The Blog of Brad
Posts tagged retro
Gameboy Color! [[Xmas '98]]
Jan 24th
I was looking through an old cupboard and found my old Gameboy Color. Before you watch my gameplay video, you may want to remember that:
- It was closest related to the NES
- The color screen was NOT backlit
- The color screen could have 56 simultaneous of it’s palette of 32k colors
- This has a Z80 processor
- This runs on 2 AA batteries for (weeks, months, forever?)
- The screen was 160×144
So now, you can see my video on Youtube (click for 720P HD!):
Remember Widgets?
Sep 2nd
As I may have noted, I’ve purchased every version of Mac OS X. That means that I’ve been around for some of the less-than-great versions and features and have seen those features eventually get finely tuned to become a seamless part of my computing experience. However there were some features that were perfect from day one, most notable in my books is “Dashboard”– the widget host for the Mac OS X desktop that premiered in Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) in 2005. Whether or not you use, or even know about this, widgets have a long and great history… More >
Hak.5 April Fools
Apr 4th
I’ve been a bit behind on my tech podcasts, or atleast the video ones, and I’ve just got to the the Hak.5 April Fools’ Day episode (episode #507) which takes place in 1995. They talk about Windows “Chicago” 95, the SNES, Sega, the coming Song PlayStation, and how-to get free long-distance using phone tones. In the episode they mention a BBS at bbs.hak5.org, and well, I couldn’t resist.
I opened terminal and used the command telnet bbs.hak5.org and it actually worked! This uses the ancient telnet protocol, and they must have set-up a server. I’ve made a video of this:
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[UPDATE-19:26]Episode number is #507, not #90 as I had mis-stated.[/UPDATE].
