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Today's #VCFWest consignment area was brought to you by loads of PCjr stuff.
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Today's #VCFWest consignment area was brought to you by loads of PCjr stuff.
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Well, this is one of the coolest things.
Muckrake, from the Brutman #PCjr forum, released this package onto the Internet Archive. He patched about 50 games that were not working in 16 color mode for the PCjr.
https://archive.org/details/PCjr-16-color-patches
Original discussion: https://www.brutman.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1487
I have plenty more to say on this later!
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Well, this is one of the coolest things.
Muckrake, from the Brutman #PCjr forum, released this package onto the Internet Archive. He patched about 50 games that were not working in 16 color mode for the PCjr.
https://archive.org/details/PCjr-16-color-patches
Original discussion: https://www.brutman.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1487
I have plenty more to say on this later!
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Clone of "Defender" running on my maxxed out PCJr (SD card cart, 640k internal, V20 CPU). #retrogaming #retrocomputing #retrogames #retro #vintagecomputing #vintage #pcjr #ibm
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Clone of "Defender" running on my maxxed out PCJr (SD card cart, 640k internal, V20 CPU). #retrogaming #retrocomputing #retrogames #retro #vintagecomputing #vintage #pcjr #ibm
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I have unsynchronized video clips that I'll attach, but I was able to get the actual gameplay for Paperboy showing 16 colors for #PCjr. The options screen eludes me (attached in a reply). I suppose there may be a way to just show the CGA options screen if I can't solve this odd criss-cross pattern.
I should also get MartyPC working for local debugging, because DOSBox-X is not working for me in PCjr mode at all.
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I have unsynchronized video clips that I'll attach, but I was able to get the actual gameplay for Paperboy showing 16 colors for #PCjr. The options screen eludes me (attached in a reply). I suppose there may be a way to just show the CGA options screen if I can't solve this odd criss-cross pattern.
I should also get MartyPC working for local debugging, because DOSBox-X is not working for me in PCjr mode at all.
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I will try to (safely) make this available to all, and I would like to do further testing, but here we are in the game proper, things looking nice!
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I will try to (safely) make this available to all, and I would like to do further testing, but here we are in the game proper, things looking nice!
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I think I fixed Ultima 4 for the #PCjr so it works in 16 color mode without the black horizontal bar striping. Huh.
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I think I fixed Ultima 4 for the #PCjr so it works in 16 color mode without the black horizontal bar striping. Huh.
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Another fun project for the day. I'm debugging this PCjr which won't boot - no POST, not even a beep.
It looks like the 8284A chip is not toggling the RESET pin on the 8088, so it doesn't run. I replaced a capacitor that feeds the 8284A but that had no effect. I can get the machine to boot if I pull the reset line low by hand. (Composite output is corrupted but RGB output is fine.)
I just need to find a source for 8284A chips. It looks like used is the only option.
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Another fun project for the day. I'm debugging this PCjr which won't boot - no POST, not even a beep.
It looks like the 8284A chip is not toggling the RESET pin on the 8088, so it doesn't run. I replaced a capacitor that feeds the 8284A but that had no effect. I can get the machine to boot if I pull the reset line low by hand. (Composite output is corrupted but RGB output is fine.)
I just need to find a source for 8284A chips. It looks like used is the only option.
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more exceptional 50s style modern art on the cover of this 1983 ibm pcjr game by nasir gebelli of apple ii/final fantasy fame
ibm's in-house artist uncredited, sadly.
one nice touch of humanity in the illustration is the ink overdraw on the far right side, where the artist ran a ruled line from the bottom up to the hypotenuse of the cheese. these tiny "imperfections" add detail, flavour and warmth to what might otherwise be sterile design.
#ibm #pcjr #retroComputing #vintageComputer #dosGaming #design #illustration
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more exceptional 50s style modern art on the cover of this 1983 ibm pcjr game by nasir gebelli of apple ii/final fantasy fame
ibm's in-house artist uncredited, sadly.
one nice touch of humanity in the illustration is the ink overdraw on the far right side, where the artist ran a ruled line from the bottom up to the hypotenuse of the cheese. these tiny "imperfections" add detail, flavour and warmth to what might otherwise be sterile design.
#ibm #pcjr #retroComputing #vintageComputer #dosGaming #design #illustration
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Testing #FujiNet Battleship on my #PCjr :)
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Testing #FujiNet Battleship on my #PCjr :)
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Got to do some budgeting today.
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Got to do some budgeting today.
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What does it take for 640k of RAM on a #pcjr with IBM sidecars? Five of them. One for extra power, and 4 128k RAM expansions.
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What does it take for 640k of RAM on a #pcjr with IBM sidecars? Five of them. One for extra power, and 4 128k RAM expansions.
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Working on #msdos port of #fujinet battleship, viewing charset on #pcjr over network while hacking on the code in #emacs.
#fujinet makes #retrocomputing and #retrogaming #gamedev even better.
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Working on #msdos port of #fujinet battleship, viewing charset on #pcjr over network while hacking on the code in #emacs.
#fujinet makes #retrocomputing and #retrogaming #gamedev even better.
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#atari8bit #apple2 #coco #c64 #plus4 #commodore #trs80coco #msdos #pcjr
All playing the same networked game. Together.
More to come.
That's FujiNet.
(website: fujinet dot online)
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#atari8bit #apple2 #coco #c64 #plus4 #commodore #trs80coco #msdos #pcjr
All playing the same networked game. Together.
More to come.
That's FujiNet.
(website: fujinet dot online)
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It's still weird when looking back at the 1980s and realizing that one of the most influential home computers in the USA was an absolute flop: the IBM PCjr.
Because that's what Tandy very successfully cloned and improved as the Tandy 1000 line. I didn't own one but so many of my friends/family did.
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An #Atari8bit, #Atari2600, and #PCjr sit down at a poker table...
Cross-platform, Internet Networked Gameplay for #retrocomputing and #retrogaming devices.
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An #Atari8bit, #Atari2600, and #PCjr sit down at a poker table...
Cross-platform, Internet Networked Gameplay for #retrocomputing and #retrogaming devices.
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#FujiNet is a WiFi Adapter for #retrocomputing and #retrogaming systems. It speaks JSON, XML, and HTTPS, so it can talk to any Internet endpoint, directly.
We use it for FujiNet 5 Card Stud, so this DOS based IBM #PCjr has no problem speaking JSON. :)
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#FujiNet is a WiFi Adapter for #retrocomputing and #retrogaming systems. It speaks JSON, XML, and HTTPS, so it can talk to any Internet endpoint, directly.
We use it for FujiNet 5 Card Stud, so this DOS based IBM #PCjr has no problem speaking JSON. :)
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FujiNet is a WiFi Adapter for #retrocomputing and #retrogaming systems that (among many other features) brings together cross-platform game play!
Example shown here playing 5 Card Stud btw #Atari8bit, #apple2 and #pcjr systems.
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FujiNet is a WiFi Adapter for #retrocomputing and #retrogaming systems that (among many other features) brings together cross-platform game play!
Example shown here playing 5 Card Stud btw #Atari8bit, #apple2 and #pcjr systems.
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Happyiness is testing a spare floppy drive ...