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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.
#FujiNet is a #WiFi Network Adapter for #retrocomputing and #retrogaming platforms.
The #RS232 version of the #FujiNet can be plugged up to any vintage PC, like a #PCjr.
Wanna help? Check fujinet.online!
August 1984:
#Commodore buys #Amiga,
#JackTramiel declares war on the competition &
#Nintendo announces US #NES launch plans!
These stories and many more on the latest episode of the VGNRTM!
My "go to" old radio programming laptop is a thinkpad t20. But the moto Saber radio software is so finicky even a 486 is to fast for it.
Finally my PCjr has a real use!
i seriously love that sierra did their own in-house demake of King's Quest IV so it would run on 256K ram machines like the IBM PCjr
the AGI (256K) version uses a different parser, and half the resolution of the SCI (512K) version that most people played. side by side comparisons below. left: AGI, right: SCI
it was sold in a completely different box, and ordered directly from sierra by calling a toll-free number or mailing in an exchange form.
#BASIC turns 60 today! Happy birthday from the PCjr. Sometimes, I wonder what path my life would have diverged into if I had never had access to a computer and a book on BASIC programming as a kid.
The image/source is originally from Icons & Images by Elmer Larsen from 1985. I typed it in and tweaked it with PC-BASIC, then transferred it to a working PCjr with a gotek floppy drive.
Retrocomputing Mastobrain! I am am working with @cvwise to complete a video of my #pcjr presentation from #vcfeast2024. I am looking for somewhere to host it. Where do you think the best place to do this is?
Once upon a time I used a PeerTube host whose name I can't even remember anymore. But I want a location that can easily be shared across the #retrocomputing community. Now, a lot of us are here so that may work. [1/2]
Since it sounds like I'm probably one of the only people who has fond memories of a #PCjr, I should probably get one someday so I can play Lode Runner, Below the Root, and King's Quest 1 on it 
Happy Birthday to the IBM PCjr. It was this day, 40 years ago, that IBM announced the PCjr would be available starting in early 1984. It may have been a commercial flop—outclassed by its knockoff, the Tandy 1000, in every way—but it was the first computer I ever had/used/programmed. Cheers! 
The packet node is online 
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Normally I have *something* positive to say about an old computer, but this dive really reveals #PCjr to be even worse than I thought.
Best case, it has 16-color graphics. In 1984. Horrible sub-Spectrum-quality chicklet keyboard. No DMA system so it can't type and use disk at the same time (neither could 8-bits, but all 16/32-bits could!) One floppy drive and no easy way to use more. Can't use more than 64K from BASIC, so memory upgrade is pointless. What a weird object.
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Almost all the #pcjr magazine ads/reviews are for shitty ripoff games ("Styx" instead of Qix, etc.), or educational software or school-oriented "productivity" like Bank Street Writer (the worst WP on home computers), but some classic games did get ported. Except, the Rogue they advertise is the ai design ripoff, not Epyx. Well.