More people have been flocking to "retro computing" for a while now.
My hunch is that it's partially driven by mourning over increasing loss of deterministic "von Neumann computing"; so not pure nostalgia.
It doesn't matter the platform or if "only" in software / web or whatever it's just a great hobby to dabble with in general, especially when kids are getting into it.
The ZX Spectrum Next, Commodore 64 Ultimate and the likes, same as their OG versions are still great "bicycles for the mind" and a great intro to microcontrollers etc.
I'd personally be ready for an FPGA based "Mega Atari 800" or some such!
After a day of single combat with multimillion-SLOC tangleware, it's fun to work with a system that you can fit in your head
Personally, I don't do much nostalgia. I've built the PDP-11 clones and run v6 Unix again and (o dear lord) compiled world.c with BDS-C on CP/M and realized that the 70s and 80s kinda sucked, and that I really like modern computing
"RTFM" if available and factual to me is very satisfying.
So without much nostalgia / betting on actual hardware the (partially ST community derived) MiSTer project is just great for this kind of stuff - I guess you know it -
if you will a micro PDP-11 surrogate.
I haven't tried this core myself yet but I will eventually:
Hatari has existed as an emulator for like a decade....
I get this may be transpiled to the web, but...
More people have been flocking to "retro computing" for a while now.
My hunch is that it's partially driven by mourning over increasing loss of deterministic "von Neumann computing"; so not pure nostalgia.
It doesn't matter the platform or if "only" in software / web or whatever it's just a great hobby to dabble with in general, especially when kids are getting into it.
The ZX Spectrum Next, Commodore 64 Ultimate and the likes, same as their OG versions are still great "bicycles for the mind" and a great intro to microcontrollers etc.
I'd personally be ready for an FPGA based "Mega Atari 800" or some such!
After a day of single combat with multimillion-SLOC tangleware, it's fun to work with a system that you can fit in your head
Personally, I don't do much nostalgia. I've built the PDP-11 clones and run v6 Unix again and (o dear lord) compiled world.c with BDS-C on CP/M and realized that the 70s and 80s kinda sucked, and that I really like modern computing
"RTFM" if available and factual to me is very satisfying.
So without much nostalgia / betting on actual hardware the (partially ST community derived) MiSTer project is just great for this kind of stuff - I guess you know it - if you will a micro PDP-11 surrogate.
I haven't tried this core myself yet but I will eventually:
https://github.com/MiSTer-Enhanced/PDP2011_MiSTer
Having used it a few months back, it certainly feels like it was made decades ago. UX is horrid all around.
Nothing wrong with it re-introducing.
Try quarter of a century.
Time flies.