almightytodd

...No luck with the 2011 64-bit version of StuffIt either...

I downloaded the Windows version of the LisaEm emulater from here: http://www.sunder.net/ I was able to find the system ROM files and get the emulator running to the point of where it's ready to load the Lisa OS system disks. The only problem is, the only source I've found for these disks has them compressed in a Macintosh bin-hex format (*.hqx) that requires a program called, "StuffIt" to decompress them. The archived files are found here: http://www.applerepa...e/LOS_archives/ I downloaded the 2010 version of the free expander version of StuffIt, but it failed to recognize the *.hqx format. The emulator has been working since 2007, so I would think there must be someone who has already decompressed these files. Any help would be appreciated.

Here's a YouTube video showing that it has been done for Windows XP, but no indication of how it was done or info about where to get it for your own desktop... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwaRSB19TSc

I watched "Triumph of the Nerds" over the weekend, starting with the YouTube episodes, but finishing with a copy of the DVD that I borrowed from the library. It was very enjoyable to watch, but the story ends in 1996 when the film was made, so it leaves out the story of Steve Jobs and the NEXT computer, his triumphant return to Apple, and more recent Apple successes such as the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad. Something else that bothered me about it, was that it proposed a somewhat linear path of breakthrough technologies... Altair 8800>>Apple II>>IBM PC>>PC Clones>>Macintosh>>IBM compatibles with Windows 95. The story seems very incomplete without mention of the IMSAI 8080, the Processor Technology SOL, Commodore 8-bits, TRS-80 line, the Texas Instruments home computer, and of course the MOS 6502-based Atari machines and Tramiel-era ST machines. Even Apple's own Lisa machine is pretty much ignored, other than to say that it was too expensive and it wasn't a Macintosh. I found a more complete telling of the story from the perspective of one of the early microcomputer retailers, Stan Veit. His website is here: http://pc-history.org/

Radio program "Growing Bolder"... http://growingbolder...ell-776788.html

From what I'm reading here, it seems to be a pretty safe bet that this technology will last at least up to the point of the Singularity...

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has been thinking about this. I've even considered purchasing Stardock WindowBlinds® and making my own, because their dev-kit appears to be easier to work with than Linux GTK. I think it's interesting to note that the GEM color mode scales really well to the desktop resolutions found on modern monitors.

When I didn't see this thread on the first page of the "View New Content" selection, I feared that the tradition had been forgotten. It's nice to see that the legacy lives on... ...All the Best to each of you in 2012!

Merry Christmas! Best Wishes everyone!

I have little animosity against Wozniak and his desires to make the 6502 microprocessor available to the common man in the Apple and Apple II as a means of letting everyone join the computer age. I am bothered by the directions that Jobs took Apple towards the wealthy and the elites with the Lisa and Mac. I feel that to a degree, Wozniak and Bushnell were kindred spirits in the idea that the advances in microprocessor technology should be available to everyone to enhance their lives. I feel like Jobs just wanted to get buckets of money for providing cool computer stuff...

I thought about this thread when I was reading about Richard Stallman at Wikipedia. He had this to say about Jobs after his death: Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died. As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die - not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing. Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective. —Richard Stallman That's a bit more harsh than I would be comfortable with expressing myself, but I agree with his overall assessment.

It works on any browser that supports HTML 5. Microsoft is using the site to promote their IE9 browser as being HTML 5 capable.

Microsoft was promoting this site as an example of the performance of their new browser and HTML5. The cool thing about it is that anyone can add mazes to the whole thing. Unfortunately, that's also what sucks about it... ...anyone can add mazes to it, which means that a lot of the resulting mazes are stupid and border on unplayable. They might look cool, but in terms of actually playing them, they just don't work. To make things even worse, people have discovered that they can add several mazes to the whole, creating images and words that can be seen from the global view, but add more to the suck-y-ness of mazes that are not enjoyable for playing.

I really enjoy following this thread. Keep up the good work and thanks for bringing us all along for the ride...

If I went from black and white Pong to super color Pong(Video Olympics) and 8 other games then I would of been amazed. That's exactly right. It was all about taking an activity that before, you had to "go somewhere" (an arcade) to do, but now you could do it in your home. It would be the equivalent of getting a tennis court, golf course, swimming pool, or bowling alley added to your house. And it was especially cool if you were a teenager and your family got one before all your friends. And the big bonus was knowing that the hardware would be capable of playing new games in the future that hadn't even been thought of yet.

