I guess I shouldn’t be shocked, keeping in mind the era (early 80s) of these games. But very surprised at how small these ROMs are For example Donkey Kong is 16K. Although I’m somewhat familiar with ROMs because of the TRS-80 emulator (sdltrs)
Probably one of the first thing I owned with some type of processor in it. The Commodore US*8. I read here – “It utilizes a single Texas Instruments chip, the TMS0103NC, which is one of TI’s first-generation of single-chip calculator IC’s, for its calculating brains”. The article also states “was likely manufactured in the early part of 1973”. So it even predated my Magnavox Odyssey 300 (1976), Sears Video Arcade (1977, not a clone but an actual Atari 2600 under the covers) and TRS-80 Model 1 Level II (1978). I still have everything except this calculator. I remember throwing it away because some spongy black material under the keys started disintegrating (probably not a good reason). Probably cost ~$100.
I originally wrote lengthy instructions using Scribus as seen below. However afterwards, I found using LiberOffice Draw is even easier to edit fields and delete existing stuff at least on my Linux OS. I couldn’t find out how to delete existing stuff using Scribus. Which is why I had to use Gimp to black out areas in the Scribus images below. As with Scribus you need to export as PDF to save. Also in my test if you just click on a line your text will be on that line, you don’t need to adjust the positioning as you might with Scribus.
However later I found it wasn’t so good on some PDFs and I had to use Scribus.
So using Scribus (Ver 1.5.5)…
Open Document After…I find setting View>Zoom>Fit to Width works best
Click Text button then click to the upper left position of the field you want to type in and hold as you drag box to the size you want.
Adjust box size with resize handles if necessary
Double click inside the box (resize handles disappear) and type in your text.
Click somewhere else…box turns black
Click (or double click if you want to edit contents) text box again…box turns red again with the resize handles Click inside box…a hand appears allowing you to move the text box if needed for better alignment
Repeat to fill in other fields Select File>Export>Save as PDF
Change Font size
The text for some fields was too large. And googling helped…a little. However the examples/steps shown didn’t match my version. So this worked in my version 1.5.5
Go to File>Prefrences
Select Item Tools…Not Fonts (as you would assume)
Change Text Size
This didn’t immediately work for me until after I restarted the program!
When starting Firefox all tabs closed except a left over popup window. However I selected “Reopen All Tabs” from the “Recently Closed Tabs” option in History. And it seemed to reopen all expected tabs…even though only a couple tabs were shown.
Was looking into perhaps taking a z80 assembler course. Saw some courses centered around the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer. So I found an emulator called the ZEsarUX emulator. Turns out it can emulate quite a few machines including the Colecovision game console which I owned. Turns out obviously the Colecovision used the Z80 processor. Was pretty cool seeing…
I previously, included a DASD to do a large sort of a million records, I don’t remember the specifics.
I also wanted to add the CBT tape (Freeware) to my DASD pool like I had done before. It appears that the CBT file has been updated through the years (currently CBT V504 Final Version – Aug – 16 – 2022). But I’m having a little trouble making sense of what/why I did what I did, and finding the dasd images (cbt000-cbt002 and cbtcat) online. The link says File # 001 is a “Detailed documentation of the CBT MVS Utilities Tape” but the first file on cbt000 is FILE004. I found this one reference to the cbt files on the naspa web site. It shows the 4 cbt DASD files I have. They have the same addresses I used an are added by the cbt_dasd.cnf in the conf directory.
The files look like the following. They appear to be PDSs
Installed makemkv and it read my Blu-Ray disc. Read something about streaming from makemkv to vlc but didn’t see a stream option. Read something else about vlc already could play Blu-Ray disc in Linux. And it was able to play my “Kick Ass” Blu-Ray disc. Maybe it could already. I think I’ve played them a long time ago.
I have to say this is the worst player I ever had. I believe I usually bought LG, and they’ve always worked well. Is it bad or is it the fact that it handles all 3 formats? Regular DVDs take forever to load, is that because it’s trying to recognize the format? If there is something in the player, I usually have to remove or eject it when I boot my system. Otherwise it throws out errors and takes too long to come up. This is the first Blu-ray hardware I ever bought. I never have had it play a Blu-ray. But that’s probably my fault. Because I believe I need to do some extra steps in Linux. MakeMKV?
I probably haven’t used it in over a year, but I wanted to rip one of my DVDs. It wasn’t hooked up. Did finally get it to read a regular DVD. But I had to replace the old red SATA cable, with the blue clip-on cable.
