gloriouscowThis is it. This is what it was all for. All the penposting. The hundreds of dollars of irresponsible eBay purchases.
For this moment.
And it was all worth it.
paulrickards@gloriouscow Love following along as your travel down the lightpen rabbit hole. I had a McPen for the Commodore when I was young. It literally felt like the future to touch it to the screen and make things happen. Wasn't a lot of software that used it though. It came with a disk and some programs, notably one that copied files between disks but pointing at them from a list. Super cool.
@paulrickards Finding an actual, singular decent application that isn't just a toy or a slapped-on feature for the light pen is deeply satisfying. And the thing is I basically stumbled across it at the last minute.
I wanted to do a video on the light pen, but honestly was feeling a little bad about it because running through a calibration utility is not exactly the most exciting thing.
@paulrickards This is of course a very PC centric focus, as its the computer I grew up with. Light pens for the PC's light pen interface have basically been close to mythical. Even a few years ago some avid collectors had never even seen one.