Recent content by Trixter

Forums are good for ensuring the information discussed can be found by search engines. Google etc. cannot archive the information discussed in a discord server. When using google to search for "picomem", the top results are forums. So, you might want to post regular updates somewhere that...

Even more reason to rename it Doom16, as that applies to both 8088 and 286.

Better late than never? I calibrated one of my best PCjr monitors for a recent video I did, and finally took some shots for you with one of my best lenses: The last one has the hash (#) marks you were miffed you couldn't see clearly. Neither can I, but it has a 0.43 dot pitch, so of...

Look at everything in the link Plasma posted; that would be every adventure/fantasy that came out on CDROM before 1996, so maybe they will jog your memory.

That's not enough information to identify the game, sorry. There were hundreds of cardboard+plastic jewelcase shareware/shovelware games in the 90s. You'd have to provide at least something else.

Congrats on 1.0. I'm out of time tonight but I really look forward to testing this in the near future.

I applaud the effort, but I do have one request: Since there is no way it will ever run acceptably on an 8088, is there any chance the name of the project could be changed to something much more representative of its tooling and plausible targets? Doom16 would be a much better name...

Noticed in the forum you had the 1.00.00 BIOS ROM that you upgraded when you were testing an XT-IDE with your Tandy 1000 -- would you still happen to have the 1.00.00 BIOS ROM? It's not floating around on the internet, and a group of friends and I are trying to reverse-engineer the...

Oh wow! Even the AT&T DEB is here. Thanks so much for finding this, now I have something to test my Quadcolor II with!

People didn't do that, but they did with the PCjr (or at least that's what IBM intended people do), which is what the GOP was referring to, I thought.

But that's exactly what many people did with their new home computer (8-bit generation, which was the generation the PCjr was taking design cues from). I have many memories of going to friends' houses to use their computers (we grew up unable to afford one until late 84) and they were in the...

It was definitely a failure in terms of success in the marketplace, profitability, and brand optics (IBM looked foolish for some of the poor design choices). Of course the system was useful to many people, some using it well into the 1990s (with expansions) for the original purposes they bought...

There was no modest profit :-) My research indicates that IBM wrote off at least 45 million dollars in unsold PCjr inventory, which was between 100K and 350K units depending on which source you think is more accurate. In September 1985 they introduced an employee discount of an expanded PCjr...

I don't have specifics on that, but talking with one of the engineers I was surprised to learn that the entire engineering team, minus the project leader, was aged 22-25 -- maybe it was just inexperience? This is true. I don't care one way or the other; if it's 1983, I have some material to...

I've asked someone on the PCjr engineering team to answer this, but there are some references online of 1982 being correct: https://www.filfre.net/2013/07/the-unmaking-and-remaking-of-sierra-on-line/ mentions that Sierra was asked late 1982 to develop software for it...