We have a MASSIVE Retrogaming sale going on today.
You can still get bargains like it’s 1999.
So much retro out for sale today, let me know if you want to see more…
Embuggerance - it's such a good word, isn't it?
After four very busy years building global identity systems for Sky, my team and I have all been let go as they restructure.
If anyone needs 'big iron' Java services, wants to build a startup or create something new - let me know.
It’s finally here! #MiSTer Floppy brings real floppy disks, #SCP and #IPF support to the #Minimig FPGA core! 💾
youtu.be/kN8TCz7Z0n8
Version 1.22 of the Oric SDK (OSDK) is now available for download.
osdk.org/index.php?pa...
"Endret koden" sounds a little formal. "Byttet kode" is a more casual option imho. Depends on the character :-)
Somebody asked me how I did the localization for Encounter, but after explaining I had the nagging feeling that there was probably something missing, so I tried adding a third language (Norwegian) and found out that my system broke, so I had to fix that.
Anyway, WIP!
There are some people who say that there are not enough games on the Oric, but they did not count on Rax and @oric-iss.bsky.social
Last/bottom one :-D
Interview demain soir sur la chaine "Made In Pixels" en "direct live" pour ceux que ca intéresse, les questions sur le chat seront traitées.
Au programme probablement des discussions sur les jeux et les démos, j'ai pas le menu! 😅
www.youtube.com/@madeinpixels
Nor thought through what it takes to cool stuff in a vacuum.
2048 : New game for #Oric by [raxiss].
Info and download: raxiss.com/article/id/4...
Dalziel: Well, I wanted to say something. I don’t want to dominate here but as I recall, you guys correct me if I’m wrong, even the term floppy was a little controversial. It was somehow -- of course, IBM always referred to it as diskette and diskette drive. I don’t think you’ll ever find an IBM publication that mentions floppy. And I think, and I’m sure even we called it floppy but our customers always did and the button, maybe you want to put this on Herb. Thompson: “Real men don’t use floppies.”
Oh, one more diskette nugget of detail showed up - from a Computer History Museum oral panel transcript on the IBM 8-inch floppy.
www.computerhistory.org/collections/...
If I was a betting man, I'd bet the "floppy" term came first but IBM didn't want to use such an unprofessional term officially.
That's as far as I got. Diskette looks to be IBMs 1973 attempt to give the medium a proper name, but by that time the colloquial term "floppy" had already fully set in. This could also explain why "floppy" mostly stayed in the Anglosphere and "diskette" was picked up as the main term other places.
"DISKETTE - The diskette, flexible disk, or 'floppy' disk is a storage medium that also offers manual interchange of files".
It looks like the other makers quickly followed, with Memorex upgrading the 650 system (8 hard sectors) to the 651 (32 hard sectors), and Potter again cloning with their DD4740. And there, in the Potter 1973 DD4749 brochure we have it:
www.bitsavers.org/pdf/potter/b...
This evolved version of the 8-inch Minnow system with more flexible soft sectors became the new standard for removable storage. There we have it - the first introduction I've found of the "diskette" term. But for some reason it doesn't look like IBM trademarked it?
Then in 1973 IBM launched the IBM 3740 Data Entry System with the IBM 33FD drive and "A key element of the 3740 System is a new magnetic media - the IBM diskette."
www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/3740...
There were other players as well, e.g. Potter and their 1972 DD480 Flexible Disk Storage System using "IBM compatible plastic enclosed disk", basically a 23FD clone. No "floppy". No "diskette". But the idea was spreading and probably other manufacturer were active.
www.bitsavers.org/pdf/potter/b...
At this point Shugart was already at Memorex and then in 1972 they launched the OEM available and read/write capable Memorex 650 Flexible Disc File drive using similar looking 8-inch media but with much higher capacity and transfer rate. No "floppy". No "diskette".
bitsavers.org/pdf/memorex/...
The Minnow system shipped in 1971 in the IBM 3830 Storage Control Unit as the read-only 90RPM IBM 23FD drive unit and its "Magnetic Disk Cartridge" or "Magnetic Recording Disk" media for microcode loading. No "floppy". No "diskette".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BND...
The first recognisable example of this media format came out of the IBM "Minnow" project by Shugart (product manager) and Noble (technical lead) in the late 1960s: an 8-inch low-cost flexible 80kB(!) storage medium to replace paper tape as microcode/firmware loading media for IBM storage machines.
The threads and discussions around calling it floppy vs diskette got me pondering on a related question - when and where did these terms come from? The rabbit hole is calling! :D
Hmm, as these terminals were squarely targeting European use, perhaps they were CCITT FSK (V.21 and V.23) only versions? As in dies with defected Bell FSK circuits? That could explain the odd device marking.
Really odd indeed. From the data books and technical manuals the "World-Chip" FSK modem line-up from AMD around the date code time consisted of Am7910, Am7911 and Am79101. The "V2123" breaks this naming scheme so some kind of special order from Philips?
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@luiscorreia.pt brought me here :D
This looks like some kind of special version of the Am7910 modem chip. Don't know how special, but it looks like other versions of this Philips machine has used Am7910 clones like EF7910PL.
www.nightfallcrew.com/19/01/2011/p...
The Winter Sale are on on both Steam and Itch.
I only need 15 more sales to reach 300 units sold, that would be a nice round number for the one year anniversary of the game 😇
store.steampowered.com/app/3319780/...
defenceforce.itch.io/encounter
Looks like the wave functions collapsed in my favour! 😍
It is! Do I dare to open it? 😅
A physical edition boxed version of the recent Oric computer game Encounter by Dbug. It's a white cardboard box with stylish italic embossed text reading "Encounter" centered on the facing top lid.
Oh-boy-oh-boy-oh-boy-oh-boy 🥳
#oric #encounter #game @dbug.defence-force.org
