Solidly Gen X. Missing the age where 8 bits got you pretty far, and 640K of ram seemed like a dream. I've been computing since Knight Rider was so cool I had to turn off my Vic-20 so I could watch it.
I've also got a lifelong love affair with music. I've loved making music since the C64 SID chip ruled, and the Atari 1040ST was hands down the best MIDI machine on the market.
Proud owner of a Mega65, C64U, Palm M515, and Juno 106.
| on lemon64 | retrofan64 |
| first computer | vic20 |
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The interesting thing about using #Haikuos for a while tonight was how deeply it brought back warm 90's feelings when I was a die hard OS/2 user.
I didn't have the cash back then to get a system that could run BeOS, so I missed this in its first incarnation. I knew a lot of Amiga folk who jumped to it though.
If I get nothing else out of this, it's the reminder that there was a time before everything was set in stone. 99.9% (being conservative) of what we do with computers now is pure abstraction, but we get locked into these ruts of how things work.
I'm now inching dangerously closer to installing Plan 9 / 9front somewhere.
I pulled my venerable Thinkpad T450S out of storage and spent the evening puttering with a Debian 13 / Haiku OS dual boot situation.
I am really loving Haiku OS. It's come a long way since I last played with it. This is my first bare metal install as well.
Superb work, @haiku
@tschak It is on a list of things to look into, and that list is fairly long and prioritized. I wouldn't say that I don't get it, or that I don't give a shit per se. I would say that I move at a different pace with retro projects and have several others ahead of even researching what FujiNet is about, much less engaging.
And, with kind and helpful intent at heart, being presented with a false dichotomy and pressure to engage is the kind of thing I have looked to avoid in retro computing.
So maybe that falls into your classification for not giving a shit 🤷
My ongoing cowboy style research is showing talk of there being some flat panel TVs like the one I'm using being incompatible. This is, supposedly, due to some fast-and-loose h/v-sync signalling from the original C64.
The solution I'm going with will be to hook up a 1702. The napkin math shows that it's cheaper to eBay one of those than get all the gear I would need (oscilloscope and friends) to troubleshoot the signal timings.
Today's frustration.
First: this is only on the C64, both using AV and S-Video. It is there regardless of NTSC/PAL
Second: this monitor works just fine with the Mega65 and was also tested using RGB/AV output from a Sega Dreamcast.
Obviously the C64 is new, and the video cable is also new from commodore.net.
According to (barf) Gemini this was a common problem with the Ultimate, but the "help" it's giving me is utter hallucinated bull.
Oh, and I've also tried a safe mode boot with default settings to no avail.
Has anyone run into this? If you did and ESPECIALLY if you fixed it let me know!
I'm good to just HDMI/dvi, but also want to have a relatively authentic experience.
My #rc2014 has apparently made it through customs and is in the sorting facility.
I'm seriously pumped to up my soldering game on this bad boy. It'll also be a treat to have a system that makes my C64 look like a leviathan. :P
