markostamcar
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Comment · 2 months ago
Fascinating findings (and documents) by the Computer History Museum Slovenia about the Peerless Foam Moulding "Gemini" case designed by Satherley Design Associates and resold by BICC-Vero Electronics.
Besides the Partner the same case was also used by 2 different Apple II integrations and a rare Logitech LG-10 computer.
Comment · 1 year ago
Videos made using the devices showcased at our Computer History Museum Slovenia.
The devices list, their Doom port names, Doom port authors and source links:
- Kodak DC260 (1998): Doom for Digita, author: James Surine, https://web.archive.org/web/20070720203938/http://digita.mam...
- Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch (2011): prboom4android, authors: Florian Schulze, L!TH!UM, Marko Štamcar & others, https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/doom-for-nook-simple-touc...
- Polycom VVX 600 (2012): doomgeneric, authors: ozkl, maximevince, Neil Bostian & others, https://neilbostian.github.io/#/doomphone
- Apple iPod Mini 2nd gen (2005) & SanDisk Sansa Clip+ (2009): Rockdoom, authors: Florian Schulze, The Rockbox Crew & others, https://www.rockbox.org/
- Texas Instruments TI-Nspire CX CAS (2011): nDoom 3, authors: Xavier Andréani, Mrakoplaz, critor & others, https://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_voir.php?id=6631
Comment · 1 year ago
I wish the https://github.com/devos50/qemu-ios project would evolve to support iPhone OS 3.x to experience many early iPhone apps for digital preservation's sake!
https://github.com/touchHLE/touchHLE is also great but needs patches for all but the most basic of apps.
Comment · 1 year ago
Really enjoyed reading this write up. For exotics there is typically less people tinkering with them and that makes it even more cool when you manage some hack/mod!
For Porsches, it's easier as they do share infotainment stuff with other VAG vehicles and there is an online community that also tinkers with PCMs (Porsche's infotainment).
In my old 991.2 I managed to unlock Android Auto which was never officially supported using that community's efforts - it was completely functional, just disabled in favor of a CarPlay-only offering. (This changed with the 992 where it comes with both systems standard). And by plugging in a Motorola MA1 one has Wireless Android Auto on a car that never supported even the wired version. Sweet.
One day we might see a real Doom on 911 write up because the viral video from a few years ago is sadly fake. But just by going with the information/tools available in the modding community it's completely possible. Most of the GUI on it is Java apps BTW :)
Comment · 1 year ago
Great, thanks!
Comment · 1 year ago
In regards to what? Software preservation? I think every vendor should value it.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks! It's really hard to find any info online and even for the Slovenian version we just have a copy of a copy of the original installation CD and no photos of the original localized materials exist online.
Comment · 2 years ago
A few years back I tried getting a related Gboard bug fixed and it was really frustrating getting the report to the right people. In the end, I did not manage it and what happened was after a long time the bug was fixed, probably due to some internal testing rather than the Gboard devs seeing my report :(
"Android 11 - Gboard not triggering Enter keypress event on <textarea> in Chrome when there are suggested words in the Gboard suggestion strip"
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40738692
The first frustration was getting push back from every place I tried reporting it - Android bug tracker, Chromium bug tracker,... and of course there is no public Gboard bug tracker, the only option is the "Send feedback" option in modern Android OS on Google devices that I'm sure gets lost somewhere. While I do understand each of the mentioned bug trackers has its rules, I had to give it a try considering there is no other way to actually write a technical bug report and get any Google developer to notice it :(
My suggestion is that each Google product/app should have a public bug tracker of some type. A place where power users and developers can reach the corresponding Google teams more easily.
Comment · 2 years ago
Nostalgic feelings is what we have been going for. We have a large amount of (also scanned) issues of Slovenian and ex-Yu magazines in our collection: https://zbirka.racunalniski-muzej.si/revije/
Comment · 2 years ago
Maybe :) Before "live to production" later tonight I tested it using a car FM transmitter adapter so things are already in motion haha.
Comment · 4 years ago
Awesome! You can reach me at [email protected] and I will also keep Michal Necasek from OS/2 Museum in the loop.