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    Snial replied to the thread Performa 6360.
    Interesting. At first I was confusing it with the 5260, whose display is limited to 640x480 and was the reason I bought a PM4400...
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    Snial replied to the thread Doom on SoftPC on an SE/30?.
    @superjer2000 . The thing to note about a Sinclair ZX Spectrum is, of course, that it's really a 1bpp bitmap system with a 32x24...
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    'tis always the way. The principle of locality usually holds true, which means that most computation takes place locally. So a faster...
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    Snial reacted to VMSZealot's comment on VMSZealot's profile post with Like Like.
    Er… how much, Snial? What software would you recommend for it?
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    Snial commented on VMSZealot's profile post.
    Oh my goodness, they're really expensive on eBay!
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    Snial reacted to VMSZealot's comment on VMSZealot's profile post with Like Like.
    Don't - you're a very bad influence!
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    Snial commented on VMSZealot's profile post.
    I have a spare QL, an MG version (with D-sub 9 serial ports).
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    Snial reacted to finkmac's comment on VMSZealot's profile post with Like Like.
    you shouldn't be wondering. you should be confident in the thought that you absolutely need to purchase a QL.
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    Snial reacted to ClassicGuyPhilly's comment on ClassicGuyPhilly's profile post with Like Like.
    @Snial I'm glad you have such a firm grasp...you have quite a challenge ahead of you homebrewing one of your own. ;) That said I'm...
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    Snial replied to the thread TashMachine: Verilog IWM Clone.
    I'm actually very similar. I'd stuff a 5V, 8-bit AVR into anything I could. Partly, because I think like you it seems incongruous to...
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    Snial replied to the thread TashMachine: Verilog IWM Clone.
    Well done! And... you didn't use an 8-bit PIC :-) ? I am doubly impressed!
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    Snial replied to the thread DumbDD.
    For fun I wrote a version of DumbDD in THINK C 5. It's <4kB and fairly crude. I transcribed the Forth routines from MacTech I linked...
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    Snial commented on ClassicGuyPhilly's profile post.
    @ClassicGuyPhilly I didn't really grasp the Cray-1 architecture up until a couple of years ago. The architecture diagrams I saw in the...
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    Snial commented on ClassicGuyPhilly's profile post.
    @Chuckdubuque : Cray-1 IT staff (mostly plumbers) all smoked in the 1970s.
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    Snial reacted to Chuckdubuque's comment on ClassicGuyPhilly's profile post with Like Like.
    Always loved the benches, although I thought they were more orange?
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