But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. It’s in HHKB’s slogan, but when America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there.
#IMSAI 8080 EMULATOR MAC PC#
"Because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. New RS232 solutions just don't push out enough signal voltage to work directly with older (but not too old!) tech gear. I do, however, sorely miss my old-style RS232 ports. Just set up the emulator with whatever legacy hardware you want to pretend you have, how fast (or how slow) you want it to run, and click your game's new launch icon, can't get much easier. No more messing with finicky SoundBlaster/Ultrasound cards, mouse issues, IRQ nightmares, DOS memory management, MSDOS vs Win9x/XP multiboots, CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT and.
#IMSAI 8080 EMULATOR MAC WINDOWS#
Emulation through DOSBox or some VMware (in Windows or linux) is helluva lot easier and better than keeping obsolete platforms (and their obsolete MS-DOS or Win9x/XP configs) up and running.
Followed just a few years later by my last Pentium-MMX/233, then a few more years before saying goodbye to my last P4. I abandoned my last 486DX2-66 platform almost two decades ago, after deciding that it was just not worth keeping around for legacy gaming. There's a fair number of museums (both physical and electronic) dedicated to preserving and displaying such stuff. Even more ancient machines (so primitive and gutless that only nerds would even call them computers) often auction off for even greater sums. Even clones are worth surprising big bucks, provided they're old and popular enough. I am therefore going to use a form of Top-Down, Stepwise Refinement to ensure that the program is correct before entering.I've heard of original Apple I computers (sometimes no longer functional) auctioning off for $50,000 or more. The program needs to be well designed before it is entered into the computer due to the difficulty of making changes once it has been entered. This may not be the most exciting program ever, but with all that switch flipping, I don't want to attempt anything too ambitious. The speed of the light's movement will be controlled by the PROGRAMMED INPUT, so that when set to 0x00 it will be fast and then get slower as the PROGRAMMED INPUT is increased to 0xFF. After some deliberation, I have decided to write a program to bounce a light back and forth on the PROGRAMMED OUTPUT. I would also like to be able to control it via the PROGRAMMED INPUT switches. The main consideration in choosing what program to create, is that it has to be small as I want to toggle it in via the front panel switches.