Retro Jow Forums thread

I know...you just posted a pic of it like three posts ago.

not him but most anons in these threads actually are in their early 20's
there is nothing wrong with that though. just don't give into the bad bait

I live in Portland, so sorry.

Post what cool things you do with it!

Looks like things haven't changed much in shitholes known as st*rtups

There were fewer SJWs in those days.

He turns it on once is a while
*sips*
Thinks to himself "cool"
Then turns it off again
Although he'll try to pretend otherwise, we all know.

flight sim is still fun on there
pic semi relate, not my pic

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>and there was a C64 in its original box
That's a sign it may have not been used much and may be in pristine condition. Some people back in the day bought a computer and got intimidated by the thing so they put it in a closet and forgot about it. They thought it would be like playing games on a Colecovision and it wasn't.

I had more of a problem with the marketing retards than any SJW's.

Is a CoCo and not a Model I/III/IV then?

LMAO

yes its a coco

CoCos were cute but so useless since you had to buy all software from Radio Shack or catalogs.

>tfw you couldnt simply dl whatever you wanted from tpb

Anyway, Radio Shack never published sales figures for the CoCo, but it's believed that around 100,000-300,000 of each model were sold. Certainly there were nowhere near as many of them around as the vast horde of Apple IIs and C64s.

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reddit.com/r/trs80/comments/5a7xwf/til_the_cocos_basic_circle_was_terrible_output/

It's Microsoft, go figure.

youtube.com/watch?v=u8I6qt_Z0Cg

Hmm, I don't remember the circle drawing algorithm in GW-BASIC being this bad.

it looked different in 640x480

Just buy a thinkpad x230 from [email protected] for $50 shipped. He takes bitcoin. Everybody on Jow Forums knows about Larry. He has a sick YouTube channel about technology and computers!!!

GW-BASIC can't even use VGA modes, only CGA and EGA.

Hmm, try and adapt this to plot circles on the C64. Won't be so easy because of how herky-jerky the bitmap mode is arranged.

I did three years of university on one of these things

The Programmer's Reference Guide had a BASIC example program for plotting a sine wave. You can probably adapt some of that code. But I've never thought that bitmap programming on the C64 was as hard as some people on Lemon64 make it out to be.

>literary the same posts/talk and pictures

any one know any retro PC that's like 140x200x320mm dimentions? trying to find some thing to gank the case from and put around my SFF ITX pc. even some thing I can cut panels off that are like 320x200

doesn't even have to be a PC could be a printer or weird ticket machine or drive or medical machine or ATM some thing kewl looking.

whats that thing under the notepad and flopys

its the floppy drive

Storage could be a problem. I could get a Datasette off of Ebay and I have some old tapes laying around I could save programs on. I wouldn't be able to run big multiload disk software, but I can run some stuff at least until I can get a 1541 Ultimate.

where there lots of flopy drives this size? looks ideal for my SFF pc but maybe not vented enough.

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atariarchives.org/basicgames/

101 BASIC Spaghetti Games

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get it now I want it

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That looks cool

I live all the way in Dauphin county

Amen *sips*

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ebay.com/itm/VTG-1980s-Tandy-Radio-Shack-TRS-80-Model-III-3-Microcomputer-Powers-On-As-Is/382555204334?hash=item5912112aee:g:p9YAAOSwYwNbixCn

That's not good. I think the vertical sync circuit failed.

Are you the guy who posts eBay links to TRS-80's in every single "retro" thread?

I dunno what auctions you've linked, but I've linked all kinds of different stuff, whatever interests me at the moment. The last thread was an auction for (I think) an Atari ST I mentioned.

Someone ALWAYS posts one or several links to TRS-80 eBay auctions I've noticed.

ebay.com/itm/Commodore-AMIGA-MODEL-500-Home-Computer-System/283126478869?hash=item41eba73815:g:26UAAOSwpaZbhDEm

Wow, they're aggressive.

Ive been studying pictures on the wall in that girl's room. They are all from croatia arent they?

Try finding a NTSC A500 in good condition for any reasonable price.

>Tomorrow we've got to get organized
Then why is that sign in English if it's Croatia?

