August 1984:
#Commodore buys #Amiga,
#JackTramiel declares war on the competition &
#Nintendo announces US #NES launch plans!
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One of my PCJr's has this legendary hack inside: JrHotShot II. It's a board that plugs into the CPU socket to give 640k internal, clock, and NEC V20 CPU. With no sidecars. Quite ingenious, really. #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #pcjr
Blast from the past! Defragging my ST-225 in my PCJr #pcjr #retro #retrocomputing
(I promise there are other retro computers and software I want to talk about, I am just on a #PCjr kick right now)
This is IBM PCjr ColorPaint, a program I have strong memories of as a child. I remember seeing it running at the mall and being allowed to paint in the screen. Incredible! We later had it and I would try to draw G.I. Joe characters with it.
On Sept 22nd I started the PCjr for a long-term test of the mTCP web server and NetDrive. This time the PCjr was running without a hard drive; all of the content was served from a network attached drive letter via NetDrive.
Last night we had a major wind storm and the UPS was no match for the long power outage, so I had to shut the PCjr down. It nearly made it to 1400 hours of continuous operation, serving my site at brutmanlabs.org.
I think the code is stable ,,
My "go to" old radio programming laptop is a thinkpad t20. But the moto Saber radio software is so finicky even a 486 is to fast for it.
Finally my PCjr has a real use!
Greetings! I'm not big on social media but I finally broke down and created a Mastodon account so that people can more easily find me, especially for things related to retrocomputing.
Cheers!
I just spent a completely ridiculous amount of time checking if there were any other old multiplatform games that are graphically best on composite or any other CGA mode, besides Wilderness: A Survival Adventure. Like Wilderness, they were mostly Apple II ports, taking advantage of CGA's superior-in-theory artifact palette and resolution. Unlike Wilderness, the improvements are too modest and subjective to mention. This game is a true outlier. I'm still really interested in checking this game out some time, it seems like it holds up as a robust simulation.
#retrogaming #retrocomputing #appleii #a2 #cga #PixelArt #pcjr #ibm #ibmpc #pc #GamePreservation #lostmedia
https://cohost.org/zlchxo/post/2810723-so-here-s-what-s-coo
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Can't wait for the power adapter replacement tomorrow to play around with this. 
#vintagepc #ibmpcjr #pcjr #computers
i seriously love that sierra did their own in-house demake of King's Quest IV so it would run on 256K ram machines like the IBM PCjr
the AGI (256K) version uses a different parser, and half the resolution of the SCI (512K) version that most people played. side by side comparisons below. left: AGI, right: SCI
it was sold in a completely different box, and ordered directly from sierra by calling a toll-free number or mailing in an exchange form.
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This wasn't some sort of proprietary thing, IIRC, you just plugged it between your printer and the parallel port and it just worked. We used it on our #PCjr and later our 286 machine.
Reading the description in the catalogue it was even more interesting than I thought. It was programmable and had an OS. In the late 80s!
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So how is everyone’s weekend going so far. Mine has been pretty good!
#BASIC turns 60 today! Happy birthday from the PCjr. Sometimes, I wonder what path my life would have diverged into if I had never had access to a computer and a book on BASIC programming as a kid.
The image/source is originally from Icons & Images by Elmer Larsen from 1985. I typed it in and tweaked it with PC-BASIC, then transferred it to a working PCjr with a gotek floppy drive.
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Retrocomputing Mastobrain! I am am working with @cvwise to complete a video of my #pcjr presentation from #vcfeast2024. I am looking for somewhere to host it. Where do you think the best place to do this is?
Once upon a time I used a PeerTube host whose name I can't even remember anymore. But I want a location that can easily be shared across the #retrocomputing community. Now, a lot of us are here so that may work. [1/2]
Today, my goals are to work on my household finances a bit, and to work with @cvwise at making a YouTube-able version of my "Life and Times of the IBM PCjr" presentation from #vcfeast2024 that I can share here and try to submit to the IBM Archives.
We started work yesterday, and because there is a slight interference in the composite out from the #pcjr (making it warble slightly) and chroma-key bleed, it looks like it came off of VHS and has a slight analog horror vibe (which I love)
@cvwise is processing my #vcfeast2024 #pcjr video into OBS using the Junior's composite video out. There is some sort of minor interference in the line, giving it slight analog horror vibes.
The full video is a 30 minutes long.
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@hannahpatellis @RonsCompVids @admin @mac84tv @burgerbecky @cvwise @Maclibrarian @arkaxow Close up views of my #pcjr presentation at #vcfeast2024
