I'm feeling freaking awesome thanks to your advice. You have a fren in Texas.
I'm a programmer from way back in the early days and I still am today. I pre-date the PC. Titor's story of looking for a particular chip actually resonates with me. The engineers back then were under immense pressure to deliver useful software. They had ideas about what could be done, but they couldn't be fully explored because no one was willing to pay for it. However, It didn't stop them from implementing some undocumented capabilities because they knew they were exploring the edges of computer science at that time and their ideas could make them gazillionaires.
Given minimal resources with our capabilities today, a small team could create a virtual machine that could simulate any machine that they have a real world example of. Back in the 80s, people used to go into game rooms, go to a popular game, and plug in a device that would copy the game code from ROM. That's where most of the "classic" games that you might play on an emulator came from. (yea, they did the same for the home platforms like Nintendo, Xbox, & Playstaion too.)
However, I think that this is all a good versus evil thing. I think that we're on the verge of the greatest explosion of freedom and prosperity ever. Then, the whole end times prophesies execute. Titor may come from that brief period of peace, knowing that the shit was about to hit the fan and they needed something from the past to fight with. I'm most likely wrong, but it's just something I think of when I think of Titor.
Oh, yea... We won't have WW3 yet. That's Titor's time.
I did have, and still have(!) a BBC Micro at home, so some 6502. At work Raytheon 703, lots of assembly and paper tape, IBMs 1130 and 360/370 so punched cards, terminals and golfball typewriters. The Raytheon came with a keyboard about the size of a small piano.
I'm feeling freaking awesome thanks to your advice. You have a fren in Texas.
I'm a programmer from way back in the early days and I still am today. I pre-date the PC. Titor's story of looking for a particular chip actually resonates with me. The engineers back then were under immense pressure to deliver useful software. They had ideas about what could be done, but they couldn't be fully explored because no one was willing to pay for it. However, It didn't stop them from implementing some undocumented capabilities because they knew they were exploring the edges of computer science at that time and their ideas could make them gazillionaires.
Given minimal resources with our capabilities today, a small team could create a virtual machine that could simulate any machine that they have a real world example of. Back in the 80s, people used to go into game rooms, go to a popular game, and plug in a device that would copy the game code from ROM. That's where most of the "classic" games that you might play on an emulator came from. (yea, they did the same for the home platforms like Nintendo, Xbox, & Playstaion too.)
However, I think that this is all a good versus evil thing. I think that we're on the verge of the greatest explosion of freedom and prosperity ever. Then, the whole end times prophesies execute. Titor may come from that brief period of peace, knowing that the shit was about to hit the fan and they needed something from the past to fight with. I'm most likely wrong, but it's just something I think of when I think of Titor.
Oh, yea... We won't have WW3 yet. That's Titor's time.
All the best programmers started programming before PCs were invented!
Z-80, 6502, 68000, and assembly forever, baby! Miss those days.
(Dumped a few arcade game ROMs myself, for stuff like MAME and Sparcade, back in the '90s, and even worked on a few drivers)
I did have, and still have(!) a BBC Micro at home, so some 6502. At work Raytheon 703, lots of assembly and paper tape, IBMs 1130 and 360/370 so punched cards, terminals and golfball typewriters. The Raytheon came with a keyboard about the size of a small piano.
IBM 5100