, Coleco Industries, Inc., Datasoft, Inc., Cogito Software Company, CBS Toys, Tandy Corporation, U.S. Gold Ltd., Synapse Software Corporation, Synsoft, Monaco Computer Corporation, Pony Canyon, Inc., Philips Export B.V., Electric Software Limited | Platform(s): Arcade (1982), ColecoVision (1982), Apple II (1983), Atari 8-bit (1983), TRS-80 (1983), TRS-80 CoCo (1983), Atari 5200 (1984), Coleco Adam (1984), Commodore 64 (1984), PC Booter (1984), MSX (1985), SG-1000 (1985), ZX Spectrum (1985), PlayStation 2 (2006), PSP (2006), PlayStation 3 (2009), Wii (2009), Xbox 360 (2009), SEGA Astro City Mini V (2022)
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How to use pro psp firmware 6.60
#How to use pro psp firmware 6.60 install
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#How to use pro psp firmware 6.60 software
Open (or go here if this is the first plugin that you install) file GAME.txt and enter the following line:- ms0:/seplugins/atpro.prx 1 or ef0:/seplugins/atpro.prx 1 (for PSP Go). Choose like destination the letter assigned to your PSP from your computer Right-click on the file you downloaded Pass your PSP in "USB mode" with the option "USB Connection" Connect your PSP to the computer via USB Fully compatible with the plugin Prometheus Online, an online gaming service for 2G + PSP.
#How to use pro psp firmware 6.60 manual
The online manual for the PSP now redirects to the server's custom firmware PRO Fixed a bug that was also quite annoying freezer console if the user was playing a game he had downloaded from the PlayStation Store Fixed a bug that made freezer console button when HOME was pressed NOTE: Don't use CIPL on PSP 3000 (PSP Bright) it will brick your PSPĦ.20 has a permanent patch! Which will work on 1000's, 2000's, 3000's and Go's.Ħ.39 and 6.60 has CIPL flasher! Which will only work on 1000's and hackable 2000's.
#How to use pro psp firmware 6.60 install
if you really need to install CIPL, please use the CIPL installer from PRO-B10 fix1. We are investigating the matter! Until then. Not just PSN titlesĪt the moment people are reporting issues with the latest release (PRO-C) CIPL installer producing softbricks on 1g and 2g units. PSX Emulator Unlock - Play your PSX classics, yes - all of them. NODRM Engine - Use your bought DLCs, no matter on which PSN account you are currently logged inĦ. 2g+ Memory Range Unlock - Use the previously locked RAM range within your own homebrewsĥ. ISO / CSO Game Dump Playback - Backup your own UMD discs via USB and play them from Flash StorageĤ. Plugin Compatible - Add new features to your PSP via kernel mode background pluginsģ. Homebrew Compatible - Run your own unsigned applications, both user and kernel modeĢ. Read more: Supported Kernel and Hardware Revisionsġ. If you have a PSP, be sure to read the features below and then go download a copy for yourself and start using the latest features the PSP has to offer. Fixes have been added, but the main focus here is Prometheus Online. SEGA 32X / CD 32X / Genesis 32X NameĮ for PSP (core based on SMS Plus/SDL)īlueMSX is only available as a seperate LibRetro core.Read more: Team Pro have released the latest PSP CFW, Pro-C for 6.20, 6.35, 6.39, 6.60 firmwares (more information on PSP system comparability below). NesterJ AoEX R3 SP is based on NesterJ 1.12 Plus 0.61 RM, so it includes features like rewind mode, cheat codes support, rotated/mirrored screen, sepia palette, support to rare mappers (the pirate bootleg FF7 works on it), etc, but its compatibility is inferior to 1.13 Beta 2. NES (Famicom) / Famicom Disk System NameĮ for PSP (core based on Nester J) Use the mecm build where possible, unless you use the PSP emulator on Vita, in which case use the s9xTYLcm build.Use the s9xTYLme version for best performance on an actual PSP Inaccuracies everywhere, especially with sound, but it's the best thing available for PSP for SNES emulation.
#How to use pro psp firmware 6.60 mod
SNES9xTYL(mecm)/cm Mod is a port of SNES9x 1.39 to PSP.Sega MegaDrive/Genesis/GameGear/MasterSystem/32x/Sega CD 30.1 Tandy Color Computer & Dragon 32 / 64.4.5 NES (Famicom) / Famicom Disk System.PSXBINq Tool to unpack PSX PBP and convert to.PBP Unpacker Used for EBOOT.PBP files unpack and modify tool.Emulators for OFW are meant to run on unmodified firmware, a list for that is also on the HBL forums. The specific emulator versions compatible with the Half-Byte Loader can be found listed on the official site. It's of no benefit to you updating to 6.61 after all this time, however the custom firmware has now been updated to support 6.61. Note : On the Sony released PSP firmware 6.61, some three and a half years after the last 6.60 update. The PSP Custom Firmware 6.61-Pro-C2 will work on all PSP models from the original PSP to the PSP Go and even the E1000, all you need is to be running the official 6.60 or 6.61 firmware to install and use this custom firmware.
#How to use pro psp firmware 6.60 portable
The PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a handheld game console made by Sony.
#How to use pro psp firmware 6.60 software
For software that emulates the PSP, see PlayStation Portable emulators.
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Tandy 1000, RadioShack catalog (1988)
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Photo by Craig Howell, San Carlos, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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this is a random question but what's your favorite windows screensaver
dfjhdjgf I WAS JUST LOOKING UP OLD SCREENSAVERS THE OTHER DAY...and as TYPICAL i really enjoyed the inside your computer one!! for some reason i found it really cute and i love those chunky pixel parts flying around...it's so goofy looking 😭😭 but also as a vaporwave enthusiast at this point...3d flying objects is so aesthetic, i would honestly love to put that one on my computer now (do they still do screensavers??? is there an option for it???) BUT outside of the old ones, i remember the bubbles screensaver being my favorite...i just love how they sprayed out onto the screen and how multicolored they were!!
#fr tho me watching videos of old screensavers like#'we made a mistake moving on from whatever THIS is'#i genuinely want an old computer to play with jdfhdfg#also they just looked GOOD back then#i watched a video about the tandy 1000 yesterday#and lost my MIND it looked so nice!!!!#cake answers
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This trifold advertisement pamphlet came in the same box my Tandy 1000SX came in, and I hadn’t seen it uploaded anywhere else, so I figured I may as well scan it and put it online. I used to work at a big-box tech retailer, and it’s interesting to see how advertising for tech support and training hasn’t really changed in 35 years.
The setup in the second image is almost exactly what I have, except my SX is a single drive model, and instead of a CM-5, I have a CM-4. Still! Amazing to see that my now beige desktop and monitor used to be a crisp, bleached white hue.
P.S. Deskmate kinda blows
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