10 Dec
2009
10 Dec
'09
5:09 p.m.
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:36, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
Tony Duell wrote:
I think he is. He is also wrong.
The REAL purist version would be to ship a real A500 and a stack of
blank floppies, and a box containing a embedded computer with some
sort of mass-storage device.
The box comes with an RS-232 port, and emulates a 9600 baud modem
(higher speeds for later demos) and an arcane BBS, where the demos are
stored with cryptic filenames and inadequate descriptions. You then
have to download the demo you wish to see and write it to a disk, a
process that will at a minimum take an afternoon. Finally, you can
boot the demo disk only to realise that the speed is all wrong and the
bottom 56 lines are cut off.
For extra realism, the box will block your phone line while the
download is simulated and deduct 1990's long distance rates from your
savings account.
Joe.
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Joachim Thiemann :: http://www.tsp.ece.mcgill.ca/~jthiem
Err, surely 'purist' video recordings are made on EIAJ reel-to-reel tapes,
(compact) Umatic cassettes or V2000 tapes.
No, those would have analog generational loss. ?I acquired directly into a
10-bit digital format.
Unless you were being facetious...