Wouldn't a PAL Amiga be more valuable because bigger software library?

she doesnt have to be in croatia to have pictures of croatia. Probably in the USA, but I find it incredibly random that the bottom right is picture of dubrovnik

10 dim mk%(16381)
20 ct=0
30 for i=3 to 16381 step 2
40 mk%(i)=0
50 next i
60 for i=3 to 16381 step 2
70 if mk%(i)=1 then 130
80 print i;
90 ct=ct+1
100 j=i
110 for j=j+i to 16381 step i
120 mk%(j)=1
130 next j
140 next i
150 print:print ct;"Primes"
160 end

Sieve of Erasothenes BASIC program. I tried it with QBASIC and it worked perfectly but Commodore BASIC on VICE it got about 80% finished and then crapped out with a SUBSCRIPT OUT OF RANGE ERROR. Can't figure this one out.

>he thinks people give a shit about usability and not just rarity

Harrisburg fag here, I work tomorrow
Will you pick it up by Tuesday closing time?

>Harrisburg fag here, I work tomorrow
It's Labor Day tomorrow.

Not on an ambulance it isn't

Screenshotted to remember
Will do

Whoever does buy this thing, promise to post pics on Jow Forums if it's working and not busted.

I looked on Ebay and there are a _lot_ of CoCos and most of them pretty cheap too. I get the feeling this is a computer that isn't terribly desirable for collectors.

I'll make a video of burning it, don't worry.

Myself I'd rather have a C128.

ebay.com/itm/Commodore-128-PS-Fix-or-for-parts/183407314308?hash=item2ab3ed8584:g:BOYAAOSwL1hbiCa0

I think I found his problem. Take a real close look at the keyboard (not the missing keycap)

I don't get it.

You think maybe the fact that the 40/80 column key is depressed and he's powering it on in 80 column mode? Derp.

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$20 for a unit that's probably entirely functional and the dummy doesn't know it (thus the price). This is almost so easy it's unfair.

>LCD monitor

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Have some standards regarding the quality of the media you post here.

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I'll be happy either way. Fire is fun

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Who bought one of these?

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For a second I thought that was in C64 mode, but the poor contrast just makes the green C128 colors look like the C64's blue colors.

I say it works well. Ambulancebro can get the C64 at the Goodwill and I can get at a ridiculously low price due to idiot seller.

It might have to do with how array bounds are handled on Commodore BASIC.

Array bounds in Commodore BASIC always start at 0, so if you dimension an array of 5 elements, it's really 6 because 5 elements+element 0. If you don't dimension an array, it defaults to 10 elements (really 11).

6502 coding is a bitch because you more or less have to use the zero page for values over 256.

>i still have my trs80 that i got for my birthday when i was 8
Wtf where your parents rich? Are you an only child?

That’s a cozy machine if you got 6.0.8 on it.

Amiga CDTV output via composite on a capture card as I don’t have a monitor that supports the CDTV rgb output

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I don't really have anything on it yet, as I'm waiting on an SCA to 50 pin SCSI adapter to get a drive in it. But in the meanwhile I'm booting off a 6.0.8L floppy.
Here is my "G3(G4)". It's a beige Power Macintosh G3 with the following upgrades:
>ZIF G4 7400 CPU out of a Yikes!, running at 417MHz
>Radeon 7000 PCI (overclocked to 220MHz core/200MHz memory)
>10/100 Ethernet
>PCI USB/FireWire/SATA(bootable with a flashed WiebeTech firmware) combo card
>internal Bluetooth, with a modded internal module + antenna out of a Mac mini
>120GB IDE drive
>dualbooting 9.2.2 and 10.4.11
Tried putting an SSD in it, but it seems the SIL3112 SATA controller has issues with newer drives, so I'll have to get an older SATA II one. I also have to install Leopard in it for shits n' giggles. I'll make a video about the thing when I do.

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Anyone had luck installing a modern Linux distro or BSD on any of these old computers?

it's pretty much pointless if you don't have at least 512Mb of ram. I got OpenBSD and TinyCore running on my p200 mmx with 128Mb ram but it's barely usable

i got an lciii, with an fpu and overclocked to 33mhz (from 25). Its pretty comfy.

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It's not and in most cases your only option to get new programs is through the cassette port via mp3, the applications are limited to BASIC.

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>It's not and in most cases your only option to get new programs is through the cassette port via mp3, the applications are limited to BASIC.
Completely untrue of course, you can get the disk controller cartridge which should work with any HxC/Gotek.

The CoCo has a nice BASIC but the hardware capabilities aren't that good, it's more like a cross between an Apple II and a VIC-20.

My grandfather. He kept buying new ones, actually.