Commander X16

I've tested Forth >30 years ago on this machine, but I remember it being relatively slow - compared to normal assembly programming.

At the moment I'm in the process of rebuilding this Z8 based machine.

If one owns a typical 8 bit home computer that 30 years ago communicated with a cassette recorder/datasette, what are reliable mass data storages as of today for these machines - beside using a PC's sound card?

In case someone is interested, the community around the JU+TE computer (aka Tiny computer) is still alive: <a href="https://www.robotrontechnik.de/html/forum/thwb/showtopic.php?threadid=16542" rel="external nofollow">https://www.robotrontechnik.de/html/forum/thwb/showtopic.php?threadid=16542</a> <a...

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The last couple of days I've tried to learn something new with desktop/mobile application development using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Gradle, you name it. I have the strong feeling that this is <strong>much</strong> harder though the availability of tutorial than learning how my 8-bit computer was t...

Yes, the problem with the iPad is that no programming environment is preinstalled. Same for the iPhone, Android, Windows, macOS. But programming for Linux is also not that easy because there is a large back box between your code and the hardware.

Well, I also remember my first steps in the Win32-API using TurboPascal. Man, those were days! It was amazing how well everything fitted together and allowed to create applications that looked and behaved like normal Windows applications.

Latency never, really never, was a problem for me on a Windows-/Linux-PC or Mac. Though I know how my 8bit machine worked (from hardware to software), I've did not reach this level of knowledge for a modern PC (I'm a Java developer since >20 years). There is a lot of abstraction that hides the deta...

I'm not sure whether you'd consider it as 'modern game', but I'm a big fan of Commandos (e.g. Behind Enemy Lines and Men of Courage). I started to like it during my study in the 90s but I also played it last year again.

There is the X16 hardware and the software. Each is IMHO independent of the other. Maybe licensing the early versions but planning to switch to an Open Source OS later would be a reasonable plan. Using other FPGA hardware as starting point could be a boost to quicker develop the Open Source OS whil...