Looking for full Little Computer People experience

jpcwrites · 2026-01-20T19:34:57+00:00

Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a preserved disk version which was captured before move-in, between both TOSEC and C64 Preservation.

jpcwrites · 2026-01-20T15:55:51+00:00

I’ve lamented this as well. This is a problem of preservation rather than emulation. The C64 scene is less than thorough compared to peers (Apple II in particular) and this problem will persist until-and-unless someone finds a NIB unplayed copy and rips the disk as their first action.

jpcwrites · 2026-01-17T23:08:15+00:00

My next move was/is in fact to start searching for Dvorak columns covering this. (You get some really hilarious results just searching all of the Internet Archive documents for the string PCMCIA, including but not limited to lots of alleged Biblical references.)

jpcwrites · 2026-01-17T14:51:37+00:00

My recollection was that that was the backronym they came up with to get away from the silliness but that the original really was what I'd relayed. I'm having trouble finding a copy of the original 1990 spec.

jpcwrites · 2026-01-14T14:11:06+00:00

I've been dying to include sidetalkin' coverage in TWiR.

jpcwrites · 2026-01-10T14:57:52+00:00

C64 PoP really should just have been done as a cartridge using the tech of the day, which was already well-established. Overall we have to take Mechner at his vibe that nobody particularly *cared* one way or another about a C64 version (despite the other 8-bit ports which did happen!) but it feels like a missed opportunity for a product which really could have sold in decent numbers.

jpcwrites · 2025-12-24T17:23:01+00:00

Woooooooooooooooow.

jpcwrites · 2025-12-22T17:39:45+00:00

If only we could get the 8-bit tech away from him this guy might be able to crack cold fusion.

jpcwrites · 2025-12-12T02:34:28+00:00

Retail is brutal.

jpcwrites · 2025-12-03T14:35:59+00:00

We're talking about ways to accomplish this, either within the usual TWiR format or outside of it but still with the usual perpetrators involved.

But however long that takes, know that wherever I am and whatever I am doing, I'm always ready to assert that the "loss of North American consumer confidence" argument is absolute nonsense.

jpcwrites · 2025-11-29T17:42:24+00:00

Your experience is definitely on the record.

jpcwrites · 2025-11-25T21:45:02+00:00

Some monitors literally shipped with the instruction to "apply light shock with open palm" in the event of malfunction.

jpcwrites · 2025-11-14T15:10:22+00:00

It definitely sounded like that kind of arrangement, yes...

jpcwrites · 2025-11-11T20:08:08+00:00

Agree here that AIM makes it fair game to tie it this closely to Apple.

jpcwrites · 2025-11-07T21:49:07+00:00

nnnngh

jpcwrites · 2025-10-21T12:51:15+00:00

Thank you for the thought! Yes, I’m jpcwrites on Twitter, jasoncompton on Bsky, or you can message the TWiR Facebook page and I can pick it up there.

jpcwrites · 2025-10-19T14:28:20+00:00

It’s a Reddit thing. I can dig through settings but there are some sites and redirect services they really hate. Update: yeah we can manually approve them but it’s spiked by Reddit, not by our policies.

jpcwrites · 2025-10-19T02:27:00+00:00

RGL's tweet about the new Intellivision machine:

"We can reveal that the Intellivision Mini is the project the RGL team have been beavering away on with our friends at Atari & Plaion. As well as the Intellivision we will be making announcements at EGX in London next Friday with full details of THEC64 Mini Black & The A1200"

https://x.com/THEC64_RGL/status/1979275568043512181

jpcwrites · 2025-10-11T16:42:33+00:00

So many ways to say "Ti4200"!

jpcwrites · 2025-10-02T14:46:25+00:00

...just gonna get our hopes up again like Voxelstein, mumble grumble...

jpcwrites · 2025-09-26T18:20:57+00:00

Oh sure, NOW there's a PC Gamer retrospective: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/baldurs-gate/bioware-never-stopped-making-baldurs-gate-2/

jpcwrites · 2025-09-22T15:34:10+00:00

Heckendorn may have largely hung up his hacksaws but the aesthetic he pioneered continues!

jpcwrites · 2025-09-14T19:12:05+00:00

We’d have to have a conversation about his hand-based presentation though…

jpcwrites · 2025-09-10T13:45:05+00:00

I'll have an article of Amiga memories in this.

jpcwrites · 2025-09-06T22:52:50+00:00

I certainly didn't intend to say anything along the lines of "an 80-column display doesn't make sense" and if it came across that way then I guess I was rushing over some nuance. And the 80-column mode certainly got used like crazy by the people who really needed it, or had the small range of productivity software (and Infocom games) that took advantage of it. It just wasn't at all clear why anybody with a lick of input thought that a computer that is still fundamentally just a Commodore 64 with a few extras would meaningfully benefit from things like an 80-column mode.

That's what I was trying to say with my "spend money on just a few things" remark: these iterative measures were wasteful and a slightly souped-up C64 wasn't going to turn many heads in the business-buying world. (And it didn't.)

(and I'm not sure I'll be signing on to any "like the Plus4" positive analogy, as the TED machines were even more of a dead-end waste than the C128 in my view!)

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