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February 27th, 2021, 10:04 PM

ClassicHasClass started a thread AtariVox+ with C64 in Commodore

Seems to me this should work, since they're the same joystick pinout. I looked at the sample code for sending i2c commands to the onboard EEPROM and...

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February 24th, 2021, 07:19 PM

ClassicHasClass replied to a thread Commodore 1541 5.25" disk drive question. in Commodore

I believe it was Bob Russell who once observed that the 1541 was the best computer Commodore ever made.

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February 24th, 2021, 07:18 PM

ClassicHasClass replied to a thread End of an Era - Frys gone in General Off Topic

I was in the Fry's in Fremont in 2019 and it was dead, dead, dead. More staff than customers. I figured this couldn't last.

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February 23rd, 2021, 02:05 PM

ClassicHasClass replied to a thread Dick Monahan has found VCF in Introductions

I don't see why that would be, per se, "disqualifying." Welcome.

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February 21st, 2021, 08:19 PM

ClassicHasClass replied to a thread MacLynx beta 3 -- really! in Later Apple (68000+ based machines - Mac, Lisa, etc.)

Oh, don't get me wrong: of course it can do it. The problem is that most TLS servers won't wait.

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February 21st, 2021, 07:11 PM

ClassicHasClass started a thread MacLynx beta 3 -- really! in Later Apple (68000+ based machines - Mac, Lisa, etc.)

Managed to resurrect the source code for MacLynx and convert and update it under CodeWarrior Pro 2 and CWGUSI 1.8.0. Even added a few new features...

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February 21st, 2021, 07:07 PM

ClassicHasClass replied to a thread PowerBook 5300cs booting question in Later Apple (68000+ based machines - Mac, Lisa, etc.)

If it's been without power for awhile, some of the hardware power managers will do things like that. The PRAM battery is most likely dead. This is...

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February 16th, 2021, 11:38 AM

ClassicHasClass replied to a thread Starting my Commodore Collection in Commodore

I'd never seen that myself, but the machines are very similar in terms of chipset, so it wouldn't have been extremely difficult to do.

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February 15th, 2021, 09:27 AM

ClassicHasClass replied to a thread Crypto Ancienne: TLS for the Internet of Old Things in Unix/Xenix/Linux Workstations

Officially tagging 1.5. The biggest change is that Crypto Ancienne now runs on classic BeOS, including PowerPC, and compiles under Metrowerks C. This...

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February 14th, 2021, 10:57 AM

ClassicHasClass replied to a thread Starting my Commodore Collection in Commodore

Pretty much!

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February 13th, 2021, 02:52 PM

ClassicHasClass replied to a thread Starting my Commodore Collection in Commodore

I have two Commodore MAXes. They're neat as collector's items, but they are truly dire computers, even by the standards of the day. Put another...

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