The Interlisp documentation has a distinctive style that conforms to "Xerox Publishing Standards: A Manual of Style and Design" published in 1988 in this edition. It was the Xerox house style, i.e. the style guide for company publications and documents. The manual covered everything from the publishing process to visual design.
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Published in 1986, "INTERLISP: The Language and Its Usage" by Stephen Kaisler was the only book on Interlisp printed by a publisher. It extensively covers the Interlisp language and environment with many code snippets and examples.
https://interlisp.org/documentation/1986-interlisp-language-book-1.pdf
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New video! I finally found a RAM Upgrade that works with my Atari 65XE, the Ultimate1MB. Also doing some retrobrighting in this episode.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/_8kgSfCDMnM
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/2sZTPmN4o42V1wd9PBXvut
#Atari #Atari8bit #AtariXE #Atari65XE #Ultimate1MB #RAMExpansion #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #DecentXE #Lotharek #CandleOSin #Atari130XE
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New video! Replacing the rechargeable lithium cell on my Blizzard 1230 MK IV Amiga 1200 accelerator card.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/-sdXLAXbpfQ
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/qLLGtqax621LFSzxFgZj1Q
#Amiga #A1200 #Amiga1200 #Commodore #Blizzard1230 #Phase5 #Battery #CoinCell #RealTimeClock #Accelerator #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition
We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum
Oh, just powering my #AppleNewton over USB-C
#retro #retroComputing #apple #newton #newtCom #dongle #3dPrinting
New video! I'm checking out the new "Classic" Amiga 500 Replacement case from A1200.net.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/udw79lRKWKE
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/fZDohc5VP8P5o2BXN7Y24f
#Amiga #A500 #ReplacementCase #Amiga500 #Commodore #VintageComputing #RetroComputing #Restoration #Yellowing #A1200net
New video! Making a single chip Amiga Kickstart switcher and trying out a boot selector for the A600 and A1200.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/EJ7AFMgJjdQ
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/vmBrgvh5roTgJp5GemuQ4g
#Amiga #Commodore #A600 #Amiga600 #Kickstart #KickstartSwitcher #BootSelector #ROM #EPROM #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
I pushed an update to #DOStodon (the #Mastodon client for MS-DOS):
- Fixed a bug when viewing threads in notification screen.
- Implemented setting for CW toots (default collapsed or visible)
- Fixed dates
- Fixed image viewing
- Added help to toot editor
- Changed some colors
- Updated #curl to 8.9.1
- Added ALT text for image uploads
Grab it at https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon
#Javascript #RetroComputing #MSDOS #CreativeCoding #MastodonClient #FreeDOS #DJGPP #DOjS #accessibility #ImageDescription
You can use Mastodon on many retro computer systems:
Apple II - https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii
Apple Macintosh (pre-OS X) - https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon
Commodore 64 - https://github.com/Havoc6502/MOStodon
Commodore Amiga - https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amidon
MS-DOS - https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon
MVS - https://github.com/mainframed/BREXXTODON
Palm OS - https://github.com/knickish/heffalump
Windows 95 - https://github.com/meyskens/mastodon-for-workgroups
New video! Addressing the flaws that my "Classic Amiga 500" build had and finishing the project (for now).
YouTube: https://youtu.be/XGV4T1Z_RKU
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/uVHjk7gc9mpaLGSBSB2STx
#Amiga #Commodore #A500 #Amiga500 #Case #Enclosure #Repair #LEDs #Keyboard #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
Interesting to see the original employee sales receipt for this. $250 in 1982 is about $815 today.
This is for the expansion system chassis and the disk drive.
This is employee pricing, for the plebs it was probably at least 3 times as much? The only price I could find is for just the disk drive alone (~$400 street, or about $1,300 today). [You'd also need the interface card, which costs extra.]
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Total Replay II: Instant Replay v1.0-alpha.4 is out.
This is volume 2 of Total Replay, featuring sports games, flight sims, puzzles, game shows, and board games. If it involves blowing things up, it's probably in volume 1. This release features 89 games, all playable from a single bootable 32MB hard disk image.
https://archive.org/details/TotalReplay2
Code & changelog: https://github.com/a2-4am/4sports/releases/tag/v1.0-alpha.4
Thanks to @a2_qkumba, @txgx42, @xot, @Roughana, and @helix_nrg for patches and testing.
New video! Repairing a Commodore 64 "short board" that displays a black screen and doesn't start up.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/ILfJ1EbKEwk
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/9hCweCZpfDCSDfKhzP7HPh
#Commodore64 #C64 #Commodore #Repair #Troubleshooting #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #DesTestMAX #DeadTest #Diagnostics
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Hey so I got a new thing! It’s a Performer PL-CL-SE accelerator for the Mac SE from MacEffects. Supposed to make the lowly SE run like a SE/30 at 16Mhz.
Let’s pop it into one of my SEs and see how it “performs” 😄
So I've attached a USB to serial adapter to my laptop and hooked it up to the user port of my C64. After four lines of BASIC it actually displays a login prompt! How cool is that? Apart from the fact that the encoding is totally broken and the whole thing runs at only 600 baud.
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New video! Troubleshooting and repairing a Commodore 64 that allegedly got damaged by over voltage. Some red herrings occurred.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZGh4rH9ngJQ
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/oMHTdsemGrtojtBkmHZCzV
#Commodore #Commodore64 #C64 #OverVoltage #Troubleshooting #Repair #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
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New video! I'm putting together a Commodore 64C with a relatively rare cost reduced case and then future proofing it.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/xsCXn19azSI
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/i8iz3Nh5D5apBYG69h3MUc
#Commodore #C64 #Commodore64 #Restoration #Refurb #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
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Yes that's #FastFetch running in #MiNT (no, not Linux Mint!, #Atari MiNT, the one and only)
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How is the DOS PC game 'Discworld' 30 years old! 🤯
I wrote about this fantastic, yet very difficult point and click adventure in 2010 and also enhanced the original MIDI music for use within @scummvm
I think I'm putting my #ZXSpectrum raycaster to bed now that I have movement. I'm happy that it works (my first attempt at machine language) 😅. Some weird graphical glitches around certain intersections of ray path and map grid (jagged wall edges), but considering the huge approximations I made, it's not bad.
I moved it above the first 16k of memory that apparently makes it run faster and (combined with disabling interrupts) definitely does improve the refresh rate. #RetroComputing
The NoteCards hypermedia system was developed in Interlisp at Xerox PARC by @fghalasz Frank Halasz, Tom Moran, and Randy Trigg. In this 1985 videotape Moran introduced the main concepts of NoteCards, and Halasz demonstrated how to use the system to organize notes and sources for writing a research paper.
https://archive.org/details/Xerox_PARC_Notecards_Tom_Moran_and_Frank_Halasz_1985-01-08
New video! Trying to repair a 250469 Revision B Commodore 64 board with some interesting faults.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/IOSVJkbqrQs
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/eR3kRmCsDn4x8z53xtMZiU
#Commodore64 #C64 #Repair #Troubleshooting #BlankScreen #Commodore #DeadTest #DesTestMAX #Diagnostics #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
New video! I'm talking about boot selectors for the #Amiga showing off a DIY method and then trying out the #FireFloppySwap500, which is a super deluxe solution.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/FVRQ-UqaC3Y
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/fDDPnJfTC6uuPxMekEhNzK
#Commodore #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #BootSelector #FireFloppySwap #DiskDrive #Gotek #ExternalDrive #InternalDrive #DF0 #DF1 #Floppy