None of the arcade-port games released up to that point had been anything like their coin-swallowing counterparts. Even Space Invaders, which I thought was a great game, had different-looking graphics, fewer invading aliens to deal with, and a landscape instead of portrait orientation that put the invaders closer to you at the start of the game. The important thing was capturing the spirit of the gameplay; which Pacman did. I think the real disappointment came later with Ms Pacman, when we got a better sense of "what could have been". But Ms Pacman had more ROM to work with, and the benefit of more time passing to understand how to program a game of that type.

A few mini golf games, a "dancing" game... "Frogger" was the only title I recognized. Advertised as PC Games on CD ROM. They come with Kid's meals. It reminds me of the Atari Legacy Engineering games from a few years back, only not nearly as cool...

Why not go Linux with DOSBox? Then you'd get the benefits of a browser for downloading new software, along with a DOS environment...

The TGI Fridays near where I live has a 7800 mounted on the wall...

IBTL... Hey, why not just move this thread over to the forum at http://www.commodorelife.com/ or http://c64fansite.co.uk/ ? Oh wait, those sites don't have an awesome forum like the one Albert provides for us here...

Sorry about steering this thread back to the actual topic, but E.T.; an original game with randomization, multiple challenges, a good balance between problem-solving skills and "twitch" gameplay, is the better game over Pac Man, which has been re-made and much improved many times for the same 2600 platform, showing it to be the unimaginative and poorly executed port of an arcade hit that it is. Atari 2600 Space Invaders, on the other hand, demonstrates that an arcade port properly done, can equal or even surpass the coin-swallowing implementation that inspired it, by adding two-player simultaneous play and a host of additional play options not available in the arcade version.

Sunnyvale 1977 Heavy Sixer... Our family Christmas present for 1977...

I thought you said the Atari was in the 80's section...I am confused sorry Typo. It was suppose to be 70's. But the Apple IIc was out from 84-89 according to Wikipedia (I had an IBM so I dunno) That was the typo then? Still wrong that was supposed to be the 80's Hmm... I thought he was saying that since the VCS should of been in the 70's case that he meant 70's. I reread almightytodd's post and now I'm confused with you. I think I'm confused now too! What WAS I trying to say? Let me start over and say that I think a more representative accounting of the progression of video game systems as cultural icons in the 70's, 80's and 90's would be 70's = Atari, 80's = Nintendo, and 90's = PlayStation. The 90's display features a Sega system... The 70's section doesn't feature any video game systems - but a sign outside along the walking path (incorrectly) states that "Pong" was the "first" video game, released in 1972... Well, those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. Those who remember history wrong... ...I guess they're doomed to rake in huge profits at nostalgic places of business, from future generations who pass on the erroneous recollections to their decendents while feeling nostalgia over events that didn't actually take place in the way they now remember them... This philosophy is encapsulated in the official description of Disney's Hollywood Studios as, "The Hollywood that never was, and always will be"...

This is a display box in the lobby of the Disney's Pop Century resort hotel at Walt Disney World. This is part of a display that runs the length of the wall with examples of cultural "pop" items from the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's. The curious thing is, this display appears in the 80's section, where I would think an NES would be the more appropriate choice. This 2600, or even better, an original Heavy Sixer (...maybe I could donate mine to them?) really belongs in the 70's. Their 80's display doesn't include any videogaming system, but does feature an Apple IIc as well as an ad for the Timex Sinclair.

I remember a game that sounds like this that was called, "Lightyear" or "Lightspeed" or something like that. I don't know if it was an actual commercial product, or something some Novell programmers had come up with to show off the potential of LAN configurations. I recall that the ships were simple polygon shapes and could even be rendered in wireframes if you were running on lower-end hardware (i386 machines). I've tried to search for information about this game on the web, but have never been able to find out anything about it. In addition to multi-player mode, there was also a single-player game that involved protecting a group of "pods" from being snatched by hostile alien ships and towed away. If a pod was snatched, you could chase after it and if you were able to blast the ship towing it, it would slowly drift back to where the other pods were. But in the meantime, there might be other hostile ships that would rush in to grab unprotected pods while you were off in pursuit of another.