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Wow, competition! Never thought I'd see the day a dev would release early for a competition around here. We should ask Neil Baldwin to run a competition for an early release cartridge of NTRQ. *hint*
EDIT: Actually, there is a certain someone I know who has some secret prototypes in the works who might consider this approach to improve hype! Bravo Little Scale, may your competition turn out some cool tunes!
True, I suppose you have a point there. Adding a monochrome LCD could solve that problem. Something which I would think of as an ideal third world computer would be something like the Tandy 102- cheap, portable, battery operated, expandable, comes with BASIC, rugged design. It wasn't cheap back in "the day" but it could certainly be made so today.
No prob. Sounds like this thread has been hit by some hard times. Time for some art! If Crystal Labs doesn't take up the torch then I'll pass it to Octavial, he's interested too.
Ah yes.
I really hate Facebook.
I say no to that idea, and yes to mailing lists. I love a good mailing list.
This. Also, RSS is good. I refuse to use facebook, because it's a social liability and a crutch for those with no social skills. It embraces the kind of frivolity that social interaction should grow out of after high-school.
Yeah, sounds cool. I have seen this before. I like how they're interested in leveraging these machines for low-end computing devices. I just think of how, in the US, a "cheap" computer is maybe $400 or so. But a 65c02 computer is going to be less than $10 if you do it right. However, in order for these kinds of platforms to be useful for learning, it will need the following things:
-Storage medium with easily available, swappable storage. In this way, storage can be cheap and a "sneaker net" can be established. Removable media like floppies is a MUST HAVE item for places where the internet isn't available.
-Built in programming language, and an easy one at that. BASIC would fit the bill.
-Easy to understand manuals for programming the thing: I'm thinking like the beginner-styled manuals that came with every Apple II computer
-The ability to run off batteries and not just AC (for areas where wall power isn't available)
-Hardware expansion capabilities. Especially DIY friendly ones. So you can have things like printers, extra RAM, etc. So that these machines aren't so crippled, and will be usable for things other than educational videogames. Think not just of the children, but the impoverished adults who would like a computer for doing WORK.
I KNOW! >.<
Sheesh! I'm going to have to get a car that night...
That's it! Time to challenge someone else! Crystal Labs, you are hereby challenged to pixel an image of a forum-tumbleweed! No restrictions.
OH! I just got to listen to it now... it's quite excellent!
Yes, it does. Ancatmax, get moving man! Lest you be replaced by a more motivated member!
Drat! Silly mediafire! Anyways, once I got this stupid thing sorted out and downloaded I'll let you know. I am excited to give it a listen.
Wow! Geeky lectures are always a blast. I'll have to see if we can book Chris Huelsbeck at my university... 
So, as we begin to approach the releasing of NTRQ, I'd like to just give this a lil' bump. If you're in the market for some EPROMs for your projects, (and once NTRQ comes out you know you will) give me a PM and help a poor college student out. 
Well, we all know how legit those BB carts are. 
One thing to note- the software for the BB carts can be kinda hit and miss.
Well, there are possible two, maybe three options:
1. Use Wine. But because of driver issues, it might not work out right. I haven't managed to get it working.
2. Use Cedega. Costs money. Probably won't work any better than Wine because of driver issues.
3. Use a virtual machine, running Windows. This option seems most likely to work.
Ok, maybe 4. Contact HKEMS and make them write Linux driver. Highly unlikely to ever work, since they don't even seem to understand English properly.
One last thing: Don't get upset that the EMS cart doesn't work on Linux- none of the other ones work properly with Linux either.
Yeah, I know. Still, it'll work great for what I want. Looking at his design here, there is no reason (that I can think of) why he couldn't just up the firmware at some point in order to support 24 bit or beyond, but that's just my fairly uneducated opinion.
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