Yeah, what would really be the point without a dot-matrix printer cranking through it and having to peel off those edges with the holes. It just wouldn’t be the same.
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The only way this would be cooler is if it had Nixie tubes.
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“But why?” they chorused.
I guess for the thrill of doing it. And old games, but can’t they be played in a virtual something or other?
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Because there aren’t enough pogosticks in games anymore.
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Some people take their retro gaming very seriously. Emulation/virtualization is nice and all but for some you just can’t beat the real thing.
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Fortunately Freecell works on Windows 10. 
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damn straight
(Personally, I use dosbox, with cm-32 emulation)
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Because it’s there.
And nostalgia for the 1980s. Because the 1980s were a far more dynamic period for personal computers than the past 20 years.
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Very cool.
In my modular synth I’ve got an Akemie’s Castle, which is based on an OPL3 but with knobs and voltage control for everything, and a pretty different configuration than what would normally have been used with an AdLib card.
To me the amazing thing about it is how un-videogamey the results tend to be.
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Hehehe! Just think: the Chowning/Yamaha patents have expired. (They had FM locked up six ways from Sunday.) Now you can design your own FM circuits…
“You want operators? We got operators!”
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Enormous tubes (valves) and a variety of Geiger counters.
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Keyboards!
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4 phones later, I still miss the keyboard on my Nexus One. It’s a shame the entire industry collectively chose fashion over function.
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Who came up with the name? Astro Slide?
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The test engineer said “slick action” in earshot of the marketing VP.
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To sort of flip the topic around… this morning I was thinking how, when I was a kid, I wanted videophones and face-to-face communication with people anywhere in the world instantly for essentially no cost. For the longest time, that was science fiction… and then all of a sudden, it wasn’t. Now we’re living in a kind of William Gibson world, which was science fiction… until it wasn’t. We live in interesting times.
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