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vasi Guru  Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
 Well, it is supposed to hurt. Is part of the emulation process.Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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| drfloyd Newbie  Joined: 22/05/2014 Location: FrancePosts: 11 |
I think there is a market for a real retro computer all-in-one (except screen) with games on cartridge. Our dream is to succesful to do a real C64 or real MSX or a real Colecovision (console) (Very expensive the Pandora !) |
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| hitsware Guru Joined: 23/11/2012 Location: United StatesPosts: 535 |
> Which is what the Olimex Duinomite sorts out. (Hardware uarts etc.) That's why I replaced ColorMaximite with Duinomite.....for baudrate to drive midi-synth > I dont't want to support Linux... > it's crazy, nobody in the world try to create Basic OS ? Dos with QBasic screams on new PC's (they will boot dos becaused it's used to reflash bios) |
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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9309 |
Wasn't there an Atari games-box thing not that long ago, essentially running an emulator and a whole heap of the old cartridge games, all built into the one unit? I seem to recall it was an official product. Atari Retro or something like that? Will have a little hunt for it now... Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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bigmik Guru Joined: 20/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2914 |
Lads, I think its the ATARI Flashback I saw one advertised in a flyer or an ad somewhere in the last month or so. Regards, Mick Mick's uMite Stuff can be found >>> HERE (Kindly hosted by Dontronics) <<< |
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| vasi Guru Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
Commodore died "recently" again, after some revival efforts. Disney tried to give a helping hand. But today, the site is dead. So Grogster, I think you won't find a thing. __________________ If CommodoreUSA died trying to revive Commodore brand, even if they had help from other companies, I think any other trial will fail. The youngsters are not interested, and the population who knew about Commodore is decreasing constantly. Today we have other brilliant gadgets to play with. Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 6102 |
And for the Aussie enthusiasts, you can always buy a new Microbee. For the rest of the world, the Microbee was a Z80 based PC. I still have mine in the shed somewhere. http://www.microbeetechnology.com.au/ Jim VK7JH MMedit MMBasic Help |
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| vasi Guru Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
This is what is in archive today. Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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MicroBlocks Guru Joined: 12/05/2012 Location: ThailandPosts: 2209 |
I did my research before to make a all in one retro style computer based on the CMM. There was almost zero interest. The CMM and others in the maximite family can better be marketed as embedded controllers (as that is what they are). The FUZE comes close but is just way to expensive. If they could knock of 100 pounds of the price it would be interesting. Microblocks. Build with logic. |
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| vasi Guru Joined: 23/03/2007 Location: RomaniaPosts: 1697 |
To be honest, I would have liked a Commodore Vic slim 
But the "slim" bellow (can't remember which brand it was) is more appealing. Too bad it is not available right now! 
Hobbit name: Togo Toadfoot of Frogmorton Elvish name: Mablung Miriel Beyound Arduino Lang |
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| drfloyd Newbie Joined: 22/05/2014 Location: FrancePosts: 11 |
Just discover Microbee ! It's what about what I dream in term of design. |
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| robert.rozee Guru Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 2350 |
just some musings... the "FUZE Basic" is a commercialisation of an interpreter written by a fellow called Grordon Henderson. the free version is discussed and available here: https://projects.drogon.net/rtb/ throwing this onto a Raspberry Pi version A should give you a working system for very little outlay. with a little tinkering, it should even be possible to make it jump straight into the basic interpreter upon booting, though i don't know if that would offer sufficient control over file management and other tasks that may crop up. this is a problem with any 'simple' shell operating over the top of a complex underlying operating system - at some point you may need to do something that requires dropping down to the os, and when you get down there everything will be foreign. while the MicroBee was quite an accomplishment in the day (i do have one stashed away somewhere), it did so at the expense of some quite clever compromises. to save on expensive memory, graphics were implemented through a programmable character generator. and available i/o isn't a patch on what the maximite or micromite offer. plus i have a strong suspicion that the source code to the basic interpreter is long lost. the new release of the MicroBee puzzles me a little. it is like a space shuttle bolted on the back of a biplane. the core board now contains a massively more powerful processor, and one wonders why the Z80 still needs to be there at all. i would like to see something emerge like a dual-processor maximite, with one processor dedicated to producing 1024x768 and 800x480 graphics, while the other processor just runs the basic interpreter and issues graphics commands. this would be an elegant design without excessive underlying complexity. oh, and i'd like to see the "maximite dual" core board (the SMD components only) available cheaply for hobbyists to build their own personalised machine around. just my 2 cents worth! rob :-) |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9309 |
Yes, that was the thing I was trying to remember the name of. 
Yes, that is a very cool idea. Not sure that there are any multi-core PIC or other microcontrollers about are there? I thought that multipule cores were really only for CPU's for running a GUI type OS - I'm probably wrong on this one. The "Everything major in the one chip" idea of MaxiMite is a great idea, and also fantastic for simplicity, but even in the days of C-64's Atari 8-bit's, ZX Spectrums et el, the mainboard was split up - a CPU chip surrounded usually by proprietry chips to do other things like CIO, Video, Sound etc.... Perhaps the likes of the Gamedunio chip and associated parts, fed from a MM chip, all on the one board? Other then a quick look, I know nothing really, about the Gameduino, but it may not be that complicated to drive it - perhaps I should have a quick look at it's command set etc, just for interest sake.  Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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GhaaarghKlaIopp Newbie Joined: 26/05/2014 Location: AntarcticaPosts: 2 |
In this connection, recently I came across this: http://www.jcwolfram.de/projekte/avr/chipbasic2/main.php Looks like it's been around for a while before the first 'mite... Wondering has anyone tried it out? Uoppa m'naa Jgy rt-ngaa gragg: er Tyaa er threeba nga! |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9309 |
Although I am trying to learn German, I think you will have to help me and others with a translation for that page!
Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| GhaaarghKlaIopp Newbie Joined: 26/05/2014 Location: AntarcticaPosts: 2 |
There is that thing called "Google Translate". It worked well for me with that page...
Uoppa m'naa Jgy rt-ngaa gragg: er Tyaa er threeba nga! |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9309 |
Not for me! 
You might have a toolbar with that option - for me, it just shows as it shows, and there is no translate button or link to English. 
Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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BobD Guru Joined: 07/12/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 935 |
Go to the web site in question. Get the url, go to Google Translate, insert the url and it will be done. |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9309 |
Cool - thanks. Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| drfloyd Newbie Joined: 22/05/2014 Location: FrancePosts: 11 |
this is apparently a computer dedicated to a homebrew basic ? I can also see a ZXSpectrum Emulator : http://www.jcwolfram.de/projekte/avr/ax82/main.php |
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