17 Jun
2004
17 Jun
'04
8:17 a.m.
At 08:28 PM 6/16/04 -0700, you wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Jim Kearney has a similar new implementation of the Mark-8 computer
posted on the web somewhere. I lost of my links so I don't have the URL to
it any more.
Joe
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 05:41:19PM -0700, Vintage
Computer Festival wrote:
Links please. Just mere mention of its existence does my resource
"directory" no good ;(
I'd like to create a resource listing of all the neo-retro hardware being
developed today.
For example:
- IDE or CF interfaces for the Apple ][ and other 8-bits,
Got one of those (HDD-64 IDE interface for the C-64). I use mine
with a 20MB HP Kittyhawk drive (1.3"). Would the 2003-pressing of the Dragon's Lair
LaserDisc count? I built my
own Dragon's Lair/Space Ace LED scoreboard from scratch, but I know some
people who bought a hobby-commercial one. That certainly should count.
That gets more into arcade games, which is a whole other arena that I'd
rather leave to other enthusiasts.
There's a lot of neo-retro accessories in the
video game crowd,
especially with DL and SA (complete cabinets, LaserDisc hardware
adapters to use modern LD players with original board sets, etc.)
There certainly is.
I forget who, but someone has built a one-off
DF-32 implementation in
TTL with a Dallas battery-backed NVRAM (like a large version of the
NVRAM found in SPARC boxes). There seems to be an implementation bug, so
it doesn't work perfectly with original software, but you can write new
stuff from scratch that works well (there was some sense that was
flipped between a DF-32 and the RF-08, it's related to that, somehow).
I'm more interested in devices that are intended to be either sold or the
plans made available for multiple unit production.
> There's a new TTL-based 1802 implementation (with toggles and TIL-311s),
> with two expansions so far, a keypad and a RS-232 level
> shifter/RAM/NVRAM board.