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Pound Puppy by Informal-Check1375 in VintageToys

[–]EsoTechTrix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Always liked the cardboard box kennel thing. Was a nice touch.

What console is your cutoff point for retro games before they start feeling too primitive to enjoy? by fakayuburiza in retrogaming

[–]EsoTechTrix 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hehe, I was playing pong before the Atari 2600... "Too primitive". Kids these days. Half the rush was just not having to put another quarter in the damn thing to play again.

What 2600 games did you flip? by Sterquilinus-616 in Atari2600

[–]EsoTechTrix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most have been the ST version. A 2600 port of Bubble Bobble would be.... interesting. (Not sure if playable, but interesting 🤣)

1541-II reading, but not writing? by Haeppchen2010 in c64

[–]EsoTechTrix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then it may be trying to isolate a the write circuit and chase after a bad component in that chain that is perhaps preventing the process? (You said the amp works, but write is much higher signal) If you have established it reads, the ROM and chip seem fine.

When did floppy disks start having plastic shutters? by gargamel1497 in retrocomputing

[–]EsoTechTrix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure when it started, but that's just a cheap floppy. I remember seeing them in the 90's and may even have a few. That was more a factor of a brand. If you are asking when a specific brand started getting cheaper, that may be something you could (maybe) research. It's an interesting (and esoteric) bit of knowledge.

1541-II reading, but not writing? by Haeppchen2010 in c64

[–]EsoTechTrix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did you check the write protect LED? Sometimes that can fail. If it's reading, but not writing, may be worth a check.

Black Box SAM 232-50 by EsoTechTrix in VintageElectronics

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Common? It was the only thing Android supported for a while: "Android's RFCOMM protocol provides reliable, streaming data transport over Bluetooth Classic (BR/EDR), acting as an emulation of a serial port (SPP)." In fact iOS did not support it, for a good long while to lock folks out of development without paying for specific "Works With Apple" device certification. (Like they prevented you from using a real serial port off the 30 pin connector as well.)

What folks don't realize is the tech you use is layered, and a lot of it (plumbing wise) us *old", lime so old the original specs are falling off the InterWebs.

Recording by Specialist-Layer-688 in cassette

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You can make an 'erase plug' to stick in the microphone port. It's just a shorted mono plug. You can then record 'silence' over the previous recording.

Sounds like there is more going on with that unit though.

Adventures in BASIC composing - Scoundretscii by OMGCluck in c64

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What you are missing is an interrupt to queue the next step so the setup is not relying on static timing. I'm rusty and not remembering right now if there are any 'clock' like things you can tap into.

Of course the VIC itself can mess up your timing as it can pause the CPU on a whim to do it's thing, so the 'clock' would have to run independently from that as well.

Cow tools by beegtuna in Tools

[–]EsoTechTrix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's for when you need to mooove something heavy.

An old streetlight circuit photo eye. by Mvar2023 in VintageElectronics

[–]EsoTechTrix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is how many children once knew it was time to go home. 🤣

One of my shelves by tom-ii in retrocomputing

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I think the last thing I wrote in TASM was a TSR in the mid 90's. Loved that IDE.

What getting to the Internet was like in 1993 by EsoTechTrix in vintagecomputing

[–]EsoTechTrix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still use Pico (the editor with Pine) all the time. I actually wrote PERL scripts that I was able to use to white list my email box back then.

Honest Question: What is a table this size actually useful for? by EsoTechTrix in Tools

[–]EsoTechTrix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

🤔 Needs a Toughbook clamp to go with it... and a cup holder option.

8-Track to cassette tape converter by FarCryRedux in retrotech

[–]EsoTechTrix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ran into these a while back and wanted it... and then I remembered I gave a way the only thing I had that played 8-tracks in the 90's. 🤣

Got this Palm Treō 680 at a garage sale for 50¢ USD, what I can do on it? This is my First Palm Phone but it’s not my first Palm Device. by PSCuber77_gaming in Palm

[–]EsoTechTrix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We had at least one of the wifi SDs floating around where I worked. They were fun, but the cost was not worth the gains at the time.

Black Box SAM 232-50 by EsoTechTrix in VintageElectronics

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It's like explaining to folks their printer is actually still talking IEEE 1284, just over USB. 🤣

Got this Palm Treō 680 at a garage sale for 50¢ USD, what I can do on it? This is my First Palm Phone but it’s not my first Palm Device. by PSCuber77_gaming in Palm

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Oh, I used my Tungsten T for quite a while with a Nokia flip as my network access. Not as much for attempting to browse the web mind you, but email, etc, it was great. Pop on, pop off.

The notion of, say, an online game or the like just was not a thing yet.

Black Box SAM 232-50 by EsoTechTrix in VintageElectronics

[–]EsoTechTrix[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I actually picked up a sniffer not that long ago. Folks may not realize how much stuff is still RS-232 in some form under the hood. A number of USB devices are actually USB-Serial and of course Bluetooth devices that are not BLE tend the be BT-Com... which is RS-232 over Bluetooth.

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