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I bought a new keyboard membrane from the UK for $35... got the guy to refund me so my out of pocket cost was $179. Removed the leaky battery and washed everything down with vinegar, distilled water, and IPA. Assembled it all, and got it working. Then I bought a thing called a Gotek which is a floppy disk emulator. Allows you to hook up a thumb drive with up to 999 floppy disk images on it. Got myself a switch that allows you to chang the drive assignments of the external and internal floppy, because the floppy images want to be the first, internal drive (df0: in Amiga) not the external (df1:). Got an RF modulator and hooked it up by component in to an LCD TV. All told, about $330 into it... and here I am, on Uncensored, in the MiSTer FPGA Minimig Amiga core, while the real Amiga sits out on the other room looking really cool. If you want to relive your old classic retro machines - I can't recommend MiST, MiSTer and other FPGA platforms enough as the saner alternative to trying to keep 34+ year old machines alive and running.
I don't think it emulates a full USB stack.
Mon Sep 16 2019 10:01:16 EDT from IGnatius T FoobarThe ones I've seen emulate a floppy drive using an SD Card, and have buttons to activate any of hundreds of floppy images stored on the card as the disk actually inserted in the drive. Then you can put the SD Card into a modern computer to load software onto it.
I don't think it emulates a full USB stack.
Actually, a USB thumb drive. I've got one in my Amiga 500, and otherwise, it works exactly as Ig describes. Pop the thumb drive into my PC, download disk image files (amiga .adf files) then pop the thumb drive into the Amiga, enter the setup software, put the .adf images into "slots", then I can scroll through the .adf files in their slots and they mount on the Amiga and are seen as floppy disks in a floppy drive.
Yeah. There has been a recent jump in interest in retro platforms across the board - and lots of "makers" are putting out really cool devices that connect new stuff with the old stuff.
Tue Sep 29 2020 09:21:30 EDT from IGnatius T FoobarWhat's probably really cool is that the parts and tooling required to interface with old computers are dirt cheap now.
Not me.
I do have a headset that you shove a phone into. its fun to play with, and neat to watch 3D movies.
Sat Oct 29 2022 11:49:59 AM EDT from BLADE-RUNNERSO... who's getting a Meta headset ?
It's obviously good for some kinds of games, so I'll probably get one when Nintendo does something with it.
It's obviously good for pr0n, but I have a human partner and it's kind of hard to beat that level of reality.
3D movies appear to have come and gone.
Which is too bad, there was a lot of potential there.
It also works for people that work in CAD ( like designing houses, neighborhoods ) and people who like 'games' like opensim, and a few other industries too.
And hey battlezone in true 3D would be cool..
Sat Oct 29 2022 02:15:05 PM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
3D movies appear to have come and gone.
2022-10-29 11:49 from BLADE-RUNNER
SO... who's getting a Meta headset ?
I don't, for the time being. Specially if it is related to Meta, which is a corp that eats babies and sharpens their bones to stab another babies with them.
2022-10-29 16:14 from Nurb432
Which is too bad, there was a lot of potential there.
It also works for people that work in CAD ( like designing houses,
neighborhoods ) and people who like 'games' like opensim, and a few
other industries too.
And hey battlezone in true 3D would be cool..
Some friends of mine work at a startup. Their star product is a program that generates network maps and then displays them as a pretty graphic. They have a department working on a VR interface so they can show the generated maps to management as a pretty VR world.
It is funny, but not a practical use of resources at this point IMO.
As a friend of mine always says, you will know when a technology is ready for mass adoption when it becomes practical and actually useful for the porn industry.
I thought porn adopted VR first?
Tue Nov 01 2022 06:40:16 AM EDT from darknetuser
Some friends of mine work at a startup. Their star product is a program that generates network maps and then displays them as a pretty graphic. They have a department working on a VR interface so they can show the generated maps to management as a pretty VR world.
It is funny, but not a practical use of resources at this point IMO.
As a friend of mine always says, you will know when a technology is ready for mass adoption when it becomes practical and actually useful for the porn industry.
I think there's a lot of potential there since everyone already owns a smartphone.
The screen is big enough for the googles to see a pair of images, and it's got all of the position and orientation sensors already in place.
For VR porn to become fully immersive it would require a system that could provide touch and smell and taste sensations that would generally require "jacking in" rather than simulating the experience with a headset.
i have 2 phone headsets. they are cool. not perfect but cool. One has a removable face plate so it can do AR too. Some of the 3D walk thru things are neat. OpenSim was too, until the developer stopped work on the client and then pulled it from the store
aside from the obvious 3D movies you can watch, you can watch 2D movies and its like a 50" screen
I assume in moderation it would be fine.
I have lazy eye, and ironically i can actually see 3D in these things and not get headaches. Went to a 3D imax once. I made it 1/2 thru the opening credits and i thought my head was going to explode. i kept avoiding it but when tron 2 came out, i just had to risk it.