Yeah I’ve had the same problem with mine. Luckily it’s just unplug and plug back in to fix it, but still kinda annoying. Otherwise those are great keyboards (the spacesaver.) These days the prices for real model M’s have gone down a bit it seems like so that might be an option as well.
Wow that looks amazing! Where is that at?
Absolutely. I'm dropping off of Reddit as soon as Apollo is no longer supported (on the 30th.) Before then I plan to wipe all my posts / content - I don't really want Reddit to profit more off of my content then they already have by selling it to LLMs etc. I hope more people join and move over. There is a bit of a learning curve here but I'm sure that will improve over time.
Will do, I just got the greaseweazel, power supply and microcontroller I just need to find a compatible drive (and figure out how to actually use greaseweazel lol.) Of all the retro things I have, I can't believe I don't have a working 3.5" drive lol.
Very nice work! Do you happen to have a link to where you found this? An archive of old stickers would be fantastic to hold onto.
undefined> up in the 70’s & 80’s. My first computer experience was the Atari Pong console, but my first real love was the Commodore 64. I would buy up all of the C64 magazines I could, especially if they had the game code article where you could type in the machine code to make a game. Machine code. I don’t think I ever saw a BASIC game article; it was always machine code. I would spend days trying to get that code typed in correctly to play the game, and I’d usually be disappointed in it.
The first real game I became obsessed with was Telengard, a BASIC game I bought on C64 cassette that was a basic dungeon crawler kind of like the old mini computer game DND. I spent months figuring out how the game worked … and then I spent months figuring out how the BASIC code worked and how to tweak it to give me a ton more treasure. I had tapes and tapes of
I got to meet Nybbles and Bytes at a VCF Mid-West conference! She was super nice. She suggested that I get a Commodore 128 DCR, which has proved to be really hard to find. Still looking though. I recommend her videos to anyone looking to learn more about Commodore programming.
Ah got you, I actually have one for my MiSTer - using it with real vintage hardware sounds amazing though. The prices of the real MT32's are such that I can't really justify getting one (well, until I find one at a good deal anyway :) ) Having a MT32-PI is nearly as good for a lot of cases though.
Like many on here, Zork was my first adventure game, and King's Quest 1 my first graphical adventure game. Interestingly, growing up I really only played the Infocom and Sierra games, the LucasArts games somehow completely escaped me unfortunately.
Also check out shopgoodwill.com - it takes a while to find good searches (for this I like "vintage computer") but there are often systems and parts on there. Right now I don't see a 486 (though there often is) but I do see an Aptiva, XT clone, a couple of 386 laptops etc. You can also sometimes find parts, like if you do a search for "graphics card", though you'll have to go through the results yourself to find a good VLB card. Another good search for components is to go to the Computer Components category and search for "vintage".
Prices are all over the place, just depends if someone ends up bidding against you. Even when that happens I don't mind quite as much on there though since I figure at least the money is going to charity.
I saw this! If I didn’t have too many projects already that one would have convinced me to pick up his 6502 bread board project
I hope you do another post just on that Roland MT-32 - I’m still looking for one of those myself they were absolutely amazing.
Maybe like once a month or so… doesn’t seem to be enough to get rid of the keyboard but often enough it’s a bit of an annoyance.